Plex adds hardware accelerated transcoding to FreeBSD installs
Hardware accelerated transcoding is an awesome thing. It, for example, makes it possible to host a full featured Plex server on the NVIDIA Shield. Now that love is available to FreeBSD users as well – great for watching your content on whatever device/location is convenient for you.
Looking for enhanced streaming performance on FreeBSD? Well, now ya got it. To convert videos faster using less processing power, you can turn on Hardware-Accelerated Streaming in your Plex Media Server settings, as long as you have a Plex Pass.