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The non-free version is not installed by default, so install that to have full hardware decode/encode capabilities. The naming convention leaves something to be desired as it is free to the user. The difference between the two is that the non-free version includes some proprietary components and is also needed for hardware encoding.
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PLEX MEDIA SERVER UBUNTU DRIVERS
The Intel drivers are in the package intel-media-va-driver, but there is a non-free version of this called, intel-media-va-driver-non-free. sudo apt install ocl-icd-libopencl1 beignet-opencl-icd Install the components necessary to support HDR to SDR with hardware transcoding.
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Install intel-gpu-tools, a tool to provide performance metrics about the CPU/GPU which will be useful to help check performance when transcoding. Install ssh to allow remote ssh connections. Install a collection of network tools, since I still use ifconfig. VAAPI is what is the API used for the hardware transcoding. Install vainfo, a tool to provide information about VAAPI. Install inxi, a tool to provide more system information. The only reason I picked the desktop version is to have a GUI to play around with, but I don't actually use the GUI for anything. You could use the server edition if you wanted. I used ZFS as the filesystem and did a minimal install. I used the Desktop edition of Ubuntu 21.10 and did a fresh installation. If you already have Ubuntu installed, skip ahead.