Unfortunately your setup is outside the scope of what Plex supports for HW transcoding as VMs are not a supported model.
Its stated at the following support page:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/
There is a forum thread where others have discussed issues with Nvidia GPU transcoding with Windows. You could review that and see if any of the suggestions there help.
Hi All,
First post here and I’m new to Plex so please go easy on me.
I have a HP Microserver Gen8, Specs Below:
Intel Xeon E3-1220L
16GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce GT 1030
250GB SSD for Windows Server 2016 Standard and Plex Media Server
4x 4TB WD Red’s in RAID 10 (8TB Usable Space).
Plex and all it’s metadata is stored on the SSD (NTFS).
All Library data is stored on the WD Red’s (ReFS).
Most of my library are Blu-ray rips from my Blu-ray collection, Transcoded in HandBrake usually taking up 8…
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