Anyone get hardware transcoding working on a DS3615xs or DS3617xs?

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@ChuckPA said:
I couldn’t leave this alone and had to go digging.

Synology didn’t include the needed modules in your DSM installation binary.
As such, neither machine can perform hardware transcoding even though the hardware itself says otherwise.

I figured this might be the case as I even swapped the processor for an i7-4790k which I know others have going with hardware transcoding.

Have some thoughts:

  1. Do you know what modules should be added? I can try to apt-get them and see if it will run in a docker. Maybe it is possible to add them even if synology left them out of DSM.

  2. I’m installing Ubuntu 17.10 on a virtual machine (using Synology virtual manager). Thinking this might be the ticket to get it working. Will report back.

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Don’t waste your time. Nothing you do will matter.

Linux must make any and all hardware accessible starting at the lowest layer which is DSM.

It’s known as a kernel-resident device driver. It’s compiled into the kernel image when built. Synology didn’t see fit to include it in your DSM kernel image.

Unless their VMM gives you “CPU Passthrough”, you don’t stand a chance.