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@DarthBJW I’ve commented on yours.
@Samwise41 Ive added comments to the one you linked also.
I’ll add my own report soon, hopefully we get some traction.
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I think that’s the one I opened, I at least got email telling me about your comment 
I’m glad another one has been opened.
I don’t believe you can select a platform tag, expected someone to review and do that. Either way as you know nothing has changed.
I installed Ubuntu again today (first time the nuc has been running in weeks/months).
@geeooff Do you have any notes on what you needed to install to get qsv working? I’ll give it another go soon but as the plex alternative has qsv support I wanted to see if it’s possible to get it working within that. So far it just fails to use that decoder. I’ll spend more time on it.
Reading this forum it doesn’t seem possible but was hoping someone has experience with NUC as PMS server and could give guidance if it can at least transcode (preferably using hardware) 1 x 4K/HEVC HDR 10bit stream?
More Info:
NUC11PAHI7 i7-1165G7 seems to be on budget with Samsung 860 EVO 2TB M.2 2280 SSD - MZ-N6E2T0BW or similar SSD (have already filled a 1TB SSD currently on Shield with metadata).
2 x local Shield 1 x remote Shield
50/20Mbps Internet
any advice would be very much appreciated.
Hi guys !
I’m daily watching this thread for progress with Nuc 11 but I must admit that I’m not techy enought to understand the current status
Regarding the latest updates from @ChuckPa I understood that with latest Debian It recognizes Nuc 11 GPU, but does it work in someway ?
If not, can we help on testing or whatever ?
Thanks,
Etienne
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Just saw your comment on the git @etienne_blanchet_soverin_net 
Keep making noise.
I’m waiting for people in North America to start receiving their NUC11’s, once more people start receiving theirs and throwing their voices behind this issue it might get some traction.
I think we’ll all need to wait until then unfortunately
Current issues aside, it ‘should’ be able to do that
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On Ubuntu right now, it can only handle these options without crash:
Basically, it only supports Hardware Decoding, not Encoding.
An Nvidia Shield TV is more suitable than a NUC11 right now.
thanks for clarifying @geeooff and @jmt089 - might hold off on buying one for now, I didn’t realise the NUC 11’s were a recent realease.
@triks_melb the NUC11 will handle transcoding of a single stream in software. It is hardware transcoding that is the problem, when running on Linux.
That said with 20/20 hindsight I would hold off purchasing one for now as the hardware is just too new and the linux kernel just doesn’t support it properly. If you do end up getting one, steer clear of NVME drives (go M2 SATA instead) and turn off HW transcoding and you should be fine. Linux kernel should catch up at some point but I’ve stopped holding my breath.
thanks much appreciate the advice. Would you know if running windows supports hardware transcoding as yet on these?
no issues with transcoding on windows, in the limited testing I have done.
Why not use NVme drives? Please elaborate. Im running with NVme on Ubuntu 20.04 server.
There are issues with nvme drives and Linux kernel. Basically the drive will go into a read only state and Linux doesn’t like that very much.
I thought 5.13 kernel update had resolved it, I thought wrong.
Of course the type of nvme drive may be a factor also. I can only talk to the experience I’ve had with Kingston nv1
I can report some limited success with my NUC11PAKi5 (i5-1135G7 CPU). I’m running Plex in docker (using linuxserver.io’s version) on Ubuntu 20.4 LTS (HWE), and was able to hardware transcode a few streams at the same time. Haven’t run a long test, though, so don’t know how stable it is yet. (edit: transcoding fails after a while) I’m not out of the woods, because testing with two simultaneous 4k transcodes caused a crash and returned these common errors reported above until I’d rebooted the machine.
That said, I’m having more trouble where my Kingston SA2000M8 NVME which goes into read-only mode from time to time, requiring a hard reboot. The SSD is running the latest firmware from Kingston that was supposed to fix that issue on linux. I’ve done several reinstalls from scratch, both in Windows and Ubuntu. (Windows also crashed periodically because of some unknown hardware issue). In previous installs of Ubuntu, hardware encoding caused immediate crashes, but for whatever reason, this one is limping along so far.
If anyone has any questions about my setup, I’d be happy to answer them.
good info - thanks for posting it.
Try leaving some non-4K content to transcode. Interested to see if you make it past one hour.
Is it transcoding in hardware?
It is indeed transcoding in hardware, judging by the indicator and rock-bottom cpu usage. Going to leave some movies on for a while now and see how it plays out.
can you also try UHD (4K) HEVC/x265 10bit ?
@Arn_Thor I have a Kingston NVME and it has the same issue. I also gave windows a shot and had the same random reboots. After some back and forth with Intel they asked me to flash the bios again as apparently this is a known issue, and flashing bios with same version fixes it …
With your transcoding tests have you confirmed it is able to successfully move past the initial buffer? I found it would appear to be all happy, but when I skipped forward in the video a few times it would crawl into a corner and die. While you are transcoding tail your kern.log and dmesg files - if you see anything like GPU hang or taint, a crash is likely coming.
Im seriously considering returning this NUC while I can.
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