Love that we can select the default GPU transcoder.
Swapping out my 4060Ti replacing my P2000 (need more power for something else).
My CPU is an i7 10th Gen with UHD Graphics 630.
Curious, how does Plex decide which GPU to use when it’s on auto? I’m trying to decide what is better to do - auto or nVidia selected.
Transcodes are rare, but they do occur with some slower remote connections.
PMS will use the First Available (where Nvidia is checked first).
PMS is not self-balancing / dynamic balancing.
(Dynamic would be where you start without tonemapping then enable tonemapping – which is more GPU load… and it would switch if too much load)
Personally, given the bandwidth of the 4060 vs 630 (about 500 Mbps/sec), I would keep the UHD630 as a ‘hot spare’ / unused.
I have my P2200 selected as default
Curiously, is there any reason to keep the 2000 installed as well?
Would Plex see 4060, then 2000, and then UHD or nah?
It’s not that smart. It doesn’t load-balance (I know what you’re thinking 
LOL)
I would pull the P2000 and hold it as a spare.
I’d also leave the QSV alone and select the Nvidia as the default.
(It’ll run circles around the Intel ASIC)
Sounds good. Thanks for the input!
@ChuckPa Not sure if this matters, but the transcoder dropdown sees it as an Unknown nVidia card apparently. It’s the 4060ti 16GB.
That’s not good.
nvidia-smiWhat “Unknown” tells me is the driver isn’t communicating.
Now we need to figure out why
Release date:
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Jul 18, 2023 $499
If you updated the drivers without restarting PMS – Restart PMS so it gets a fresh read of the card
Sure here you go.
Wed Oct 11 20:51:09 2023
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.113.01 Driver Version: 535.113.01 CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util
Compute M. |
| | |
MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 0% 42C P8 6W / 165W | 3702MiB / 16380MiB | 1%
Default |
| | |
N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:
|
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID | Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3162 C+G /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
292MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3881 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
113MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4194 C+G ...libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon
120MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 4238 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell
10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 6269 G ...local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 6626 G ...re/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper
6MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 9082 C+G /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
289MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 223445 C python3
2796MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 223737 G ...84954002,1837133609424017496,262144
35MiB |
+----------------------------------------------------------
Not sure about this.
$ ls -lah /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 140 Oct 11 18:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 6.4K Oct 11 20:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Oct 11 18:37 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 0 Oct 11 18:37 card0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 1 Oct 11 18:37 card1
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 128 Oct 11 18:37 renderD128
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 226, 129 Oct 11 18:37 renderD129
MODERATOR EDIT: Formatting
Whoops and restarting PMS doesn’t change anything. Didn’t do anything with drivers as they were installed for the other card I swapped.
please do the following:
sudo lshw -C display
You should find the Nvidia card properly listed and identified
e.g.
root@glockner:/home/chuck# lshw -C display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP106GL [Quadro P2200]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:213 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
QUESTION:
what’s running in VirtualBox? Ubuntu?
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
Virtual box is home assistant fun.
$ lshw -C display
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NVIDIA Corporation
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:211 memory:c4000000-c4ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:6000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display
description: Display controller
product: CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:228 memory:c3000000-c3ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:7000(size=64)
*-graphics
product: VESA VGA
physical id: 4
logical name: /dev/fb0
capabilities: fb
configuration: depth=32 resolution=640,480
Edit — same output as root by the way
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