Server Version#: 1.29.1.6316-f4cdfea9c
Server uses weak intel GPU for transcoding while having nvidia card present.
I had to remove i915 kernel module everywhere just to make Plex use nvidia.
I believe it should be configurable, or at least nvidia should be picked if there are two options.
That’s completely wrong approach. Removing the i915 causes other issues.
To select which device, add HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD129" to Preferences.xml (with PMS stopped) if you want the nvidia on a machine where both QSV (renderD128) and Nvidia (renderD129) are available.
Thank you for that update.
Will try that.
Yet, I believe it should be configurable within server settings from web interface.
BTW, what other issues may I get with i915 removal on headless server?
I would very much like the GPU selection to be based in the GUI. It’s been requested several times but not implemented. Perhaps it’s time to request it again.
You can easily lose control of power subsystems, DRM handling, encryption, or just about anything else gated through the i915.
It is very central to the CPU’s architecture.
The QSV ASIC is separate.
Prior to the CometLake (-10xxx) architecture, QSV required the i915 to function.
In the post-CometLake architectures, it’s less important but still important to PMS as it’s used by Intel’s utilities (Intel Media Driver, intel Compute Runtime) to determine other capabilities of the host CPU.
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