UPDATE: Plex has added native support for NVDEC on Linux! This patch is now redundant and no longer needed if you are using a recent version of Plex! All, there is a pretty lengthy thread going in the feature request section of the forums to make this a native feature, but recently the PMS librarie…

@revr3nd , it is a bare-bones archlinux container. The host itself is running Archlinux with the LXD snap package. I did not install the nvidia driver, only the CUDA package. The full list of installed packages is listed below. The LXD (not lxc) container has the variable set nvidia.runtime: “true”…

Thank you very much! I will try the renewed script with the next Plex Server update ;). I did not know using bash or sh made a difference? @rajil_s Try using the following guide from @constiens : Plex HW acceleration in LXC container - anyone with success? He posted a step-by-step guide to succesf…

[image] revr3nd: -Changed logic for checking video codec to now hunt for mention of the codec due to various formats of decode input Beautiful! Thank you so much. It works perfectly now. /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder2 -hwaccel nvdec -codec:#0x02 h264 -codec:#0x01 aac

@rajil_s , at this point I think the issue is beyond what I can help with. I’m not familiar with LXD on Arch. To compound the issue, the 1030 card is unique in that it supports NVDEC and not NVENC. There could be more complication here than just simply getting everything set right on the LXD profile. …

anyone else noticed occasional audio/video getting out of sync ? not sure if its the hardware (gm206) or the media or something yet with the transcoder work. Media Duration 53:23 Bitrate 5783 kbps Width 1920 Height 1072 Aspect Ratio 1.78 Video Resolution 1080p Container MKV Video Frame Rate 24p A…

Wow! This made a much bigger difference than I thought it would! I went from around 80-85% CPU usage on a H.264 1080p transcode to around 15-20%! I mean, ok I might have a 9 year old processor but it was high-end when I bought it (plus I overclocked it) so I figured software decoding of 1080p cont…

Awesome script, works great for me currently with my p2000. I had 6 4k streams going and GPU was sitting on 35-40% gpu. CPU was like 10%. This is going to be great once finally officially supported.

Is this script no longer working with the latest Plexpass version of PMS? I’m running the script (as a User script in Unraid), it says “already applied” yet it doesn’t appear to be working as you can see here. [Capture]

I’ve just checked and all is working here, but I’m running fedora. Had to re-apply the script as latest version did update the transcoder, but all seems to be working according to netdata.

Guide: NVDEC Hardware Acceleration Patch for Plex Media Server on Linux

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This is really great news! While it’s been fun, I’ll be happy to put all of these hacks behind me and have official support. HW transcoding isn’t working smoothly with Nvidia GPU

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Guide: NVDEC Hardware Acceleration Patch for Plex Media Server on Linux

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