Hi there, I’m new to Plex and this is my first post. What I’m requesting is : Hardware Accelerated Decode with Nvidia Cards for Linux. I think this feature will be super helpful to cut down the CPU overhead when transcoding videos on a Linux server. I’m using plex server with Ubuntu(18.04 beta) fo…

If you mean load by number of streams, you can already do that by not using the patch if you’re using a non unlimited stream card. It would use your GPU for the first 2 streams then the cpu after that.

Unlimited is not really unlimited though. You are still limited tto memory usage or encoder/decoder speeds. So I meant load balancing where I put like 8 HEVC streams on the gpu where it will be close to max usage so the rest will be for the CPU.

So a year later. I finally read through all of y’all’s comments. Great conversations. But now the real question no one has asked in a while. Does PMS on Linux support HW decoding out of the box without doing a fancy patch? I’d rather not mess with my system more than I need to. Wife got mad at me th…

[image] quincarter: Does PMS on Linux support HW decoding out of the box without doing a fancy patch? Intel Graphics: Yes Nvidia:No

If you truly read the entire thread and don’t understand, this isn’t the right thread for you and you should wait.

[image] quincarter: So a year later. I finally read through all of y’all’s comments. Great conversations. But now the real question no one has asked in a while. Does PMS on Linux support HW decoding out of the box without doing a fancy patch? I’d rather not mess with my system more than I need t…

@ChuckPA Given there have been hacky ways found to enable HW decoding, its obviously possible currently, but are you aware and able to tell us a reason it wasn’t a part of the update that made it possible to enable with our wrapper script? I realize you have no road-maps or anything solid right now,…

I can’t speak for Chuck, but there’s some really great info here: HW transcoding isn’t working smoothly with Nvidia GPU

This is great news to see! I look forward seeing it all baked in

Sorry for the tangent question… For those of you running this - are you on Ubuntu Server? I’m considering the move from Windows Server to Unraid but not sure what the best handling is for Plex. I was going to install in Ubuntu Server

Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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Not out of the box yet, but can be doen with a minor fix. See this thread here: Guide: NVDEC Hardware Acceleration Patch for Plex Media Server on Linux

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Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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