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…

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,…

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

We are all on different distros in this thread, some of them unsupported based on what I’ve read. I’m using Arch, which is not supported, but the package I use is built from the the source that’s used to create the .deb file for Ubuntu. People who are running on other distros are probably savvy enou…

Andy, as tixtesal said, Plex works great on several distros. I would recommend Ubuntu 18.04 if you are getting your feet wet as it is a very common distro here and will be easiest to find support.

Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux

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tixetsal April 9, 2019, 3:24am 394

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

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