Server Version#: 1.26.0.5715
Player Version#: 9.0.6.31998
I am struggling to get my Nvidia GTX 670 card to handle the transcoding of video streams. when video plays and requires the transcoding the CPU spikes at 100% and video will buffer.
Plex Media server is running on Ubuntu desktop 20.04.4
daniel@plex:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 ‘VGA|3D|Display’
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 670] (rev a1)
Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. GK104 [GeForce GTX 670]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
I know it currently says Nouveau, and I believe that is not going to work for decoding and encoding but i have recently tried all I could to get it going with the recommended drivers for nvidia GTX 670, which was the 470. tried the -server variation and non server
read someone elses post and they had the logs pointed out to them and found the TPU Hardware not found error which i also have/had;
DEBUG - [Transcode/108c401456c32400-com-plexapp-android] TPU: hardware transcoding: enabled, but no hardware decode accelerator found
Could someone please help me figure out how to get working?
The problem you face is because there is no Decode/Encode support in the GTX 670
Please refer to:
We’ve found the P2200 Quadro and GT1050 TI to be good cards for PMS use.
From there, the version 510 drivers work well.
Wed Apr 20 11:29:32 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.47.03 Driver Version: 510.47.03 CUDA Version: 11.6 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 Quadro P2200 On | 00000000:07:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 47% 35C P8 4W / 75W | 4MiB / 5120MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[chuck@lizum ~.2001]$
Thanks. this would be a good link to provide on the hardware transcoding plex help article in the area that talks about using a nvidia gcard.
