Good day, so i got the P2000, how do i set this up? do i enable hardware accelleration?
Basically.
You just install the card
Install the drivers
Turn on hardware acceleration in the server settings.
Is it true that only windows support encoding and decoding with the card?
Anyone got it working in Linux?
I personally never tried with Linux with my card.
I used my P2000 under Lunix and Windows 10. I have to say that it wasnāt on bare metal but in Unraid. The performance under Windows was terrible. In fact so bad that im almost certain something wasnāt working properly.
Linux is a completely different story: Loading times went from almost 15 seconds down to 3 seconds. Of course now my CPU is maxed out whenever its transcoding, but the speed difference is insane. Mind you thats coming from a 60GB 4K file down to 720P 4mbits. I canāt wait for Plex to update their transcoder to support decoding under Linux.
Edit: completely forgot to answer the first question. Yes Windows does encoding and decoding on the card while Linux only does encoding. Decoding isnāt as CPU intensiv as encoding and thats why i can still do 2 4K transcodes on my 4790K + P2000.
It sounds like until Linux has the decoding ability its better to stick with Windows.
That being said if i went with windows, and a p2000, would a single proc like a xeon W3550 be enough to handle say 10-20 streams?
Knowing the p2000 can handle the videos I am trying to decide what cpu i can get away with.
Right now i have a vm with 24 cores and 50gb of memory. But i think it is overkill and would love to consume less power.
Oh yeah, if you have a P2000 you literally just need the CPU to transcode the sound stream. You can get away with a pretty limited CPU and RAM.
I can also confirm that the P2000 kicks ass. Youāll run out of network bandwidth long before it breaks a sweat.
Any news when decoding will be added?
Iāve been waitingā¦ for hardware decodingā¦ to come into my lifeā¦
Hereās a great video on the benefits of HW transcoding via the P2000.
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Has anyone tried an older p2000 1gb model? do you get similar results as the 5gb model? Not wanting to spend over $700 (in the country I come from) to get a gpu just for plex. Iām not a gamer, so want to keep my build cheap but good. the older Quadro are going quite cheap and it seems on the surface that apart from the ram difference theyāre identical. So getting an older p2000 might be a budget pc builderās plex saviour? any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated. (currently can pick up a used p2000 1gb model for $50, even less in the U.S. possibly $20. You see how awesome that would be if it works???)
For what itās worth, I have the 5GB version, and 4+ transcodes still uses < 1% of the memory, so the 1GB version should be fine.
where to get the 1GB version?
I think there is some confusion as there is no āQuadro P2000 1GB versionā. There is a Quadro 2000 which is only 1GB and based on Fermi architecture. https://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-2000-us.html
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The best way to choose from the Quadro line is to follow this chart! The current session is the amount of transcode that can be done at the same time.
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Yeah unfortunately for me your absolutely one hundred percent correct. Got confused. Sorry to everyone
Has anyone tried other graphics cardsā¦p2000 arenāt cheap were I live and finding a used one is near on non existent ( tried everywhere). So looking for a cheap solutions to GPU transcoding. Now I know you unlock NVIDIA cards but from what I can understand you only unlock and use it only on Ubuntu. Am I wrong? Can I crack it on Ubuntu then use it on windows OS? Is there a windows crack ( not sure but I think there was evidence of a windows crack on GitHub). Has anyone tried amd cards and had success? How many transcodes? Buffering issues? Sloth tech tried the rx580 and got pitiful performance for the price? Does WX range work better? Ideally I would hope the Ubuntu crack is able to be used on windows. Can anyone please set me straight and from what I can see many, many others. Sloth tech help!!! (github. com/Matviy/nvidia-NVENC-multi-session-patch this looks like the session patch for windows. Has anyone tried to make heads or tails of it, i would have but iām too much of noob
I am sporting an i7-3770K on a dedicated Plex server running Ubuntu 16.0.4. How much benefit would I get out of a P2000, even with the decoding limitation? I have around 20+ active users, with usually at most 6 simultaneous streams of 720/1080p content. I am just wondering if this card will give me a little more longevity on my aging box, or if the expense is just not worth it. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Seems like itād be a good choice for you. I have a Xeon E3-1240 V2 (also around a 9000 passmark) and decided to get a p2000 as opposed to a new coffee lake system. If you think about it in that regard, itās a pretty cheap option and should handle as many streams as your bandwidth can support once nvdec is enabled. Even without decoding, itāll definitely help take some of the stress off cpu.
