# Hardware Transcoding broken UnRAID

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-broken-unraid/794421>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-unraid\
**Created:** [May 26, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-broken-unraid/794421 "2022-05-26T23:01:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![qw3r7yju4n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f17d59/32.png) [@qw3r7yju4n](https://forums.plex.tv/u/qw3r7yju4n)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-broken-unraid/794421/1 "2022-05-26T23:01:57Z")

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I get an error when trying to transcode with vaapi as device. Can’t seem to get Nvidia to work no matter what I passthrough to the container. Logs are attached.

[Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-05-26\_18-51-12.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/kiBCsk3By8g8LBQGQAVvcQBMTz5.zip) (4.4 MB)

Server Version#:1.26.2.5797  
Player Version#:9.2 beta

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**Author:** ![qw3r7yju4n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f17d59/32.png) [@qw3r7yju4n](https://forums.plex.tv/u/qw3r7yju4n)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-broken-unraid/794421/2 "2022-05-26T23:15:09Z")

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With Nvidia passed thru it will transcode with no error but it is all CPU not HW

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**Author:** ![qw3r7yju4n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f17d59/32.png) [@qw3r7yju4n](https://forums.plex.tv/u/qw3r7yju4n)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-broken-unraid/794421/3 "2022-05-27T00:18:39Z")

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I was being stupid. I forgot the runtime advanced parameter. Nvidia is now HW transcoding but /dev/dri is still not working.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-broken-unraid/794421/4 "2022-08-25T00:19:00Z")

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