Hardware Transcoding on a QNAP TVS-673

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Thanks for the logs.

From what I can see:

  1. The card doesn’t support HEVC decode which, given its age and performance, is appropriate.
  2. The card does support H.264 encoding.
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.525 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - Starting a transcode session 468i5grm4bj7cik92ton93pc at offset -1.0 (state=3)
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.526 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - TPU: hardware transcoding: enabled, but no hardware decode accelerator found
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.526 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - [Universal] Using local file path instead of URL: /share/Multimedia/Movies/Apollo 11 (2019).mkv
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.526 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - TPU: hardware transcoding: zero-copy support not present
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.526 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - TPU: hardware transcoding: final decoder: , final encoder: nvenc
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.527 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - Job running: EAE_ROOT='/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/tmp/pms-d1eb4d16-c220-4dbf-b31c-92b81d986b1a/EasyAudioEncoder' FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS='/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/99c90e0-3095-linux-x86_64/' XDG_CACHE_HOME='/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex Media Server/Cache' XDG_DATA_HOME='/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Resources' X_PLEX_TOKEN='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' '/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Plex Transcoder' '-codec:0' 'hevc' '-codec:1' 'dca' '-analyzeduration' '20000000' '-probesize' '20000000' '-i' '/share/Multimedia/Movies/Apollo 11 (2019).mkv' '-filter_complex' '[0:0]scale=w=1920:h=1080[0];[0]format=pix_fmts=yuv420p|nv12[1]' '-filter_complex' '[0:1] aresample=async=1:ocl='\''5.1'\'':osr=48000[2]' '-map' '[1]' '-metadata:s:0' 'language=eng' '-codec:0' 'h264_nvenc' '-b:0' '63316k' '-maxrate:0' '84422k' '-bufsize:0' '168844k' '-forced-idr:0' '1' '-r:0' '23.975999999999999' '-force_key_frames:0' 'expr:gte(t,0+n_forced*1)' '-map' '[2]' '-metadata:s:1' 'language=eng' '-codec:1' 'aac' '-strict:1' 'experimental' '-aac_coder:1' 'fast' '-q:1' '0' '-segment_format' 'mpegts' '-f' 'ssegment' '-individual_header_trailer' '0' '-segment_time' '1' '-segment_start_number' '0' '-segment_copyts' '1' '-segment_time_delta' '0.0625' '-segment_list' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/468i5grm4bj7cik92ton93pc/377aedb0-2011-44e6-91cb-57a7e7934db0/seglist?X-Plex-Http-Pipeline=infinite' '-segment_list_type' 'csv' '-segment_list_size' '5' '-segment_list_separate_stream_times' '1' '-segment_list_unfinished' '1' '-max_delay' '5000000' '-avoid_negative_ts' 'disabled' '-map_metadata' '-1' '-map_chapters' '-1' 'media-%05d.ts' '-start_at_zero' '-copyts' '-vsync' 'cfr' '-y' '-nostats' '-loglevel' 'quiet' '-loglevel_plex' 'error' '-progressurl' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/468i5grm4bj7cik92ton93pc/377aedb0-2011-44e6-91cb-57a7e7934db0/progress'
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.527 [0x7fbe8545b700] DEBUG - Jobs: Starting child process with pid 14941
May 26, 2020 11:53:36.531 [0x7fbe86eb9700] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:39878 (Loopback)] PUT /video/:/transcode/session/468i5grm4bj7cik92ton93pc/377aedb0-2011-44e6-91cb-57a7e7934db0/progress?status=startup (7 live) Signed-in Token (dillspooch) (range: bytes=0-)

We test with a GTX-1050 & 1060 and it has the capability.