Server Version#: 1.18.2.2041
Player Version#: PMP (3.104.1)
OS: Debian Stable 10.20 and Linux Mint 19.2
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 8x 3.5GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 960M
Nvidia Driver Version: 440.30.01
I have a gaming laptop that has Nvidia optimus graphics.
Just to give a little bit of history:
I was running a headless Debian server on this and I initially had hardware transcoding working with my gpu. I installed the Nvidia drivers through NVIDIA’s .run file and as I was transcoding a h264 video I saw the “(hw)” appear in the dashboard and double checked nvidia-smi to confirm and as expected there was two instances of the plex transcoder visible in the process list.
Several days later I noticed that the plex transcoder was no longer appearing in nvidia-smi. I double checked the logs and noticed that the transcoder was using the intel cpu instead of the graphics.
I still am not sure why it stopped working, I looked through my bash history and my best guess still is that maybe installing ffmpeg through debian repo’s broke it.
I reinstalled Debian, went through the same process, and had no luck.
I tried installing Linux Mint and installed the nvidia drivers through the PPA, no dice.
I tried installing libnvidia-encode1 and libnvidia-decode, didn’t work.
I would appreciate any tips, or guides to solve my problem.
Edit:
Forgot to include nvidia driver version
