One thing I’ve noticed is that when using the DLNA function of PLEX (I have one older tv) is that seasons and episodes get mixed when all files is in the same folder (view by folder). It would be much better if files where sorted alphabetically.
To the previous Alpha or was there to be a new release?
I have a WD PR2100 and tried setting up Plex on 1.14, and it would mnot build any libraries. Installed 1.15 a week ago and its been fine since, librarys build and working well.
Hi @ChuckPa and all,
Here in the UK we have radio stations broadcast along with the DTV, but since I’ve been trying the alpha versions out, the radio hasn’t worked on any of the devices used by myself or my remote users.
Is there any chance of getting this side fixed? The stations have digital text on them when using my normal TV, but they show a blank screen when going through Plex, but this wasn’t an issue before.
The other is the use of the EPG for TV, Gracenote isn’t the best, is there going to be another way for the EPG data in the near future or use something else that Gracenote uses than the current?
Oh, have been having issues with Roku 3 keeping a Tuner open on occasions after its stopped streaming a channel to.
Sorry for the list of issues, I do also have issues with PMP on Linux still coming back with Playback Error on Live TV at random intervals but when used through the web browser or one of the other many devices that use my server with live TV, there’s no Playback Error, but I think this issue is a PMP issue not a PMS one.
Cheers,
Dave
Reinstalled the P2000 in my server, but so far not having much luck getting it to decode anything with the current build.
Logs attached.
Plex Media Server Logs_2019-01-31_14-50-08.zip (5.5 MB)
System: HP Microserver G7
OS: Windows Server 2019 Standaard
NVIDIA Drivers: 412.16
Monitor attached to P2000 and showing as only Display adapter
Plex started manually, not as a service.
I installed 1.15.0.573 on to my windows desktop to test out my gtx 960 (gm206) hardware acceleration;
I was able to occasionally get working hardware decode/encode on some 720 stuff, however most of the time on 1080 or 4k I get something like;
TPU: hardware transcoding: final decoder: dxva2, final encoder: nvenc
[Transcoder] [h264_nvenc @ 032dbd80] Failed creating CUDA context for NVENC: 0x3e7
[Transcoder] [h264_nvenc @ 032dbd80] No NVENC capable devices found
edit: I did an install of the latest gtx drivers - 417.71 - with clean install no geforce experience.
now 720/1080 hw-hw transcoding seems to stabilized however I apparently still get no 4k/hdr decode (cpu) with hardware encode.
attached logs with 2 different 4k to remote transcode attempts.
Watch your content’s bit depth, Is it 8-bit or 10-bit HEVC?
GTX 9xx series only support 8-bit videos hardware acceleration, so no HDR is supported. You need Pascal or Turing generation for this.
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Hmm, that is odd, from this chart @ https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix
the gm206 should have x265 8 and 10 bit decode
H.265 (HEVC) 4:2:0
8 bit yes / 10 bit yes / 12 bit no
no 4:4:4 support
but the files I was testing were 4:2:0
Summary
Media
- Video Resolution 4K
- Duration 1:45:02
- Bitrate 54009 kbps
- Width 3840
- Height 2160
- Aspect Ratio 1.78
- Container MKV
- Video Frame Rate 24p
- Video Profile main 10
Part
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Duration 1:45:02
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File Coco (2017) Remux-2160p.mkv
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Size 39.62 GB
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Container MKV
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Indexes sd
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Video Profile main 10
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Codec HEVC
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Bitrate 53049 kbps
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Language English
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Bit Depth 10
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Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
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Color Primaries bt2020
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Color Range tv
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Color Space bt2020nc
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Color Trc smpte2084
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Frame Rate 23.976 fps
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Height 2160
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Level 5.1
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Profile main 10
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Ref Frames 1
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Title MPEG-H HEVC Video / 46118 kbps / 2160p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 Profile 5.1 High / 4:2:0 / 10 bits / HDR / BT.2020
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Width 3840
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Display Title 4K (HEVC Main 10 HDR)
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Codec TRUEHD
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Channels 8
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Language English
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Audio Channel Layout 7.1
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Bit Depth 24
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Sampling Rate 48000 Hz
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Title Dolby Atmos/TrueHD Audio / 7.1-Atmos / 48 kHz / 7074 kbps / 24-bit
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Display Title English (TRUEHD 7.1)
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Codec AC3
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Channels 6
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Bitrate 640 kbps
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Language English
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Audio Channel Layout 5.1(side)
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Sampling Rate 48000 Hz
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Title Compatibility Track / Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
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Display Title English (AC3 5.1)
Im using this exact build in a Synology DS218play
Interesting ! I did not know that it was capable of 10 bit decoding. Thanks for the info.
However then in your case, the issue looks linked with the encoder. Plex tries to encode into H264 which your GPU is perfectly capable of, but Plex does not detect it.
With a regular build, does everything works fine ?
PS : I see your file has TRUEHD audio in it, can you try removing this audio stream from the mkv with mkvtoolnix (only leaving AC3 in the MKV container), and try again ?
weird, I am not seeing the encoder fail, only the decoder.
I have tried with several different files with different audio-- truhd/atmos, dts-hd, ac3 5.1, ac3 stereo, dts 5.1
I have not tried a regular release build, but I will try that this weekend if I get time, just to rule it out.
From your previous post, we can see :
TPU: hardware transcoding: final decoder: dxva2, final encoder: nvenc
[Transcoder] [h264_nvenc @ 032dbd80] Failed creating CUDA context for NVENC: 0x3e7
[Transcoder] [h264_nvenc @ 032dbd80] No NVENC capable devices found
Both lines point towards encoding failure.
Trying on a stable build will be a good thing to do, we’ll see if the issue is isolated to this new beta build.
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ah yes I see what happened, those nvENC errors were before I did a clean install of the current nv drivers.
after the driver reinstall, 720/1080 transcoding seems to be working consistently fine.
note the section after the edit.
its only decoding 4k/hdr that fails.
edit: good news and bad news
the good news is, with the current Plex-Media-Server-1.14.1.5488-cc260c476 release, 4k hdr > 720 works HW to HW
so the bad news is, it wasn’t working on this thread alpha release 1.15.0.573
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Two things broke radio channels. One is Microsoft Edge Plex Web changes - this is still to be fixed. Another is the server side and that should be addressed in build numbers as from 1.15.0.603
@sa2000 Cheers for the clarification, as I don’t run Windows, the Edge issue doesn’t apply to me, but looking forward to testing it out in the next build?
Now if only we could use a better EPG system than Gracenote, that would be super as I’ve sent so many requests into them to add the missing channels on Freeview in the UK, they’re becoming a joke!
Dave
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I put a p400 quadro in an old dell r610 on debian and hardware encoding is working.
Can’t wait for linux nvdec support.
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That would also be my question. There are too many bugs to play my movies on 1080p and also extern subs is a mess. My NAS is a DS 118.
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I’ve got the same card. Been working on getting a hacky version of nvdec on Linux on some other threads. No luck for me yet.
Edit: scratch that it works. Just fails on some audio codecs I guess. Haven’t had time to test.
@ChuckPa @tamas Has the GPU Encoding (GPU Transcoding) not working been fixed for the -noninteractive switch please? Cause I use this on my service wrapper software to turn PMS into a service which runs when not logged in.
However I would like to be able to still use the GPU Encoding functions when running with this switch if it is at all possible.
@tamas @TeknoJunky If Emby (https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Hardware-Acceleration-on-Windows) can achieve this when running as a service under Windows then there’s likely a way for Plex to do it too. It just needs to find it!
I presume you speak of Windows? I’m the Linux guy. PMS always runs as system service application on Linux.
