# No Hardware Transcoding on Plex

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, openmediavault\
**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642 "2022-02-21T23:04:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![EVOTk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/evotk/32/166239_2.png) [@EVOTk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/EVOTk)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/1 "2022-02-21T23:04:06Z")

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Server Version: 1.25.6.5577

Hello,

I just switched from DSM to OMV, and I have a problem, Plex refuses to hard transcode my media.

No problem with Jellyfin

With you an idea? ( chmod 777 /dev/dri or specifying GUID=107 does not change anything

Merci

My compose :

```auto
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:amd64-latest
    container_name: EVOPlex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=100
      - VERSION=latest
      - UMASK=022
    mem_limit: 8192M
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    volumes:
      - ./plex/transcode:/transcode
      - ./plex/config:/config
    restart: unless-stopped

```

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/2 "2022-02-22T00:32:33Z")

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Please ask in the OMV forums.

Sorry , but OMV isn’t officially supported

To make matters worse, I have been unable to install OMV in a VM for testing / vetting.

You might want to look at this

```auto
      - ./plex/transcode:/transcode
      - ./plex/config:/config

```

Relative addressing? wouldn’t you use an absolute path?

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**Author:** ![EVOTk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/evotk/32/166239_2.png) [@EVOTk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/EVOTk)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/3 "2022-02-22T12:15:35Z")

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Hello,  
Thank you for your reply.  
I’ve done this before with no solution.

> **[No Hardware Transcoding on Plex - openmediavault](https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread%2F42147-no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex%2F&postID=303475#post303475)**
>
> Hello,
> I just switched from DSM to OMV, and I have a problem, Plex refuses to hard transcode my media.
> 
> No problem with Jellyfin
> 
> With you an idea? ( chmod 777 /dev/dri or specifying GUID=107 does not change anything :( )
> Merci
> 
> My compose :…

> [@ChuckPa](#):
>
> Relative addressing? wouldn’t you use an absolute path?

Either way, no change ☹

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**Author:** ![EVOTk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/evotk/32/166239_2.png) [@EVOTk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/EVOTk)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/4 "2022-02-22T20:19:51Z")

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​Hello !

I found the solution.

On Synology ( DSM ), I needed to add VaapiDriver=“i965” in Preferences.xml at some point for hard transcoding to work. I just deleted it now that I’m on OMV, and hard transcoding works! Thank you​

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/5 "2022-02-22T20:55:42Z")

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This is on a -10xxx CPU?

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**Author:** ![EVOTk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/evotk/32/166239_2.png) [@EVOTk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/EVOTk)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/6 "2022-02-22T22:03:28Z")

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Yes , i3-10100T

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/7 "2022-02-23T17:00:57Z")

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thanks. The i965 driver can only be used up through the -9xxx CPUs.  
The -10xxx is a clean break on Intel’s part from all things in the past; including the i965

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**Author:** ![EVOTk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/evotk/32/166239_2.png) [@EVOTk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/EVOTk)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/8 "2022-02-24T00:01:27Z")

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Thank you for that clarification 🙂

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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:** [May 25, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/no-hardware-transcoding-on-plex/777642/9 "2022-05-25T00:01:48Z")

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