Nvidia transcoding no longer works

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Since the latest update, my hardware transcoding no longer works. The error messages in the logs say

[Req#a0c/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 11.0 Found: 8.1
[Req#a0c/Transcode] [FFMPEG] - The minimum required Nvidia driver for nvenc is 455.28 or newer

My graphics card ( GeForce GT 710 ) only supports up to 390 legacy drivers.

david@openmediavault:/home/david> nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] (rev a1)

Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
Your card is only supported up to the 390 legacy drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 440 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 418 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver
package.

Is there any way around this? Will I be forced to buy a newer graphics card if I want to continue to use hardware transcoding?

2

Buy newer card or stay at old plex server version.

3

The GeForce GT 710 was a graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on March 27th, 2014.

It is EOL status. As can be seen, current drivers don’t support it. PMS is not backward compatible that far. (PMS requires CUDA v 12

This is current for the slightly older P2200

[chuck@lizum ~.2001]$ nvidia-smi
Thu Jun  6 16:31:52 2024       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.161.08             Driver Version: 535.161.08   CUDA Version: 12.2     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro P2200                   On  | 00000000:07:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 48%   38C    P8               4W /  75W |      4MiB /  5120MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                           |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[chuck@lizum ~.2002]$

Unfortunately, it’s time to let it be a simple desktop display .

4

Is there a way for me to “downgrade” my Plex docker container and then prevent it from automatically updating.
The card is in an OpenMediaVault server, which has no GUI, so spending money to upgrade the card makes no sense. From the Plex perspective, having hardware acceleration is more valuable to me that any new features that will be added, at least in the short term.

5

Did you build it with version: latest? That’s how you get latest. Just back it to whatever version.

6

I am running the plex/plex-pms docker container which automatically updates and removes the old container when docker is restarted ( every Sunday morning in my case ). So I can remove the new container and re-build with the old container if I can find out where to download the old container from. Since updates happen automatically, I don’t even know what the previous version of the container is.

7

The Plex docker will always follow Public release.

There are other images out there which don’t update automatically

If you migrate the /config area from one image to another, you’ll be ok.

Now, how difficult is that on OMV? I don’t remember (been a long time since I was at the keyboard / shell level)

8

Supplemental:

@Menel is correct.
Backing down to a specific version will also hold you there.

example:

Instead of:
plexinc/pms-docker:latest

Put the version (full) on the spec line. (e.g.)
plexinc/pms-docker:1.29.2.6364-6d72b0cf6

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