# Plex hardware transcoding intermittently working

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-hardware-transcoding-intermittently-working/891236>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-docker\
**Created:** [October 3, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-hardware-transcoding-intermittently-working/891236 "2024-10-03T17:15:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rich\_Pitchshift](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/rich_pitchshift/32/82884_2.png) [@Rich\_Pitchshift](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Rich_Pitchshift)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-hardware-transcoding-intermittently-working/891236/1 "2024-10-03T17:15:07Z")

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Server Version#: 4.139.0  
Player Version#:web

Plex hardware transcoding is intermittently working with my Nvidia Quadro P400 (it used to work fine until recently). My setup is a VMware host passing through the graphics card to an Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine, with Plex running as a docker container. My Nvidia driver version is 550.

I tested different streaming qualities via Plex web, and some streams hardware transcoded, and others didn’t. Using nvidia-smi, I see the process start, but then drop when hardware transcoding fails. I have looked through the [Plex Media Server.log](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/6KMGtaah1IOkyIywvV6pZwOmIHk.log) (3.1 MB), but unable to make sense of it.

Please can someone help?

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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:** [January 1, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-hardware-transcoding-intermittently-working/891236/2 "2025-01-01T17:15:10Z")

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