There is no substitute for cubic inches.
And there is no magical solution to crappy hardware.
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Don’t totally agree. Hardware acceleration is the only thing that makes the Nvidia Shield a viable Plex server, without it it couldn’t transcode any videos.
That is kind of my point.
Having an awesome (or not) GPU in a lower powered device or pc/server it not a magical cure.
The GPU only helps with hardware transcoding.
The rest of the system still has to cope with all the disk/network IO, along with all the general processing (both system and plex specific) that has to run on the system CPU and RAM.
Shield is an adequate starter/small library server.
It is not an effective solution for a 20+ tb media library.
The same applies to many people’s server. They just expect 4k to magically work, and it simply is not that simple.
When it will be implemented in an official beta?
Once we have resolved the reported issues, and a few other issues we have found internally.
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@chrisallen
Has there been an update to this release that solves the problem with synology NASes?
best regards
We are working on a few other fixes, and then we will have an updated transcoder preview available to users that will also fix the settings page for Synology and other Linux users. (Note the settings issue is fixed in the latest 1.16.6 beta)
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Could I ask how long do the features on these builds take to filter out to release versions?
Thanks in advance
The download links in the top post have been updated to point to the new 1.16.7.1597 build, which includes fixes for Intel GPUs on Windows, and an issue with settings on Synology NASes.
Is gtx 970 supported by this release? I also have a gtx 1050 Ti available for testing purposes. Which do you recommend.
I can get logs later, but here is some weirdness I’ve run across so far, on Win 10 with Gemini Lake, playback on PlexWeb:
- HEVC has accelerated encode/decode, but transcodes have a green bar on part of the lower third of the screen on HD, and both the lower and right edges for SD. Seems to be every file so far.
- I can’t get AVC files to start transcoding at all. It never even appears on the dashboard.
- MPEG2 no longer has accelerated encodes or decodes (it did intermittently in previous preview).
More testing to come. BTW this was after a reboot; prior to the reboot attempt, PMS crashed when I tried to transcode HEVC.
One question: Is there any reason to test VC1? I can’t remember if FFMPEG supports it at this point in hardware.
@bm1234567 the card shouldn’t matter as long as the proper drivers are installed and plex can see it/has permission to use it.
the 1050 would be better, its a newer generation (pascal, vs older maxwell) and supports more codecs.
as far as codecs supported, see @ https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix
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I had to rollback to the normal Beta channel version on my Ubuntu Plex server for two reasons:
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Plex was using my Intel gpu (Core i5-9600K) instead of my Nvidia P2000. This wasn’t a deal breaker on its own since its got plenty of power, but I prefer to use the external gpu. According to the ‘prime-select query’ command, my primary gpu should be nvidia. When I rolled back to the latest Beta channel version of Plex, it used the nvidia card again.
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Transcoded playback would stop 5 minutes before the end of the show. I believe this corresponds to my transcode buffer in the settings. It seemed that when the transcode job ran out of work to do, the stream would stop playback instead of continuing to the end of the show. This problem immediately went away when I went back to the normal Beta preview release.
When reporting a new issue in this build, please include your Plex Media Server logs and a sample file that reproduces the issue.
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This is absolutely incredible. Just got home from a night shift.
1 4K Remux to 1080p
2 4K Remux to SD
1 VC1 to SD
all in browser windows with a further
1 4K Remux to SD on IOS
So 5 transcodes in total peaking at around 40% on my Kabylake on Windows, but mostly at around 25-30% CPU
@Cafe_Diem I see the green bar with the 4K hevc stuff but only ever at the bottom (even with SD) it also appeared on the 4K ios transcode to SD. (The shift pattern makes it close to impossible to get logs for a few days sadly)
Generally though this is amazing.
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If the GPU supports NVDEC and NVENC then it should work
Settings now work on Synology NAS DS918+
BUT everything transcoding under 1080p 8 mbit is extrem pixeled
Example - Transcoding mkv or mp4 h264 1080 Movie to 720p 4 mbig or to 480p 1,5 mbit.
4K hevc SDR 38 mbit to 720p 4 mbit has this problem not
anyone else having weird issues with pausing, then resuming… and/or scrubbing backward/forward ?
I paused a video for a few seconds, switched away to reply to a text, then went back to plex and hit play, then video appears to start over, but the progress bar is still in the same place. (ios client)
I just installed plexserver 1.16.7.1597-a6e223f7f on a i5-9600k, ARock 390, 16GB RAM, on fedora 30. I’m using the internal Intel GPU for transcoding.
Currently, I have 6 UHD streams and 1 HD stream coming from the server. All the UHD streams are being transcoded in hardware. At the 3rd stream I encountered some minor pixilation in some of the running stream as other streams where add.
No other issue currently. Absolutely amazing. Good job.
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Installed on Synology DS918+. I noticed that I can’t at Tidal tracks to my library. They show up in the “Activity” drop down, the progress bar is stuck about 75% of the way through for all the albums I tried to add. This worked with first 1.16.7 build.
