I have “Use hardware acceleration when available” and “Use hardware-accelerated video encoding” enabled.
But testing multiple video files, and converting them, Plex won’t use the P1000. Checking nvidia-smi while something is running does not show any processes running. And there is no (hw) tag shown in Plex, and CPU usage hits 100% when trying to transcode a 4k file.
Not sure if I am missing something? I thought as long as the video card is seen on the PMS server, it should use it?
personally, been a very hard week. Eye surgery on monday and trying to work while recovering because everyone in the company is away is tough (holding down the fort).
When you install the vetted / packaged nvidia-drivers from Ubuntu, you get the encoder and decoder with it.
If you install the nvidia drivers (unvetted) directly from nvidia, you have to install the encode and decode manually.
speaking to proxmox and unraid, proxmox isn’t a supported distro. In my attempts to help anyway, I asked for help because no matter what I tried on my own didn’t work.
I had the same problems with unraid. Fortunately, the unraid folks themselves stepped up and shared some key info about the USB sticks and were kind enough to give me a free licence to support it with.
PMS in a docker container, hardware passthrough is user responsibility, is supported on unraid,
the same is true of PMS in a ubuntu vm on proxmox.
there are changes coming. when those changes are complete, i’ll see about getting the specifics added to those support pages. (That’s a good idea)
I , personally, am trying to help support things which aren’t supported. I do the best i can. sometimes i come across the wrong way and apologize.
have a great day wherever you are. it’s almost 4am here and waaay past bedtime for this ole fart.
I think from memory when installed Ubuntu, I already had the GPU passed through, and the installation detected the Nvidia GPU. But I guess whatever it installed at the time didn’t include those components.
