Hi, I noticed that after running transcodes on plex, with hardware acceleration enabled (gpu), the p-state of my nvidia gtx 1070 gets stuck in P0 mode. Because of this it is drawing a lot of power (more than while transcoding in P2..), and the fan is spinning up unnecessarily as well.. If I stop …

Nvidia released 450.57 on 7/9. Just installed and confirmed that the drivers are now returning to P8 automatically at the end of the transcode sessions. [image] GeForce Driver Results | NVIDIA Download the for systems. Released

@ChuckPa have you got some news about transcoder (ffmpeg) upgrade ?

This is still something I plan to continue looking into after we resolve some Windows issues with the new Transcoder Preview build.

There is an ETA for new transcoder ? (not exact day, but few weeks ? few months ?)

See here :slight_smile: Plex Media Server 1.16.7.1597 (Updated) - New Transcoder Preview

Thanks ! I Hope this problème (s-state) will be fix… it’s a very critical issue. Why doesnt create Docker images of the New transcoder ?

Update with your methode, server is 1.16.7.1597-a6e223f7f Bug still here :slight_smile: Do you want some logs ?

No need for logs. I will be shifting my focus back to this issue tomorrow :slight_smile:

So after digging into this issue, we found that it’s not new behaviour, and has existed since we first added nvdec support on Linux. Currently, when a transcode is requested, the Plex Media Server process probes which hardware transcoding APIs are supported on the system by attempting to open a de…

Thanks for answers @chrisallen :wink: It’s a bit disturbing to see that we are not progressing (since 2014) but ok :smiley: For exemple, in others streaming solution (it works very well, this issue is not present), ffmpeg command is : /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -ss 00:16:18.000 -c:v hevc_cuvid -resiz…

Stuck in P-State P0 after transcode finished on NVIDIA

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chrisallen September 4, 2019, 8:01am 51

Can you please try these steps to install the preview in your existing PMS-docker container Docker Install Steps

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Stuck in P-State P0 after transcode finished on NVIDIA

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