Hi, Saw a thread regarding this problem on unraid where plex employee replied nvidia 450++ driver is required for NVENC now. This breaks NVENC for us with P2000 cards on every Windows version except Windows 10 since Nvidia driver is EOL since january 2020 for older Windows versions. Is this inten…

Did a bit of research. Nvidia driver 445.87 is the minimum requirement for Windows now if you want NVENC to work, since ffmpeg is now compiled with NVENC V10 API. This means P2000 HW transcoding is dead for every Windows version except for Windows 10. Oct 07, 2020 08:47:59.570 [12736] ERROR - [Tra…

Same issue here. Quadro P2000 on Windows 10, drivers are up to date. I just ended up reverting to 1.20.1.3252 :frowning:

Really? Win 10 with 445.87 or later? If so, more users should be affected… maybe they havent noticed yet… still waiting for someone from Plex to reply.

You will wait forever if you are expecting someone from Plex support to respond. As many bugs as I have chimed in on in these forums…only a handful in the very beginning ever got noticed

Hmm… I bought a Quadro P2000 awhile back since intel transcoding broke with the PMS 1.18. I just had a friend of mine that was streaming a video and I had noticed my CPU usage spiking to 100%… Plex wasn’t using transcoding at all despite the option being enabled on PMS. I’m running PMS: 1.20.3.3437 …

So I did some testing with the raw ffmpeg builds. Version 4.3 works with nvenc and version 4.3.1 I get an error about API version. Driver does not support the required nvenc API version. Required: 10.0 Found: 9.1. I also tried with one of the nightly builds [ffmpeg-N-99865-ga125e08130-win64-gpl.…

Pretty much the same as I’ve concluded with. What happens if you replace plextranscoder.exe with an older version? Plex goes bonkers? I’ve started looking for alternatives as this pretty much makes my setup useless.

Not sure why anyone would not want to be on win 10 at this point, everything older is a great risk of exploitation. If you can’t afford or simply don’t want w10, then perhaps it’s time to start learning Linux.

[image] SVKTV: Anyone at Plex care to confirm I’m screwed? Unfortunately yes. New versions of PMS will require drivers 450+.

Updates after 1.20.1.3252 breaks NVENC

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adamesslinger November 10, 2020, 2:28pm 17

I have filed a bug ticket with FFMpeg

I have been trying to file a bug with Nvidia, but I cant find a way to open a case with them.

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