I’m trying to use hardware acceleration inside my docker container (using wernight/plex-media-server:autoupdate image) and it fails. I have a AMD HD6950 and an Intel i7-2700k iGPU. I know that plex will not work on the AMD card, but I’d like to use the iGPU. Note that my motherboard does not have …

I finally managed to make it work by explicitly mapping the correct device, i.e. I mapped the Intel iGPU only (since AMD cards are not supported). To do so, simply use --device=/dev/dri/card1:/dev/dri/card0 --device /dev/dri/renderD129:/dev/dri/renderD128 Of course, adapt the number avec cardX and…

I just found this in plex articles Can I use Hardware-Accelerated Streaming inside of Docker? At this time, we do not formally support hardware acceleration inside of a Docker container. Some users of Docker (on Linux only) have been able to accomplish this by adding platform-specific custom confi…

@gravufo I PMed you as well but ill post this here too. Think you can help me map my Nvidia 1050 to let Plex use HW acceleration? The command you used sudo lshw -c video, you said you ran it inside docker. What command did you use to get into docker? Did you just run sudo lshw -c video in termin…

Hey there, I’ll answer here since your questions are of general knowledge and can help anyone. There are multiple ways to execute commands inside your docker container. You can simply docker exec <container name or ID> 'command' or attach to the container using docker attach <container name or ID> …

so docker exec plex ‘sudo lshw -c video’ and I have a video chip for the server and then the 1050. I dont see where in the logs you posted is the controlD or renderD or did you not post that?

I did not post any logs. My post was clear enough. You need to execute ls /dev/dri on your host to figure out which video devices are available on your machine. Then, you need to figure out which one is the one you want to mount inside your docker container. In my case, I had to add the following op…

I installed the native plugin as well still it doesn’t seem to use hw acceleration. :frowning: Are there any specific steps you took to fix the issue?

[image] Sittingmongoose: docker exec plex ‘sudo lshw -c video’ So I finally got it! I think there may be security implications to giving the devices all privileges, but it’s running on a container on a home system that I patch regularly. docker exec -it plex /bin/bash chmod 777 /dev/dri exi…

So trying to do the same here, funny thing is that i first tested it out without using docker and got it to work. Then reinstalled the box and now trying to use it with docker but no luck so far. Also i noticed you guys said that you see a (hw) symbol in the now playing. At the point i did have it …

Using hardware acceleration in docker

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices

aguti76 June 9, 2018, 6:18am 3

Hi. I’m using plex in a docker with a intel j3455 nas server running openmediavault. I can’t make hardware acceleration working with this configuration. Before i had plex in OMV plugin and it worked with H.A. I’m a plex pass user of course.
Thanks

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Using hardware acceleration in docker

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