Samy

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  1. On 2/9/2023 at 5:02 AM, LumpyCustard said:

    edit: Upon further investigation it seems like if i'm transcoding a 1080P movie, Plex leans on the CPU, but when I transcode a 4K movie, Plex uses the GPU. This is reproducible with any movie i try. Is this expected behaviour in Plex?

     

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    I'm having difficulty getting Plex hardware transcoding to work despite the GPU being detected and used by Plex.

     

    I migrated my Plex %appdata% folder from a Windows VM to Binhex Plexpass and everything worked fine after pointing it to the new media locations and syncing.

     

    - I've installed the 'nvidia driver' plugin and downloaded the latest driver.

    - The driver has a HWID.

     

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    - I have copied the ID from 'nvidia driver' and pasted it into Binhex Plexpass container settings.

    - I have set --runtime=nvidia in 'extra parameters'

    - I have set 'nvidia_visible_devices' to 'all'

     

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    - I have enabled hardware acceleration under Transcoder settings.

     

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    - I have confirmed transcoder temporary directory is working (i can see transcoding files in the directory i have mapped on my cache)

     

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    - When i launch Plex the the GPU Statistics plugin shows that my GPU is being utilised by Plex.

     

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    - When i launch terminal and type "watch nvidia-smi" i can see the GPU is being used by Plex.

     

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    However with all that working properly and looking good, when I watch a movie and set Plex to transcode (rather than direct file stream), my CPU gets slammed and Plex does not show "transcode (hw)" in the now playing section. Instead it just shows "transcode", which means that it's not HW transcoding.

     

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    Anyone have an idea? Has this been caused by transferring my Windows based %appdata% folder into Docker? To be clear i took the 'Plex Media Server' folder from Windows in %appdata%, deleted all of the folders in Binhex Plex in /appdata/, and copied it in.

     

    Thanks.

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    You have the same issue as me above, I've found out that disabling subtitles solves the issue, now we need to understand how to get how to watch with subtitles and have everything go through the GPU as well......

    EDIT: Putting SRT subtitles also work... Don't ask me why, I don't know. Hopefully someone will help us diagnose the issue, probably a docker issue ?

  2. Hello,

     

    After using Binhex plex for many years now, I've upgraded the setup to offload transcoding to a GPU (NVIDIA P1000), I've followed space invader tutorial on it but even though my GPU seems to be doing the transcoding, my CPU still works at the same rate as before and I'm still not able to transcode to 4k smoothly as my GPU should. Do you guys know why my CPU is still working this hard even though it should be the GPU doing it ?

    Here's some pictures for more info (Was playing two movies transcoded in the time so you can have a better idea)

     

    Can you please help ? Thank you very much !

     

    EDIT: I have the exact same issue as LumpyCustard above apparently, I've seen the same behavior between binhex-plex and binhex-plexpass, and it's not a migration issue as I have this setup since day 1 and there was no transfer no anything. I even tried with a brand new docker install and I had the same behavior ... Please help if you have an idea

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  3. After advice from Unraid team to post my issue here, maybe I'll have a better support as it could be a plugin issue:

     

    Hello everyone,

     

    I'm actually trying Unraid (And I love it). I've already watched tutorials (thanks Space invader one if you read me !) However I'm running into issues when it comes to temperatures & fan monitoring in general:

    - temperatures are shown but are "frozen" and doesn't refresh no matter what I do, either they're completely frozen or the refresh time is way too long.

    - The temperatures are different from the IPMI interface

    - Thought about going to the plugin page and post my issue, however the issue is not plugin related, I've gone to console and use `watch -n 1 sensors` and temperatures doesn't refresh there too, however the plugin is picking them correctly

    - Last, might be a plugin related issue, I don't see any of my fans even if my board got more than 5 pwm fan connectors that are connected to Noctua A14 PWM fans (that are running)

     

    Beside that temperatures displayed are "normal" and "realistic" between 30 to 40°c, and from time to time the threshold od the ssd kicks in when I use them intensively, it just takes a LONG time to refresh

     

    Do you have an idea how can I investigate/solve the issue ?

    Please find attached some pictures :


    IPMI interface temperatures :

    image.thumb.png.e96be15cff3b3b13067f546f4213f2a4.png

     

    Temperatures in Unraid interface:

    image.png.4858c3b39edb0f91004af286d7f2e4b6.png

     

    watch sensors command in console:

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    used driver and configuration:

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    Finally, here all available temperature sensors:

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    Thank you very much for your read, can you please help me ?

     

    Best regards,

    Samy

  4. Thank you very much for your fast response.

     

    Alright, let's say if I want to completely remove the plugin(in case I can't solve that issue), the problem is sensors-lm isn't uninstalled in the process.

    What's the equivalent of apt or yum in Unraid ?

     

     

  5. Hello everyone,

     

    I'm actually trying Unraid (And I love it). I've already watched tutorials (thanks Space invader one if you read me !) However I'm running into issues when it comes to temperatures & fan monitoring in general:

    - temperatures are shown but are "frozen" and doesn't refresh no matter what I do, either they're completely frozen or the refresh time is way too long.

    - The temperatures are different from the IPMI interface

    - Thought about going to the plugin page and post my issue, however the issue is not plugin related, I've gone to console and use `watch -n 1 sensors` and temperatures doesn't refresh there too, however the plugin is picking them correctly

    - Last, might be a plugin related issue, I don't see any of my fans even if my board got more than 5 pwm fan connectors that are connected to Noctua A14 PWM fans (that are running)

     

    Beside that temperatures displayed are "normal" and "realistic" between 30 to 40°c, and from time to time the threshold od the ssd kicks in when I use them intensively, it just takes a LONG time to refresh

     

    Do you have an idea how can I investigate/solve the issue ?

    Please find attached some pictures :
    IPMI interface temperatures :

    image.thumb.png.09b62b54810126d6bbc70f2ab92ecde6.png

     

    Temperatures in Unraid interface:
    image.png.6a4f0cb7df35a500f1e46a084eb105b7.png

     

    watch sensors command in console:

     

    image.png.0ad886b2868b4fbdbdda29a6459f8bde.png

     

    used driver and configuration:

    image.thumb.png.8b169e0b4476deb834ba6e1503bd3832.png

     

    Finally, here all available temperature sensors:

     

    image.thumb.png.4e3daddb39154eaabe4d99ce4d9b9f9e.png

     

    Thank you very much for your read, can you please help me ?

     

    Best regards,

    Samy