[Manually moving files from array to cache]

I just replaced my cache drive and I'm in the process of populating my cache with my prefer-shares again. The mover is pretty slow (probably as it's a lot of small files?). Is it safe to do a manual move using the file manager from /mnt/diskX/my_prefer_shares to /mnt/cache/my_prefer_share?

[6.9.2 - Plex HW transcoding, low GPU usage and buffering]

3 minutes ago, John_M said:

 

The HEVC stream is using about half of its capacity and it's only 24 fps material. It would struggle with 60fps.

No, the GPU usage is around 4 % when trying to play and transcode h265 with vobsub.

[6.9.2 - Plex HW transcoding, low GPU usage and buffering]

9 minutes ago, John_M said:

The screenshots indicate that both video decoding and video encoding are hardware accelerated. However, the GPU can only transcode the video stream. What it can't do is re-wrap from MKV to MP4, transcode the audio or burn in subtitles - they all use the CPU and the CPU also has to feed the GPU with data. I don't know what you were expecting to see but it looks about right to me. Try turning off the subtitles and see how much of a difference it makes.

 

Removing the subtitles does seem to work. I understand that the GPU only can transcode the video stream, but what I think is strange is that the GPU load is so low. Shouldn't the load be higher when transcoding video?

 

However, removing subtitles (and using an external srt) seems to bump up the GPU usage to expected levels and the video now plays fine.

[6.9.2 - Plex HW transcoding, low GPU usage and buffering]

I'm running Unraid 6.9.2 on an Intel J4105. I've been trying to get HW transcoding in Plex to work correctly, with mixed results. h264 seems to work fine but HEVC/h265 doesn't seem to be working. 

 

Here are the steps I've taken so far:

• Added "modprobe i915" and "chmod -R 777 /dev/dri" to go file.
• Added "--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri" as extra parameter for Plex container.
• Installed plugin "Intel GPU TOP".
• Enabled HW transcoding in Plex server settings.

 

The attached screenshots are from Plex dashboard, Unraid CPU and GPU usage, Tautulli and the file information in Plex. The last screenshot is CPU/GPU usage while transcoding a h264 file, which seems to utilize the GPU.

 

What I'm concerned about is the GPU usage seems to be very low while CPU usage is high (see attached screenshot), which I feel like would indicate that something isn't right, as HW transcoding should utilize Intel QuickSync? Or is my setup too weak to transcode this file?