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it doesn't make much of a difference which ARC GPU you get if there is no screen connected, what matters is that your motherboard supports ASPM L1.

my apologies for answering so late, I was on a business trip. I am glad you got it sorted and I am even happier that it works as expected now.

I moved completely to jellyfin but when I still had emby it would only show the vp9 and h264 decoder and nothing else. Yes I compiled the Kernel myself, if it works for you and not for me, then I probably messed something up. I can use quicksync on jellyfin just fine, even though it's not completely ready yet. I disabled my igpu in the bios but I am sure the info you provided will come in handy for other people.

In regards to the updates: Probably not. What you should know though is that AV1 encode doesn't work yet. Passing the kernel through to an additional vm works but it has given me so many additional problems that I decided to not do that. I have zero issues currently (with custom kernel) but I only use jellyfin. Emby and Plex don't support the arc yet.

In that case I think you are definitly making the right choice in waiting. Plex currently also doesn't support the ARC card (at least it didn't 2 weeks ago), only jellyfin does.

I think the cooling block is too small for that, you would also have the remove the fan from the card or else it could block the airflow too much.

me too, save behavior. In regards to the earlier question, I am uncertain how an update will work out for me, but my estimation is that I can just download a new unraid on my windows pc and replace all the files on the usb stick if something fails. I have a pretty simple setup so I am confident that this will work for me. I don't know what your setup is, but my understanding is that official support is around the corner so it's probably better to wait. Having said that, I think you made an excellent choice with having gotten an A380 and you will probably be very happy with the results.

MY Z390 has ASPM, seems pretty widespread.

The easy way: download the kernel 6.2 from: github.com/DatPat/unraid_arc_g2 replace the downloaded files (bzImage, bzmodues and bzfirmware ) on your unraid usb-stick. *you may want to set a static ip as some people had issues with their dhcp config then reboot. then you should have the card available. you may then download a beta/unstable jellyfin build to use it. The hard way: download a 6.2 build of your choice from here github.com/thor2002ro/unraid_kernel Add this to the .config file: CONFIG_INTEL_MEI=m CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_ME=m CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_TXE=m CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_GSC=m CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_HDCP=m CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_PXP=m CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_WDT=m compile follow the easy way from here on out.

I compiled a 6.2 rc kernel (with unraid patches) and put it on my distro, so now I can use the ARC card. I am happy with that. My request is basically fulfilled. I didn't even know there was a 6.12 beta. Thanks for that info.

Wait, you're one of the Jellyfin devs? Thanks for taking the time to help us and for making such a cool product.

you are right on that but the performance and quality on h265 is already very impressive.

I hail from a culture where it is customary for the accuser to explain the reasoning behind their charges, I assume you do not. You are right on one account though, I still have a lot to learn. Having said that, I wish you the best of luck on your campaign to get an Ubuntu flavored version of unRAID.

It already works quite well. Perhaps it doesn't meet the highest standards for being considered stable, but there is a person called nyanmisaki who figured out how to get it work and with his help I have been able to use an unstable jellyfin build with no problems. I can even transcode 4k hevc movies with very high bitrates with no problem. I understand that this success may not scale to a wide userbase but individually I couldn't be happier. Here is a link for anyone interested: forums.unraid.net/topic/129027-intel-arc-support/page/5/#comment-1224845

Thank you for the explanation. Do you think we are going to see a transcode to AV1 option in jellyfin in the future? As almost all browsers have excellent AV1 support this could come in quite handy, especially if the bitrate is too high for the connection.