skunkymunky

Sorry for the double post folks. I've upgraded to the latest RC for unraid and the beta channel for Plex. Can confirm my transcoding is now being handled by my B50 without any hiccups.

Looks like there is also official documentation from the Plex container as well. https://forums.plex.tv/t/guide-official-plex-docker-for-unraid-update-to-plexpass-beta-version/627515

@vdeleon I'm still running the main release branch of both unraid and Plex so unfortunately I haven't gotten to test it yet. Hopefully we'll get the new versions pushed to the stable branch soon.

So what you're saying is that the xe drivers bundled with Unraid aren't going to suffice. I know the kernel version isn't the only limitation we'll be facing as I've already updated to a more modern kernel, so it'll either be having to pass through to a VM or wait and request/hope the new software will be released for Unraid, correct? Just trying to get my bearings and plan ahead. It's a shame a card with such massive potential may be unusable for a significant amount of time natively.

I was lucky enough to get a B50 already and have been going through attempting to get the transcoding to work. After looking on a few other forums some folks reported that Intel was recommending to use Kernel 6.14 minimum for best results. I attempted to upgrade to the newest beta 7.2 and while Plex sees the device as a transcoding option it still defaults back to CPU when selected. I've been using the onboard graphics on my 13900k without much of a problem but I'm still unable to get the B50 to work. I've patched to @thor2002ro 's 6.16.5 custom kernel to no avail. I've also attempted to blacklist the i915 driver and force the xe to take over. I also went through a myriad of variations for setting the extra parameters on the docker container. I'm assuming it may not be possible at this point but figured I'd post here and see if anyone can take a peek. Diagnostics zip is attached. unraid-diagnostics-20250916-1310.zip