March 16, 20233 yr Hi there. I am pretty new to Unraid and basically I wanted just a Plexserver. Since I had an old, but working MSI Geforce GTX960 I put it in my server. I have the plex docker up and running. I also installed the nvidia drivers, the card shows in my dashboard. I heard that I could use the nvidia card to transcode in order to not push it all through the cpu. But plex does not use the card. If I am right under Container Variable: NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES I should select my GPU, but it is blank. Am I missing something here? I appreciate any help I can get on this. Thanks.
March 16, 20233 yr First, click on 'Plugins' tab, then click on 'Nvidia Driver' In there you should see 'Installed GPU(s):', one of those in the list should look like 'GPU-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx', copy this line into 'Nvidia Visible Devices'. Once you do this, the GPU should be usable in the container.
March 17, 20233 yr Author Thank you for replying. Any need to restart? it doesn´t seem to change anything.
March 17, 20233 yr As long as Hardware transcoding is enabled in PLEX and you pressed 'Apply' once you pasted the GPU GUID in the NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, it should work.
March 17, 20233 yr Author 1 hour ago, WardyBoi said: As long as Hardware transcoding is enabled in PLEX and you pressed 'Apply' once you pasted the GPU GUID in the NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, it should work. So HW transcoding works only with Plex Pass. Am i right? I thought it would also work without Plex pass.
March 17, 20233 yr 16 hours ago, stephan288 said: So HW transcoding works only with Plex Pass. Am i right? I thought it would also work without Plex pass. Correct. This is a Plex Pass feature not supported by the free version. Edited March 17, 20233 yr by Hoopster
March 17, 20233 yr Author Ok. Thanks. I thought there was a workaround of that Plex Pass. So I might buy it. One last question: Do you know if the GTX960 can do good transcoding? I know it can´t do 4K, but that´s ok for me for now.
March 17, 20233 yr 24 minutes ago, stephan288 said: Do you know if the GTX960 can do good transcoding? Here is a link to the Nvidia encode decode matrices. Click one to see what various Nvidia GPUs are capable of doing with hardware encode or decode. Edited March 17, 20233 yr by Hoopster
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