Apologies in advance for yet another plex transcoding thread.  I read a bunch of them and didn't find anything that addresses my issue.

 

I just recently added a P2000 to my system, primarily to provide additional horsepower while processing A LOT of files using TDARR.  TDARR setup went fine.  I added the Nvidia driver plugin, added the Nvidia variables, selected the Nvidia plugin within TDARR.  It has been chugging for over a week and has already saved me over a terabyte.

 

Up till now, the iGPU in my i5-12500 has been more than adequate for my modest plex transcoding needs.  In fact, I still plan on using the iGPU with plex, but I thought I would try setting up the P2000 just so I have the option.  First, I tried selecting the P2000 in Plex transcoder settings without any additional config changes to the plex docker.  In this case, Plex continued playback normally but it did revert to CPU transcoding.  This was somewhat expected as I hadn't added any of the nvidia specific variables to my Plex config. 

 

I then completed the Nvidia config for the Plex docker, adding the extra parameter, both variables, and checking for spaces... basically everything I read in all the other threads.  After this I tried to force another transcode and playback simply stopped.  Cycling the play/pause button in the playback did nothing, and after a few minutes the title disappears from the dashboard.  Of course I tried with several other files all with the same result.  Again, playback just stopped.  In the dashboard, network and CPU dropped off immediately as if I had stopped playback.  Plex was not frozen as I could still navigate the UI and even play direct play files.

 

All I have to do is select the iGPU inside plex and it takes over the HW transcoding just fine.  

 

Clearly something changed when I added the nvidia variables to the plex docker since it didn't revert to CPU transcoding as before.  Any idea why the P2000 isn't picking up the transcode as it should?

 

Don't know if it is significant, but I am using the Plex Official docker container.

Edited April 26, 20242 yr by jkBuckethead

Did you ever get anywhere with this?  Today I replaced a P400 with a P2000 and am having the same symptoms as you.  It's starts playing fine, but after about 10 seconds it just stops with a spinning circle.  Everything else in my system is the same.  Works fine in Emby.