Hi,

 

I have a weird issue which I can't explain and it's driving me crazy.

 

I ran binhex-plexpass for years. Today I made a restart of my unraid machine and now my plex container doesn't do transcoding anymore.

 

It's showing a process for a second in nvidia-smi:

 

but then it disappears and it doesn't transcode via GPU.

 

I tried several plex containers and every single container shows the same behaviour.

 

The video stucks and it doesn't going on anymore. It seems to me, that it plays the little temp file which he transcoded and the file ends it stops. But he doesn't going on to transcode. I tried another path for transcoding... but the same issue.

 

I tried emby which transcodes fine....

 

So what the heck is going on here?!

 

Edit:

Tried now on my android phone... transcoding works.

So the transcoding playing in browser doesn't work...

 

Edit2:

Tried the browser on my android phone, same issue.

 

This is crazy

Edited August 14, 20241 yr by enJOyIT

The Plex browser client has always had issues.  One of these is it seems to always force a transcode even when it should certainly be able to direct play (or at least direct stream).

 

You wrote that you tried several different containers.  Did you use a new appdata set for these, or were you pointing it to the same appdata folder?  One thing that can fix funky Plex transcoding is to stop the container, then delete all of the contents of your codec folder (in the plex appdata folder, several levels down).  When you restart the container, it will go out and repopulate the codec folder with fresh files.  This is another one of the long time fixes for weird plex issues.

Hi,

 

I tried a completely different container (the original one from plex) with completely fresh install and added a new media folder.

 

Even I tried to delete the codec folder.

 

The browser client plays the file via direct play/stream. I only wanted to check if transcoding is working, so I changed the resolution.

 

Thank you anyway for your advices! 🙂