Plex: Guide to Moving Transcoding to RAM

[10bn]

On 12/15/2023 at 10:17 PM, craigr said:

 

My go file PLEX lines:

 

#Limit PLEX Transcode RAM Drive Size
mkdir /tmp/PlexRamScratch
chmod -R 777 /tmp/PlexRamScratch
mount -t tmpfs -o size=32g tmpfs /tmp/PlexRamScratch

 

 

 

 

I do not have any extra parameters.  I am however using the Intel IGPU not Nvidia.

 

Good luck!

Thanks for the writeup, what about adding in a script to check every 24h for files older than 24h and delete them? I just checked my ram transcoding folder and indeed didn't clean up properly after the last transcode. 

[sirhotness]

so i'm trying to move transcode to RAM to see if it works better like everyone says.  im using the below documentation to do the settings.

 

https://github.com/binhex/documentation/blob/master/docker/faq/plex.md

 

however, everytime i change and apply the settings the entire plex container disappears from the docker.  i have to change the settings back to my ssd for transcode for it to reappear and work again.  is there something i'm doing wrong or missing?  i have transcode settings in plex set to /transcode even after i change the container settings.

 

any advice is appreciated.

[trurl]

5 hours ago, sirhotness said:

after i change the container settings.

post docker run

[sirhotness]

29 minutes ago, trurl said:

post

thank you for this.  i will try again after i do a full backup of the appdata section.  i want to make sure i have the pms db backed up before trying to change the paths again, then i will run all logs to post.

 

appreciate you.

[thisguyneedsabeer]

Forgive me if this has already been asked, but when transcoding in the RAM, should you see (hw) for transcodes? I have everything configured as the guide suggests but no extra parameters, and no GPU. My CPU is 2x E5-2697v2's (no iGPU). When I do a test transcode it just says transcoding, without the (hw). I am a PlexPass subscriber, on the latest PMS, and my transcode directory is set to /transcode which maps to /tmp/PlexRamScratch (using the go file posted).

[alturismo]

14 hours ago, thisguyneedsabeer said:

but when transcoding in the RAM, should you see (hw) for transcodes?

doesnt matter if RAM or disk, hw transcode means GPU usage ,,,

 

14 hours ago, thisguyneedsabeer said:

and no GPU. My CPU is 2x E5-2697v2's (no iGPU).

so, if you dont have any GPU (like a NV, AMD, ...) used for transcoding, and no iGPU ... hw do you expect to use hardware transcoding ?  when there is no hardware to transcode ...

[thisguyneedsabeer]

On 4/18/2024 at 3:45 AM, alturismo said:

doesnt matter if RAM or disk, hw transcode means GPU usage ,,,

 

so, if you dont have any GPU (like a NV, AMD, ...) used for transcoding, and no iGPU ... hw do you expect to use hardware transcoding ?  when there is no hardware to transcode ...

That's what I was asking; does RAM count as hardware transcoding or is hardware transcoding strictly locked to iGPU/GPU?

[alturismo]

6 minutes ago, thisguyneedsabeer said:

That's what I was asking; does RAM count as hardware transcoding or is hardware transcoding strictly locked to iGPU/GPU?

hardware transcoding means you transcode via gpu accel ... has nothing todo with RAM ...

 

moving transcoding to RAM is meant to prevent teardown from a disk ...

[thisguyneedsabeer]

On 4/19/2024 at 3:11 PM, alturismo said:

hardware transcoding means you transcode via gpu accel ... has nothing todo with RAM ...

 

moving transcoding to RAM is meant to prevent teardown from a disk ...

That is the answer I was looking for, thank you.