DigitalDivide Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Drats! Big problem. So I spent the last 7hrs letting Plex find my media via http://192.168.x.xx:32400/manage/index.html#  It found my movies and tv shows and music. I tested a few movies and they played fine. I closed the window as I wanted to go back in and add photos. I went into the docker and created a path to my photos, then restarted the service, went back into Plex at the above url, and my library is empty! What the heck?  What did I or am doing wrong? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 What you did was search for "Plex", then ignored the results that showed up and then had it search dockerHub, and then added it from there. You're going to be best off to delete the existing container, then re-add Plex (but use one of the ones that comes up when you search). Will make your life easier in the long run. Quote Link to comment
DigitalDivide Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 You know I think that's exactly what I did. I couldn't figure out how to install the darn docker. I deleted the docker and am starting from scratch. I paid more attention this time and now figured out how to actually install the docker by clicking the little drive icon with the arrow. ..  Not sure why that slipped past me the first time....  Let's see what happens this time. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 (edited) 15 minutes ago, DigitalDivide said: You know I think that's exactly what I did. I couldn't figure out how to install the darn docker. I deleted the docker and am starting from scratch. I paid more attention this time and now figured out how to actually install the docker by clicking the little drive icon with the arrow. ..  Not sure why that slipped past me the first time....  Let's see what happens this time. I don't know that it's really necessary, but I would also delete the plex docker image and the associated appdata folder. That way there won't be any remnants of the old install.  And also install the LSIO version.? Edited October 2, 2017 by wgstarks Quote Link to comment
DigitalDivide Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 I'm just planning on running some tests. I live in a condo and the only one who will be accessing the server. I'm not sure if there's a benefit to having it on my unraid server or just better off installing the server on my htpc or even just use Kodi. My HTPC is the only machine accessing the music, movie, tv shows etc.   It's still importing all my files, been going on since last night... Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 looks like hardware transcoding is now part of the main release (plexpass), no need to use old beta PMS to enable the feature. anyone got it working on unraid (docker)? Quote Link to comment
morbidpete Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 1 hour ago, zin105 said: Old instructions for hardware transcoding includes changing permission of /dev/dri but I don't have such a file (folder?) on 6.4 RC. on unraid or within the container. I didnt find one in unraid either. but I found it inside the plex container. You have a link tot he instructions you are trying to follow? Quote Link to comment
morbidpete Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 23 minutes ago, zin105 said: As I stated, I didnt had /dev/dri. but after manually typing "modprobe i915" in an ssh session, /dev/dri showed up. Makes sense since the go file would do this whenm it boots then chmod the folder   Quote Link to comment
CSeK Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 7 minutes ago, morbidpete said:  I have just gotten this to work. Here is what I did. SSH into server perform these commands, no quotes "modprobe i915" "chmod -R 777 /dev/dri"  modify the docker container for plex and show advanced Extra Parameters (No Quotes) "--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri"  I did enable "Privileged" however some folks stated earlier that wasn't required. Who cares it's working now!  Quote Link to comment
morbidpete Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 16 minutes ago, CSeK said: I have just gotten this to work. Here is what I did. SSH into server perform these commands, no quotes "modprobe i915" "chmod -R 777 /dev/dri"  modify the docker container for plex and show advanced Extra Parameters (No Quotes) "--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri"  I did enable "Privileged" however some folks stated earlier that wasn't required. Who cares it's working now!  If you dont add those to your go file, you will have to ssh in every reboot and manually do it. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 20 minutes ago, CSeK said: I have just gotten this to work. Here is what I did. SSH into server perform these commands, no quotes "modprobe i915" "chmod -R 777 /dev/dri"  modify the docker container for plex and show advanced Extra Parameters (No Quotes) "--device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri"  I did enable "Privileged" however some folks stated earlier that wasn't required. Who cares it's working now!  Is plexpass still required for hw transcoding? Quote Link to comment
morbidpete Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 (edited) @wgstarks  yes its still PlexPass only  https://www.plex.tv/blog/smooth-stream-operator/ Edited October 3, 2017 by morbidpete I'm an idiot that can't spell. Quote Link to comment
CSeK Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 17 minutes ago, wgstarks said: Is plexpass still required for hw transcoding? Yes for more info - https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/115002178853  Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 It works for me in priviliged mode only, but the video quality is HORRIBLE, I mean at 8mbit 1080p transcode from bluray remux source, it usually good, but without much macro blocking BUT, every 5 second the quality changes to youtube 360p, or lower.... for a few seconds, than it back to passable (still little lower then CPU 8Mbit, but okish) than back to youtube 240p... https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqio89866qs5vf0/8mbit.png?dl=0 Â can this be a driver issue? Â I wouldn't recommend this feature to anybody like this... I've read about GPU transcode being slightly inferior to CPU transcode, and i'm bit of a video quality nerd, but this is beyond usable imho. Â btw, any downsides to running the docker priviliged? anyone managed to get hw transcode to work without priviliged mode? Â thanks Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 (edited) so HW transcode is OK, but when the encoder runs out of 'bandwith', everything goes to shit? only solution is brute force (with more bitrate?), but for remote media streaming it's not viable, cos the only reason for the transcode, is to save bandwith. Â I can't believe how people find this usable... the picture above is not even the worst I've seen in the past 5 minutes. and when there is a scene change... No B-frames or anything? whatever, I'm getting off topic again, HUGE tanks for the linux help! Edited October 3, 2017 by LSL1337 Quote Link to comment
aptalca Posted October 3, 2017 Share Posted October 3, 2017 2 hours ago, LSL1337 said: so HW transcode is OK, but when the encoder runs out of 'bandwith', everything goes to shit? only solution is brute force (with more bitrate?), but for remote media streaming it's not viable, cos the only reason for the transcode, is to save bandwith.  I can't believe how people find this usable... the picture above is not even the worst I've seen in the past 5 minutes. and when there is a scene change... No B-frames or anything? whatever, I'm getting off topic again, HUGE tanks for the linux help!  What are you encoding from and to?  I just tested a stream and it looked pretty good. Guardians of the galaxy 2 10+mbps 1080p hw transcoded to 4mbps 720p on a G4600 (hd630) kaby lake.  I noticed that sometimes when I first start a stream, it looks like a 240p YouTube stream for about 30-60 sec and then it magically fixes itself. Quote Link to comment
david279 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Restarted my Plex docker and the option for he encoding popped up without touching the cmd line. I'm using Plex official docker on the latest release. Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 (edited) 10 hours ago, aptalca said:  What are you encoding from and to?  I just tested a stream and it looked pretty good. Guardians of the galaxy 2 10+mbps 1080p hw transcoded to 4mbps 720p on a G4600 (hd630) kaby lake.  I noticed that sometimes when I first start a stream, it looks like a 240p YouTube stream for about 30-60 sec and then it magically fixes itself. from 1080p x264 (15Mbit) to plex 8mbit (I guess h264)  it starts at 240p for me as well, but after 2 sec, it's ok. but every 10-20 seconds, when there is proper movement, it goes back to youtube 240p levels of macroblocking. i'm gonna try it out on windows with nvidia gpu, whether or not it's the same. is it possible, that I have old drivers for the gpu or something? I'm on latest unraid (no beta) I'm on 4370T ( HD 4600)  EDIT: Ok, IT's seems like it's a linux thing. (https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/290243/hardware-transcoding-linux-artefacts#latest) The drivers are not very good on linux for intel it seems. Maybe they'll update it. There is a 2.0 pre release (few days ago). Hopefully it will be better, and plex will include it in the docker. (right now 1.8.1 is in the container, and it overrides the OS version (as per my basic understanding after a few hours of digging around). Edited October 4, 2017 by LSL1337 Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 3 hours ago, david279 said: Restarted my Plex docker and the option for he encoding popped up without touching the cmd line. I'm using Plex official docker on the latest release. Ofc it's there, but it doesn't mean it will work (without the commands). Quote Link to comment
Uirel Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Hmm, modprobe i915 isn't showing up /dev/dri for me. Â According to the plex docs anything above gen2 that supports quicksync should be working. My i3-3220T is above gen2 and has quicksync so /shrug Quote Link to comment
SavellM Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Hey guys, Â Just clicked on the enable Hardware Acceleration button tried a few streams but none are using the (hw) option. Â I saw about about changing some files, but could anyone give me a proper guide how to do this for a n00b? Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 3 hours ago, zin105 said: Is priviliged mode a security issue? Could we get a solution for HW transcoding without using priviliged mode?  It works without priviliged mode if you change permission on /dev/dri to nobody:users. Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 (edited) 30 minutes ago, saarg said:  It works without priviliged mode if you change permission on /dev/dri to nobody:users. when I tried it, (putty portable), it detected the (spacebar) before and after 'nobody:users' as an extra character 'ú' so it was 'únobody:usersú', and the command did not run, so I only managed the 777 command. today i'll try it in the GO script, maybe it works there. do I still need the 777 line as well?  what about i915. Isn't i965 better/newer, or is that a whole other thing?  thanks! Edited October 4, 2017 by LSL1337 Quote Link to comment
Endda Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I see Plex has enabled hardware acceleration in their latest build   - https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/115002178853-Using-Hardware-Accelerated-Streaming  I just tested this out with the latest version but can't seem to get it use the hardware. The article says some NAS devices could have issue with the feature, is that what is happening here? Quote Link to comment
LSL1337 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Â 1 minute ago, zin105 said: Ok I lost all interest in HW transcoding. I tried transcoding to 720p 4mbps and there's a lot of artifacting every once in a while. Don't give up just yet, it works much better on windows. Â We just need updated(meaning better) linux drivers for windows, but it could take months, or even years.... so eventually... Quote Link to comment
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