October 30, 20178 yr I was wanting to do GPU Hardware Acceleration with a Plex Docker but unRAID doesn't appear to have the drivers for the GPUs loaded. would be nice to have the option to install the drivers so the dockers could use them.
October 30, 20178 yr If you wanted drivers for the GPUs you have, you would have to compile it yourself. Have you got an integrated GPU in your CPU? If you do you can pass the igpu into the docker. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/53388-enabling-i915-for-host/
October 30, 20178 yr Author No, I'm on dual X5570s in my Server (a HP ProLiant DL370 G6). The Integrated graphics on the motherboard is the AMD ES1000 (RN50). Edited October 30, 20178 yr by AnnabellaRenee87
October 30, 20178 yr Yeah sorry, the only way would be to create the docker from scratch. Or you could go the VM direction and pass the GPUs through to the VM with access to the drivers that way with Plex installed in the VM. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
October 30, 20178 yr Author Yeah, may just do a VM when I get the new 6 core CPUs. I was hoping they could put in a Menu to select drivers for a certain card from these drivers. https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers Oh well, may be too difficult to implement and a VM would be easier.
November 1, 20178 yr I would be happy to test Nvidia driver integration. HEVC is coming and my CPU is going to to hurt.
March 16, 20188 yr +1 on this Nvidia drivers would be great for Plex/Emby hardware support, could also be used for the docker mining scripts. I would be happy to test.
March 18, 20188 yr Another +1 from me. I would also like to be able to natively use the GPUs in Unraid to forward them to containers. My use case would be Suricata IDS, as it has GPU support for mangling packets.
April 13, 20188 yr Fyi, plex currently only supports integrated intel (officially). Nvidia with the proper drivers, works for hardware encode but not decode in plex (silly plex omission in their ffmpeg build) Dvb had similar issues where unraid kernel had to be compiled with the dvb driver support. A community member stepped up and created a plugin. He is compiling each version of unraid with the dvb drivers and they are available via this dvb plugin. Something similar can be done for gpu drivers as well.
April 18, 20188 yr +1, would like to use my GTX 1070 for plex when I eventually upgrade it to GTX 2080. From what aptalca is saying it sounds like we are waiting for the this feature here AND for plex to fix the issue he mentions above.
April 22, 20188 yr Would love this. I have AMD RX550 for unraid gpu, and 1070 for Windows VM. Would be nice if I can pass through the RX550 for hardware acceleration for Plex
May 24, 20188 yr I have HW decoding via my i7 6700K cpu with a thread i found a while back there is some command line stuff then its just a matter of adding in "extra parameters" to my Plex docker app...all shows show HW now when played cant see why it wouldnt work for nVidia or ATI cards if i recall correctly the answer is in this post or this one
May 24, 20188 yr 15 hours ago, Can0nfan said: I have HW decoding via my i7 6700K cpu with a thread i found a while back there is some command line stuff then its just a matter of adding in "extra parameters" to my Plex docker app...all shows show HW now when played cant see why it wouldnt work for nVidia or ATI cards if i recall correctly the answer is in this post or this one Plex uses Intel quick sync, so you need a CPU that supports it. If you have an nvidia gpu also, it might be possible to use the nvidia to encode. The info is here https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/
May 29, 20188 yr +1 here using a i7-5960X CPU and would love to get Nvida quatro card with no trans code limit to offload some of the work. Can be done in a Linux box pretty easy. should be able to get it in Unraid without to much effort. (Outside view looking in)
August 1, 20187 yr +1 here too. IS this it though? Has there been no word if this is something LT might be interested in implementing? I have a few AMD and nVidia GPUs and I would love to be able to offload some of the work. My poor little FX8350 struggles on anything over 1080P if it even works at all. I guess the VM passthrough method would work but I only have 8 physical cores and no HT to work with so that's a bit of a stretch.
August 19, 20187 yr +1 from me as well. Unfortunately I found out about the Intel Quick Sync requirement only after I had setup a server with dual Xeon E5-2680v2s. 20 cores / 40 threads, but if I try to transcode a 50+mbps video, one thread ends up locked at 100% after about 10 seconds and the video never unfreezes. I'm going to try passing through an nvidia card to a windows vm with plex installed there, hopefully that will solve my problems, but I would much rather have nvidia drivers on unRaid directly and continue to use my docker.
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