AnnabellaRenee87 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 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. 4 15 Quote Link to comment
BillClinton Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 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/ Quote Link to comment
AnnabellaRenee87 Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) 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, 2017 by AnnabellaRenee87 Quote Link to comment
BillClinton Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment
AnnabellaRenee87 Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
BillClinton Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Hope it goes smoothly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
deagle Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 I would be happy to test Nvidia driver integration. HEVC is coming and my CPU is going to to hurt. Quote Link to comment
dee31797 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I second this request for GPU drivers in Unraid OS. Quote Link to comment
vanes Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 I will be the third one for the GPU-drivers in OS. Ideally would be a plugin Quote Link to comment
dra-co Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 +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. Quote Link to comment
Eike Dreesen Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
Output Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I too wish to pass my nvidia card to plex docker for hw transcoding Quote Link to comment
Stupifier Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 +1 to this. Just adding to the train Quote Link to comment
AtopMike Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 +1 for drivers (plex again) Quote Link to comment
aptalca Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
JohanSF Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 +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. Quote Link to comment
sevenz Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment
Can0n Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment
Alexsaphir Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 That's would be very usefull Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 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/ Quote Link to comment
chris0583 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 +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) Quote Link to comment
cammelspit Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 +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. Quote Link to comment
tcwatson Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 +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. Quote Link to comment
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