Output Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, jonathanm said: When plex fully supports nvidia, then we will be waiting on unraid. Currently, we are waiting on plex. Seems like the information on the support articles are old, check https://forums.plex.tv/t/what-gpu-to-get-for-hardware-acceleration/227537/28 and you can see that people are running nvidia HW offload on linux and in dockers. So we are just now waiting for unRaid to support nvidia drivers Edited October 22, 2018 by Output Quote Link to comment
bnevets27 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 What about AMD then? As I've seen reports of users running an AMD gpu under Linux with hardware transcoding working. I don't really think we are waiting on Plex. We need drivers. Even if plex officially supported Nvidia and AMD it won't matter if unraid doesn't have the drivers. It's the same as unraid dvb. Plex supports tuners but plex can't see or do anything with those tuners without the drives being supplied by the unraid dvb plugin. The issue is rather simple, if the right drivers are installed into unraid then the gpu can be passed to the plex docker. The support of that gpu then falls on Plex. The problem is adding drivers for gpus into unraid is not an easy or simple task. I highly doubt Lime-tech wants to spend the time/money/effort into doing so. Even though I think it may attract more customers. Therefore it would fall on the community. For an idea of how much work is involved, listen to CHBMB. He knows much work is involved with compiling drivers into each new build of unraid. I really want this to happen. But from what I've read and been told is not something thats going to come easy. Quote Link to comment
H2O_King89 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 +1 this would be nice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment
Output Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 8 hours ago, bnevets27 said: What about AMD then? As I've seen reports of users running an AMD gpu under Linux with hardware transcoding working. I don't really think we are waiting on Plex. We need drivers. Even if plex officially supported Nvidia and AMD it won't matter if unraid doesn't have the drivers. It's the same as unraid dvb. Plex supports tuners but plex can't see or do anything with those tuners without the drives being supplied by the unraid dvb plugin. The issue is rather simple, if the right drivers are installed into unraid then the gpu can be passed to the plex docker. The support of that gpu then falls on Plex. The problem is adding drivers for gpus into unraid is not an easy or simple task. I highly doubt Lime-tech wants to spend the time/money/effort into doing so. Even though I think it may attract more customers. Therefore it would fall on the community. For an idea of how much work is involved, listen to CHBMB. He knows much work is involved with compiling drivers into each new build of unraid. I really want this to happen. But from what I've read and been told is not something thats going to come easy. I really dont know the complexity of getting this to work, but I would presume that having the drivers installable from the user via CA or such would be really hard. Just compiling AMD and nvidia drivers with unRaid should be the most simple way to do it. You will though loose the ability to choose driver version and not be able to install others like tuners but I think this would solve 90% of the use cases Quote Link to comment
Zer0Nin3r Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 (edited) When Zer0 sees a +1 post: Use the up-vote button people! (Unless hearts are your thing....not judging....no—t judging...) Edited November 9, 2018 by Zer0Nin3r +1 * 22 = n 1 Quote Link to comment
GreenEyedMonster Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Moves it back to the top. Quote Link to comment
muzzy182uk Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I would love this since nvida has there plugin to pass a gpu to a docker this leaves the door open for deep learning systems etc. As well as plex. Even if this was just a plugin like the dvb so it can be a choice to install. I give this a +1 Quote Link to comment
jouz3 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 For me, this is the most important feature missing. Quote Link to comment
XcOM Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 To me, this would make the perfect unraid server, my box doesn't have the ability to install a CPU that supports quick sync and I don't fancy upgrading my server to one that does, I use dual Xeon's and the only Xeon's I can find that support Intel's quick sync cost about 4 times what I paid for mine, and even then I thought £500 a chip was pricey Quote Link to comment
wedge22 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I too would like to use the spare Nvidia GPU I have lying around rather than creating a Windows VM to use just for Plex, I am currently using a 5930k cpu and cannot take advantage of quick sync as it does not exist on this chip. Quote Link to comment
dukiethecorgi Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 This would be great. I'd love to move all my media to h.265, lack of hardware support is holding me back Quote Link to comment
dee31797 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 (edited) On 11/5/2017 at 2:47 PM, dee31797 said: I second this request for GPU drivers in Unraid OS. Edit: it works. I used bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker container to test it. I had to pass "--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri" and turn on "Privileged:" in the plex docker setting before it would work. Only hw encoding with nvidia card but that is Plex's fault. Emby should work decode and encode original post: Hello gents, one of you test this out. Could be an early Xmas gift if it works. not my creation just found it on google Install this plugin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bassrock/Unraid-NVIDIA-Plugin/master/plugins/UnraidNVIDIA.plg more info here https://github.com/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker Edited December 19, 2018 by dee31797 Quote Link to comment
JohanSF Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 (edited) Not able to test it myself but holy moly that is a game changer, how has this not blown up in international media by now?? My hopes are that I will not need to switch to a new plex docker container but that 'linuxserver/plex' will be updated to support this. Edited December 19, 2018 by JohanSF Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 On 10/22/2018 at 11:11 PM, bnevets27 said: For an idea of how much work is involved, listen to CHBMB. He knows much work is involved with compiling drivers into each new build of unraid. I have experimented with Nvidia drivers on Unraid too. Not a trivial task, especially when trying to leverage in docker. Nvidia doesn't support Slackware as a base for starters. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 3 hours ago, dee31797 said: Edit: it works. I used bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker container to test it. I had to pass "--device /dev/dri:/dev/dri" and turn on "Privileged:" in the plex docker setting before it would work. Only hw encoding with nvidia card but that is Plex's fault. Emby should work decode and encode original post: Hello gents, one of you test this out. Could be an early Xmas gift if it works. not my creation just found it on google Install this plugin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bassrock/Unraid-NVIDIA-Plugin/master/plugins/UnraidNVIDIA.plg more info here https://github.com/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker I would appreciate if you're going to fork several weeks of my work and then release it as your own then it might be polite to at least speak to me first. The whole reason I haven't released it was due to a whole raft of segfaults. A real asshat move. Quote Link to comment
dee31797 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 (edited) 2 minutes ago, CHBMB said: I would appreciate if you're going to fork several weeks of my work and then release it as your own then it might be polite to at least speak to me first. The whole reason I haven't released it was due to a whole raft of segfaults. A real asshat move. what?!?! did you read it or what? you quoted my statement "not my creation just found it on google" seriously man, like, im speechless edit: your github was forked by "bassrock" I don't know how to fork or code or do any of this crap. all the files I tested with was from bassrock, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bassrock/Unraid-NVIDIA-Plugin/master/plugins/UnraidNVIDIA.plg https://github.com/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker https://hub.docker.com/r/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker Edited December 19, 2018 by dee31797 1 Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 (edited) I'm very active on the forums, hell, my work is even mentioned on the thread. You find something on google, fork it, and release it, without so much of speaking to me. I'm all for open source, but it's not like I'm not available, a PM or message reaching out to me would be appreciated. Instead you unilaterally decide you are going to be the one to release my work by forking it, as a possible early Christmas gift. EDIT: There's no license attributable to that code either so I'm well within my rights I believe to ask you to remove it. If you wish to get involved with development then by all means speak to me and get involved. Until then I would appreciate if you remove my ongoing project from release, as it's not finished. EDIT: Apologies then @bass_rock looks like he's responsible, but he didn't release it..... I'll speak to him about some collaboration in that case. @dee31797 Sorry I got annoyed, it's clear you're not familiar with github and etiquette regarding this stuff, so I want to apolgise, but basically, from my initial impression I thought you had forked my work and released it as your own, which was a bit of a kick in the teeth for me, as I spent a LOT of time a few months back, and many very late nights, with the other ls.io guys trying to get this fully working. Had to put it on hold for a while as real life got in the way, so to wake up and see this was a bit of a shock. Once again apologies. Edited December 19, 2018 by CHBMB Quote Link to comment
dee31797 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 1 minute ago, CHBMB said: I'm very active on the forums, hell, my work is even mentioned on the thread. You find something on google, fork it, and release it, without so much of speaking to me. I'm all for open source, but it's not like I'm not available, a PM or message reaching out to me would be appreciated. Instead you unilaterally decide you are going to be the one to release my work by forking it, as a possible early Christmas gift. I didn't release shit, I found it on google. Some guy release it got it working. Others on this forum wanted the same thing so I posted it here that it worked for me. your github was forked by "bassrock" I don't know how to fork or code or do any of this crap. all the files I tested it with was from bassrock, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bassrock/Unraid-NVIDIA-Plugin/master/plugins/UnraidNVIDIA.plg https://github.com/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker https://hub.docker.com/r/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker Quote Link to comment
dee31797 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 14 minutes ago, CHBMB said: EDIT: Apologies then @bass_rock looks like he's responsible, but he didn't release it..... If you call "releasing it" posting it on the internet, then google did it. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 1 minute ago, dee31797 said: If you call "releasing it" posting it on the internet, then google did it. I think you should read my EDIT above. I've reached out to bassrock and he's hit the same problem I was with segfaults and server crashes. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 https://github.com/bassrock/plex-nvidia-docker/issues/1 This is why neither of us have released it. Quote Link to comment
dee31797 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Just now, CHBMB said: I think you should read my EDIT above. I've reached out to bassrock and he's hit the same problem I was with segfaults and server crashes. gotcha. Posted before edit I didn't have a server crashed but I only tested it for about 30-45 mins. Transcoded a few Plex streams. Hopefully someone gets it working fully then. Quote Link to comment
razor Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 @CHBMB Are you actively working on this? If so, I have an extra system I can test on and would be more than happy to run tests. Quote Link to comment
Altheran Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 This, SO MUCH ! Quote Link to comment
Output Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 This is really cool, is anyone running this 24/7 without issues ? Quote Link to comment
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