Help with using hardware transcoding (Emby/Plex)

Hello,

I need to use HW transcoding to left the weight off CPU.

I have this motherboard: Supermicro X11SSH-CTF

https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSH-CTF.cfm

Graphics: Aspeed AST2400 BMC

 

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V5

Integrated Graphics: Intel HD Graphics P530

 

When I create a VM I can choose between the two GPUs as shown below:

 

 

And according to Supermicro manual the motherboard support Intel IGD:

https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/C236/MNL-1783.pdf

 

 

I want to able to use “Intel HD Graphics P530” for hardware transcoding.

I installed Emby and did the following:

 

 

When I stream a video and check the CPU utilization it hits the 75% ~ 80%:

 

 

 

Any help is appreciated.

Same，wait a solution

Edited September 3, 20196 yr by aloneice

Are you using Plex or Emby from within a VM or are you using the Docker containers? To my knowledge QuickSync video encoding cannot be used from a VM. I've read that even if you pass the onboard video through to a VM it's not possible for that part of the hardware to work.

 

It IS possible to use QuickSync encoding from the Emby or Plex Docker containers. You put the following in your /boot/config/go file:

modprobe i915
chmod -R 777 /dev/dri
chown -R nobody:users /dev/dri

Then pass the /dev/dri device to your Plex and/or Emby Docker containers.