Sooo not quite sure where to post this... SOOooooo yea.

 

Anyways... running unraid with plex in a docker container.

I am wanting to do hardware encoding because my CPUs (Xeon E5-2630 v4) don't support Intel Quick Sync. 

 

I have been looking around and "Googling" and everyone is like "Go get an nvidia card." BUT apparently can only handle up to 2 streams.

I've been seeing quite a few NVIDIA Quadro cards around would it work?

Or what about the AMD Radeon pro or AMD FirePro or even AMD Vega?

Edited March 31, 20188 yr by demonmaestro

22 minutes ago, demonmaestro said:

running unraid with plex in a docker container.

 

22 minutes ago, demonmaestro said:

I've been seeing quite a few NVIDIA Quadro cards around would it work?

Or what about the AMD Radeon pro or AMD FirePro or even AMD Vega?

The drivers are not installed in unRaid, so in order to do hardware transcoding, you would need to run Plex in a VM with a video card passed through.

Thanks for the quick response.

Okay. If I go that route isn't the VM tied to a "limit" of HDD space or is it "flexable" now?

Also what GPU is recommended? 

Is there a list per say on showing this X card will do X streams or whatnot? 

Maybe this link would be useful? https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix

Well as far as the video side of things the Quadro P5000 seems to be the best as far as that list that you have me @uldise

 

But what about AMD cards?

 

@Squid Isn't the VM tied to a "limit" of HDD space or is it "flexable" now being that I have to move away from a docker?

Edited March 31, 20188 yr by demonmaestro

Well as far as the video side of things the Quadro P5000 seems to be the best as far as that list that you have me [mention=15479]uldise[/mention]
 
But what about AMD cards?
 
[mention=10290]Squid[/mention] Isn't the VM tied to a "limit" of HDD space or is it "flexable" now being that I have to move away from a docker?

Any limit on a vdisk size is the size of the disk.

5 hours ago, Squid said:

5 hours ago, demonmaestro said:

Well as far as the video side of things the Quadro P5000 seems to be the best as far as that list that you have me [mention=15479]uldise[/mention]
 
But what about AMD cards?
 
[mention=10290]Squid[/mention] Isn't the VM tied to a "limit" of HDD space or is it "flexable" now being that I have to move away from a docker?

Any limit on a vdisk size is the size of the disk.

But the Ubuntu template doesn't show vdisk size. Does that mean that it will grow with the VM?

The vdisk size has already been set (when you originally created the VM)  To change the current size, you  do it by clicking on the name of the VM and then you can change the size of the disk . (6.4 or 6.5-rc3+) 

 

You can (at least on a Windows setup) also create a VDisk that will enlarge and shrink according to the actual disk space used by editing the XML appropriately (see the VM FAQ)