Once I actually had a legitimate 1050ti everything went super smooth! I was able to get encoding and decoding working and my cpu is thanking me.

 

The only issue I had with the plex patch for decoding was when I renamed the transcoder file to 'Plex Transcoder2' it claimed it couldn't find the file. I think it was acting weird with the space but no matter what I did I couldn't get it to see the file. I then decided to just name it transcoder and it worked perfectly.

 

Thank you to everyone involved in this!

On 2/27/2019 at 4:38 PM, JasonM said:

Same here with a P4000. I'm on the Plex official Docker. I plan to try the LSIO container this weekend.

I figured out the issue for me. I wasn't using the latest plexpass version of the docker I was in. It was giving me a server version of 1.14.x It should be 1.15.x

1 hour ago, Blumpkin said:

I figured out the issue for me. I wasn't using the latest plexpass version of the docker I was in. It was giving me a server version of 1.14.x It should be 1.15.x

That worked here also. But with hardware decode and encode both running, artifacting is *really* bad.

19 minutes ago, JasonM said:

That worked here also. But with hardware decode and encode both running, artifacting is *really* bad.

That might actually be caused by 7.1 audio. Try selecting a 5.1 stream and see if that helps.

14 minutes ago, Blumpkin said:

That might actually be caused by 7.1 audio. Try selecting a 5.1 stream and see if that helps.

Same issue with 5.1 audio selected. I'll give it a few days and see what my remote users have to say.

I have several older shows that are usually in avi format... Has anyone experienced when running such older .avi files that they are unable to when HW is enabled, but then immediately work when disabled ( by removing --runtime=nvidia)?

 

I figured if for whatever reason HW transcoding could not support something it would just fall back to the CPU to handle, am i mistaken?, 

Edited March 1, 20197 yr by pimogo

Given the hit and miss rate of this and my lack of understanding alot of this (although i have HW decoding and encoding working thanks to members on here) has anyone else thought of jumping ship to EMBY/tried it? Im debating giving it a go and see how i get on with it. im an annual user of plex and was debating the lifetime plex pass when it next comes out but the lack of HW decoding is seriously tempting me to just move to a working solution. 

How do people find EMBY? im guessing that the app is not as common as plex on older smart TV's etc?  

@Randall8686 In short, for me, EMBY = Superior backend, options, etc.,  but Web Player & apps = sh*t.   It's why I tolerate PLEX drawbacks in the options regarding to transcoding.   My dream would be that the 2 company merges and create a PLEXBY or EMPLEX with best of both

2 hours ago, Randall8686 said:

Given the hit and miss rate of this and my lack of understanding alot of this (although i have HW decoding and encoding working thanks to members on here) has anyone else thought of jumping ship to EMBY/tried it? Im debating giving it a go and see how i get on with it. im an annual user of plex and was debating the lifetime plex pass when it next comes out but the lack of HW decoding is seriously tempting me to just move to a working solution. 

How do people find EMBY? im guessing that the app is not as common as plex on older smart TV's etc?  

Have you taken a look at Jellyfin instead of EMBY?  No paywall / subscription required.

10 hours ago, JasonM said:

Same issue with 5.1 audio selected. I'll give it a few days and see what my remote users have to say.

Same issue with pascal. Turing cleans up the image a lot. I’ve tested this on an Ubuntu server with a 2080. We have to wait the drivers and it means a hardware purchase for most unfortunately.

Prior to this NVIDIA project, I was passing the QuickSync device to the Plex docker for HW acceleration. Perhaps if I pass the device back in and revert to the unpatched docker, it'll use the GPU for encode and the proc QuickSync for decode. I'll try this tonight.

3 hours ago, Pducharme said:

@Randall8686 In short, for me, EMBY = Superior backend, options, etc.,  but Web Player & apps = sh*t.   It's why I tolerate PLEX drawbacks in the options regarding to transcoding.   My dream would be that the 2 company merges and create a PLEXBY or EMPLEX with best of both

Hopefully Jellyfin will fill this void.

Has anyone tested the new Quadro RTX 4000?

I just wanted to say thanks to the team! Got this working nicely with a GTX 1060. Brilliant stuff 🙂

6 hours ago, Randall8686 said:

Given the hit and miss rate of this and my lack of understanding alot of this (although i have HW decoding and encoding working thanks to members on here) has anyone else thought of jumping ship to EMBY/tried it? Im debating giving it a go and see how i get on with it. im an annual user of plex and was debating the lifetime plex pass when it next comes out but the lack of HW decoding is seriously tempting me to just move to a working solution. 

How do people find EMBY? im guessing that the app is not as common as plex on older smart TV's etc?  

In my experience, Emby is a litter better, as it doesn't force transcoding as often. The interface isn't that nice, though.

 

For example, I have a 4k 10 bit HEVC file that I want to play on my Fire TV 2. Plex forces a transcode (which sucks transcoding HDR), but emby direct plays it.

 

I would hold out and wait on Jellyfin, if I were you. Open source and free fork of Emby that is getting started.

Edited March 1, 20197 yr by Blumpkin

Can this plugin be used with the P106 mining card?

So just a heads up regarding my fake 1050ti experience. Don't be an idiot like me and buy the cheapest one out there as it's likely fake. I was able to confirm mine was for sure fake and was a rebadged GTX550. When you connect it to the system it shows up as a 1050ti but none of the drivers worked. After looking closer you can see the chipset of the audio driver is what nvidia used in the GTX550.

 

You'll notice on the right side the chipset is the GF116.

Interesting thoughts from everyone, it’s not the paying for I have an issue with. If some one spends time on making great software I’m happy to pay for it. I personally would not work for free and don’t expect others too but free is always a bonus. But I just want the best solution. I share my library with about 10 users and plex is really easy for the parents to use.

I do have issues with plex. Just watching a film on direct play now in my network and get a message of “server not powerful enough” yet will happily transcode a 4K stream outside my network. So plex is not without its faults.

I think if plex supported encoding/deciding by default, did not have the odd hiccup with available bandwidth/server power when I know that is not an issue as if I play on convert automatically on my tv its faultless (nvidia shield on a 1gbit network) I would be really happy with it. But plex themselves won’t say if they intend on supporting decoding via gpu hardware or not. Frustrating when you spend money with them.


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1 hour ago, hgelpke said:

Can this plugin be used with the P106 mining card?

 

That card doesn't have nvenc, so not usable for transcoding. 

2 hours ago, Randall8686 said:

I do have issues with plex. Just watching a film on direct play now in my network and get a message of “server not powerful enough” yet will happily transcode a 4K stream outside my network. So plex is not without its faults.

What client are you using to watch this on?

418.43 is up on slackbuilds

 

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/nvidia-driver/

 

Full support for Turing Gpu's and NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 9.0!

 

and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti support!

What client are you using to watch this on?

I am using two nvidia shields internally in the network and sometimes an iPad, the iPad is usually fine as the server transcodes for that but both shields are connected to the network via Ethernet speed tested at 997mpbs down 1008mbps up to the server witha ping of less than 1ms and a jitter of 0.4 or less. I have tested the network performance to iron out issues there but I lifted floors etc to run cat6 all around the house instead of wifi. It’s not a network issue and I’m fairly sure it’s not a server performance issue either. It’s just a plex issue the problem also happens from time to time on the LG plex app (for LG TVs) seems strange I only get issues with performance on direct play and not converting. Some times I also get audio sync issues with direct play especially with TV recordings yet throw convert automatically on and I don’t have those issues.


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48 minutes ago, rix said:

As much as I support this notion having little spare time to manage myself: it's been a week.

 

Can we help you guys build and troubleshoot an RC5 build with the latest drivers?

 

I would gladly spin up an unraid VM and try this out if you gave me directions on the steps required.

I'm on holiday with my family, I have tried to compile it several times but there are some issues that need working on.

 

It will be ready when it's ready, a week for something that is free is no time at all, we're not releasing the source scripts for reasons I outlined in the original script, but if someone isn't happy with the timescales that we work on, then they are more than welcome to compile and create this solution themselves and debug any issues.  The source code is all out there.

 

I've made my feelings about this sort of thing well known before, I will outline it again.  We're volunteers with families, jobs, wives and lives to leads.  Until the day comes where working on this stuff pays our mortgages, feeds our kids and allows us to resign our full time jobs arrives then things happen at our place and our pace only.

 

We have a discord channel that people can join and if they want to get involved then just ask, but strangely whenever I offer, the standard reply is that people don't have enough free time.  If that is the case, fine, but don't assume any of us have any more free time than you, we don't, we just choose to dedicate what little free time we have to this project.

 

If someone does want to help, then in essence the problem is the runc version included in Unraid v6.6.7 and v6.7.0rc5 doesn't currently have a Nvidia patch available for it, so one approach we've thought of is replacing the runc available in Unraid completely with a separate version that does have the patch available although we're not sure if this will cause problems at all.

Bassrock and me have been working on it, but he's very busy at the moment and I'm on a family holiday with my wife and daughter so have been limited to working on this after everyone else has gone to bed. I'm not willing to spend any time in the day working on it as I see little of my daughter/wife when we're working and at home, so I'm cherishing every minute of the time I am spending with them on holiday, and for me that is way more important than anything Unraid or Nvidia related.



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Holiday with family first! ++++1

 

I wonder if limetech could help? That is a great addition to Unraid and benefits them for sure. @jonp any comments on the issue that LinuxServer.io team is facing on the latest version of Unraid with runc?