So was going to transcode with ram but noticed it was no longer working. So im trying to get it working with ssd but even though i have the dir set its not transcoding there ideas?

 

Edited February 11, 20197 yr by Saken

23 minutes ago, Saken said:

So just got my system up and running and working on trying to get it to transcode plex threw ram how do i know if it working

 

Are you trying to transcode in hardware (iGPU) or software (CPU)?

 

Transcoding in RAM (I am doing this) is simply a matter of, within the Plex docker, mapping the container path of /transcode (or something similar) to a host path of /tmp (or any path not in the array file system).

 

If it is working in RAM you will see the transcoding sessions being created in real time in {/tmp}/Transcode/Sessions folder

 

If you specify no transcode volume mapping, Plex will automatically transcode to the Plex appdata/Library/Application Support/... folder.  If your appdata share is on the cache drive and your cache drive is an SSD, it will transcode to SSD.

well i have it set at /tmp right now as we speak and i didnt notice any difference under my memory load so was not sure it was working. Then i saw article saying it was no longer supported so i figured that it was not. Were do i see the /tmp/transcode session folder at?

 

ah i see under shares list i see tmp but 0 streams

 

1 minute ago, Saken said:

well i have it set at /tmp right now as we speak and i didnt notice any difference under my memory load so was not sure it was working. Then i saw article saying it was no longer supported so i figured that it was not. Were do i see the /tmp/transcode session folder at?

 

On the unRAID console, terminal session from the GUI, PuTTY/SSH session, etc. type 'cd /tmp/Transcode/Sessions' then do a directory listing.

 

Here is what is going on in my transcode session folder right now:

 

ok so when i do the directory listing nothing comes up

 

1 minute ago, Saken said:

ok so when i do the directory listing nothing comes up

 

Perhaps it is not properly configured in your Plex docker/Plex?

 

Here is my Plex /transcode volume mapping:

 

 

 

And in Plex, the Transcoder temporary directory is set to /transcode

 

 

ok give me a moment to look at those again thank you so much!!

 

so i reinstalled the docker and put in the setting just like you did now when i put in the cd /tmp/Transcode/Sessions it says that no such file or directory

 

but i see tmp in my appdata on my array?

2 minutes ago, Saken said:

but i see tmp in my appdata on my array?

Then, again, you likely have something misconfigured in the docker.  Which Plex docker are you using?

 

Post your docker run command as explained in the linked discussion.

 

 

uh pretty confused on that on im using the official docker with 100m downloads

i get what your saying just a second please

 

sorry its taking me so long im deleting all the old installs of plex doing a nice clean install and then grabbing the command line while thats running

 

root@localhost:# /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.docker.manager/scripts/docker run -d --name='PlexMediaServer' --net='host' -e TZ="America/New_York" -e HOST_OS="Unraid" -e 'PLEX_CLAIM'='Insert Token from https://plex.tv/claim' -e 'PLEX_UID'='99' -e 'PLEX_GID'='100' -e 'VERSION'='latest' -v '/tmp':'/transcode':'rw' -v '/mnt/user/Plex Media/':'/data':'rw' -v '/mnt/user/appdata/PlexMediaServer':'/config':'rw' 'plexinc/pms-docker'

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The command finished successfully!

now i cant even get the plex server to boot properly doesnt even show up...

 

ok so i got plex up and running again and it does look like activity one my ram!!! however i put on 2 diff shows on 2 diff machines and it still only shows up as 1 transcode instead of 2 is that normal?

 

acually it looks like only watching on pc is transcoding to ram my tv doesnt show anything o o

 

yup confirmed only 1 device is transcoding threw the ram the rest show nothing

 

You have to be careful if you're transcoding to RAM while using the Plex DVR. I learned this the hard way. Basically while Plex is recording something it is also "transcoding" it to break it up into streamable sections. It does this so that just in case you want to watch while it's still recording. The rub though is that depending on your amount of RAM this can quickly fill it up. I had several recordings fail before I figured out what was actually going on.

10 hours ago, Saken said:

yup confirmed only 1 device is transcoding threw the ram the rest show nothing

 

Not everything has to be transcoded.  If the client can direct play the content because it is in a natively supported format, no transcoding takes place.  It could be that only one device needs to transcode the content and the other(s) can direct play most content. 

 

nVidia Shield for example can direct play just about anything and Plex rarely needs to transcode content streamed to the Shield. 

 

My FireTV direct plays most of my content (1080p or less) to the TV and rarely transcodes

 

I generally only see transcoding on content being played remotely or on certain mobile devices. 

 

What I posted in my transcoding screenshot last night was two transcodes taking place for remotely streamed content and the Plex DVR recording simultaneously.

I did get it working  and it took me a little bit to figure out that no transcode is good lol. So it does work now xd thank you so much