Freenas Plex Plugin, GPU transcoding ?

[wipzcream]

Hi all

I am working on build Freenas with Lenovo ST250
(actually, it works already)

My Specification
CPU: Intel Xeon E-2124
Memory: 32GB
HDD: 6 x 6TB Sata
Ethernet Adapter: 2 x 10GBase-T
RAID 530-8I (I use Freenas Raid)
My propose to build Freenas
1. NAS system for my home
2. Plex Server
3. Sync with Google drive
Question
Is FreeNAS can use GPU passthrough with Plex plugin? I have plan to add Quadro p2200 for transcoding

p.s As I understand FreeNAS work with IGPU

 

[sretalla]

Quadro p2200

That's a PCIe Video Card... Plex will not work with it under FreeBSD, only the Intel onboard graphics in newer chips. (for clarity, this is not a FreeNAS or FreeBSD thing, it's a case of the Plex version for FreeBSD not being coded for it, so there's no point complaining about it here)

There's a thread that talks about how to get that to work if your CPU has the right onboard graphics capability (but I don't think it does).
EDIT: if you have the G-family variant, maybe you do have embedded graphics: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...tType=873&0_Embedded=True&1_Filter-Family=595
If that's the case, see here:

Activating Plex hardware acceleration

I updated the Plex pkg and noticed this note: @@@ INTEL GPU OFFLOAD NOTES @@@ If you have a supported Intel GPU, you can leverage hardware accellerated encoding/decoding in Plex Media Server on FreeBSD 12.0+. The requirements are as follows: * Install multimedia/drm-kmod: e.g., pkg install...

www.ixsystems.com

 

[wipzcream]

That's a PCIe Video Card... Plex will not work with it under FreeBSD, only the Intel onboard graphics in newer chips. (for clarity, this is not a FreeNAS or FreeBSD thing, it's a case of the Plex version for FreeBSD not being coded for it, so there's no point complaining about it here)

There's a thread that talks about how to get that to work if your CPU has the right onboard graphics capability (but I don't think it does).
EDIT: if you have the G-family variant, maybe you do have embedded graphics: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...tType=873&0_Embedded=True&1_Filter-Family=595
If that's the case, see here:

Activating Plex hardware acceleration

I updated the Plex pkg and noticed this note: @@@ INTEL GPU OFFLOAD NOTES @@@ If you have a supported Intel GPU, you can leverage hardware accellerated encoding/decoding in Plex Media Server on FreeBSD 12.0+. The requirements are as follows: * Install multimedia/drm-kmod: e.g., pkg install...

www.ixsystems.com

Thank you for the reply, As I understand it work with Intel GPU right ?

 

[Yorick]

It will work with the Intel iGPU as long as board and BIOS support it. See over yonder, also read the PR on that which clarifies further: https://github.com/kern2011/Freenas-Quicksync

 

[Yorick]

The Lenovo ST250 has a C246, so then it's a BIOS and CPU question. Check your BIOS to see whether it has an option to enable the iGPU in an Intel Xeon. Lenovo may have chosen not to support it.
Also, an E-2224 has no iGPU; an E-2224G does.