Plex in Cobia TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.0.1

[Isma]

Hello, I was looking for information about plex and hardware acceleration and even though I add the GPU to the app I have no way to select it to transcode, what am I doing wrong?

 

[Kris Moore]

Your settings look correct on the App side, you need to make sure to select 'Allocate 1 nvidia.com/gpu GPU' and then within Plex, ensure that the HW enabled transcode settings are enabled. Settings -> Transcoder -> Use hardware acceleration when available.

If that isn't using the GPU, then you may need to pull the plex logs and see why it is falling back to SW.

 

[Kris Moore]

 

[Isma]

Your settings look correct on the App side, you need to make sure to select 'Allocate 1 nvidia.com/gpu GPU' and then within Plex, ensure that the HW enabled transcode settings are enabled. Settings -> Transcoder -> Use hardware acceleration when available.

If that isn't using the GPU, then you may need to pull the plex logs and see why it is falling back to SW.

I simply do not have the hardware acceleration option because plex, although I configure the GPU, does not use or recognize it. To test, I mounted a vm with the gpu and I had problems because the VM did not start until I restarted with the gpu isolated and I was able to assign it and the vm started correctly

 

[Isma]

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This is all that plex shows me when selecting allocated 1

 

[Isma]

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The problem is that you have to pay the plex with the subscription for everything to be enabled correctly, it was driving me crazy

 

[FrostyCat]

That's one reason more and more of us went to Jellyfin, open source, free and no cloud dependencies whatsoever.