TVS1282 not using GPU for transcoding in PLEX

[nasgul]

Any input is appreciated.
CPU Usage goes up to >90% on 4K transcoding. Even HD or 720 transcoding will not use GPU.
Screenshots.

Thanks for your help
Nasgul

[dolbyman]

you have a plexpass?

probably best asked in the plex forums

[nasgul]

Yes I do have a plex pass

[nasgul]

Solved it. Seems as PLEX needs dedicated statement to find path to GPU driver.

By editing Preferences.xml in/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml (with PMS stopped) , adding HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD129" before the closing /> in the file.

What we’re doing is telling the transcoder to specifically look at that device and not the QSV ASIC in your CPU.

[dolbyman]

even using qsv, it should not have caused CPU spikes though (unless using not supported codecs)

[rheadley132]

I was having the same issue. Thanks for sharing. This also solved my problem.

[TheEldim]

Thanks for your solution, however I noticed that the hardware ID of the graphics card was render128 for me.
Just look in the specified path /dev /dri/.
Now everything works fine and the CPU usage is at 10%!!!!

[CaoJY-CN]

Solved it. Seems as PLEX needs dedicated statement to find path to GPU driver.

By editing Preferences.xml in/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml (with PMS stopped) , adding HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD129" before the closing /> in the file.

What we’re doing is telling the transcoder to specifically look at that device and not the QSV ASIC in your CPU.

Hello, how should I view this ".xml " file? I added a "/dev/dri " command to DOCKER, and I can see that the permission of " renderD128 " is " 777 " in SSH, but I still cannot use hard solution in plex pass. The panel shows that although it is transcoded, but does not show "HW". The CPU usage is above 95%. My NAS is TS-464C, CPU is N5105, and memory is 8G.

[dolbyman]

sure your NAS has a dedicated GPU? pretty sure qsv is all it does (and qsv can't be passed through afaik)

[CaoJY-CN]

My NAS's GPU is UHD Graphics 600 or 605.And what is "afaik"，my knowledge is not very rich

[CaoJY-CN]

Solved it. Seems as PLEX needs dedicated statement to find path to GPU driver.

By editing Preferences.xml in/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml (with PMS stopped) , adding HardwareDevicePath="/dev/dri/renderD129" before the closing /> in the file.

What we’re doing is telling the transcoder to specifically look at that device and not the QSV ASIC in your CPU.

Hello, how should I view this ".xml " file? I added a "/dev/dri " command to DOCKER, and I can see that the permission of " renderD128 " is " 777 " in SSH, but I still cannot use hard solution in plex pass. The panel shows that although it is transcoded, but does not show "HW". The CPU usage is above 95%. My NAS is TS-464C, CPU is N5105, and memory is 8G.

My ".xml" is installed in the Container directory, and the renderD128 code is added at the end according to your method. After restarting, although the code is still there, it still cannot use the hard solution.

[dolbyman]

afaik is "as far as i know"

gpu passdown to containers was only possible with dedicated gpu's not with cpu internal ones (if that changed..great)

[CaoJY-CN]

afaik is "as far as i know"

gpu passdown to containers was only possible with dedicated gpu's not with cpu internal ones (if that changed..great)

First question: Do you mean that only dedicated GPU can be recognized and called by containers, while GPU in CPU cannot be recognized and called?
Second question: Is the dedicated GPU similar to RTX 3060?
My English is not very good. I hope you can forgive me.

[PeterT1959]

Afaik --> as far as I know

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[dolbyman]

yes..

and a dedicated gpu is a dedicated gpu..yes..does not have to be a gaming card ...and while I cant find any info on your NAS model, with that CPU ,I doubt you can stick any GPU's into it. (low end)