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Plex GPU hardware encoding on TrueNAS? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 1 year ago by TitanLaGrange to c/selfhosted
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I'm working on adding some storage to my Debian desktop-grade home server that I use to host a couple of VMWare VMs, and some Docker services (GitLab, Plex, misc software dev tools). I'm intending to set up TrueNAS Scale to manage my new storage (and just to play with it's container features), and I'm interesting in maybe adding hardware to allow Plex to do hardware transcoding.

My question is if I have my Plex Docker container running via TrueNAS and I install an appropriate GPU, can I give Plex access to that GPU for hardware transcoding?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should be able to. I have a Jellyfin server running in Docker and hardware transcoding works fantastically

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is so much nicer to use then plex.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 1 points 1 year ago

Plex has better client support, specifically for Xbox.

[–] ollie 3 points 1 year ago

You dont have to allocate the GPU to the container, if you do, you cant use it anywhere else. I'm running Jellyfin on Truenas scale and i'm passing the following enviroment variables for nvidia gpu transcoding. RUNTIME = nvidia NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES = all NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES = all

should be the same for plex.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Note that in order to use hardware transcoding you have to have plex pass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@TurnItOff_OnAgain @TitanLaGrange and that's why I use Jellyfin.

[–] TitanLaGrange 1 points 1 year ago

I did try Jellyfin about a year again after being frustrated by the Plex API, but I had a lot of problems with the app on one of my TVs. I've since replaced that one though, so I should probably give it a try again, the move was pretty painless otherwise.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 1 points 1 year ago

I looked at Jellyfin, but it doesn't have a good app for the Xbox so I'm sticking with Plex for now.

[–] TitanLaGrange 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know! I do have a plex pass, so I'm good there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Truenas allows passing a graphics device to a container. I've never tried it, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the feeling that this is very dependant of the motherboard having virtualization support for the PCIE slot, but I can't recall the name of the feature

[–] TitanLaGrange 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, that's an interesting point, I'll keep that in mind if I run into issues, thanks!