Plex Hardware Transcoding Options.

[SethKraota]

Hi All,

 

Rather new to Plex and I've built up a media library of H.264 and H.265 content and need some assistance with Hardware Transcoding. 

I don't have a dedicated Plex Server set up at the moment and likely won't for a few months so it's running off my gaming desktop.

Is it possible to force Plex to transcode content using the Intel iGPU when I have another Graphics card connected?

I know the easiest solution would be to force Direct Play only but this isn't an option for all my Client devices.

 

I have an i7 8700k, the Intel HD 630 is enabled within BIOS. I don't see an option unfortunately to select which GPU should be used when transcoding. 

Is it possible to have PLEX use the Intel iGPU for transcoding while allowing my 2070 Super to be used for games ect?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Jarsky]

Probably your best way would be using Linux, and install Plex in a docker container then passthrough the --device /dev/dri argument. 

 

If you run this below command:

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ls -l /dev/dri

You should see listed card0 & renderD128

 

Using linuxserver's Plex docker container and their documentation, your config would look something like this:

 

sudo docker create \
  --name=plex \
  --net=host \
  --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e VERSION=public \
  -e UMASK_SET=022 `#optional` \
  -v /home/plex/config:/config \
  -v /home/plex/tv:/tv \
  -v /home/plex/movies:/movies \
  -v /home/plex/transcode:/transcode \
  -v /home/plex/tmp:/tmp \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/plex