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    Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Plex Media Server

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    Posted · Edited by blackthorne

    Smoker,

     

    I used Unraid a LONG (around 2010 I think) time ago and decided to find something more user friendly.  Which is how I found Xpenology and decided to give it a try.  Overall I like DSM but getting hardware acc to work would be ideal.  But Unraid has some a long way.  I emailed them and they updated my old license to a current one.

     

    I currently run 2 Plex media servers.  One on my NAS and a 2nd on my old desktop pc.  The 2nd old desktop pc has hardware accelerated and I use that one to share my media with friends.  The NAS Plex server is dedicated to my wife and a cpl of other people.  I'm a stickler for image quality and only grab the highest quality remux encodes.  The 4k content I have are all direct play thru my Vizio smart tv  or my Roku Ultra.  

     

    Ideally I'd like to consolidate both Plex servers into one which is why having hardware acc would be great for my NAS.  

     

    Thanks for your input...

    Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Plex Media Server

    in Third Party Packages

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    3 minutes ago, smokers said:

    I have indeed very similar hardware .... 

    Never got it working. 916er image has some other disadvantages and also plex doesn't used the OnChip GPU. 

    I flashed the box multiple times with different images (and also some other drivers because of my 10GbE network adapter) but stillt never worked. 

     

    I gave up on this.

    Let me know if you found a suitable way.

    Honestly I'm not very well versed with the whole NAS environment.  I can follow write ups and how-tos, but anything more advanced I have to do a lot of digging to make sure I do something to mess up the whole NAS I already have set up.  

     

    Ideally I would love to get hardware acceleration working but ultimately if it's too difficult then I may just have to scrap the idea.  I have also been thinking of possibly building a newer NAS with some dual cpu e5-2680's and moving to Unraid and exploring my options there as well.  

     

    Thx for your input smokers.

    Enabling Hardware Acceleration in Plex Media Server

    in Third Party Packages

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    Hi All,

     

    I was wondering if it's possible to enable hardware acceleration using xpenology in the Plex App. 

     

    I'm currently running DSM version 6.1.6

     

    Here is a list of my current hardware:

     

    This is the motherboard I'm running:  SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O Server Motherboard

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182253

     

    This is the RAM I'm running:  Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239117

     

    This is the CPU I'm running:  XEON E3-1245 v2 3.4GHz 8MB 4Core  -  * Please note that this CPU has an onboard GPU*

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA68F7759239&cm_re=XEON_E3-1245_v2-_-9SIA68F7759239-_-Product

     

    My question is -  is there a way to enable hardware acceleration using either the onboard GPU or possibly with a video card?

     

    I vaguely remember reading on another forum that the fact that I have IPMI enabled on the motherboard might be issue.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Jon

     

     

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