AndreyATGB

The vmdk just loads the img file. It runs in a VM for me in bios mode.

What CPU do you have? Try it without a display plugged in the MB. I use a valid generated SN, but you only need a valid one if you want hardware transcoding in Video Station. The SN doesn’t have to match the model and you also don’t need a matching MAC.

I’ve been running it for a week or so and I haven’t had issues with it. It’ll depend on your hardware most likely so YMMV.

Yes, DS918+ doesn’t seem to boot on anything older than Haswell.

Was on DS3615xs, be careful with migrating though. In theory it shouldn't touch the data partitions but you never know. Going back will require another migration and I'm not sure how it's gonna handle a downgrade.

You don’t have to reset and there’s only one model for DSM 6.2 right now (918+). If you boot the new loader, it’ll ask you to migrate or clean install DSM (neither affect your data). Personally I migrated and all my packages worked just as they did in 6.1, no configuration required. Keep in mind that while for me the loader has been stable, it might not be as good as 1.02b as Jun hasn’t officially released it.

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.2-23739 UPDATE 1 - Loader version and model: JUN'S LOADER v1.03a2 - DS918+ - Using custom extra.lzma: NO - Installation type: BAREMETAL - H110M-ITX - G4560 - Additional comments: Login page loaded quickly, actually being usable took a couple minutes.

Not who you quoted, but here's mine: root@NAS:~# ls -al /dev/dri/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jul 12 16:58 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 18760 Jul 12 16:58 .. crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 Jul 12 16:58 card0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 64 Jul 12 16:58 controlD64 crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 128 Jul 12 16:58 renderD128

Very interesting, great to see someone else replicate it.

Yeah but your CPU actually has an iGPU. Unrelated to the quote, I reinstalled DS918+ and as before, hwaccel was crashing after 5 seconds. I've also tried Plex with hwaccel and that was crashing instantly. However, I've unplugged the monitor and rebooted the system and now both VideoStation and Plex work with hwaccel, no more rebooting. I've tried both BIOS and UEFI boot and they both behave the same way, it seems transcoding works fine with a G4560 as long as no displays are connected.

I find it hard to believe it actually works with no GPU. If you play a video that requires transcoding (HEVC for example) does it say -hwaccel in top as an argument to ffmpeg? Plex for Synology definitely supports it, you need Plex Pass and a compatible loader. There's people with Plex Pass running with hw accel on DS918+ for example.

Loader version and type (918+): 1.03a2 DS918+ DSM version in use (including critical update): DSM 6.2-23739 Update 1 Using custom modules/ramdisk? If yes which one?: None Hardware details: MB: ASRock H110M-ITX, CPU: Pentium G4560, NIC: Intel I219-V Hardware acceleration in VideoStation causing system reboot after 5 seconds, Plex reboots instantly after playing a video. Interestingly, hwaccel works perfectly for both if there is no display plugged into the motherboard.

Wouldn’t that be because the E3-1220v3 doesn’t have an iGPU? I was under the impression that you need a GPU of some sort to use hardware accelerated encoding.

- Outcome of the update: SUCCESSFUL - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.1.7-15284 - Loader version and model: JUN'S LOADER v1.02b - DS3615xs - Using custom extra.lzma: NO - Installation type: BAREMETAL - ASRock H110M-ITX, Pentium G4560, 8GB RAM - Additional comments: REBOOT REQUIRED

Installed on my H110M ITX with a G4560. Using a valid SN (MAC unchanged) I got activated codecs. root@NASTest:~# cat /usr/syno/etc/packages/VideoStation/codecs.conf support_codec_h264="yes" support_codec_vc1="yes" support_codec_mpeg4part2="yes" support_codec_aac="yes" It starts transcoding with HW accel according to top, CPU usage is at 25%: /var/packages/VideoStation/target/bin/ffmpeg -ss 0.000 -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -noautorotate -i /volume1/video/testvideo.mkv -r 24 -vcode+ However it reboots after seemingly exactly 5 seconds after the video starts playing. I'll see if I can find more detailed logs. I can't find anything in any of the files in /var/log/, they all skip the time the crash happens at, the kernel log is just the boot process which repeats right after a crash as expected, but there's nothing in between them.

My V400 120GB worked fine. It only shows up if you don't have any volumes/RAID groups for it, so you're gonna need to remove those before you can use it as a cache.