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Hi. I am trying to install and use xpenology on AMD Ryzen 2200G (Raven Ridge) or 3200G (Picasso) CPU system. I am curious if transcoding works properly when using PLEX.

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I want to use HW transcoding in the plex. I'm going to sort out what I've tried so far. 1. I changed my extra.lzma, extra2.lzma file on So I can get /dev/dri/card0 and renderD128 2. I changed my xpenology serial to real ds918+ 3. I downloaded 64bit plex package on plex.tv So I can turn on hw transcoding option but it doesn't work. I am using i3 6100, Jun's Mod 1.04b DS918+, DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 2(lastest version), plex pass. I could use transcoding in the video station but not in the flex. How can I do? I'm not good at english thank you.

Hello, I hope the topic is correct. I have installed a Nvidia 1080 GFX in my XPEnology PC to see if i could get it to work with PLEX hardware transcoding, does anyone know what i have to do to get it to work? My spec are: - DSM version prior update: DSM 6.2.3-25426 - Loader version and model: Jun's Loader v1.04b DS918+ - Installation type: BAREMETAL - MSI Z270 Gaming Pro - Intel Core i7 7700K / 4.2 GHz Kaby Lake - RAM 32 GB DDR4

This seems to be a recurring topic. I've read many threads without seeing a clear pattern apart from many unsuccessful attempts including arcane incantations and what not I understand that I need to base on the DS918+ image as HW transcoding is from Haswell generation. But instead of asking "Does my stuff work" I am just going to ask the following: If I want to build an Xpenology server that actually supports Plex HW transcoding (with Plex Pass version) out of the box and I don't want a Celeron CPU - what should I choose? Kaby Lake? Coffee Lake? Or is this just a lost cause on Xpenology and I should look at running Plex on something else (if I need HW transcoding)? Thanks in advance!

Good afternoon I successfully install 1.04 918+ on to a Asus b250 board with a celeron g3930 I also have a Plex pass and I have installed the x64 version from Plex website but everything I try to transcode a video it pegs the CPU at 98% I have it set in Plex to use hardware transcoding as well but for the life of me I can't get it to work any ideas? Do I need the extra drivers to get it working properly? Also I am on the 6.2.3. latest update.

Have been running DSM 5.2-5967 on old hardware for about 5 years. Just built new box to replace. Going to rsync all 5TB of data from old to new. Just want to make sure new is setup correctly prior to data migration. Hardware is Gigabyte B365m DS3H Intel i3 8100 8GB RAM 3 x 4TB Seagate Wolf drives Generated a serial from google search, inserted real MAC and added VID & PID to grub.cfg Have used Jun 1.04b with DSM_DS918+_25426.pat - Install went fine - so running 6.2.3 - 25426 Update 2 Want to ensure Emby will do hw transcoding before installing and migrating data. I have checked /dev/dri - this is missing. cat /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf - reports missing file. Is this because there is nothing installed on the system yet? I have not installed anything at all. Or do I need to replace the extra.lzma/extra2.lzma for loader 1.04b ds918+ DSM 6.2.3 v0.13.3 from this thread? https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/28321-driver-extension-jun-103b104b-for-dsm623-for-918-3615xs-3617xs/#comments Just want to ensure correct drivers are loaded before doing anything else, but not sure what other checks I can do, without installing Emby or Video Station.

Hallo zusammen, ich würde gerne versuchen Hardware Transcoding zum laufen zu bekommen. Meine Hardware sollte das unterstützen so weit ich das verstanden habe: CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 (Intel® Quick Sync Video: Yes) Mainboard: Dell Optiplex 3040 mit Intel H110 Chipsatz Loader: Jun 1.04 DS918+ DSM: DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 2 Software Transcoding funktioniert bereits (mit echter SN und MAC): root@ds:~# cat /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf {"success":true,"activated_codec":["h264_dec","h264_enc","mpeg4part2_dec","hevc_dec"],"token":"745dde835679647ce9871c04dc8ae"} Hardware Transcoding leider nicht, weil: root@ds:~# ls -la /dev/dri ls: cannot access /dev/dri: No such file or directory Ich habe mich durch zig Posts gelesen, bin aber noch nicht wirklich dahinter gekommen wann dieser Ordner und die Treiber angelegt werden sollten, bzw. warum dieser bei mir fehlt. Habt ihr Tips? Danke schon mal im voraus

Hi. I have a build with Asrock q1900-itx running dsm 6.2.1. I have enabled transcoding in Video Station and on the clients, but it doesn't work. It does work on plex, but I'd rather have it work on Video Station. I do have the folder dev/dri. Any ideas? Thanks.

can plex docker on Synology do hardware transcoding? i have a P400 GPU in my gig, want to utilise it. tried search the forum, seems most transcoding topic is related to HD station. ta Sam

Which one will be better for hw transcoding on Proxmox running with xeon e5v3 (2,4 - 3,2 ghz turbo)? For now I was testing DS3617 platform that can support 16 cpu threads. Another thing is that I need around 8 or even more sata ports. Will it be better if I use DS918 with newer kernel? From the table I read it support ssd cache but does it support at least 8 hdds and does 8 cpu threads will be enough for transcoding?

Good morning all, After my research and tests on my current machine via VmWare for the virtualization of a successful DS918 with the latest update, and plex on windows 10. My project aims to achieve a high-performance and scalable NAS over time, which can ensure: - Minimum 2 4K HDR transcoding simultaneously on the local network. - Network storage space for the whole family. - virtualization tool as part of my system administrator training. Total of the order 630 € Hardware: CPU: Intel core I3 9100F ==> I3 8100 CM: Asus prime B365M-K RAM: DDR4 G. Skill Aegis, 8 GB (2 x 4 GB), 2400 MHz, CAS 15 HDD: To begin with RAID 5 of 3 Seagate IronWolf Pro disks, 2 TB. Case: I fell for this one: Fractal Design Node 804, Black I already have a LEPA 450watt power supply. The ratio: price / performance / energy is consistent compared to what synology offers because a DS918 is 600 € without hard drives. I would like to know which Xpenology will be the best performing and the most compatible for my project? - DS918 + - DS3617XS Edit : Modification of the title of the topic following the discussion, passage from I9100F to I3 8100

As I know it is not possible to transcode videos in Xpenology as VM on ESXI. For now I have Xpenology 918 as VM to manage shr pool, downloads, audio station, etc, but I am thinking how to transcode videos by DLNA. Its good that I can play videos by build in dsm media center but I have a lot of videos that my tvs can not play. I can not get Plex spk and Jellifyn in Docker to work. What are Your suggestions to have a multimedia server that can transcode not supported videos from Xpenology and be able to play videos with srt files? Maybe some unix distro like Ubuntu VM + Docker + Jellyfin?

Hi, I just want to thank everyone with this piece of software. I used a lot of time on an old Asrock Q2900 ITX, now I bought a new(ish) MSI H81i for using hw acceleration and having a better system. My CPU is a 4460T (35w TDP, Haswell refresh) and it has got an integrated HD 4600 GPU. Network works fine since it's Realtek r8111 based. I have a couple of problems, the main one is that it reboot when I try to see a video in Video Station on my browser with HW acceleration enabled. It starts and encoding works, but as soon as i stop it or move the slider my system reboot. My conditions: - real mac / serial combo, took from a dead unit, I even have synology.me working - jun's loader 1.04b, for ds918+ - /dev/dri is populated cat /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf {"success":true,"activated_codec":["h264_dec","h264_enc","mpeg4part2_dec","aac_dec","aac_enc","hevc_dec","vc1_dec","vc1_enc","ac3_dec","mpeg4part2_enc"],"token":"d686df0830fa070505494ed7d9787fa2"} Other problems: - my system will not boot without HDMI connected How can I solve it? I tried some

Test stand: ASRock J4105-ITX, Crucial DDR4 so-DIMM RAM with 2400MHz CL17-CT4G4SFS824A 4GB, flash drive, 2.5 250GB hard drive. Prepared the flash drive as described here, installed the memory, connected the HDD and turned on the power. It worked without the BIOS reconfiguration. Power consumption 10 watts, the folder /dev/dri is in place, installed the Video station, the codecs was activated. With transcoding 4K here is what I got: On four streams of transcoding consumption increased to 30 watts, the CPU radiator is noticeably hot, so who plans to use xpen in this mode-think about a good blowing the radiator. Installed VMM, ubuntu and virtual DSM worked fine, but it is better to add up to 8 GB of memory.

Some time ago I had build my own NAS based on intel core and xpenology system installed. Now I want to upgrade it. At the beginning I wanted to build my own home server with 2 xeons but now I think that the cost of maintaining it will be too high when it will be running 24h per day and I actually will never use its full power. I am thinking about building something cheaper for home use based on AMD Ryzen/ Athlon that will be energy efficient but will have enough power to transcode by DLNA/media server 4k movies (f.ex 2-3 ) + stream music + handling torrent client all at the same time. I was thinking about buing used parts of : Athlon 240GE + MSI A320M pro M2 + 16gb ddr4 ecc (have one spare/ I think mobo can run it but in non ecc mode) + LSI raid controller. What do You think about it?

Hi, I removed the faulty i915 drivers from extra, you can download and test it here. hw transcoding is working but performance is low on both videostation and plex but I don't think is related to the loader. on ASRock j4205-ITX you have to unplug any monitor before using hw transcoding otherwise the system will reboot, this one might be due to /dev/dri permissions or the DP to hdmi coverter on this board. reboot/shutdown is working properly again. I recommend doing a clean install, formatting the hard drive before testing. You can test disabling video outputs in the grub, for me it didn't install properly. video=eDP:d video=DP-1:d video=HDMI-A-1:d video=HDMI-A-2:d root@DS918:~# ls /dev/dri card0 controlD64 renderD128 root@DS918:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_frequency_info PM IER=0x00000070 IMR=0xffffff8f ISR=0x00000000 IIR=0x00000000, MASK=0x00003fae pm_intr_keep: 0x80000000 GT_PERF_STATUS: 0x006030cb Render p-state ratio: 48 Render p-state VID: 203 Render p-state limit: 0 RPSTAT1: 0x12000030 RPMODECTL: 0x00000d92 RPINCLIMIT: 0x000027d8 RPDECLIMIT: 0x00005a00 RPNSWREQ: 800MHz CAGF: 600MHz RP CUR UP EI: 3192 (2660us) RP CUR UP: 477 (397us) RP PREV UP: 0 (0us) Up threshold: 85% RP CUR DOWN EI: 5109 (4257us) RP CUR DOWN: 482 (401us) RP PREV DOWN: 0 (0us) Down threshold: 60% Lowest (RPN) frequency: 100MHz Nominal (RP1) frequency: 250MHz Max non-overclocked (RP0) frequency: 800MHz Max overclocked frequency: 800MHz Current freq: 800 MHz Actual freq: 600 MHz Idle freq: 100 MHz Min freq: 100 MHz Boost freq: 800 MHz Max freq: 800 MHz efficient (RPe) frequency: 250 MHz Current CD clock frequency: 624000 kHz Max CD clock frequency: 624000 kHz Max pixel clock frequency: 624000 kHz [ 127.551937] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB] [ 127.601681] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [ 127.674041] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 127.809306] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 4096M [ 127.882071] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). [ 127.882075] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. [ 127.884752] [drm] Finished loading i915/bxt_dmc_ver1_07.bin (v1.7) [ 127.885302] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem [ 128.859977] [drm] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP [ 128.861274] [drm] GuC firmware load skipped [ 128.865805] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) [ 128.866518] acpi device:10: registered as cooling_device4 [ 128.866603] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input1 [ 128.866659] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20160919 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 [ 128.882007] i915 0000:00:02.0: No connectors reported connected with modes [ 128.882013] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes - going 1024x768 [ 128.882929] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device [ 128.938416] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-intel

hello Im running xpenology very stable on Asrock j3710. Dsm 6.1.7 and ds916+ emulation. I have just received a plex pass offer.....and interested in hardware transcoding. Anyone of you guys confirm plex hardware trasncoding is working with this setup? thanks a lot

Just installed DSM 6.2.2 Update 3 1.04 918+. Video Station has the "hardware acceleration" box checked but videos won't transcode, the wheel just spins forever, and if I do an offline transcode it says "Error". If I uncheck hardware acceleration in Video Station settings menu, transcoding works, but even on high its poor quality and all of the codecs that I get activated on 3617 1.03 loader don't show up on this DSM. mpeg4 and hevc are missing, see below. I am using a real 918+ serial and mac pair. root@dsm-test3:/usr/syno/etc# cat /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf {"success":true,"activated_codec":["h264_dec","h264_enc","ac3_dec","aac_dec","aac_enc"],"token":"2db1d7306789e41b5e3d5b0a70d702db"} I know nothing about hardware transcoding on 918, except that it supposedly can work. Do I need to do anything else to make it not return "Error" when transcoding videos? And, if there is no way for it to work, how do I get all of the codecs activated like on 3617?

So I had DSM 6.1 running in a 3617 loader v1.02 on a Dell T300 baremetal tower. I used the video station package to host my library. Transcoding worked with video station as in I could select playback quality "low" in the video player on either DS Video apps or the web interface and DSM would transcode on the fly and stream me a low quality version of the film or tv show. I can't say for certain but I am pretty sure this was software transcoding since I didn't have a GPU in the machine and I wasn't running the 916 loader. Now.... I have recently switched to a virtual environment with ESXi and have successfully gotten DSM 6.2 running on a 3615 1.03 loader VM. Video station works, but the above transcoding situation does NOT. When I click a different quality besides original, it stops the video, and has a loading wheel that never finishes. If I change back to original, the video plays again. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why.... I am running ESXi on an R720xd with E5-2630v2 CPU which I'm pretty sure is newer than the T300's CPU... Anyone have any ideas where I can begin to debug or fix this issue? I am not even looking for true hardware transcoding, just transcoding to work like it did on the older T300....

Quick question, is it possible to run plex in docker while supporting transcoding? The reason why I bring this up is would this be a work around the requirement for real SN/Mac. I would like to use hw transcoding but using 918 with ivy bridge is not supported to my knowledge

Hello, what would be necessary to get the DS916+ image on these components running? Intel Core i7 3770T Asus P8H77-I Mainboard Realtek RTL8111F NIC I tried booting it stock, tried it with the ramdisk. Both of these methods don't work, the nas does not show up in the network. Why won't it boot? Is there any way I can get the hardware transcoding feature enabled? Are there any kernel modules available for my hardware? Thx in adv. Marlon

I've been running an xpenology server since 2015 with DSM 5.1 until last year when Plex required a transition to DSM 6 with x64 packages. I then upgraded to DSM 6.1 with Jun's 1.02 loader and had been fine with that. Wanting to get more performance, I decided to upgrade my CPU from an i3-4130T to a Xeon E3 1285L V4, the best/latest CPU supported by my ASRock E3C226D2I motherboard, which has Intel Quick Sync support. As this was a significant change, I decided to change to upgrade to DSM 6.2.2 and take advantage of HW transcoding support in Plex too. Installation and migration went fine--I used existing serial/mac from an older Synology 415+. I checked that the Dev/Dri folders existed indicating that HW transcoding was supported. As a Plex Pass user, I enabled hardware transcoding support on the server. I initiated a stream on a device and the Plex dashboard showed that HW transcoding started and minimal spikes in CPU usage. However, the stream never actually played--it was continually buffering and would do so for several minutes and never started. I ultimately disabled HW accelerated transcoding and went back to software/CPU only based transcoding, which starts playing immediately. I understand that quality may differ while using HW transcoding, but in my case, it doesn't seem to work/start. Am I missing something here? Do i need to enable or add any additional drivers? Is this Xeon CPU not supported for HW accelerated transcoding via Intel Quick Sync? TLDR -upgraded CPU to Xeon E3 1285L V4 from I3-4130T -upgraded to DSM 6.2.2 with 1.04b loader for 918+ platform -HW transcoding supported and enabled on Plex server -with HW acceleration enabled on Plex server, stream continually buffers and never actually starts; wind up disabling HW transcoding -what gives? My server hardware: ASRock E3C226D2I Intel Xeon E3 1285L V4 / Noctua NH-D9L HSF Crucial 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 ECC RAM (unbuffered) 4x3TB WD RED drives XFX XTR 550W PSU Fractal Design Node 304

Bonjour à tous, Voilà maintenant un moment que j'ai un soucis avec VidéoStation, il ne m'est absolument plus possible de lire une vidéo. J'utilise un numéro de série récupéré sur un vieux synology mis aux rebut, le problème est apparu tout à coup sans prévenir, aucun changement que ce soit au niveau config (fin juste mon processeur qui à rendu l'âme, échange de ma carte mère complètement vu que ce dernier est intégré), j'avais donc modifié mon grub pour les nouvelles macs. Pour solutionné le problème, j'ai commencé (sous DSM 6.1.7) par désinstaller Videostation ainsi que sa bibliothèque, redémarré le nas, réinstallé le packet ainsi que ses dépendances (ffmpeg), ajout des dossiers concernés. Indexation des fichiers terminés, je tente, je choisis un films ripé en AC3, en qualité original et .... ça tourne (le curseur), ça tourne, ça tourne et RIEN. J'essaye alors ce même film sur mon smartphone (android) et ça DEMARRE mais 2 secondes puis retour sur l'appli vidéostation. Je tente alors un film en dts sur l'ordi, ett CA MARCHE, mais impossible de changer la qualité sinon.... Ca tourne sans jamais démarrer, même symptôme sur Android. Alors, je me dis, peut-être essayé de mettre à jour vers DSM 6.2, je m'exécute (en ayant backup les fichiers de configuration ultérieurement), chance pour moi la version 6.2.1 fonctionne avec mon matos (installation propre), réinstalle l'ensemble des packets, les configs, etc. Résultat : même soucis. Je ne sais plus quoi faire,... Quelqu'un a-t-il peut-être encore une idée ?! Comment accéder aux logs de vidéostation ?! Merci d'avance :-) Ma config : métal nu, avec une AsRock C2550D4I, 2 volumes en SHR, un composé de 2X1To, l'autre 2X4TO + 4X3To. P.S. : j'ai essayé de créer une vm sous virtualbox avec le même bootloader (juste modifié la mac) et, en ajoutant 2 - 3 films sur le volume virtualisé, tout fonctionne.

recently got a Nvidia GTX 750 for real cheap that i would like to use for Transcoding in Emby instead instead of my Q9550 cpu,, is this possible? regards