Silver Fang Posted May 12, 2019 Share #1 Posted May 12, 2019 (edited) Hi, When I play the movie below on DS Video Station on my iPad Mini 4, CPU reach maximum 30%. But when same movie is played on Plex, it reach 97%. What could be wrong with my settings, I have not changed anything on the setting? Any transcoding I must enable or so? Have the latest Plex on my NAS, 1.15.4994, 64 bit. Thanks in advance My NAS: Case: Chieftec Compact Series IX-01B Mini-ITX PSU: Chieftec AC Power Adapter CDP-085ITX 85W Motherboard: ASRock J4105-ITX - Intel Gemini Lake - Intel Onboard CPU socket - DDR4 RAM - Mini-ITX Memory: Corsair Vengeance SO-DIMM DDR4 2400MHz 2x4GB (CMSX8GX4M2A2400C16) Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda ST4000LM024 128MB 4TB USB stick: SanDisk USB 3.1 Ultra Fit 16GB Edited May 12, 2019 by Silver Fang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fang Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share #2 Posted May 12, 2019 Played the same movie on my Intel NUC with Intel Core i5 8259U and the CPU only reach max 2%. Both Intel NUC and iPad Mini 4 is played with Plex player/app and through wi-fi. See the setting on Plex Transcoder below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olegin Posted May 12, 2019 Share #3 Posted May 12, 2019 22 минуты назад, Silver Fang сказал: Any transcoding I must enable or so? You need Plex pass to activate hw trancoding in the Plex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fang Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share #4 Posted May 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, Olegin said: You need Plex pass to activate hw trancoding in the Plex. Will it solve my problem if I have Plex Pass? I thought the CPU was powerfull enough to handle it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olegin Posted May 13, 2019 Share #5 Posted May 13, 2019 10 часов назад, Silver Fang сказал: Will it solve my problem if I have Plex Pass? Скрытый текст Скрытый текст Feel the difference... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fang Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share #6 Posted May 13, 2019 Thanks, will get the Plex Pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmchan Posted May 13, 2019 Share #7 Posted May 13, 2019 Before the plex pass, you'll first need a real Synology serial number to populate dev/dri folder and enable hardware transcoding, or it won't work at all. There's no generator, use one of your own serial if you have a unused real syno, buy a cheap used one just for this purpose or find one by trials and errors. Then, you'll need to migrate or reinstall your system again with the new serial, it won't work just by changing it in the grub file and rebooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fang Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share #8 Posted May 13, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, pmchan said: Before the plex pass, you'll first need a real Synology serial number to populate dev/dri folder and enable hardware transcoding, or it won't work at all. There's no generator, use one of your own serial if you have a unused real syno, buy a cheap used one just for this purpose or find one by trials and errors. Then, you'll need to migrate or reinstall your system again with the new serial, it won't work just by changing it in the grub file and rebooting. I cant used the same serial number as the one I used to install ? I mean the same serial number everyone probably is using? Can the serial be from any Synology or it must be from 918+? Is there any tutorial on how to migrate the serial number? Im already transferring files to the NAS and have Video Station set up good, just need to work on Plex and the transcoding. Dont want to reinstall everything and start over. Edited May 13, 2019 by Silver Fang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmchan Posted May 13, 2019 Share #9 Posted May 13, 2019 (edited) Take a look at Olegin's "How to" (link in his signature) guide regarding software and hardware transcoding. Hardware transcoding only works with a legit serial number but it doesn't have to be a DS918+ one, you can use SN of an old syno for example. You say Videostation is set up good, does HW transcoding working when checked in settings? Check with ssh if "dev/dri" folder is populated (Olegin's link explains how to). Look at Polanskiman tutorial, "Note4:" section for grub modification at boot, basically, just hit "c" key when USB boots and proceed as he explained. Edited May 13, 2019 by pmchan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fang Posted May 13, 2019 Author Share #10 Posted May 13, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, pmchan said: Text What is the password for admin? I never added a password for that account. I only set username and password for the account I use to login to DSM. I enabled SSH service in DSM. On windows 10, im using putty. The serial and mac, I already edited with a number I got from this site before I flashed the image to the usb-memory. Thanks in advance Edited May 13, 2019 by Silver Fang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervincm Posted May 22, 2019 Share #11 Posted May 22, 2019 I don't think most of the serial number/mac advice is required for plex hardware assisted transcoding. You likely need it for the bundled apps, but not for plex. Also, 100% CPU usage is not an issue with Plex. It will work hard, 100%, to transcode till the buffer is full, then it will drop and throttle. This is expected plex behaviour for software transcode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fang Posted May 22, 2019 Author Share #12 Posted May 22, 2019 Got it to work by: Enabled SSH in DSM (NAS). Enabled Admin user in DSM (NAS). Downloaded PUTTY to Windows 10. Opened PUTTY and entered the IP address from the NAS, and press open to enter the NAS. Login as: admin Password: I set a new password when enabled admin user account in DSM. Paste with right click/Enter: cd /dev/dri Paste with right click/Enter: cat /usr/syno/etc/codec/activation.conf Results was below: {"success":true,"activated_codec":["mpeg4part2_enc","h264_dec","h264_enc","mpeg4part2_dec","aac_dec","aac_enc","vc1_dec","vc1_enc","hevc_dec","ac3_dec"],"token" :"26e42f20ea913ecb6237e691394c6d77"} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blop135 Posted August 26, 2019 Share #13 Posted August 26, 2019 I'm kind of digging up on this but does someone tried HW transcoding on a VM? Does it work well or not worth the shot? They said it's not supposed to work on the Plex website but I'm curious. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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