Plex with an NVIDIA GPU?

puppydog

puppydog

I'm preparing a new server to replace my current server that, for one of its roles, is a Plex media server. I was thinking I might put a dedicated nvidia GPU in it, but I've never used a dedicated GPU in FreeBSD before so I thought I'd ask here to make sure I'm going about this correctly.

What I'm going to get is probably just a decent cheap card like a 3GB Nvidia 1060. From what I understand, I should just need to install ( pkg install nvidia-driver) and enable the driver in rc.conf ( kld_list+=nvidia-drm), and that's it? Plex will use it when appropriate?

Also, Plex will be running in a jail - do I need to install and enable the driver in the jail, the host, or both? Do I need some certain extra parameter in my jail.conf for the plex jail to be able to use the gpu?

Is there anything I'm not thinking of here?
 
As far as I know, hardware transcoding on FreeBSD has been suspended by Plex until further notice, something to do with FreeBSD video drivers being too old, IIRC... You might want to try setting up a VM with a Linux distro and run Plex in that to use hardware transcoding, I think I remember someone on Plex's forum saying they were using a VM to get hardware transcoding, but don't hold me to that...
 
bjs said:
As far as I know, hardware transcoding on FreeBSD has been suspended by Plex until further notice, something to do with FreeBSD video drivers being too old, IIRC... You might want to try setting up a VM with a Linux distro and run Plex in that to use hardware transcoding, I think I remember someone on Plex's forum saying they were using a VM to get hardware transcoding, but don't hold me to that...
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Plex on FreeBSD has the option for hardware acceleration available in its settings, unless it's just a dummy checkbox.
 
I stand corrected... Intel hardware transcoding was removed from the FreeBSD Plex port in version 1.32.2.7002 according to the release notes on the Plex forum...
 
puppydog said:
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The table at https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-configuration-nvidia is outdated. <https://github.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-...8ea6e4ea911587f40aaf8#commitcomment-139010254> (24th February) referred to:

FreeBSD Display Driver – x64 | 535.146.02 | FreeBSD x64 | NVIDIA

For the more recent update to the driver <https://github.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-ports/commit/fbde2bdc53a59e3d9190ff4653e20e0678ba012f> the relevant NVIDIA page is:

FreeBSD Display Driver – x64 | 550.54.14 | FreeBSD x64 | NVIDIA

puppydog please, can you identify the 1060 more specifically?

Whilst <https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver/#message> currently does not show the existing package message (a known issue), I do know that the nvidia-drm kernel module is not directly related. Instead (if your card is supported):

<https://www.freshports.org/graphics/nvidia-drm-kmod/>
 
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