[Question] Support for Windows #9
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Take a look at this repo. I'm not sure if it is maintained now, but you can ask author. |
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Any news on that @justinglock40 ? |
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No I was hoping that there was going to be. I found a gothic for windows, but it doesn’t have clear instructions and doesn’t seem to have support.
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Any news on that @justinglock40 (https://github.com/justinglock40) ?
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Thanks @justinglock40 |
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@justinglock40 I'm also looking for that. I tried: https://github.com/sk1080/nvidia-kvm-patcher I've found a way to get NVDEC working in theory, compiling ffmpeg with the correct arguments. It's over my head, but someone in the plex forum got it to work. He was gonna add HDR to SHR tonemapping and put it up on GitHub but I haven't heard anything more after that. |
You look at this if you're trying to convert items: https://github.com/Collisionc/sickbeard_mp4_automator |
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I think it needs to be compiled with the exact same settings plex originally uses except for the enabling of NVDEC. Edit: Oh, convert? No, I’m gonna use the capability I have to transcode if needed. |
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What’s the link to the Plex forum that you mentioned ? |
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@justinglock40 @tasoss @niXta1 Let's try something. Assuming Win10 x64. Option 1
Option 2
Option 2 may also work with other driver version with similar codebase. |
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Also, please report back your results. |
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I’m not currently any windows right now |
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I’m guessing you will need to disable driver verification at boot also? |
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@niXta1 I didn't disabled anything at boot, so probably not. Maybe nvcuvid.dll is a user-space library and is not a part of actual device driver or signature is not verified for already installed files. Can't say for sure. |
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I just tested the option 1 but no go!! thanks for trying to get this working in Windows 10 |
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@jaylex32 Please provide more details what went wrong. Also have you tried to reboot system? |
I already had that same version installed in my pc and I just did the option 1 and then I reboot my pc then I try to transcode more than 3 movies with plex but after the second one it wont use the graphic card. can I run a different test? |
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@jaylex32 Thanks! I'm not familiar with Plex, but it might be internal Plex limitations applied to fit into usual NVENC limits. I run my tests with ffmpeg directly, so probably we need to consult Plex source code. Which Plex version do you use? |
Im using plex server 1.14.1.5488 and plex does work with a graphic card that dont have limitations like the quatro! |
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Nope! |
@jaylex32 I used latest version with no dependencies. What happens if you try several instances with ffmpeg? |
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I have got it working on plex !!! I used a auto patch from one of you guys that gave me 5 streams then I got the 3d bump and man I have a small beast !!!! im using a 1050 3g and a i5 7500 …. and I am getting 32 streams …...I messed with it 4ever and got it working ….. I had to open cmd and drag and drop the 3d bump exe in there and it worked …. |
What 3d bump? I'm lost! |
https://github.com/jantenhove/NvencSessionLimitBump |
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Any chance that the limit bump patch can be clarified? I'm not clear on why its necessary. I haven't tried the original patch but from what I read is that it did enable more transcodes. What is the additional patch for? To enable even more transcoding streams? |
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@latguy1 it's for special cases with 32bit and D3D apps. See related notes on main page: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/tree/master/win#d3d11-and-32-bit-apps-encoding-sessions |
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Ah I got it - so if someone is using the server for something other than plex / nas and/or for some reason installed Plex 32bit. Thanks! |
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I didn't mention this before but I fixed the issue with Plex that it was not working with this mod. After I ran the limit bump.exe it did fix the issue so thats the fix for Plex and It will be awesome if you guys can merge all This fixes into one.. thanks |
Plex is running in 32 bit as far as im aware! |
@jaylex32 yes it is (on Windows). Plex and the transcoder. |
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Working great here with Plex!!. Windows 10 / Quadro P400 with the latest drivers/patch & NvencSessionLimitBump added on startup (Which also works great). Ive had 7 1080p > 720p 4mbps HW transcodes so far testing this out with plenty of room left for a few more I believe. Just brilliant!!! Really pleased with this patch!! Thank you to everyone involved in removing this terrible limit (keylase, Snawoot, jantenhove, Testers & everyone involved)!! Awesome!! Thank you!! |
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For anyone still trying to get this to work in Windows 64bit, you need to use the NvencSessionLimitBump exe. |
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NvencSessionLimitBump exe. doesn't work on windows server 2012 R2, maybe because I have not installed the Nvidia Video Codec SDK (still figuring how). |
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@cleverchimp NvencSessionLimitBump.exe is a self-contained binary which doesn't requires Video Codec SDK. SDK is a thing needed only at build time. Which error did you get on startup? |
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I was under impression that the SDK need to be installed because I saw the notes below (need to install Visual Studio 2017 for the Cuda Toolkit) : Dependencies Nvidia Cuda Toolkit needs to installed: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads Nvidia Video Codec SDK needs to be installed: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk#Download A nice command line parser is used for... parsing the arguments. File is include in the code, original can be found here: https://github.com/vietjtnguyen/argagg When I run NvencSessionLimitBump.exe, it just open up cmd session and it closed after a few secs. It doesn't seems to show me any errors so I tested it to run 4 streams on Plex and only 2 shows HW like before the patch |
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@cleverchimp try running .exe via cmd.exe to see command output |
Tried that and it does seems to do the trick, it stated "bumb succeeded". Try running 4 streams again and all shows HW on Plex dashboard, CPU is about 10% now, do I need to run this every time the server need a restart? Thanks! |
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@cleverchimp |
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Thanks again, will add to autostart. |
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I have tried to get this working on my Windows 10 Plex server with my 1060 without success. Been fiddling with it for hours. Wondering if I can get some advice Picked up a 1060 6gb nvidia card for transcoding sessions running Windows 10 LTSB installed the Windows NVidia latest driver 430.64 and then the associated patch per the instructions at https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/tree/master/win then went with method 1 per that page to enable 32 sessions didn't get any errors during the entire process and received successful message that 32 sessions seceded doesn't appear that the GPU is being called by Plex at all still and it is still using my i5-6600K as when I test with one of my 4k smart tvs with 4k files the CPU is still spiking and when looking at performance in task manager the GPU isn't showing thanks in advance! |
Your issues might be because Plex prefer quicksync over nvenc. In my case I'm using Proliant Gen8 server with Xeon 1240V2, it has Matrox 2D graphics. I installed P400 and disabled the onboard graphics. I would start there....if its still not working, try to install NvencSessionLimitBump.exe dependencies. "Dependencies Nvidia Cuda Toolkit needs to installed: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads Nvidia Video Codec SDK needs to be installed: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk#Download" |
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I have to wonder if there is a minimum windows build version? I am on LTSB 1607. |
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with the new Plex version do we still need the Nvidia patch and the limit bump? |
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Not sure, I did not notice whats new in the plex updates but if I may speculate we still need that because its the driver limitation and not plex.
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with the new Plex version do we still need the Nvidia patch and the limit bump?
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I meant the limit bump because now the new Plex server program is using a up to date transcoder that it includes a newer ffmpeg version and if I remember well we didn't have to use the limit bump or patch in Emby but I can be wrong Thanks.On Sep 18, 2019 11:40 AM, cleverchimp <[email protected]> wrote:Not sure, I did not notice whats new in the plex updates but if I may speculate we still need that because its the driver limitation and not plex.
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My P400 only can do 2 transcode at a time (nVidia limit it on the driver). My understanding is that no matter what kind of transcoder plex use, it wont see the P400 able to do more than 2 transcode at a time without the speedbump patch. I believe the same goes with Emby.
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I meant the limit bump because now the new Plex server program is using a up to date transcoder that it includes a newer ffmpeg version and if I remember well we didn't have to use the limit bump or patch in Emby but I can be wrong Thanks.On Sep 18, 2019 11:40 AM, cleverchimp ***@***.***> wrote:Not sure, I did not notice whats new in the plex updates but if I may speculate we still need that because its the driver limitation and not plex.
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@jaylex32 It's worth testing, but unfortunately I don't have Plex Pass (and Plex at all). One should check Plex Transcoder process in the Task Manager. If it is now 64bit application, then there is a good chance NvencSessionLimitBump is not needed for Plex anymore. |
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Hello, @jaylex32! Take a look at this guide on main page of Windows version of patch. It also contains almost up-to-date video walkthrough about entire process. I'm locking conversation in this issue in favor of separate well-categorised issues focused on specific questions and problems users have. |
Any chance this patch can make its way to Windows? If so that would be greatly appreciated and well received. Primarily, plex doesn't allow decode on HW in LInux only encodes, but on windows you can encode/decode on HW with plex. So unlocked transcodes there would be awesome!
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