Nvidia Drivers and PLEX Hardware Transcoding
Install Ubuntu
Install Nvidia Drivers
Update Ubuntu
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt autoremove -y
Install ffmpeg
sudo apt install ffmpeg
Reboot (To be safe...)
sudo reboot now
Install Nvidia Drivers
sudo apt update
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
Reboot (This is important!)
sudo reboot now
Verify Driver (You should see your GPU listed with the driver in use.)
nvidia-smi
Ensure ffmpeg can see the GPU (Look for cuda, nvenc, nvdec in the output.)
ffmpeg -hwaccels
Ensure ffmpeg has encoders available (You should see h264_nvenc, hevc_nvenc, etc.)
ffmpeg -encoders | grep nvenc
Install PLEX Media Server
Install PLEX GPG Key
curl
https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | sudo apt-key add -
Add PLEX repository to apt sources
echo deb
https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list
Install PLEX...
sudo apt update
sudo apt install plexmediaserver
Verify PLEX Media Server is Running (press q to exit the log viewer and return to the shell)
sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
Continue your PLEX server setup in a web browser… which is beyond the scope of this note
