Unable to use nvidia GPU with Jellyfin after 24.10 upgrade

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Is the UUID you have in the .yaml the same as the UUID you get when you use the nvidia-smi -L command?

Also, in Plex you have to configure the transcoding option to use the GPU. Simply enabling GPU access when mounting the application will not make Plex use it; it just makes the GPU available to the app.

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Thanks, this works. In addition you need to define the the iommu group for your gpu, my case 0000:82:00.0 with the lspci -Dnn | grep -i NVIDIA.

  gpus:
    nvidia_gpu_selection:
      '0000:82:00.0':
        use_gpu: true
        uuid: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        use_all_gpus: false
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EE no longer uses the ixapplications dataset. It creates a hidden dataset on your apps pool and then mounts that hidden dataset to /mnt/.ix-apps, so this will be the default path for all installs

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that command gives me 0000:02:00.1. However, if I set this Plex won’t even start. If I set 0000:02:00.0 instead, Plex will start, but hw transcoding doesn’t work.

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Can I make a suggestion? Maybe starting a new thread with your issue and posting the diagnostic information (like above, or in the stickied post) will help. Your issue is related to transcoding but is definitely a different issue, so you might have better luck with people focusing solely on that.

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Just chiming in to confirm that I followed CtagaDev’s instructions above and transcoding now works for me as well. Thank you!!!

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Thanks to everyone for their input. The workaround from @CtagaDev worked for me, I’m marking it as a solution to this topic.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A    280687      C   /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg               316MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

:clap:

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Sorry but I am a real newbie when it comes to this but I have just upgraded to 24.10 and I am having the same issues which adding my GPU to my Plex app. I have installed the Nvidia drivers and can see the GPU but I don’t know how to edit the command line to add in the UUID. Is someone able to step me through this process? Thanks

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Hey all,

We’ve added this to the Known Issues for 24.10.0 release,

With some step-by-steps including a midclt call command you can issue against the Apps, so that you won’t have to use vi or nano from a shell.

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As confusing as it was, I found the config and updated the values. The GPU shows up in Plex now, but it won’t transcode anything :laughing:.

I spent all this money buying a GPU, completely redoing my NAS to fit it, converting all my TrueCharts containers to TrueNAS containers, upgraded to Electric Eel 24.10, and when I finally test this out, it doesn’t work :man_facepalming:.