Jdiesel 1113 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 (edited) I ended up purchasing a Intel i7-8700 build from a friend who was upgrading. Setting up HW transcoding using my UHD 630 iGPU was quite simple on unRaid and seems to work very well from my initial testing. As I had to do some googling to get everything setup I figured I'd outline the steps I took should anyone else stumble across this post and have trouble getting their Intel Coffee Lake CPUs setup on unRaid 6.6.7. I understand some of these steps might not be required once unRaid updates their linux kernel but until then this works. Step 1: Make sure your iGPU is enabled in your motherboard bios. I also have a external GPU attached to my motherboard so I needed to enable "Multi-Display" on my MSI board. Step 2: You will need to edit the "GO" file and "syslinux.cfg" to enable i915. The easiest way to do this is with the "CA Config Editor" plugin in unRaid. Make the changes as shown below. Go File #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & #Setup drivers for hardware transcoding in Emby modprobe i915 chmod -R 777 /dev/dri syslinux.cfg default menu.c32 menu title Lime Technology, Inc. prompt 0 timeout 50 label unRAID OS menu default kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot i915.alpha_support=1 label unRAID OS GUI Mode kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui label unRAID OS Safe Mode (no plugins, no GUI) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot unraidsafemode label unRAID OS GUI Safe Mode (no plugins) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui unraidsafemode label Memtest86+ kernel /memtest Step 3: Under your Emby container config add a new device by clicking on the "Add another Path, Port, Variable, Lable or Device" Config Type: Device Name: /dev/dri Value: /dev/dri Description: Intel iGPU Passthrough Step 4: Reboot your server and start up your Emby container. Edited May 8, 2019 by Jdiesel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3325 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Thanks, that's great information! @@Luke - maybe we could move it to some place where it can be found more easily? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36997 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 @@Happy2Play can break it out into a new post. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8238 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 Split out of previous topic, not sure where this information should go or if the title needs adjusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 This is awesome. I just switched to unRaid, and I'm really liking it. I'm bookmarking this for when I ultimately attempt hardware encoding/decoding. Are you also using the external card for hardware encoding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdiesel 1113 Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 This is awesome. I just switched to unRaid, and I'm really liking it. I'm bookmarking this for when I ultimately attempt hardware encoding/decoding. Are you also using the external card for hardware encoding? No, I am actually passing it through to a Windows VM to use as my primary workstation as well as run a Nvidia Gamestream server to stream games to my Nvidia Shield TVs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 No, I am actually passing it through to a Windows VM to use as my primary workstation as well as run a Nvidia Gamestream server to stream games to my Nvidia Shield TVs. I haven't explored VMs yet. I should really do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfragger 39 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I’m planning to go the unraid route soon. Thanks for this info. Not sure if unraid has its own forum here or not like all the NAS vendors do. Love the flexibility of unraid. I’m still unsure of exactly what hardware cuz if budget allows it might go ssd or m.2 or whatever. But definitely want hardware accelerated transcoding in handbrake and/or Emby if they get x265 convert feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgworek 121 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I haven't explored VMs yet. I should really do that. I started with emby as a docker but moved it to a ubuntu VM. I am still older AMD hardware. My plan is to upgrade to intel at some point so I can pass a graphics card to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 I started with emby as a docker but moved it to a ubuntu VM. I am still older AMD hardware. My plan is to upgrade to intel at some point so I can pass a graphics card to it. What's the advantage of moving Emby to a VM over the Docker? So far, my path has been OMV - Plex Plugin OMV - Emby Plugin (This had issues) OMV - Emby Docker unRaid - Emby Docker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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