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Plex on ProxMox Tutorial WITH nVidia Hardware Encoding

Added 2020-12-14 16:01:02 +0000 UTC

Looking back, this should have likely been two videos, but its too late now. All in this one post, we're going to install Plex into a ProxMox virtual machine, configure ProxMox for PCIe passthrough, configure our virtual machine to allow the nVidia drivers to install, and setup hardware encoding in Plex.

But first... What am I drinking???

Ft. George (Astoria, OR) Magnanimous (completely been saying it wrong all these years...) A 7% Winter-inspired IPA. This is an annual release for Ft. George, and this year the flavor is ever so slightly different. Still solid, but less 'Christmas Tree-y', and a little hint of lemon. Still delicious, but not quite the same as years' past.

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For a full list of commands needed, download files here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JlKe-SUeEUvNhTS3-z7En_ypWnYwx_K2

Sources:

Reddit Walkthrough: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/b5xpua/the_ultimate_beginners_guide_to_gpu_passthrough/

nVidia NVENC Complete List: https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

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