No hardware transcoding in FreeNAS

I’m running channels dvr server on freenas 11.2 and there seems to be no option for hardware transcoding, is this not possible?

Hardware transcoding is not supported on FreeBSD

Is it not possible at all? Because Plex seems to use hardware transcoding on freenas

Can you run this command and send me the output:

ls -alh /dev/dri

No such file or directory

Do they show up in the Plex jail?

no i'm guessing i have to install the modules

Hardware transcoding is now supported to TrueNAS with DVR v2020.11.10.2319

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tmm1 is there anything that I need to install in the jail to get channels to detect and use hardware transcoding? I have the drivers loaded in the jail, but channels is still using libx64.

card0 -> ../drm/0
renderD128 -> ../drm/128

I have Plex loaded in another jail and have verified HW transcoding it working there.

Thanks

Please install latest pre-release, then run HWE test (https://getchannels.com/docs/getting-started/faqs/channels-plus/#why-is-my-dvr-not-showing-a-hardware-transcoding-option) and submit diagnostics.

Seems the test was successful, I emailed the log output.

Thanks

Please submit diagnostics from the dvr web UI

Did the hardware transcoding In FreeNAS get resolved? I'm considering moving from Windows to my FreeNAS server, but lack of hardware transcoding would be a no-go.

Yep @tmm1 got itworking for me in version 2021.01.15.1649.

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