Another patch also enables support of NVFBC and NVIFR driver level capture paths required for streaming and VDI services on consumer hardware. With the PLEX client, you can access content served from any existing PLEX Media Server, whether it is running on a PC, a stand alone NAS with PLEX Media Server enabled, or on your NVIDIA SHIELD TV. Consumer products that use the same silicon (with the same video encoding/decoding hardware) that powers datacenter boards lack these capabilities and in Nvidia's case this means up to three simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions and up to one NVDEC video decoding stream (see the whole Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix).Īpparently, the number of concurrent video streams supported by Nvidia's NVENC/NVDEC engines on consumer products can be removed using a simple patch for drivers that is available from Github. This capability is required for a multitude of applications, including video streaming services, games streaming services, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and a number of others. After a bit of tinkering with drivers, it turns out the Plex transcoder is able to use the Tesla to transcode video streams using nothing more than the free data center driver that can be downloaded from the Nvidia main site. Graphics cards that companies such as AMD, Intel, and Nvidia sell to operators of datacenters can, among other things, decode and encode tens of video streams simultaneously.

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