First a bit of background, I have a passively cooled Plex server with a quad core Celeron. It can't keep up with software transcoding at 1080p.
Then I heard about NVENC, so without doing any proper research whatsoever I went out and bought a cheap passively cooled GT710.
After purchasing I discovered that most of the internet says this card is incapable of hardware transcoding, however I found two posts on these forums reporting their successful results using this card, so I gave it a go anyway.
Using Open PHT and configuring it to force transcoding I did in fact get hardware accelerated 1080p HVEC transcoding to 1080p H.264 with only 25% CPU usage.
Problem is... I can only do this in Open PHT, every other client seems to use software transcoding.
Any idea what is happening here?
Also occasionally I hear comments about headless servers not being able to use hardware accelerated conversion, is there any truth to this? I was RDP'd to the server when doing this test, but it is headless.