How do I use Plex hardware transcoding on my NAS?
Release date:
2023-01-03
Applicable Products
Plex Media Server
Details
A compatible NVIDIA graphics card must be installed in your NAS to enable hardware transcoding. A Plex pass is also required.
Important
You should check if your NAS meets the hardware and power supply requirements to use graphics cards by consulting the QNAP compatibility list. If your NAS does not list GPGPU under Category then it does not support graphics cards.
After installing an NVIDIA graphics card, follow these steps to allocate the graphics card to the NAS system:
- Go to Control Panel > Hardware > Hardware Resource.
- Select QTS mode.
After this, you should consult the Using Hardware-Accelerated Streaming article to enable hardware acceleration within the Plex app.
