Problem with Transcoding Nvidia Gforce 1050 Ti GPU

Andreas Lxxxxxxx

Hi,

I use an NAS System based on Debian 12 (OpenMediavault) including TVHeadend, Emby and Plexmediaserver.
I have an Nvidia GPU Gforce GTX 1050 Ti and want use this GPU for Transcoding.

I have try to install my card und get after Setup a lot of Errors.
nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

lspci | grep -i vga 0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)

I compile the TVH with nvenc of nvidia and create an codec profil but it's not working.

Where i can find an detail setup FAQ for Nvidia cards based on my Kernel.
My System Information:
System: Host: NAS Kernel: 6.12.22+bpo-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Console: pty pts/0 Distro: openmediavault 7.7.7-1 (Sandworm) base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME X370-PRO v: Rev X.0x serial: 190143867400244 UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 5606 date: 07/13/2021 CPU: Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2200 min/max: 2200/4559 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2200 5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200 13: 2200 14: 2200 15: 2200 16: 2200 bogomips: 124569 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 Graphics: Device-1: Conexant Systems CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder vendor: DVBSky S952 driver: cx23885 v: 0.0.4 bus-ID: 04:00.0 Device-2: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: Gigabyte GV-N105TOC-4GD driver: N/A arch: Pascal bus-ID: 0a:00.0 Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: N/A note: X driver n/a tty: 126x77 API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console and glxinfo missing. Audio: Device-1: Conexant Systems CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder vendor: DVBSky S952 driver: cx23885 v: 0.0.4 bus-ID: 04:00.0 Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.1 Device-3: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0d:00.4 API: ALSA v: k6.12.22+bpo-amd64 status: kernel-api Network: Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 52:58:be:ad:a3:8a Device-2: Intel I350 Gigabit Network vendor: Beijing Sinead driver: igb v: kernel port: c060 bus-ID: 0b:00.0 temp: 60.0 C IF: enp11s0f0 state: down mac: 80:61:5f:02:45:9c Device-3: Intel I350 Gigabit Network vendor: Beijing Sinead driver: igb v: kernel port: c040 bus-ID: 0b:00.1 IF: enp11s0f1 state: down mac: 80:61:5f:02:45:9d Device-4: Intel I350 Gigabit Network vendor: Beijing Sinead driver: igb v: kernel port: c020 bus-ID: 0b:00.2 IF: enp11s0f2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 80:61:5f:02:45:9e Device-5: Intel I350 Gigabit Network vendor: Beijing Sinead driver: igb v: kernel port: c000 bus-ID: 0b:00.3 IF: enp11s0f3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 80:61:5f:02:45:9f IF-ID-1: bond0 state: up speed: 3000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 52:58:be:ad:a3:8a IF-ID-2: bonding_masters state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A RAID: Device-1: md0 type: mdraid level: raid-5 status: active size: 21.83 TiB Info: report: 4/4 UUUU blocks: 23441682432 chunk-size: 512k Components: Online: 3: sda 4: sdf 5: sdb 6: sde Device-2: md1 type: mdraid level: raid-5 status: active size: 2.79 TiB Info: report: 4/4 UUUU blocks: 3000216576 chunk-size: 512k Components: Online: 0: sdd 1: sdc 2: sdg 3: sdh Drives: Local Storage: total: raw: 33.29 TiB usable: 25.08 TiB used: 17.47 GiB (0.1%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8500G size: 465.76 GiB temp: 41.9 C ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD80EFZX-68UW8N0 size: 7.28 TiB ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD80EFZZ-68BTXN0 size: 7.28 TiB ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Verbatim model: Vi550 S3 size: 953.87 GiB ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Verbatim model: Vi550 S3 size: 953.87 GiB ID-6: /dev/sde vendor: Western Digital model: WD80EFZX-68UW8N0 size: 7.28 TiB ID-7: /dev/sdf vendor: Western Digital model: WD80EFZZ-68BTXN0 size: 7.28 TiB ID-8: /dev/sdg vendor: Verbatim model: Vi550 S3 size: 953.87 GiB ID-9: /dev/sdh vendor: Verbatim model: Vi550 S3 size: 953.87 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 456.44 GiB used: 17.47 GiB (3.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 975 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 Sensors: Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 48.9 C mobo: 35.2 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 309 Uptime: 10m Memory: 31.28 GiB used: 2.57 GiB (8.2%) Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 1041 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.26

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Andreas Lxxxxxxx
Step 1.: You have to understand what driver version works for you (with your OS). In my case (NVidia P1000 + Lubuntu 22.04) I had to use the following drivers.
Nvidia driver:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550 nvidia-dkms-550
sudo reboot

test:
nvidia-smi
nvidia-smi --query-gpu=driver_version --format=csv
nvidia-smi -q -d utilization -l

driver headers are required to compile tvh:
sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

Step 2. compile TVH with NVENC.
My setup is different (I have intel CPU). Why it matters? because I see transcoding HW with Nvidia encoders sometime is using VAAPI for decoding (for example transcoding MPEG2 to 'something else'). In your case you have AMD CPU (and VAAPI on AMD is very tricky ... sometimes requires ffmpeg7+). If you need transcoding from H264 to 'something else' I have seen is using NVDEC.