Enabling HW Transcoding on N150 CPU

jollster101 on 13/04/2025 - 17:46

I purchased the AOOSTAR N150 from a recent deal and I have dropped Xpenology onto it so it's running the latest DSM 7.2 OS. I have been following Dr. Frankensteins latest guides to get the Arr's and Plex configured. The DSM model I chose was SA6400 so I could take advantage of hardware transcoding as it's supported with the N150.

All good apart from Plex won't install properly in container manager because it doesn't find dev/dri. It seems that this is a key directory that relates to hardware transcoding.

Does anyone know of a fix for this or is it a case of biding time until an update of some sort comes around?

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Comments

  • Bruceflix on 13/04/2025 - 18:05

    I don't know anything about Xpenology but you'll need to see the kernel version as to whether it supports the n150 iGPU and update if applicable.

    • jollster101 on 13/04/2025 - 19:07

      I have a feeling this could be the issue and I may need to wait until a kernel update comes along.

      I will have a look though and see if I can find out the kernel version and if it's enabled.

  • trustnoone on 13/04/2025 - 18:08

    Never used Xpenology so could be completely wrong, but is there any permission changes you need to do to give access to the folder?

    • jollster101 on 13/04/2025 - 19:09

      The folder doesn't exist at all, I read up on whether just creating and permissioning it would work but it looks like it's a kernel related thing.

      I was just hoping someone may be aware of that skunk works fix that a very clever person out there may have come up with.

  • thominator on 13/04/2025 - 20:33
    +1

    I had soo many struggles with the n150 and hw transc.

    What did it in the end was installing latest version of Ubuntu. The key is in the Linux kernel driver.. I believe support for this igpu is only in 6.9 onwards (not too sure which exact version) - but check if you can manually upgrade your Linux kernel to the latest.

    • jollster101 on 13/04/2025 - 20:57

      Looking around the interwebs I am seeing that DSM7.2 on an SA6400 only used kernel 5.10. Wow, I had no idea that Synology were so far behind in their kernel use.

      Unless I can find something unique, I suspect I am bound to not having hw transcoding for quite a while…….unless I choose to ditch Xpenology.

      • thominator on 13/04/2025 - 21:03

        Can't you manually update the kernal yourself? I did try that in proxmox but didn't fully get it done (that was early in my n150 journey lol)

        • jollster101 on 13/04/2025 - 21:44

          No idea. It isn't something I had looked into.

          My Linux skills aren't the greatest but I can generally follow a tutorial if there is a decent one :o)

  • Rob-4x4 on 14/04/2025 - 11:51

    I run plex server on a N150 nuc with fedora ( one on ozbargins recently) with hardware transcoding enabled without any issues.

    Only grumble is being forced to buy the windows 11 license that came with it that i will never use.

    • jollster101 on 14/04/2025 - 13:31

      I think I will have to wait for Synology to update their OS compatibility to kernel 6.9.

      Or hope that there is a very bright spark out there that can force DSM to operate with the right kernel version.

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