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Created July 11, 2020 19:30
ESXi - Plex Hardware Transcoding - GPU Passthrough

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Background

This repo contains instructions for setting up plex on an ESXi virtual machine, using hardware transcoding via a passthrough GPU. While these instructions have only been tested on the stack described below, I believe they should work for other setups that may involve GPU passthrough devices o

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