Having a bit of trouble getting hardware acceleration working on my home server. The cpu of the server is an i7-10700 and has a discrete GPU, RTX 2060. I was hoping to use intel quick sync for the hardware acceleration, but not having much luck.
From the guide on the jellyfin site https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel
I have gotten the render group ID using “getent group render | cut -d: -f3” though it mentions on some systems it might not be render, it may be video or input which i tried with those group ID’s as well.
When I run “docker exec -it jellyfin /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/vainfo” I get back
libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/local/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
I feel like I need to do something on the host system since its trying to use the discrete card? But I am unsure.
This is the compose file just in case I am missing something
version: "3.8"
services:
jellyfin:
image: jellyfin/jellyfin
user: 1000:1000
ports:
- 8096:8096
group_add:
- "989" # Change this to match your "render" host group id and remove this comment
- "985"
- "994"
# network_mode: 'host'
volumes:
- /home/hoxbug/Docker/jellyfin/config:/config
- /home/hoxbug/Docker/jellyfin/cache:/cache
- /mnt/External/Movies:/Movies
devices:
- /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
networks:
external:
external: true
Thank you for the help.
From personal experience intel QSV wasn’t worth the trouble to txshoot on my hardware. Mine is a lot older than yours though. Vaapi has worked well on my arc card
QSV is the highest quality video transcoding hardware acceleration out there. It’s worth using if you have a modern Intel CPU (8th gen or newer)