I can’t get it to work. I wonder if it’s the operating system. What system do you use it on? I’m on fedora.

  • @[email protected]M
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    2110 months ago

    You’ll need to be far more descriptive than “I can’t get it to work.” I can almost guarantee you that Fedora is not the problem.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      110 months ago

      I just used a live ubuntu image and it works out of the box with the same setup. No idea what’s the problem with fedora. Unfortunately I’ll move to ubuntu now.

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      I can almost guarantee that it is the problem. Fedora has a strong free software policy and has software that is closer to experimental.

    • Strit
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      1010 months ago

      Fedora does not have proper h264/h265 encoding/decoding by default, since they are non-free codecs. That could be the issue.

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    10 months ago

    Maybe you can find a guide/tutorial on how to set it up?

    Usually you need the correct packages installed on your system to enable something like VAAPI or QSV. Then you need a version of ffmpeg with that enabled. And then configure it in Jellyfin correctly.

    I don’t have any specific insights on how to do it with Fedora. I suppose it’s very similar to how it’s done on other Linux distros.

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    410 months ago

    I would not use Jellyfin on Fedora. I would install Debian and then Jellyfin. You also could install it in podman or docker.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      110 months ago

      I had it in podman compose first. That didn’t even return the proper error messages and just skipped them if there was any. I can’t recommend it. It works on ubuntu.

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        Podman compose is flaking at best and isn’t well maintained. You can use Podman in Daemon mode with docker-compose if you need a compose file.

        I mentioned podman as it has very good performance. However, it is broken on Ubuntu.

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    10 months ago

    Have you tried using the linuxserver.io Docker image? It has the latest drivers for hardware encoding included. I couldn’t get HW encoding with the official image to work but this one worked without any manual setup. You still have to forward devices to the Docker container though.

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      410 months ago

      Funny, i couldn’t get HW encoding to work with the linuxserver.io docker image, but the exact same compose file, except it’s using the official image, works just fine without any issues.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      210 months ago

      Yes, I tried that. Doesn’t work. It works with the official image on ubuntu. thanks for the suggestion

  • @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    you will need to make sure that jellyfin uses a version of ffmpeg that actually uses your graphics card - you might need to compile ffmpeg with the corresponding flags

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    210 months ago

    I am running Plex with an Intel A40 in Ubuntu server. Worked well for me as Ubuntu had the drivers baked in before they made there way into a Debian release.

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    110 months ago

    May be related to this: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11380

    I know my setup with intel integrated gpu worked prior to the release pf 10.9. Now I can’t get transcoding to work. In the comments they suggest the kernel version has something to do with it but for me it didn’t fix it. I’ll have to troubleshoot further today

    Meanwhile transcoding works fine in Plex, so I feel it may be something specific to jellyfin