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Transcoding FFmpeg error 218 - foobar1452 - 2025-02-02
Hi everyone!
I'm still a complete jellyfin beginner, but today I installed it on my Unraid 7.0 server (with a 12th generation Intel processor) in a docker environment. Together with {apps we don't talk about - TDP}.
All containers seem to work at first glance. I've already played a few mp4 movies on Jellyfin. However, it went wrong as soon as I wanted to play an mkv movie.
I then continued searching and tried to configure hardware transcoding properly.
I followed a few tutorials to install everything. I also configured (I think) HW transcoding properly (as in the tutorial). The GPU of my processor is accessible from docker. When I try to load a mkv movie I can see with the intel-gpu-top tool that a process is created. However, this process disappears from view within a second. In the logs it seems to be an error 218.
An example:
Quote:Error processing request. URL "GET" "/videos/633356e9-c88a-1285-04e2-2d044006acb8/hls1/main/-1.mp4".
MediaBrowser.Common.FfmpegException: FFmpeg exited with code 218
at MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Transcoding.TranscodeManager.StartFfMpeg(StreamState state, String outputPath, String commandLineArguments, Guid userId, TranscodingJobType transcodingJobType, CancellationTokenSource cancellationTokenSource, String
My knowledge is limited on this topic, so I hope you guys can help me out.. Thanks in advance!
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I followed the following tutorial to install everything, including Jellyfin:
https://flemmingss.com/a-minimal-configuration-step-by-step-guide-to-media-automation-in-unraid-using-radarr-sonarr-prowlarr-jellyfin-jellyseerr-and-qbittorrent/
And specifically followed this github page for the hardware transcoding:
https://github.com/IlTossico/Jellyfin-unRaid-Intel_Transcoding
My Jellyfin log can be found here:
https://1drv.ms/t/c/e2b1e3b1a13016db/ERyUE2rnx8RJsdgMOaIT3AkBnXOnWuqVa7-6Fw56yWLnLg?e=tjeeoP
My settings for the docker container for Jellyfin are configured as follows:
https://1drv.ms/i/c/e2b1e3b1a13016db/ERb6G4H2f4hGvcV0FeUhSdIBB9L0e94h6WlXokDpAbqT7g?e=6Pzynu
RE: Transcoding FFmpeg error 218 - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-03
You enabled AV1 encoding, which your iGPU does not support. It only supports AV1 DEcoding.
Uncheck "Allow encoding in AV1 format".
RE: Transcoding FFmpeg error 218 - foobar1452 - 2025-02-03
(Yesterday, 12:32 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: You enabled AV1 encoding, which your iGPU does not support. It only supports AV1 DEcoding.
Uncheck "Allow encoding in AV1 format".
Thanks. You're a lifesaver!
