HVEC encoding not working on Rockchip VPU

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HVEC encoding not working on Rockchip VPU - ThatOMVrockchipMen - 2025-02-04

I'm running my Jellyfin server on a RK3588 and since today I got hardware decoding working (Jellyfin page). However I've some 4K movies with the HEVC codec which give a fatal error during playback. I've searched the forum for a similar scenario and found a couple, such as https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-how-do-i-figure-out-if-my-app-supports-hvec?highlight=HVEC and https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-solved-rk3588-hardware-acceleration , among others. I tried different video formats and sizes, but HVEC is the one not playing.
So I tried transcoding 10 seconds of the HVEC video to see if that would make a difference. It didn't for HVEC 8/10bit in MKV format, however, when transcoded to a HVEC format in the mp4 container, the video did play with video decoding!

However I'm no closer to finding a solution for playing HVEC video's in mkv format, and there seem to be more questions than answers...

Jellyfin compose file

Code:
services:

  jellyfin:

    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest

    container_name: jellyfin

    environment:

      - PUID=1004

      - PGID=100

      - TZ=${TIME_ZONE_VALUE}

      - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=192.168.x.xxx

    volumes:

      - ${PATH_TO_APPDATA}/jellyfin/config:/config

      - ${PATH_TO_MEDIA}:/media

    devices:

      - /dev/dma_heap:/dev/dma_heap

      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri

      - /dev/mpp_service:/dev/mpp_service

      - /dev/rga:/dev/rga

      - dev/mali0:/dev/mali0

    ports:

      - 8096:8096

    restart: unless-stopped

logfile, trying to play a 4K HVEC file.
https://pastebin.com/33gZjxDX
to get in use: snJzD3XF7t

RE: HVEC encoding not working on Rockchip VPU - gnattu - 2025-02-04

You have to use root to run the container unless you want to do much more complicated setups.

RE: HVEC encoding not working on Rockchip VPU - nyanmisaka - 2025-02-04

Run container as root or add these to the docker compose file:

Code:
security_opt:

  - apparmor=unconfined

  - systempaths=unconfined

RE: HVEC encoding not working on Rockchip VPU - ThatOMVrockchipMen - 2025-02-04

Thanks for the replies! Running as root, using "user: root" in the docker compose file didn't solve the problem for me. Maybe I did something wrong. I placed it on the same indent as 'image:'.

However, the solution suggested by @nyanmisaka did the trick!
The HVEC video's I encountered not playing to now play perfectly in the few tests I did. Thanks again for the support Smiling-face

Code:
services:

  jellyfin:

    security_opt:

      - apparmor=unconfined

      - systempaths=unconfined

    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest

    ...