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How to use Intel Arc A310 when Jellyfin is installed an app in TrueNAS Scale - mehran - 2025-02-26
Hi,
I have installed Jellyfin 10.10.6 in TrueNAS Scale (Electric Eel 24.10) as a docker with the option "Passthrough available (non-NVIDIA) GPUs" checked. And within Jellyfin, I went to the Dashboard -> Playback -> Transcoding and selected QSV with path ˋ/dev/dri/renderD128ˋ. But when I play a video on my computer, it still says Direct Playback. And my tablet with smaller capacity cannot play large videos at all.
Can someone please first confirm that this setup should be able to utilize Intel Arc A310? And second, if it is possible, how? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
RE: How to use Intel Arc A310 when Jellyfin is installed an app in TrueNAS Scale - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2025-02-26
It doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong. Direct Playback just means that no transcoding is being done due to the client 100% understanding the original file.
If you want to force a transcode, you need to lower the bitrate to be lower than the video's original bitrate.
Also, the capacity of your tablet is irrelevant to streaming with Jellyfin. The client will not be storing the video.
At best, it will only be temporarily storing small chunks at a time for the cache/buffer until you exit the player.
RE: How to use Intel Arc A310 when Jellyfin is installed an app in TrueNAS Scale - mehran - 2025-02-26
Thanks for the reply and sorry for the confusion. When I said capacity, I meant processing capacity. In other words, the tablet struggles to play the video. There are other videos it cannot play at all (and of course there are those it can but there's no point taking about them). In my mind, it's the exact scenario for the transcoding to kick in and yet it doesn't.