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Anyway to force transcoding? - wolfix1001 - 2023-10-08
I'm currently using Truenas Scale and I moved over from Jellyfin truecharts, to the official distro. I'm using an AMD r5 3400ge and I think I have my GPU setup correctly but I don't know how to check.
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - bitmap - 2023-10-08
You should be able to set the bit rate to something below the current bit rate of your media. This will force transcoding.
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - wolfix1001 - 2023-10-08
(2023-10-08, 01:00 AM)bitmap Wrote: You should be able to set the bit rate to something below the current bit rate of your media. This will force transcoding.
Ok I tried that and it just crashes, on VA-API or AMF. For h.265 and h.264.
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - bitmap - 2023-10-08
You'll need to upload logs, both the Jellyfin log and the ffmpeg log, to pastebin, and share them here.
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - wolfix1001 - 2023-10-08
(2023-10-08, 07:23 AM)bitmap Wrote: You'll need to upload logs, both the Jellyfin log and the ffmpeg log, to pastebin, and share them here.
Ok this log is trying to play a video using VA-API https://pastebin.com/h6CK3xcU
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - TheDreadPirate - 2023-10-09
It doesn't it is able to use your GPU.
Did you follow the instructions in this section of the AMD HWA guide? You need pass in the group numbers associated with the render and video groups into the container.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/amd/#configure-with-linux-virtualization
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - wolfix1001 - 2023-10-11
(2023-10-09, 04:26 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: It doesn't it is able to use your GPU.
Did you follow the instructions in this section of the AMD HWA guide? You need pass in the group numbers associated with the render and video groups into the container.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/amd/#configure-with-linux-virtualization
I tried but I didn't understand it because I'm using the Truenas Scale app for jellyfin https://imgur.com/a/fBXQFGw
RE: Anyway to force transcoding? - wolfix1001 - 2023-10-18
Wooo ok I figured it out, it's actually really simple.
So if you install Jellyfin through the Truenas apps and click edit on it, then go to bottom of that list and you'll find the gpu options. All GPUs by default are set to "allocate 0", just change it to "allocate 1" and it's enabled.