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Acceleration on Intel n100 - cpottle9 - 2025-11-02 I am trying to enable hardware acceleration for transcoding on my new n100 mini PC. No success so far. Other than hardware acceleration, the n100 works fine. Previously I was running Jellyfin on a Raspberry PI 4 with 4GB of RAM. The RPI 4 worked OK for our use: 1 user, blu-rays reduced to 720p using handbrake. But most of our content came from DVDs (480p). I was able to enable hardware acceleration on the RPI 4 which helped performance a little. We frequently transcode to display subtitles. There was a recent update that broke the RPI 4. Issue was /tmp too small. I was able to fix this, but I saw several comments online saying the RPI 4 was not suitable for Jellyfin. So I bought the n100 mini PC (minisforum UN100L). The good news is software transcoding on the mini PC is faster than hardware encoding on the RPI 4. About 60% faster.  Here is my n100 config: ---- Jellyfin 10.11.1 Debian bookworm 12.12 kernel 6.12.43+deb12-amd64 CPU Intel n100, RAM 16 GB OS drive 240 GB nvme SSD storage drive 120 GB sata SSD (temporary will switch to 2 GB external drive) ---- Question: Should I try another distro (maybe ubuntu) that might work better? I've been reading the online documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/ https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/intel/ They say it I need to use 'Intel Quicksync(QSV)'. When I try to view a video with subtitles I get a popup saying ' Playback failed because the media is not supported by this client'. In the ffmpeg transcode log I see: ---- [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7fdb96a8a080] libva: /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7fdb96a8a080] Failed to initialise VAAPI connection: 1 (operation failed). Device creation failed: -5. Failed to set value 'vaapi=vadev/dri/renderD128,driver=iHD' for option 'init_hw_device': Input/output error Error parsing global options: Input/output error ---- I installed package intel-opencl-icd. ---- apt policy intel-opencl-icd intel-opencl-icd:   Installed: 22.43.24595.41-1   Candidate: 22.43.24595.41-1   Version table: *** 22.43.24595.41-1 500         500 http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ---- Has anyone been successful turning acceleration on running linux on an n100?