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Fatal Player Error - Hardware Transcoding - bonShonjon - 2025-11-16

Hi all,

I am very new to homelabs and I have just started converting an old gaming pc into a Jellyfin server.
I am using Proxmox and Jellyfin is runnin in a privileged LXC container. I have followed a reddit thread to get the GPU into the container and when I execute
Code:
nvidia-smi
into the LXC's console, everything looks fine (see attached image).

This is the message I can see in the log from Jellyfin's dashboard:

Code:
ffmpeg version 7.1.2-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-static --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto=auto --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-shared --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-chromaprint --enable-opencl --enable-libdrm --enable-libxml2 --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libdav1d --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --arch=amd64 --enable-libshaderc --enable-libplacebo --enable-vulkan --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libvpl --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc
  libavutil      59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100
  libavcodec    61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101
  libavformat    61.  7.100 / 61.  7.100
  libavdevice    61.  3.100 / 61.  3.100
  libavfilter    10.  4.100 / 10.  4.100
  libswscale      8.  3.100 /  8.  3.100
  libswresample  5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
  libpostproc    58.  3.100 / 58.  3.100
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7db8fa27ffc0] cu->cuInit(0) failed -> CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN: unknown error
Device creation failed: -542398533.
Failed to set value 'cuda=cu:0' for option 'init_hw_device': Generic error in an external library
Error parsing global options: Generic error in an external library

Any help would be much appreciated!