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At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - Antonbp5 - 2023-11-26

Hello All. It is me again.

So I tried to take a crack at Hardware Acceleration again, and I am at a complete loss. I'll admit that I am very new to the whole NAS thing, but I feel that there isn't much help to get. That is why I am coming to you guys.

I am trying to set it up on a asustor nas, which has a quick sync compatible cpu, and I have downloaded jellyfin in a docker, but straight from the app center.


I am following this video, as it seems that it has gotten a good response:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud0hDpWJb3U    but I am cracking under 2 things.

The getent group render | cut -d: -f3 command just does not work. I have tried with video and input instead of render but that doesn't seem to work.
I tried to run: less /etc/group, where I get these groups

root:x:0:
users:xHundred-pointsadmin
avahi:x:200:
netdev:x:201:
chhome:x:998:
administrators:x:999:MyAdminAccount,admin
nogroup:x:65534:
audio:x:203:
as-webserver:x:300:

And I still can't find any group called, video, Input, or Render.

I wanted to see how far I could go, and I get to 4:45 in the video, where he edits a jellyfin file. He uses openmediavault to do this, but I have never heard about it, nor do I know where I can do a thing like that on my NAS. So I am at a complete loss.

Even then, if I get it up and running, I am not sure if it will even be enough, and that perhaps I just need a better and faster NAS.

Any help would be appreciated


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - TheDreadPirate - 2023-11-26

Did pass the GPU into the container?


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-26

the noted section you cannot follow at 4:45 is a gui frontend provied by "open media vault" which is a different NAS OS than ASUSStor uses
the operation being performed is the same as this https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/container/#using-docker-compose at that point

the questions are
how have you setup the docker container in asus stor and is there a frontend
how can you edit the compose file or container config



the lack of groups expected is also due to applying instructions for a different OS, simply means those groups are not setup or used on ASUS


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - Antonbp5 - 2023-11-26

(2023-11-26, 05:57 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Did pass the GPU into the container?

I have no idea and I doubt it. I simply just downloaded jellyfin from the app central, and started making libraries and trying out plugins.

Would you have any documentation on how to do that?

Many Thanks!


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-26

do you have _any_ experience with docker?


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - Antonbp5 - 2023-11-26

(2023-11-26, 06:24 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: do you have _any_ experience with docker?

More or less no.


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - TheDreadPirate - 2023-11-26

We have documentation for DOCKER, but we don't have any for Asustor. Somewhere in your GUI for Asustor there should be some config to add a GPU to the jellyfin container.


RE: At a loss about Hardware Acceleration - Antonbp5 - 2023-11-26

(2023-11-26, 07:06 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: We have documentation for DOCKER, but we don't have any for Asustor.  Somewhere in your GUI for Asustor there should be some config to add a GPU to the jellyfin container.

I did some looking around, and it seems like there should be an option to turn on some media mode, which also enables the iGPU. Though I cannot find that in my server. I will have to contact Asustor about it, as there is nothing on the web about it. I will be back.