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Unable to play .avi files - Taotaka - 2024-08-19

I am using 10.9.9

Installed jellyfin on a omv6 nas with a gtx980
I can play mp4 just fine through browser and android app but not avi in anyway.

logs
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/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -init_hw_device cuda=cu:0 -filter_hw_device cu -noautorotate -i file:"/data/tvshows/Law And Order Special Victims Unit/Season 13/Law.and.Order.SVU.S13E01.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi" -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 h264_nvenc -preset p1 -b:v 4848320 -maxrate 4848320 -bufsize 9696640 -g:v:0 72 -keyint_min:v:0 72 -vf "setparams=color_primaries=bt709:color_trc=bt709:colorspace=bt709,scale=trunc(min(max(iw\,ih*a)\,min(624\,352*a))/2)*2:trunc(min(max(iw/a\,ih)\,min(624/a\,352))/2)*2,format=yuv420p" -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -ab 256000 -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 3 -hls_segment_type fmp4 -hls_fmp4_init_filename "93f1e30fff06e6f7fee35a6a7fa0a74c-1.mp4" -start_number 0 -hls_segment_filename "/config/cache/transcodes/93f1e30fff06e6f7fee35a6a7fa0a74c%d.mp4" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y "/config/cache/transcodes/93f1e30fff06e6f7fee35a6a7fa0a74c.m3u8"
ffmpeg version 6.0.1-Jellyfin Copyright © 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.2.0-23ubuntu4)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-ptx-compression --disable-static --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto --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-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      58.  2.100 / 58.  2.100
  libavcodec    60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavformat    60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavdevice    60.  1.100 / 60.  1.100
  libavfilter    9.  3.100 /  9.  3.100
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  libswresample  4. 10.100 /  4. 10.100
  libpostproc    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x558dbd477300] Cannot load libcuda.so.1
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x558dbd477300] Could not dynamically load CUDA
Device creation failed: -1.
Failed to set value 'cuda=cu:0' for option 'init_hw_device': Operation not permitted
Error parsing global options: Operation not permitted



RE: Unable to play .avi files - TheDreadPirate - 2024-08-19

The codecs supported by AVI containers are very old and most client devices no longer support playing them directly, so it is likely transcoding due to that. Your MP4 files may have codecs that modern client devices do support, thus no transcoding.

Did you fully setup transcoding? You cannot simply select NVENC from the drop down and call it a day.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/nvidia/#official-docker