Hardware transcoding help

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Looks like your hardware is too old to be supported for much use in Jellyfin as far as I can tell. I had an Ivy Bridge desktop processor and was able to get it working MANY years ago, but it was essentially fruitless, since the codec support was H264/VC-1 (maybe a couple others). If I recall correctly, 10-bit HEVC was added for 8th/9th gen processors. So I looked at what your processor might be and it seems like it has no iGPU -- this is the assumption I'd go with unless you can identify the exact model (and that doesn't particularly matter with what I say next)...

Then I took a look at what generation QSV became a thing and it was literally the same generation as your processor was released (Sandy Bridge). Note that your processor would likely fall into the Sandy Bridge Xeon collection, which are not listed as QSV-compatible.

Finally, I looked at the Jellyfin docs for QSV. Even the Intel driver repo doesn't list Sandy Bridge, nor any of the subcategories. Now you're stuck with the only other option, which is VA-API. It's not bad, but you likely won't get much bang for your buck out of old hardware. You should use VA-API if you want to go down this route and you can find the information on configuring VA-API in the JF docs.