Missing FFmpeg in Jellyfin Installation via CasaOS on Ubuntu Server

[Jalle914]

If you are using CasaOS, that means you are running Jellyfin in Docker, correct?  jellyfin-ffmpeg would only exist within the container and wouldn't be accessible from Ubuntu directly.  And jellyfin-ffmpeg is included with the Docker image.

And since you are using Docker that also means that you didn't add the jellyfin repo (not required for Docker installs).  So trying to install jellyfin-ffmpeg via apt would not work since our packages are not included in Ubuntu's repos.  Only our own.

But, again, jellyfin-ffmpeg is already part of the Docker container.  You can test this with a docker command.

Code:

docker exec -it jellyfin /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -version

Code:

chris@rat-trap:~$ docker exec -it jellyfin /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 7.0.2-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2024 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 12 (Debian 12.2.0-14)
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=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.  8.100 / 59.  8.100
libavcodec    61.  3.100 / 61.  3.100
libavformat    61.  1.100 / 61.  1.100
libavdevice    61.  1.100 / 61.  1.100
libavfilter    10.  1.100 / 10.  1.100
libswscale      8.  1.100 /  8.  1.100
libswresample  5.  1.100 /  5.  1.100
libpostproc    58.  1.100 / 58.  1.100

Thank you for this. 

Thing is, I never had the usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg directory in the first place. It was never installed or I did something during the setup. Do you know how that could of happened? 

I manually installed it through your Github, gave permission to the docker to see and use my Nvidia GPU and now it's working as intended (atleast what I can see). 

My next install won't be through casaOS. But I'm glad I fixed it in the mean time.