SOLVED: Hardware acceleration on Unraid issues

[bitmap]

Try with -v verbose...weird that you have to add that, but it's likely part of the jellyfin-ffmpeg config to suppress the libva output:

Code:

bitmap@server:docker$  docker exec -it jellyfin /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -v verbose -init_hw_device qsv=qs:/dev/dri/renderD128
ffmpeg version 5.1.3-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 11 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-libs=-lfftw3f --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-libdrm --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libdav1d --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --arch=amd64 --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libshaderc --enable-libplacebo --enable-vulkan --enable-opencl --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc
  libavutil      57. 28.100 / 57. 28.100
  libavcodec     59. 37.100 / 59. 37.100
  libavformat    59. 27.100 / 59. 27.100
  libavdevice    59.  7.100 / 59.  7.100
  libavfilter     8. 44.100 /  8. 44.100
  libswscale      6.  7.100 /  6.  7.100
  libswresample   4.  7.100 /  4.  7.100
  libpostproc    56.  6.100 / 56.  6.100
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] Trying to use DRM render node for device 0, with matching kernel driver (i915).
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] libva: VA-API version 1.19.0                                                                                                                                  
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] libva: User requested driver 'iHD'                                                                                                                            
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so                                                                                      
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] libva: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_19                                                                                                                
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] libva: va_openDriver() returns 0                                                                                                                              
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] Initialised VAAPI connection: version 1.19                                                                                                                    
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] VAAPI driver: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 23.3.2 (95dc859).                                                                                  
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364a00] Driver not found in known nonstandard list, using standard behaviour.                                                                                        
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x55e0fa364500] Initialize MFX session: API version is 1.35, implementation version is 1.255                                                                                  
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder                                                                                                                                                                
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