2025-04-14, 05:47 PM
Hello all, I'm very sorry if what I'm asking could've been found in a Jellyfin doc somewhere, but I don't think I saw this.
I finally got hardware acceleration to work out on my installation, it's an Intel® Core™ i5-3210M CPU running Debian Buster/Bookworm, set to VAAPI on its renderD128. I'm very sure that it's working because when I turn off HWA on Jellyfin settings, it's using 99.9% of all cores. It's a bit of an old repurposed laptop, not very powerful.
The thing is, when I have HWA turned on, it's actively still using 60%+ ish of every core at once, which is an improvement, sure, but I wonder if I can do better. Are there things I should change about my HWA configuration, or ways to offload more Jellyfin-FFMPEG filters to the GPU? What things is the CPU still having to do that the GPU can't be doing instead?
Right now I have every HWA setting as the default apart from VAAPI set and pointing to the renderD128 device in the Docker container.
Cheers, and thank you for your time
I finally got hardware acceleration to work out on my installation, it's an Intel® Core™ i5-3210M CPU running Debian Buster/Bookworm, set to VAAPI on its renderD128. I'm very sure that it's working because when I turn off HWA on Jellyfin settings, it's using 99.9% of all cores. It's a bit of an old repurposed laptop, not very powerful.
The thing is, when I have HWA turned on, it's actively still using 60%+ ish of every core at once, which is an improvement, sure, but I wonder if I can do better. Are there things I should change about my HWA configuration, or ways to offload more Jellyfin-FFMPEG filters to the GPU? What things is the CPU still having to do that the GPU can't be doing instead?
Right now I have every HWA setting as the default apart from VAAPI set and pointing to the renderD128 device in the Docker container.
Cheers, and thank you for your time