SOLVED: Installing jellyfin-ffmpeg on Fedora

[ata_dree]

Hello,

I recently installed Jellyfin (10.10.7) and I'm trying to get it set up correctly. I understand that the ffmpeg package from rpm is not sufficient for jellyfin transcoding but I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how to get jellyfin-ffmpeg properly installed on my Fedora 42 machine which has a modern Nvidia GPU.

Sorry in advance if these questions about this are very noob-ish.

I downloaded jellyfin-ffmpeg_7.1.1-2_portable_linux64-gpl.tar.xz from github manually and extracted it but where do put the files now and how do I make jellyfin use these instead of the regular ones?

The "normal" ffmpeg and ffprobe are located in /usr/bin, do I just replace these? If I do, won't they just get overwritten whenever dnf has an update for regular ffmpeg? If I copy them to somewhere like /opt/jellyfin-ffmpeg, how do I make Jellyfin use these instead of the standard ones? I tried adding <FFmpegPath>/opt/jellyfin-ffmpeg</FFmpegPath> to jellyfins system.xml, but whenever I restart the service it gets removed.

Thanks in advance, I wish I was better at this stuff.