2025-08-06, 03:51 PM
Thank you for posting this. I was able to make the a rootless container perform hardware acceleration by allowing the container to inherit group permissions from the jellyfin user.
For anyone else who wants to try this here is what I did on Debian 13:
* I created a jellyfin user and added it to the video and render groups:
* Added the following statement in the [Container] section of the quadlet file:
* Created a containers.conf file:
* File contents:
For anyone else who wants to try this here is what I did on Debian 13:
* I created a jellyfin user and added it to the video and render groups:
Code:
sudo useradd -m -G video,render jellyfin* Added the following statement in the [Container] section of the quadlet file:
Code:
Annotation="run.oci.keep_original_groups=1"* Created a containers.conf file:
Code:
nano /home/jellyfin/.config/containers/container.conf* File contents:
Code:
[containers]
annotations=["run.oci.keep_original_groups=1",]