SOLVED: Jellyfin HW transcode (VA-API) on k3s keeps failing (Host issue?)

[lilajka]

Yeah im running on hwe kernel currently, but that doesn't help.

Code:

11:06:42 dano@asusnuc k3s_homelab ±|main✔|→ uname -r
6.14.0-29-generic
11:07:24 dano@asusnuc k3s_homelab ±|main✔|→ dpkg -l | grep linux-generic
ii  linux-generic-hwe-24.04                      6.14.0-29.29~24.04.1                    amd64        Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers

as for lshw output:

Code:

11:09:57 dano@asusnuc k3s_homelab ±|main✔|→ sudo lshw -c display
  *-display               
      description: VGA compatible controller
      product: Alder Lake-N [Intel Graphics]
      vendor: Intel Corporation
      physical id: 2
      bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
      logical name: /dev/fb0
      version: 00
      width: 64 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
      configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
      resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff irq:147 memory:60e7000000-60e7ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:60e0000000-60e6ffffff memory:6000000000-60dfffffff

and also, this is from the container, if it helps (tried official image + linuxserver one)

Code:

root@jellyfin-dc7b969d-r4tbb:/# vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD128
/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg \ -init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD128 -filter_hw_device va \ -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi \ -i "/data/Movies/South Park - Joining the Panderverse (2023)"/ -c:v h264_vaapi -f null -
Failed to open the given device!
ffmpeg version 7.1.1-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --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. 39.100 / 59. 39.100
  libavcodec    61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101
  libavformat    61.  7.100 / 61.  7.100
  libavdevice    61.  3.100 / 61.  3.100
  libavfilter    10.  4.100 / 10.  4.100
  libswscale      8.  3.100 /  8.  3.100
  libswresample  5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
  libpostproc    58.  3.100 / 58.  3.100
Invalid filter device va.
Failed to set value 'va' for option 'filter_hw_device': Invalid argument
Error parsing global options: Invalid argument
root@jellyfin-dc7b969d-r4tbb:/# vainfo
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
error: can't connect to X server!
error: failed to initialize display
root@jellyfin-dc7b969d-r4tbb:/# vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD128
Failed to open the given device!
root@jellyfin-dc7b969d-r4tbb:/# ll /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root          100 Aug 29 16:29 ./
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root          380 Aug 29 16:29 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root            80 Aug 29 16:29 by-path/
crw-rw----+ 1 root video    226,  1 Aug 29 16:47 card1
crw-rw----+ 1 root videoaely 226, 128 Aug 29 16:29 renderD128