ffmpeg -hwaccel flag never set for playback

[boosnap]

I have been running into issues with playback buffering for Live TV and movies. I have setup my system with all of the proper Nvidia drivers as outlined in the documentation.  I have Nvidia NVENC enabled on the transcoding page and regardless of the "Enable Hardware Decoding" options, I never get the -hwaccel flag added to my ffmpeg string in Jellyfin.  Any playback initiated by Jellyfin shows "No running processes found" in nvidia-smi, but running ffmpeg directly with the following command DOES show in nvidia-smi.

nvidia-smi while playing a video launched in jellyfin:
/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -fflags +genpts -f matroska  -i file:"path_to_file/filename.mkv" -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -start_at_zero -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -vbr:a 5 -af "volume=2" -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 6 -hls_segment_type fmp4 -hls_fmp4_init_filename "9993d101f56e79a4f21589750cdbc275-1.mp4" -start_number 0 -hls_segment_filename "/var/cache/jellyfin/transcodes/9993d101f56e79a4f21589750cdbc275%d.mp4" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -hls_segment_options movflags=+frag_discont -y "/var/cache/jellyfin/transcodes/9993d101f56e79a4f21589750cdbc275.m3u8"
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05              Driver Version: 580.95.05      CUDA Version: 13.0    |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |          Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                        |                        |              MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|  0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960        Off |  00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%  45C    P8            14W /  128W |      18MiB /  4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                        |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU  GI  CI              PID  Type  Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID  ID                                                              Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                            |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

nvidia-smi while transcoding directly with this command:
/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg \
  -hwaccel cuda -hwaccel_output_format cuda \
  -i "/path_to_file/filename.mkv" \
  -c:v hevc_nvenc -c:a copy \
  -y "test_output.mkv"
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.95.05              Driver Version: 580.95.05      CUDA Version: 13.0    |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |          Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                        |                        |              MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|  0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960        Off |  00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%  48C    P2            35W /  128W |    151MiB /  4096MiB |      5%      Default |
|                                        |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU  GI  CI              PID  Type  Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID  ID                                                              Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0  N/A  N/A        1096079      C  /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg        130MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I am not running Jellyfin in Docker, I am running as a systemd application.

Jellyfin 10.11.3
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kernel 6.8.0-88-generic

output of lshw -c display:
  *-display
      description: VGA compatible controller
      product: GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]
      vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
      physical id: 0
      bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
      logical name: /dev/fb0
      version: a1
      width: 64 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
      configuration: depth=32 driver=nvidia latency=0 resolution=3840,1080
      resources: irq:156 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=12 memory:c0000-dffff


Any help getting my video card engaged would be appreciated.