SOLVED: Hardware Transcoding

[ClumsyMinty]

Have you tried enabling NVENC in jellyfin and transcoding since we've done all of this?  Since nvidia-smi works in the container now.

Yes, NVIDIA-SMI works in unRaid but if I do the 'docker exec -it jellyfin nvidia-smi' command it doesn't. If I open unRaid terminal, it gives an error for the docker exec command but not for the basic nvidia-smi command.

Code:

root@HomeServer:~# nvidia-smi
Tue Nov 14 18:44:37 2023     
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.02              Driver Version: 545.29.02    CUDA Version: 12.3    |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 1050 Ti    Off | 00000000:08:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%  43C    P0              N/A / 120W |      0MiB /  4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                        |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU  GI  CI        PID  Type  Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID  ID                                                            Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                          |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
root@HomeServer:~# docker exec -it jellyfin nvidia-smi
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: unable to start container process: exec: "nvidia-smi": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown

And when I turn back on transcoding in jellyfin I get the same error as when we started, but when I turn transcoding off it works fine. I think the issue lies with jellyfin seeing the driver. I'm guessing I have to add a path variable from jellyfin to the driver but I don't know where the driver is or what I'd have to call the path variable.