Fatal error with playback when hardware accelleration is enabled.

[rob bindels]

This is the situation:
Data is on a Qnap nas.
Jellyfin is installed on a N150 device, with Windows 11.
Jellyfin version is 10.10.6.

As the CPU is at 100% for playback, I thought to activate Transcoding.
I did select QSV. And then under Hardwarecoding I selected all, I could. And that works.
It even seems, that the GPU is now being used a bit (10/25%)  and the CPU is still at 100%.
But it works.

As soon as I select under Options for hardwaredecoding: Hardwarecoding switch on, I get a fatal error.

This is for instance the Media info from one of the movies I tried:

SOUND
Titel: Surround 5.1 - Engels - Dolby Digital - Default
Taal: eng
Codec: AC3
AVC: No
Opmaak: 5.1
Kanalen: 6 ch
Bitsnelheid: 448 kbps
Bemonsteringsfrequentie: 48000 Hz
Standaard: Yes
Gedwongen: No
Extern: No

Undertitleling
Titel: Dut - Default - DVDSUB
Taal: dut
Codec: DVDSUB
AVC: No
Resolutie: 720x576
Standaard: Yes
Gedwongen: No
Extern: No

VIEW
Titel: 576i MPEG2VIDEO SDR
Codec: MPEG2VIDEO
AVC: No
Profiel: Main
Niveau: 8
Resolutie: 720x576
Beeldverhouding: 16:9
Anamorf: No
Geïnterlinieerd: Yes
Verversingssnelheid: 25
Bitsnelheid: 5559 kbps
Bitdiepte: 8 bit
Beeldbereik: SDR
Bereiktype beeld: SDR
Pixelformaat: yuv420p
Ref-frames: 1

Thanks ahead for any help. 
As I am the only viewer of the system, Hardware accelleration is maybe not a needing thing, but if I read that others have 10 streams 1080, or 2 streams 4k, I wonder how to do that, if I am instantly on 100% cpu.

RobBee

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Can you share the ffmpeg logs of the failed playback attempt?

[rob bindels]

This is from the last movie, I tried.

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Conversion failed!

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Looks like the iGPU can only decode AV1, not encode it.
Go into your dashboard, then to transcoding settings and disable the AV1 encoding option.

[rob bindels]

That is it. Thank you.

---

CPU is now 70% and GPU 50% +/-.

Can we also see, why I am, if I translate that to the amount of streams, I am still getting to 1. Maybe 2, and it is only HD. Why do others get more? Or is it to difficult to say?

RobBee

[Efficient_Good_5784]

The usage reported doesn't scale linearly for HWA. You can test out how many streams you can transcode at once by opening multiple browser tabs and forcing a transcode on each one.