Hardware recommendations still up to date?

[TheDreadPirate]

Can you share the ffmpeg logs via pastebin? Also, if you use the full reply editor (click "preview post" or "new reply") you can attach images.

[fhireman]

@TheDreadPirate let me know if you need something else or if I can get those screenshots to you in another way.

Edit: ah just saw your new reply, I've added the screenshots to this reply.
how do I get the ffmpeg logs seperately? I saw some ffmpeg lines in the jellyfin docker container logs so I assumed those were the necessary ones.
do you have a command I can run with ffmpeg to try things?

[TheDreadPirate]

It looks like this is a docker container. Can you share your docker compose for the jellyfin container?

[fhireman]

I found where the ffmpeg logs were, this was the log of me trying to play something with hardware acceleration enabled: https://pastebin.com/NeYkuxhB

My compose file looks like this(using Caddy as a reverse proxy to Jellyfin):

Code:

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    volumes:
      - /home/frank/jellyfin/config:/config
      - /home/frank/jellyfin/cache:/cache
      - /mnt/media:/media
    expose:
      - "8096"
    networks:
      - jellyfin-net
    restart: unless-stopped

  caddy:
    image: caddy:latest
    container_name: caddy
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    volumes:
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
    depends_on:
      - jellyfin
    networks:
      - jellyfin-net
    restart: unless-stopped

networks:
  jellyfin-net:
    driver: bridge

I'm probably missing something specific for the Jellyfin container to properly use hardware acceleration on the host machine.

[TheDreadPirate]

You did not pass the GPU into the container nor the render group ID.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...ial-docker

Run this to get the render group ID

Code:

getent group render | cut -d: -f3

Then add this to the docker compose. Replace "122" with the value from the previous command.

Code:

group_add:
      - "122" # Change this to match your "render" host group id and remove this comment

Then pass in the GPU.

Code:

devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

[fhireman]

Nice I think I got it working with:

Code:

devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=993
    group_add:
      - "993"

ffmpeg CPU usage dropped to around 100% now and load average 0.6, way better than the 1130% and 11.2 load average before 

thanks for the help!