Headless with HW acceleration

[unmesh59]

I'm looking to use Jellyfin hardware acceleration on a 1L mini Intel PC running Ubuntu where the 8th generation CPU supports Quick Sync but where there will not be a monitor attached. I will use an SSH terminal or Remote Desktop to administer the box.

As per the following web page, Plex needs a monitor or a so-called dummy plug to turn on hardware acceleration of encoding/decoding.

https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-...enc/1408/2

Is that a hardware requirement and therefore true for Jellyfin too?

Thanks

[Artemis]

No, not necessary. You could enable QuickSync support via the Admin Dashboard form the Jellyfin Web UI. This is the standard way to enable transcoding irrespective of OS.

[nyanmisaka]

Yes, it supports headless mode. You can find it in the documentation.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...on-methods

[unmesh59]

Thanks, guys! I don't know how I missed the info on headless operation support.