Looking to understand how to chose the best hardware acceleration settings

[the-bort-the]

Looking to understand which settings I should chose for the hardware acceleration on my Beelink server. I have everything up and running (using docker-compose, see .yml), but am just unsure if I'm supposed to pick low power, QSV, or VA-API. I'm also not sure about which codecs to have enabled versus disabled. I have provided as much detail below after having went through the Intel hardware-acceleration docs. Is my assumption that it appears to be VA-API? I have tried first with QSV and brought down the bitrate to 1.5 Mbps and saw the output of intel_gpu_top change (screenshot attached). Just not sure how to pick the optimal settings or what makes most sense.

Hardware: Beelink S12 Pro Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N100

Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Kernel: Linux beelink 6.1.0-15-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.66-1 (2023-12-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Code:

apt policy intel-opencl-icd

 
intel-opencl-icd:
  Installed: 22.43.24595.41-1
  Candidate: 22.43.24595.41-1
  Version table:
*** 22.43.24595.41-1 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Code:

sudo /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/vainfo --display drm --device /dev/dri/renderD128

Trying display: drm
libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.20.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel® Gen Graphics - 23.4.0 (05e4d0d)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileNone                  : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileNone                  : VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main              : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264Main              : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264High              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High              : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264High              : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline          : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline          : VAEntrypointEncPicture
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain              : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileHEVCMain              : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCMain10            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain10            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile1            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile1            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP9Profile3            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile3            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCMain12            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain12            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain422_10        : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain422_10        : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain422_12        : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain422_12        : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain444            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain444            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCMain444_10        : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain444_10        : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCMain444_12        : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain            : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain10          : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain10          : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain444        : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain444        : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileAV1Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain444_10      : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCSccMain444_10      : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP

Code:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -v verbose -init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD128 -init_hw_device opencl@va

ffmpeg version 5.1.4-Jellyfin Copyright © 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 10 (Debian 10.2.1-6)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-libs=-lfftw3f --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-ptx-compression --disable-static --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-shared --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-chromaprint --enable-libdrm --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libdav1d --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --arch=amd64 --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libshaderc --enable-libplacebo --enable-vulkan --enable-opencl --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc
  libavutil      57. 28.100 / 57. 28.100
  libavcodec    59. 37.100 / 59. 37.100
  libavformat    59. 27.100 / 59. 27.100
  libavdevice    59.  7.100 / 59.  7.100
  libavfilter    8. 44.100 /  8. 44.100
  libswscale      6.  7.100 /  6.  7.100
  libswresample  4.  7.100 /  4.  7.100
  libpostproc    56.  6.100 / 56.  6.100
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] libva: VA-API version 1.20.0
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] libva: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] Initialised VAAPI connection: version 1.20
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] VAAPI driver: Intel iHD driver for Intel® Gen Graphics - 23.4.0 (05e4d0d).
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x563424423100] Driver not found in known nonstandard list, using standard behaviour.
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x56342445ac40] 0.0: Intel® OpenCL Graphics / Intel® UHD Graphics
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x56342445ac40] Intel QSV to OpenCL mapping function found (clCreateFromVA_APIMediaSurfaceINTEL).
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x56342445ac40] Intel QSV in OpenCL acquire function found (clEnqueueAcquireVA_APIMediaSurfacesINTEL).
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x56342445ac40] Intel QSV in OpenCL release function found (clEnqueueReleaseVA_APIMediaSurfacesINTEL).
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'


docker-compose:yml:
version: '3.8'
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:10.8.13-1-amd64
    container_name: jellyfin
    group_add:
      - "105"
    network_mode: 'host'
    volumes:
      - /home/dev/jellyfin:/config
      - /home/dev/jellyfin:/cache
      - /media/jellyfin_1:/jellyfin_1
      - /media/jellyfin_2:/jellyfin_2:ro
      # - /path/to/media2:/media2:ro
    restart: unless-stopped
    # Optional - alternative address used for autodiscovery
    environment:
      - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=https://server.com
    extra_hosts:
      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

[TheDreadPirate]

Use this table to figure out which codec boxes to check.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding

Low power encoding is optional for Alder Lake, but recommended.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...re-support

Other than that, leave the rest of Jellyfin's transcode settings as is.