QSV support

[Josh T]

I downloaded proxmox 2 days ago as a challenge to learn linux and computer systems/operations in general and I'd been trying to get hardware transcoding working for the past 2 days, deleting and reinstalling, endlessly scrolling through forums, only to realize that it's been working the whole time (after switching it to VAAPI) after trying to use QSV the whole time. Now I feel stupid and I'm pretty sure from what I've read that QSV only works on 5th gen + but I just want confirmation so I can have my peace.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

You're probably thinking about this for Linux: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...tion/intel

ICL (Ice Lake) / JSL (Jasper Lake) / EHL (Elkhart Lake) and older generations are losing support for QSV on Linux, since the MediaSDK runtime has been deprecated by Intel, and may stop working in a few years, by which point you will have to switch to VA-API. Please use newer hardware if you are shopping for hardware.

Ice Lake should be Intel's 10th gen CPUs.

[Josh T]

Ok so my cpu doesn't support QSV anymore then?

[Efficient_Good_5784]

It does, but you should plan on switching to VAAPI if you got an Intel CPU affected by the deprication on Linux.

It's basically saying that the tool needed for QSV to function on older Intel CPUs has forever stopped getting updates. Unless your distro removes it outright, you can expect it to work fine for a bit. However, as time goes on, the tool may not behave properly on future Linux environments leading to issues.