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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting SOLVED: HW Transcoding issues and issue mapping /dev/dri to container

     
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    SOLVED: HW Transcoding issues and issue mapping /dev/dri to container

    Possible permissions issue with mapping /dev/dri?
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    2025-09-29, 07:53 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-09-29, 09:28 PM by TheChow. Edited 1 time in total.)
    Edit: I forgot to mention I had Docker Desktop installed, and after some searching various places I found someone who had similar issues to mine and a reply saying they thought Docker Desktop may be an issue as they were unsure if it passes through devices.  So I stripped Docker Desktop from my system and it works fine even without "privileged:true", but I need the user mapping.  

    I'm running KDE Neon 6.4.5 (Ubuntu 24.04LTS) on a AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (Radeon 780M graphics) laptop.  The system is up to date from apt-get and Discover.

    I'm running into issues mapping /dev/dri to the Jellyfin container and have hit a wall in troubleshooting. I'm using the LinuxServer.io latest Jellyfin image.

    Here's a trimmed version of my Docker compose.yaml
    Code:
    services:
      jellyfin:
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
        privileged: true
        container_name: jellyfin
        group_add:
          - video
          - 992 # group id for render
        environment:
          - PUID=1000 # my uid and gid
          - PGID=1000
          - TZ=America/New_York
          - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=http://192.168.50.9 #optional
        devices:
          - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
        volumes:
          - /home/myusername/docker/jellyfin/config:/config
          - /home/myusername/docker/jellyfin/cache:/cache
          - /media/Movies:/data/Movies # several more mappings
        ports:
          - 8096:8096
          - 8920:8920 #optional
          - 7359:7359/udp #optional
          - 1900:1900/udp #optional
        restart: unless-stopped

    If I don't have "privledge: true" I get an error "Error response from daemon: error gathering device information while adding custom device "/dev/dri": no such file or directory"

    With privledge it launches with "docker compose up", but if I open a shell on the container I don't see /dev/dri; and attempting to use VAAPI HW transcoding fails.  I've tried with and without my ID specified, both result in missing /dev/dri inside the container.

    If I run "sudo docker compose up", and in the container I can see /dev/dri, and using the same settings in Jellyfin transcoding is successful.
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