transcode set up

[blackb0x]

Hello.

I have Jellyfin on unraid with the "--device=/dev/dri" extra parameter installed on an intel i7-14700K, I've also installed the intel top plugin. I have tried to use intel quicksync but the only thing that seems to work is VAAPI. When I select that in the playback section of the settings, I get "/dev/dri/renderD128" as the device.

what did I do wrong? thanks.

[TheDreadPirate]

Is Jellyfin in a VM? Or running as an app in Unraid?

[blackb0x]

app on unraid.

[TheDreadPirate]

Check out this unraid forum post.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/133632-s...on-12600k/

You may have to use docker instead of the Unraid app version of Jellyfin.

[blackb0x]

well now kodi with the jellyfin plugin will no longer play anything. this is so strange.

soon, my family will grab torches and pitchforks and try to take me out.

[TheDreadPirate]

For the record, we have no documentation for Unraid. Any particular reason you chose that over Docker or Proxmox or something else?

[blackb0x]

For the record, we have no documentation for Unraid.  Any particular reason you chose that over Docker or Proxmox or something else?

sorry for late reply. i started learning about unraid in 2014. in 2016 i built my first unraid server and have been going with it ever since. i used Kodi because i started with that in 2011. unraid had its issues with kodi running headless and at some point in 2021 maybe i learned about jellyfin, then when i saw you can synce it to kodi and use it both as a backend and front, well, it seems like the best of both worlds.

so currently im playing a movie on chrome/jellyfin and its being transcoded. ive attached two screenshots. one is using quicksync and one is using VAAPI. So i guess it works? not sure at this point what did it but now im stuck on a different problem, whatever i did, i can no longer play anything from kodi with the jellyfin plugin. im actively looking at the logs in jellyfin and i dont see anything. looking at the path to the movie im trying to play, its accurate. i get a "one of more items failed to play. check the log for more information about this message." when i look at the logs from kodi, here is some copy pasta...

2024-02-26 07:27:26.094 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.player -> INFO::jellyfin_kodi\player.py:377 --<[ playback ]
2024-02-26 07:27:26.979 T:8888    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Kodi is not playing any file
2024-02-26 07:27:30.982 T:8888    info <general>: Skipped 3 duplicate messages..
2024-02-26 07:27:30.982 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.player -> INFO::jellyfin_kodi\player.py:72 Cancel playback report
2024-02-26 07:27:31.009 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.monitor -> INFO::jellyfin_kodi\monitor.py:85 [ playlist ] cleared
2024-02-26 07:28:20.000 T:24856    info <general>: Loading skin file: DialogVideoInfo.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2024-02-26 07:29:24.478 T:24856    info <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: /data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/Footloose.mkv
2024-02-26 07:29:24.478 T:13512    info <general>: Creating InputStream
2024-02-26 07:29:24.479 T:13512  error <general>: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting /data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/
2024-02-26 07:29:24.480 T:13512  error <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [/data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/Footloose.mkv]
2024-02-26 07:29:24.480 T:13512    info <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2024-02-26 07:29:24.481 T:15596    info <general>: Deleting settings information for files /data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/Footloose.mkv
2024-02-26 07:29:24.594 T:24856    info <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2024-02-26 07:29:24.594 T:24856    info <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2024-02-26 07:29:24.595 T:24856    info <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2024-02-26 07:29:24.631 T:8888    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Kodi is not playing any file
2024-02-26 07:29:24.734 T:8888    info <general>: Skipped 1 duplicate messages..
2024-02-26 07:29:24.734 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.objects.actions -> INFO::jellyfin_kodi\objects\actions.py:762  [ play ] kodi_id: 489 media: movie
2024-02-26 07:29:24.743 T:8888    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Kodi is not playing any file
2024-02-26 07:29:24.745 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.objects.actions -> ERROR::jellyfin_kodi\objects\actions.py:778 Kodi is not playing any file
                                                  Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                    File "jellyfin_kodi\player.py", line 58, in onPlayBackStarted
                                                      current_file = self.getPlayingFile()
                                                  RuntimeError: Kodi is not playing any file
                                                 
                                                  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
                                                 
                                                  Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                    File "jellyfin_kodi\objects\actions.py", line 776, in on_play
                                                      file = player.getPlayingFile()
                                                  RuntimeError: Kodi is not playing any file
                                                 
2024-02-26 07:29:24.748 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.player -> INFO::jellyfin_kodi\player.py:377 --<[ playback ]
2024-02-26 07:29:25.632 T:8888    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Kodi is not playing any file
2024-02-26 07:29:29.636 T:8888    info <general>: Skipped 3 duplicate messages..
2024-02-26 07:29:29.635 T:8888    info <general>: JELLYFIN.jellyfin_kodi.player -> INFO::jellyfin_kodi\player.py:72 Cancel playback report
2024-02-26 07:30:01.906 T:24856    info <general>: Loading skin file: DialogButtonMenu.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2024-02-26 07:30:03.562 T:24856    info <general>: Stopping the application...

not even sure where to post this, here, unraid or kodi forum.

thanks for all the help thus far however.

[mcarlton00]

2024-02-26 07:29:24.479 T:13512  error <general>: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting /data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/
2024-02-26 07:29:24.480 T:13512  error <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [/data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/Footloose.mkv]

This sounds like you're trying to use native mode and don't actually have your paths set up properly.  Nothing to do with the transcoding set up on the server.  This is saying that Kodi is looking at /data/movies/4k for the media files on the playback device and can't find them.

[blackb0x]

2024-02-26 07:29:24.479 T:13512  error <general>: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting /data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/
2024-02-26 07:29:24.480 T:13512  error <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [/data/movies/4k/Footloose (1984)/Footloose.mkv]

This sounds like you're trying to use native mode and don't actually have your paths set up properly.  Nothing to do with the transcoding set up on the server.  This is saying that Kodi is looking at /data/movies/4k for the media files on the playback device and can't find them.

yes i figured it was a permissions issue yesterday and came to that conclusion earlier today. Not sure why my SMB took a dump on me but using the default setting worked. I realized when i tried to add a library to kodi without using jellyfin and it didnt allow me to navigate to it. so now this has become an SMB issue. 

[mcarlton00]

Have you tried just using addon mode? In the vast majority of use cases there's very little functional differences between the two and addon mode doesn't require any extra setup.