I have been trying for a long time to get hardware acceleration to work on Jellyfin via Docker and have gotten as far as getting nvidia-smi to successfully run – which it wasn’t previously.
System Specs:
Host OS: EndeavourOS
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RAM: 32GB
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 TI
nvidia-smi
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 560.35.03 Driver Version: 560.35.03 CUDA Version: 12.6 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti On | 00000000:26:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 51C P3 25W / 140W | 810MiB / 6144MiB | 23% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
Video Info:
Video
Title: 4K HEVC HDR
Codec: HEVC
AVC: No
Profile: Main 10
Level: 153
Resolution: 3840x2160
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Anamorphic: No
Interlaced: No
Framerate: 23.976025
Bitrate: 15750 kbps
Bit depth: 10 bit
Video range: HDR
Video range type: DOVIWithHDR10
DV title: DV Profile 8.1 (HDR10)
DV version major: 1
DV version minor: 0
DV profile: 8
DV level: 6
DV rpu preset flag: 1
DV el preset flag: 0
DV bl preset flag: 1
DV bl signal compatibility id: 1
Color space: bt2020nc
Color transfer: smpte2084
Color primaries: bt2020
Pixel format: yuv420p10le
Ref frames: 1
Jellyfin Logs:
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/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -init_hw_device cuda=cu:0 -filter_hw_device cu -hwaccel cuda -hwaccel_output_format cuda -hwaccel_flags +unsafe_output -threads 1 -noautorotate -i file:"/media/tv/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 4/Only Murders in the Building - S04E06 - Blow-Up 4K.mkv" -noautoscale -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 av1_nvenc -preset p1 -b:v 15750961 -maxrate 15750961 -bufsize 31501922 -g:v:0 72 -keyint_min:v:0 72 -vf "setparams=color_primaries=bt2020:color_trc=smpte2084:colorspace=bt2020nc,tonemap_cuda=format=yuv420p:p=bt709:t=bt709:m=bt709:tonemap=bt2390:peak=100:desat=0" -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -ab 256000 -af "volume=2" -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 3 -hls_segment_type fmp4 -hls_fmp4_init_filename "2a9aeb83dbe04b036badfe08147b7b67-1.mp4" -start_number 0 -hls_segment_filename "/config/cache/transcodes/2a9aeb83dbe04b036badfe08147b7b67%d.mp4" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y "/config/cache/transcodes/2a9aeb83dbe04b036badfe08147b7b67.m3u8"
ffmpeg version 6.0.1-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.2.0-23ubuntu4)
configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --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-opencl --enable-libdrm --enable-libxml2 --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libdav1d --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --arch=amd64 --enable-libshaderc --enable-libplacebo --enable-vulkan --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libvpl --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc
libavutil 58. 2.100 / 58. 2.100
libavcodec 60. 3.100 / 60. 3.100
libavformat 60. 3.100 / 60. 3.100
libavdevice 60. 1.100 / 60. 1.100
libavfilter 9. 3.100 / 9. 3.100
libswscale 7. 1.100 / 7. 1.100
libswresample 4. 10.100 / 4. 10.100
libpostproc 57. 1.100 / 57. 1.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'file:/media/tv/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 4/Only Murders in the Building - S04E06 - Blow-Up 4K.mkv':
Metadata:
encoder : libebml v1.4.5 + libmatroska v1.7.1
Duration: 00:33:38.08, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 15750 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 15493265
DURATION : 00:33:37.975000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 48383
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 3908127921
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Side data:
DOVI configuration record: version: 1.0, profile: 8, level: 6, rpu flag: 1, el flag: 0, bl flag: 1, compatibility id: 1
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: eac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 256 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
BPS : 256000
DURATION : 00:33:38.080000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 63065
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 64578560
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: subrip
Metadata:
title : English [SDH]
BPS : 122
DURATION : 00:33:32.972000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 746
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 30903
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream #0:3(spa): Subtitle: subrip
Metadata:
title : Spanish [SDH]
BPS : 130
DURATION : 00:33:32.972000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 752
NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 32900
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
_STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc (native) -> av1 (av1_nvenc))
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (eac3 (native) -> aac (libfdk_aac))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Codec not supported
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Provided device doesn't support required NVENC features
[vost#0:0/av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805500] Error initializing output stream: Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
[libfdk_aac @ 0x604c49806600] 2 frames left in the queue on closing
Conversion failed!
I seem to get this error on any video I try to transcode (at least through my browser):
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Codec not supported
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Provided device doesn't support required NVENC features
[vost#0:0/av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805500] Error initializing output stream: Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
[libfdk_aac @ 0x604c49806600] 2 frames left in the queue on closing
Conversion failed!
Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here?
Are you using the official docker image? if yes, try linuxserver.io’s image. they also have a proper guide to using HWA.
I’m using the linuxserver.io image