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?
Modify your docker-compose.yml to contain the following:
That’s what worked for me
I had that previously but will try again later today and report back.