Quick guide to hardware encoding on Jellyfin / Intel QSV, AMD VA-API

Setting up Hardware Acceleration on jellyfin using Docker Compose. Have any question feel free to let me know in the comments. New video ideas are welcome.

Commands used in this video:
getent group render | cut -d: -f3

docker exec -it jellyfin /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/vainfo

**Link to Original Jellyfin Hardware Acceleration (Left side select GPU brand)**

**Guide to installing Jellyfin via Docker compose**

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**Link to OMV-Extras Forum**

jellyfin encoding

[LoadingMex]

thank you! live saver. Was just getting started with this and the documentation was way to overwhelming

[qem]

Thank you for this video! It did help somewhat. Especially since there's no indication on jellyfin to let you know that everything's working you can just assume your hardware and coding is working and it's really not and I have an AMD GPU so some of the stuff helped and the rest at least pointed me in the right direction.

[B_S]

Worked like a charm. Thank you very much sir.

[joeburkeson]

Thanks, very good it put me right on to where I needed to be to get Jellyfin's transcoding sorted out. To add to the feedback this command line code will show how well your gpu is working. "intel_gpu_top"

[sadp]

Very good video thank you helped me to setup qsv ob my omv server, subscribed

[Victornemeth]

Great Guide, worked perfect for my integrated graphics with my (Intel Core i7 4771 (Intel HD Graphics 4600))

[turonlumpia]

broo thank you very much… holy fking shit this solve the stuttering issue when playing hevc main10.. turns out i was not transcoding properly…

Thank you again sir..

[ahmedsaed]

Thanks a lot. The QSV vs VAAPI was a little confusing in the docs

[ruben]

I followed every step but when i try to change the media quality from the video player settings with VAAPI hardware acceleration on it crashes, but turning it off it doesn't. I'm using an intel pentium 2020m (that's an old processor but it should support VAAPI). Any suggestions? Thanks.

[redstormsju]

Great video…I use jellyfin in a docker container. If all of my videos play with hardware acceleration turned off…can I keep it off? I’m new to this and don’t quite get it all yet. I also play my videos using the jellyfin app on Apple iPads and Apple TV 4K. Most of my files are heed, h264… mov and mp4 file extensions.

[josephcarter]

can someone explain how to do this on unraid?

[aechennn]

Hi, how about for nvidia nvenc? I have nvidia on my laptop and wanted jellyfin use that? I tried your tutorial and got initialized vaapi.

[cristoforopontikas]

which is better the QSV or VA-API to choose from ?... my hardware Zimaboard permits me to use both of them

[TheEvOGaming]

How can I make it work with a RaspberryPi 4 if there is no GPU ?