Okay 1080p has no issues. Even a post that stated they thought their 3200G was too low-powered to transcode their media- they assumed current transcoding was already doing it the most efficient way, software transcoding is inefficient. At this point you can restart, then well configure the docker image. Open up terminal and type the following command. In the end it was super easy, seems incredibly reliable. I will have to check out the IPTV streaming. I obviated the need for hardware accl by converting my entire library using Handbrake as a pre-requisite to using Jellyfin. Open up firewall ports. Firstly, make sure you system is up to date. You are using an out of date browser. I highly recommend Jellyfin. To do this go to: UNRAID will ask you to restart to make the changes. I'm not 100% if that actually uses the Intel iGPU over the Nvidia card as I removed the dGPU before testing. this one in particular seems to be the "working" solution. Have a look through it and see how you go. We need to get the current latest stable, v10.7.7, download both the jellyfin-web and jellyfin-server. Both Jellyfin and Emby have Trakt plugins that I use to keep my watch status in sync between servers. This should be compatible with any glibc distribution (which is required for nvidia drivers and nvidia docker 2). If youre an advanced user bear with the simple steps but I want it to be clear how the result was achieved. If you get stuck or don't understand something specific in the docs I'm happy to help if possible. use the /opt/rockstor/bin/delete-rockon 'Jellyfin' option to ensure after uninstall before relaunching the installation. Plex handles it incredibly poorly and rarely works, while with Emby I have to do hardly any maintenance. I think it has to do with opencl and not cuda based acceleration with my Quadro. Your email address will not be published. Compile ffmpeg (you should all nvidia enabled options in the hwaccel area), Now this is important, we must install the, Setup the service and enable to run on boot. Run a quick test to see if you get the jellyfin page. TrueNAS Scale may also be missing a required software component, but I think the culprit is most likely the incompatible H264 source codec. I am getting issues with DKMS module building, nvidia-smi not working etc. Just wanted to share that I was able to successfully get nvidia transcoding in jellyfin Docker and how easy it all was. emby transcoder log snippets, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/482#issuecomment-496012051. It shows you how to set up the NVIDIA docker environment and NVIDIA drivers, and how to connect the jellyfin container to the NVIDIA docker. 8920/tcp is used by default for HTTPS traffic. Login as the admin user and go to [server] -> [playback] -> [transcoding]. Log.txt Im scratching my head. Have a question about this project? You can change this in the dashboard. And thank you so much you for your help . Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (h264_nvenc) (High), cuda, 426x176 [SAR 352:355 DAR 12:5], q=-11, 292 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 90k tbn, 23.98 tbc (default) I don't know much about nvidia hwa. There's some slight hiccups, but it's not Plex. It's remarkable how far docker and hardware pass-through have come over the last few years. You can set this up how you want -where your media files are located etc. I love that you got this working, and I want to get this working too. When reading up onvarious forums, Jellyfin, UNRAID, Docker, I was unable to find a simple guide to setting up transcodingfor an AMD APU. What does this error means? Press CTRL and X to exit and YES to save changes. Personally, I just want my movies or TV and that's it. Bellow is my following config for Jellyfin. From the apps tab on UNRAID, I used the linuxserver one. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Jellyfin with working nvidia-docker2 transcoding, https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jellyfin#:~:text=Nvidia,jellyfin%20docker%20container. I did see quite a few posts asking how this is possible, with either little or no replies at all. You can whitelist certain private local IP's, however for any remote access it must be done through their app.plex.tv website or whatever unless you're going to setup a VPN. Note: this will download like ~1 GiB of packages so this one might take awhile. Easy Automated Home Media Server: VPN, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Librarian, Super Easy Sync to Google Drive with Insync on Openmediavault. Regardless, congrats on getting it running! Looks like a great write up! So now I know it's working, I can compare with scale. Sign in I have a fresh install of OMV 5. I was expecting it might be a bit tricky getting gpu pass-through up and running as I saw that many people struggled with it when researching how to do it. Reboot if necessary. I was able to install the latest stable nvidia quadro driver (450.80.02) and patch it, removing the restriction of only 2 simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions and allow the use of NvFBC - drivers and patches here. By continuing to browse this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. So I decided to put this post out there and hopefully, it will help you. JavaScript is disabled. Tested 8 concurrent transcodes streams without an issue. I have always used plex for my dolby vision stuff but my shield might be broken because plex when it does work buffers like mad with dolby vision. privacy statement. I've been running it as a front end for my media server for about 2 months. Transcoding on Jellyfin Docker Image on an UNRAID OS using an AMD 3200G or 3400G APU, Learn how to transcode media using hardware acceleration on an AMD APU using UNRAID, Docker and jellyfin. I'm a heavy Plex user and I'd love to switch to an open source alternative. Under transcoding select video acceleration API (vaapi) If you look at the transcoder in htop, you can see the ffmpeg commands it uses. I will post my discoveries and issues. Press J to jump to the feed. CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN: unknown error Device creation failed: -1313558101. Reboot your system and then check to see your drivers have been correctly initialized. Now our custom ffmpeg is installed to /opt/custom-ffmpeg/bin/ffmpeg. But Plex is really good, and I love the native Trakt.tv webhook integration (which means everything I watch automatically gets tracked on trakt.tv). Metadata: (Theres a gotcha here) On the additional variables you asked for, one is an option variable (as you pointed out) and the others are the environment variables, so you can place them in the respective sections of the json file. Once restarted check the device now has its own IOMMU group go to: You should now see something similar to this: Next, youll want to un-blacklist the AMD GPU driver for UNRAID to load up the driver at boot time. to your account, Hi, I have installed a standalone version of docker (20.10.12) in Truenas Scale (Debian 11, kernel 5.10.93) and it has been working great with other apps. This is going to be a short(ish) guide on how to get your AMD APU (iGPU) working through UNRAID for a Jellyfin docker image. I figured that was something to do with the jellyfin transcoder rather than docker enabled hardware acceleration. Installed packages: nvidia-docker2, x11-video-nvidiaG05, nvidia-glG05 Side data: That seems to be the case in emby too. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: Per the log file attached, video file may not be compatible with NVEC hardware acceleration because H264 at 4K resolution is not supported by the GPU hardware. I thought I would add this here for those perhaps intimidated by or lacking the time to follow your write up. Jellyfin has free transcoding out of the box and you can point it to a GPU of choice like Intel Quick Sync over Nvidia. VPN Docker: https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/ Lidarr: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-lidarr Radarr: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-radarr Sonarr: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-sonarr Librarian: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-lazylibrarian Compose file version: '2.1' services: transmission-openvpn: volumes: - /srv/dev-disk-by-label-media/downloads/:/data - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro environment: - PGID=1000 - PUID=100 - CREATE_TUN_DEVICE=true - OPENVPN_PROVIDER=NORDVPN # - OPENVPN_CONFIG=default - NORDVPN_COUNTRY=US - NORDVPN_CATEGORY=legacy_p2p - NORDVPN_PROTOCOL=udp - OPENVPN_USERNAME=1234567890987654321 - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=1234567890987654321 - OPENVPN_OPTS=--inactive 3600 --ping. Proceed with the first time setup welcome splash page and you should be good to go. Would you be willing to get a working config using user: 1000:1000 and group_add: videogroup I know of group 44 and 107 and had issues getting both groups added to the container. Lastly, added "-e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all \ -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all \ --runtime=nvidia \ --gpus all \" to my jellyfin docker run command. Jellyfin is and will remain open-source, unlike Emby and Plex. Today, well install Insync to make super easy automatic backups to google drive using Insync dockker on Openmediavault. Is nvdec not working in native setups either? Pretty simple TBH. I run both PLEX and Jellyfin in Docker containers on my homelab and I have found Jellyfin to "just work" better. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. As I mentioned in the OP there's a complete and ready to follow tutorial in the jellyfin documentation. Well occasionally send you account related emails. This site uses cookies. @joshuaboniface you want to take a look into the cuvid and nvdec? I had tested the same video on jellyfin installed with truecharts and it worked great, but I don't want to use truecharts. The first one may display that the file already exists, it did on my installation, this is fine but it is advised by lime tech to run it, so maybe its needed in certain cases. If I want steaming or news, I'll go find it elsewhere. But it seems to be for OMV 4. How do I know for scale if the drivers and the toolkit are properly installed? It used to be a slightly modified fork of FFmpeg/libav. You signed in with another tab or window. Theres no actual hardware pass through going on here. Already on GitHub? How to setup Nvidia in Plex docker for hardware transcoding? Firstly youre going to separate the GPU into its own IOMMU group, this is especially true for using the GPU on VMs so I did it anyway. Glad it works. I was shocked to say the least and it is absolutely annoying compared how it was. main problem is that x265 playback is supported in almost no browser and not supported in the Android app either. Its just virtualizing an operating system, which the host OS can expose hardware to just fine. I assume, the command from the nvidia setup link using a base cuda container, provides the desired output to indicate a successful install: I do not run ads on this website If you found thispost useful consider buying me a coffee, so I can stay up late and write more content like this. PC - I prefer in-browser for video and music, but a Win/Linux/Flatpak/Mac Jellyfin Client does exist. Then I installed jellyfin with docker run (and I also tried linuxserver.io compose file): It's remarkable how far docker and hardware pass-through have come over the last few years. I have ran plex on my freenas server for years and had an older version of it. Couldn't be happier with the job the jellyfin support have done putting together the official documentation. When using nvidia container toolkit / nvidia docker 2, you do not need to specify or add an alternate video group. Once youre editing the parameters of your docker image you need to check advanced view in the top right and under extra parameters field you need to add the line: Access the jellyfin webui and go to the admin dashboard, go to playback. Plex will default to a dGPU like the Quadro over Intel Quick Sync on the iGPU and on Windows can't be redirected. Is the error reproducible on a regular/vanilla Debian 11 installation. I never had the issue with docker but my present vm doesnt always like transcoding uhd video. Whatever I have tried I had zero success to passtrough my gpu to the docker image. [OS: Rockstor Leap 15.2 install image, Docker Server Version: 20.10.9-ce, GPU: Quadro P400, Driver Version: 495.29.05, CUDA Version: 11.5]. Confirm you see the cuda compiler Don't you find that kinda weird about Plex? The version of UNRAID I am using is 6.9.2 (Linux Kernel 5.10.28). While I love the lsio image, these aren't compatible with our image lol. I tried to reproduce the error on Debian 11. Can you guide me to a clear step by step tutorial on how to setup Jellyfin and HEVC transcoding in Debian docker is such a tutorial exists? Is there a guide for ffmpeg and Ubuntu server? https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html#h264--avc-10-bit-videos. If all goes well you should see something like the following when you run the SMI tool. Android Mobile - Install Jellyfin from Play Store. Cool. So far so good! I'm running jellyfin in a docker container on debian 10 server on an old hp-prodesk i5 4670. sudo docker run --rm --gpus all nvidia/cuda:11.0-base nvidia-smi. This can literally convert any media you throw at it now. Ok I made it work on truenas scale by unistalling and reinstalling the driver and installing the nvidia container runtime, and setting the default runtime to "nvidia" in daemon.json for docker. Check all of those sexy boxes and set your hardware accelerator to Nvidia NVENC. I use Saltstack to manage the contents of the traefik.yml file but that is out of scope for this guide. Now youll need to edit your go file to allow docker images to access the driver that UNRAID will initiate on its next start-up. Now you can benefit jellyfin transcoding content using your hardware as anaccelerator, how it should be! nvcc --version. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250377-transcoding-media Of all things to be concerned about I wouldnt consider a media transcoder to be one of them. I did notice it was using cuvid instead of nvdec, even though hardware decoding is enabled for all supported file types. That's my understanding at least. Nevertheless I tried with an h265 4K video and it could be played from 4k to 480p but was very jerky (even without transcoding), but the same problem occured when I scale it down to 360p. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, The Ultimate Home Server - Component: Media Hosting, Dynamic_Gravity's Guide to Install Jellyfin [VM or Baremetal], NVIDIA Driver Installation Quickstart Guide :: NVIDIA Tesla Documentation, Installation Guide Linux :: CUDA Toolkit Documentation, Custom compile ffmpeg with CUDA (optional), Jellyfin will be installed as a Systemd service on a virtual machine, Jellyfin will run on a minimal install of Rocky Linux (EL8), An Nvidia Quadro will be used for hardware acceleration. If you would like to use all features of this site, it is mandatory to enable JavaScript. So, hardware/GPU transcoding can be done for free. Image: jellyfin/jellyfin. The Jellyfin project was started as a result of Embys decision to take their code closed-source, as well as various philosophical differences with the core developers. Again, this should be compatible with any glibc distribution (which is required for nvidia drivers and nvidia container toolkit). I had some problems installing the drivers but I think I did it, and after installing docker, nvidia container runtime, and jellyfin I managed to make it work! Referenced documentation: I have about two dozen Dockerized applications running on my server, and 5 are all using the same GPU. It doesn't do nearly as much as PLEX, but I am OK with that as I just want it to catalog my movies and TV shows, show some pretty artwork, and crucially play them. Could you please help me diagnose this, I have tried so many things I don't know what to do next but to ask for help. But yes, the downside is the lack of smooth integrations. ), Any help to point out where adding these lines to Rock-On structure would be highly appreciated, Here is setup guide links: Jellyfin and Nvidia, My boring setup: their own activities please go to the settings off state, please visit, Nvidia GPUs are supported when using docker-compose. Prerequisites: nvidia drivers, nvidia docker 2 package, edited, When using docker v19.03+ (docker run), there is no reason to edit. Run both commands. Download LTS Nvidia packages (AT this post in time the Long-Lived driver is 470.). When you play back the video, you're playing back HEVC, not x265. Click save underneath all the options. Jellyfin Clients are easy to use with a minimalist UI that still has back-end intelligence to display useful, relevant information. I assume you already have UNRAID installed and up to date. Emby went closed source around the time as well. The logs are: Both interfaces allow you to download media files for offline access, but require use of your native, 3rd party app for offline playback. https://jellyfin.org/docs/genehtml#debian-docker-nvidia. [hls @ 0x56301d4875c0] Opening *** I don't use trakt.tv myself so never looked to see if it has any integration with that. There is Raspberry Pi version of this docker. docker run -d \ --name=jellyfin \ --gpus all \ -p 8096:8096 \ -p 8920:8920 \ --volume /mnt/tank/jellyfin/config:/config \ --volume /mnt/tank/jellyfin/cache:/cache \ --volume /mnt/tank/jellyfin/data:/media\ --restart unless-stopped \ jellyfin/jellyfin, It installed fine and if I do a docker exec -it jellyfin nvidia-smi I get: Hi, Obviously still have plenty more to understand re virtualisation! Although it clearly states it's using nvdec. The server also runs a few VMs and things as needed like PiHole. I thought by it's very nature of passing hardware access (gpu in this case) to a virtualised OS that it was simply hardware-pass through. I had some issues getting the 3200G APU working with the container out of the box, you still do have to do a bit of configuring for the AMD-intel-Nvidia docker image stated on their forum/topic page. This is not configurable. encoder : Lavc58.91.100 h264_nvenc To be clear before we begin; the docker image Ill be referencing is by linuxserver.io (http://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jellyfin), Installed via the apps tab on UNRAID. So far both applications are happy with a few transcodes running on the iGPU with maybe 8-10% CPU usage for each. Reacently did a clean Leap15.2 install and slapped in a Quadro P400 to my hardware. It also doesn't have the latest "free" stuff Plex has started adding in. frame= 201 fps=153 q=31.0 size=N/A time=00:00:08.48 bitrate=N/A speed=6.46x. You can change this in the dashboard. One of the things I found I really like is that Jellyfin is really good at what it does. Anyone else who is figuring this out here are some pointers. http://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jellyfin, https://forums.unraid.net/topic/102787-support-ich777-jellyfin-amdintelnvidia/. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Crucially, Jellyfin does not make you log into someone elses website for your own content. Add the following 2 lines in to your go file: Here you are setting file permissions for docker(and anything else) to access your device driver files.