devices: /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128. x:8096. working really good. Hardware: Synology DS 920+ OS: DSM 6. Package FFmpeg support in the Docker package or make it easy to install. I turned on hardware acceleration and played the same file and it stopped working immediately. Install on Synology NAS. . Hello! Did you manage to set up hardware transcoding on Jellyfin from synocommunity? Can't turn it on on ds920+. The Synology DS923+ NAS 4-Bay Revealed. Reload to refresh your session. What is the recommended hardware acceleration for use on Asustor NAS? Thanks comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment The current state of hardware acceleration support in FFmpeg can be checked on the rpi-ffmpeg repository. I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct. After you configure the Jellyfin server and connect to it from a client device, you’ll be able to stream media from the server to the clients. I'm no expert though, maybe things are different on the DS916+! The Optiplex has twice the CPU power and double the ram of the Synology box. xml -> “open with Text Editor”. Stop Plex. It Installs a lot easier than the docker installation. x. Go to Jellyfin. After looking around on the internet I found the SBCs from Pine64 (built around the RK3399 ARM processor). Hardware acceleration (HWA) testing was performed using Jellyfin, the Open Source and completely free alternative to Plex. 1:8096 then follow the setup guide, but I cant seem to connect. 2. 264 Original Playback. Install Nvidia Drivers Method #1 (Manually) Driver Install Method #2 (Recommended) Installing nvtop GPU Process Viewer. Add the NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all environment variable . Create the container. 12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors:So I am very new to the Synology world. jellyfin wants to know what local directory folder contains the content. 7; Hardware settings & device: AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G with Radeon Graphics; Reverse proxy: HAProxy; Other hardware notes: The media folder is mounted on the PVE host using a CIFS share and then integrated in the LXC using a read only bind mount. Immich - Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone (AKA Google Photos replacement you have been waiting for!) - October 2023 Update - Support for external libraries, map view on mobile app, video transcoding with hardware acceleration, and. g. d/jellyfin. Currently, Plex has three tiers. Not everyone want a 8 bay NAS to store and stream movies. I use nvidia/cuda:10. I updated the docker image using the following steps and now I can't connect to my Jellyfin server (from web browser). When I run plex with my other 10 containers, cpu usage is at 5-7% and ram usage is at 1. If your cpu is at 90% or more load, Jellyfin is not using GPU but CPU. AMD added support for AV1 acceleration in their latest GPUs: Decoding AV1 8/10-bit. Please describe your bug I am using Synology system 7. 265 (HEVC), H. Now, in order to become more profitable, Plex might adapt this towards a tiered system which. OS: Synology DSM (arch, i386, x86, etc) (debian:buster -based cross-build system) Browser: vi, gnumake :) Jellyfin Version: 10. I have no clue what-so-ever as to how to get hardware acceleration on my jellyfin container. Trending threads. Jellyfin transcodes if IT is your media server. In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Jellyfin in Docker using Docker Compose. Jellyfin runs in a Docker Container. I have also installed intel_top_gpu as a means of confirming the transcoding. Immich - Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone (AKA Google Photos replacement you have been waiting for!) - October 2023 Update - Support for external libraries, map view on mobile app, video transcoding with hardware acceleration, and. The server side of Plex does a great job at adding local files via libraries automatically and very efficiently through the customizable Metadata and plugins. Change the Hardware Acceleration dropdown to Intel Quick Sync. Codecs: Decode Overview. ‘Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware made to perform some functions more efficiently than in software running on a general-purpose central. I get: error: failed to initialize display. Enabling hardware transcoding. Ram:32 GB ddr3. Intel® Discrete Graphics. A. 265 (HEVC), and in 1080p with codecs H. FFmpeg isn't offically supported on operating system's like DSM (Synology's OS). If you want hardware acceleration, you need to use a docker-compose file. Here is what I am trying to achieve: 1) I want to have it on Proxmox (as a VM or Container, I am not really sure) 2) I want to enable hardware acceleration QSV (Intel N100 processor) 3) I want the Jellyfin to get media files from. It can also do other migrations, like a reorganization of your media files. 5. 7. Configure VAAPI acceleration in the "Transcoding" page of the Admin Dashboard. Posted November 29, 2020. 8. Do note that I did add a line with modprobe i915 into the Go file when trying to get HW transcoding to work with the linuxserver. easy rule 3-2-1, 3 copies, 2 different mediums, 1 offsite. 2. Media Capabilities. We used the 8 most frequently used language by Plex’s customers. FFMpeg and Jellyfin can support multiple hardware acceleration implementations such as Intel Quicksync (QSV), AMD AMF and NVIDIA NVENC/NVDEC through Video Acceleration APIs. You would get around 10x improvement and most importantly real-time video transcoding with low latency. I've set up Jellyfin on my Synology (DS918+); everything seems to be working except for the DLNA for my Samsung TV from 2013, which coincidentally was the main reason to set it up. The hardwareThe 920 has a built-in GPU thanks to the intel chip that’s being used. 5: 10: disregard by devnaut 2023-10-23, 09:18 AM: Plugin Development. 265 files manually. I have jellyfin running on a Gemini Lake J4105 board running Ubuntu 20. 7. 4. This. Jellyfin - VAAPI hardware transcoding X. Turn on Show Advanced in the upper-right corner to expose advanced settings. I tried AMD AMF in Jellyfin and it’s not able to transcode. Transcoding video for Kodi. . For ISO's, I don't believe Jellyfin supports directly playing a disc (which an ISO can be considered). The largest library is about 1000 movies. Discussion. I've never used Unraid but if it runs Docker containers and implements VA-API then it's worth trying. Set your Jellyfin container to run on highest privileges. You will be greeted with the Network screen, we will be using the ‘synobridge’ network we created earlier select it from the list and click Next. 4. After you click the Create button, the window below will open. How to Enable Hardware Acceleration with Plex Media Server on a Synology NAS. We definitely need Synology builds! I stopped using Emby today after experiencing a lot of problems with version 4. NOTE: Please keep in mind that while this is listed as Movies/TV Shows only, if you’d like to add. Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics. My Jellyfin install is running in a container, and in order to enable the use of VA-API, a PCI device needs to be. For Synology, Jellyfin is installed using Docker. 25. version 5. I recently purchased a DS220+ to host Jellyfin and have spent the last week reading countless guides and trying multiple times to set up hardware transcoding. Seriously. 4) running in Docker on my NAS (Synology D920+, 1TB SSD read/write cache, 4 GB RAM (still upgrading to 20 GB)). Hi there, I've run into an issue with the Docker package when trying to enable hardware acceleration for my Jellyfin server. I personally don't use hardware transcoding, as I have a server CPU without a GPU, and I don't have a dedicated GPU either. Understanding hardware acceleration specifically Intel quick sync for transcoding. hardware_detection-63745642855. This is how I installed Jellyfin. Go through the self explanatory setup and create your libraries. Everything is up and running, however I can't help but notice performance issues on the NAS with the Jellyfin server. Subgen - Auto-generate Plex or Jellyfin Subtitles using Whisper OpenAI! 180 upvotes ·. Then ssh to your Synology, type cd /volume1/docker/Jellyfin to get inside the Jellyfin folder you just uploaded, and run sudo docker. Keep the unit away from liquids. Jellyfin Install. Synology package works. After it's stopped, choose "Edit", go to Port Settings and you can change it there. 4) Plenty of good guides out there, ARR apps & VPN are separate conversations. Add the NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all environment variable. When the download is complete, double-click the image to launch the installer. 1"With Plex it comes down to are you transcoding or not. Further specific acceleration types should be requested separately. VP9 is even worse. This other project will leave JellyFin far behind. Now a single 1080p x265 -> 1080p x264 runs at half speed or worse. (Some) GPUs are specifically designed for rendering graphics and transcoding media, making them ideal for this. Program aims to advance innovation across Greater Victoria and B. Jellyfin for synology Kim Serritslev. 262 (mpeg-2) and h. I've tried toggling some modes on and off completely, but that doesn't change the CPU consumption or the playback quality and speed. When i left xpenology project behind there was no way of using any gpu for hardware acceleration in plex. FFmpeg isn't offically supported on operating system's like DSM (Synology's OS). x. To get vaapi working, make sure you did and have the following : videocard defined in your jellyfin json. However, only root has access to the video card so you will need to give the app elevated privilege. With an Intel CPU, I'm guessing I want. Patch the Driver for More Transcode Streams. Plex (Chrome) Open Edge in Windows. 2 Jellyfin. Open the Plex Web app. Perhaps it's only decoding or encoding using QSV and doing the other in software? Jellyfin Version. I am using a FX-6300. Immich - Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone (AKA Google Photos replacement you have been waiting for!) - October 2023 Update - Support for external libraries, map view on mobile app, video transcoding with hardware acceleration, and more 🎉. Synology is just splitting the target to earn more money from people who need hardware acceleration. Intel® Iris® Xe MAX Graphics. On the General area, set the Reverse Proxy Name description: type in Jellyfin HT. However, don’t freak out as it’s not that difficult! The better way is to update the permissions and then pass it in with the initial Docker container creation, something the Synology Docker UI provides no controls to actually do. It has a J4125 processor and 8 gigs of RAM. VA-API is a Video Acceleration API. That would tell you if its a Netgear firewall issue that's blocking the access. 4. 14. So I run jellyfin on a synology that is virtualised in ESXi. Simply select video, audio and subtitle formats you know your clients support, then use any ol' video converter to turn all your media to that format. 1 in docker on synology with Hardware acceleration using VA-API. Attempted to try Hardware acceleration with QuickSync and without with similar results. Jellyfin - Hardware. Set the playback transcoding to VAAPI and select everything besides AV1. Congrats to Home Assistant for earning the top spot for favorite self-hosted software in a recent user survey! I'm excited to share that after countless hours of hard work on optimization, stability and bug fixing, Bubble Card v1. chown -R root:video /dev/dri chmod -R g+rw /dev/dri. • 3 yr. HW acceleration is only used for transcoding, so if you never really use transcoding, then there's absolutely no benefit to enabling HW acceleration. Also Synology talked a lot about this things 4K transcoding capabilities, so I would expect that it could at least transcode 1080p. I created the folders inside Docker's advanced Volume settings. Install Docker from Synology’s Package Center. If not, a small form factor pc is a good option and I personally use a Dell OptiPlex 7050 with an i7-7700, 32GB of memory, and a GTX 1650 LP for transcoding. This is not a jellyfin question. It would be useful if somewhere in dashboard (Activity, perhaps. Jellyfin can be found in the community repository as jellyfin and jellyfin-web. #3. Enabling VAAPI hardware acceleration in Jellyfin should work in its default configuration. When checking the internet, it looks like it could be some sort of codec issue, but I'm not sure how this can be the case because all these files are playing fine when played directly on the client. 264, they aren't supported yet. 8 by 8. As of Jellyfin 10. 8 hardware acceleration on Raspberry Pi via OpenMAX OMX was dropped and is no longer available. It has been quite a long wait, hasn’t it? Synology has really taken its sweet time in revealing their new prosumer diskstation 4-Bay, the DS923+ NAS and now that we finally know that it is real,. Ensure a stable environment with no abrupt changes in temperature or humidity. But my servers are a RS1221RP+ w/32GB RAM and a SA3600 w/64GB RAM, so they are a bit beefier than normal. Full written guide and Docker code can be found on the link belowNAS purposes, this is a great unit as you can add a 10Gbe expansion card and it comes standard with ECC memory, but this is NOT compatible with Hardware Acceleration. Got myself a DS220+ and want to set myself up with a personal netflix with Jellyfin. com is an unofficial Synology forum for NAS owners and enthusiasts. I've tried to follow the Hardware acceleration guide in the Jellyfin docs. Use the drop-down tab at the top left and in the selection, select ‘System Internal User’. Update jellyfin to 10. Try a Plex Pass trial with the Plex SPK from their website rather than Synology's app store. In docker, first stop then export your docker configuration for your Emby container. Login to the Jellyfin instance via a web browser x. 7 restart: unless-stopped environment: - TZ=America/New. Any container or file extension in 4K 2160p (3840 x 2160) with codecs H. Both used Quicksync HW acceleration via VA-API. Subgen - Auto-generate Plex or Jellyfin Subtitles using Whisper OpenAI! 180 upvotes · 113 comments. I read it has hardware acceleration via rkmpp. Hey all - found lots of articles about hardware acceleration on Jellyfin in Docker with Synology running DSM6, but nothing seems to work for DSM7. You just need to make sure you mapping /dev/dri part. Tone-mapped HDR to SDR. Am I correct in interpreting this as the fact that right now it's not possible to enable hardware acceleration on jellyfin 10. RECOMMENDED – Synology DS923+ – $575. While trying to enable hardware acceleration in my Jellyfin setup through VA-API, I've run into some issues. There are other benefits to Plex Pass, such as early access to new features and apps, premium music features, and live TV and DVR functionality. Stop the container and edit the preferences. disclaimer: screen captures are in french. Already have an account? Sign in to comment. Boniface. Synology ; Emby in docker - Hardware Acceleration Emby in docker - Hardware Acceleration. 3g. ago. Secure web access for Jellyfin running in Docker RVM218. Once you reboot, inside jellyfin go to the Admin Dashboard > Playback > Transcoding > Select OpenMax OMX. It is a great choice if you want/need a streaming media server. Yes, but you need to somehow to update nvidia gpu driver on dsm, the one in dva3219 and dva3221 is too old 440. I first tried Jellyfin 10. My TV (LG OLED 65 BX with webos 5) is connected via WIFI over 5G. More information on "Playback Error" to simplify troubleshooting. But somehow this does not work very well. 1, CPU is N5095, I can see /dev/dri/renderD128 in Jellyfin's VAAPI option, but I can't call it, how can I fix it?Hardware Transcoding Frees Up the CPU. I recently purchased a DS220+ to host Jellyfin and have spent the last week reading countless guides and trying multiple times to set up hardware transcoding. 0 and I don’t know if it has gigabit Ethernet. This issue was probably not noticed by the dev of this container because their host system has proper permissions for their hardware acceleration devices and is group-owned by e. Otherwise you have to use VAAPI instead. Stop the container and edit the preferences. Container > Action > Start. #1 of 3. x and the client to 0. And yes, this would let you play files that cannot be transcoded in realtime using available hardware. As of Jellyfin 10. Hardware acceleration is working for me. running nvidia-smi on the host is. Bond-009 moved this from Needs triage to Closed/Done. If you are running a Synology Diskstation and hardware acceleration is not working anymore try using docker-compose to recreate the container and remember to grant access to the devices. g. Reload to refresh your session. Here is how the NAS looked when in. 286171Which is the Best NAS Media Server Tool – Plex, Emby or Jellyfin. 4. Will give it a go for a few days and see if it's as good as plex, hopefully it's just as good and saves me forking out for plex-pass. On Linux you need at least Boardwell or newer chips to access QSV hardware through QSV interface. 0 now operates with almost zero resource consumption once loaded (tested on a full Bubble Card dashboard). The Raspberry Pi supports hardware transcoding in Jellyfin, which helps a lot. Hardware transcoding support will however remain a future goal, dependent on whether we can get access to the h/w. Jellyfin for synology Kim Serritslev. Decode Features. Add the runtime: nvidia option. vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel (R) Gen Graphics - 23. But passing the device has to be done outside the UI as Synology docker UI does not give you that option. To 90% everything works. This can often offload a lot of resource utilization, as the hardware acceleration is much more. There are several ways to achieve this on Linux: Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is a specification and open source library to provide both hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding, developed by Intel. 265 4K video in jellyfin and while doing so, check the "resource monitor" widget in DSM. Don't forget to change Jellyfin's Dashboard -> Playback to "Intel Quick Sync" under the Hardware acceleration field Locked post. Limited support for hardware acceleration, which can affect performance when transcoding certain video formats. The downside is that decoding and encoding is very demanding on the CPU. 2. services: jellyfin:This client isn't compatible with the media and the server isn't sending a compatible media format. -docker/jellyfin2/config mount path: /config (I couldn't use jellyfin so I added a 2)The ZimaBoard had the Jellyfin media server already installed, but the “Install” option was still available in the store. It's easy to verify, play a H. One disadvantage of using Plex that jumps out when you compare it to Jellyfin is the paywall. Immich - Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone (AKA Google Photos replacement you have been waiting for!) - October 2023 Update - Support for external libraries, map view on mobile app, video transcoding with hardware acceleration, and more 🎉. After some time i saw that hw acceleration could be used on some intel cpu. 3-25426 Update 2; Virtualization: Docker;. 3. The instructions here include a basic step-by-step to set up VAAPI. ’s. When the download is complete, double-click the image to launch the installer. Jellyfin Version: 10. 8 hardware acceleration on Raspberry Pi via OpenMAX OMX was dropped and is no longer available. 3. Is it anything to gain with running the app instead of docker, like performance etc? Docker works well on my 920+. Then we are going to instruct Docker Compose to read the file we created and complete the set-up of the container. The link shows how it is done. Open the Plex Web app. Marking a series as 'watched' takes upwards of 10 - 15 seconds to reflect. Most of these files are 50 - 80 GB and are MKVs. For a detailed explanation on how to configure nfs on your Synology Nas click here. NVIDIA added support for AV1 acceleration in their latest. If you have never used Jellyfin, it is an alternative to a popular media server called Plex. This is a tutorial on how to run hardware acceleration for Jellyfin in a Docker container. 2-base watch nvidia-smi -q -d UTILIZATION. I'd like to enable hardware acceleration for everything that is supported and more performant in hardware. 3, from nyanmisaka/jellyfin, 1. Open comment sort optionsWarning. How to enable Hardware Acceleration in Jellyfin (Synology Docker) READ the description first as there are updated steps below. My jellyfin block from my docker-compose below. On my Synology I simply download a new image, then. My TV (LG OLED 65 BX with webos 5) is connected via WIFI over 5G. Step 1: Directory Setup Guide. After that, add the following instructions: Source: Protocol: HTTPS. 6 and installed Jellyfin on my Synology NAS through docker. What am I doing wrong? I am pretty happy which my ds1819+ with jellyfin and media server on it, works great but is not hardware accelerated. Media Servers. log attached, seems like this is the obviously relevant part. 005. CPU usage while GPU transcoding is active should be around 10 to 30%, meaning you should be able to play at least 3 or 4 H. I installed the jellyfin client on the TV via the dev mod. Jellyfin HWA config didn't like the permissions set by Synology on /dev/dri/renderD128 but I was able to workaround this to test various mixed media of 1080p, 4K AVC (H. if other: docker jellyfin latest. Nov 30, 2022. Plex makes you pay to use this. . 7. Jellyfin is a free an. devices: /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128. Telling Jellyfin to use Hardware Acceleration. 4. Proxmox is quite a steep learning curve, going the Docker route first might be easier. Container > Action > Stop. 2-base because that is what it was installed on my system, but nvidia/cuda should also work. bug. Adjust the Decoding and Encoding checkboxes according to your hardware's capabilities. First as a Docker container on a Ubuntu 20. NOTICE: With some of the processors, like the J4125, the default driver iHD doesn't seem to work correctly for hardware acceleration. How to enable Hardware Acceleration in Jellyfin (Synology Docker) READ the description first as there are updated steps below. Because of this I am unable to do hardware transcoding thus making Jellyfin pratically unusable for my 218+. r/selfhosted. Registration is free, easy and fast! Log in Register. I do not use transcoding either, just feeding the clients raw data. Seeking some help with initial setup of Jellyfin. 4. The Jellyfin package should then appear. Hardware Acceleration NOT Compatible. 2. so had to rescan and set everything up again. Jellyfin is always moving forward, and bugs are often fixed as side effects of other changes. linuxserver/jellyfin ¶. 8 with raspberry pi, because they dropped support for the method that worked before a replacement method was ready? 2. A community to discuss Synology NAS and networking devices. Jellyfin offers support for almost all of the major platforms in this space. Then open your Synology shared folder on your computer using location \\<your synology ip>\docker. This article will look at Jellyfin vs. im successfully running Jellyfin "vanilla-dockerized" in my TrueNAS SCALE Can anyone help me how to properly get Hardware-Acceleration going? Ive only got an VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 500 [8086:5a85] (rev 0b) on-board graphics card running. Install Docker from Synology’s Package Center. Confirmed via the nvidia-smi app that it transcodes via the GPU (plus the fact that my CPU is an older one and doesn't support hardware. Hardware acceleration; Jellyfin is a great open-source and completely free alternative to Plex with support for several clients. It supports transcoding on the fly, file browsing, searching, service discovery and all the goodies you want from a media server. CPUs/GPUs) have some built-in functionality that can be utilized by Jellyfin to really speed up the process of encoding/decoding video. d-qsv-hardware-acceleration-on-lxc-on-proxmox hatte ich vor der Installation von Jellyfin befolgt. Generally, users are looking to connect to their Jellyfin server from either a TV, streaming device, or mobile device. First as a Docker container on a Ubuntu 20. Set hardware acceleration to "None" (I have no GPU in this box, and my processor's AVX-512 isn't supported). Hardware acceleration makes it possible to transcode AV1 streams on the fly. Try converting them into mp4 or h. Nov 2022; Replies 2. Toggle navigation SynoCommunity. Then you can install jellyfin natively or thru docker. in storage for the /config, this i created a new folder and used a "bind mount host path" to /Container/linuxserver-jellyfin. If you're the original submitter of this issue, please comment confirming if this issue still affects you in the latest release or master branch, or close the issue if it has been fixed. 70. Once Jellyfin has been deployed and configured, you must manually enable hardware transcoding. I believe this satisfies this feature request. Jellyfin/plex hardware acceleration setting? I'm only now setting back up from the shutdown the other day. Some files lags a little also. You can have an iPad on the local LAN with the Plex and. 0. <del>Package FFmpeg support in the Docker package or make it easy to install. The DS920+ NAS Plex Tests – Idle/Standby. It was not optimized for these tasks, to put it kindly. That said, the update should pull in new firmware which will greatly enhance performance.