cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49393596

I’ve been running Jellyfin on a Synology DS923+ for a couple years with ‘linuxserver/jellyfin:latest’ with no issue until that big update recently. Suddenly it’s borked…extremely slow speeds, failing to play files half the time, stuttering even when it does play. It was time for a hardware update regardless; it was a miracle that the NAS was able to run as many services on it as it was anyway.

So I built a Proxmox machine with the intent of adding hardware acceleration and transcoding (ideally I’d like to stream to a couple old CRTs): -ASRock B760M PRO RS -Intel i5-13500 -2x32GB Crucial DDR5-4800 -1TB WD SN850X NVMe

Using the Proxmox community Jellyfin script (https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=jellyfin&category=Media+%26+Streaming) I set up an LXC and the iGPU is supposedly being utilized properly. I added an NFS mount from the NAS’s media folder to the Proxmox host, then bound the mount point to the LXC. So at this point, it is accessible to clients via web browser, but I’m having a few issues:

  1. (Probably a Prox issue but…) Jellyfin isn’t seeing all the media. I added all the libraries and did a full scan, but *maybe *10% of the media is actually available. Hopefully this is a moot point because–

  2. My old docker config isn’t available. I made an NFS mount from the NAS’s docker folder to the Proxmox host and tried to route it to the LXC as well, but the Proxmox-NAS refuses to work so I’d need a workaround.

  3. I have no idea if my transcoding settings are right. Intel’s specs for my CPU and Jellyfin’s recommendations seems to conflict slightly, but between both sets of info there’s still some settings that lack guidance. Basically, can someone with a computer engineering degree double check my settings? I tried a screenshot, but Lemmy didn’t appreciate it

Hardware acceleration: Intel Quicksync (QSV) QSV Device: /dev/dri/renderD128

X H264

X HEVC

MPEG2

VC1

VP8

X VP9

X AV1

HEVC 10bit

VP9 10bit

HEVC RExt 8/10bit

HEVC RExt 12bit

X Prefer OS native DXVA or VA-API hardware decoders

X Enable hardware encoding

Enable Intel Low-Power H.264 hardware encoder

Enable Intel Low-Power HEVC hardware encoder

X Allow encoding in HEVC format

Allow encoding in AV1 format

Edit: forgot to include logs: “ffmpeg version 7.1.2-Jellyfin Copyright © 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-static --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto=auto --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-libharfbuzz --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 59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100 libavcodec 61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101 libavformat 61. 7.100 / 61. 7.100 libavdevice 61. 3.100 / 61. 3.100 libavfilter 10. 4.100 / 10. 4.100 libswscale 8. 3.100 / 8. 3.100 libswresample 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100 libpostproc 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7ab87d07ffc0] No VA display found for device /dev/dri/renderD128. Device creation failed: -22. Failed to set value ‘vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD128,driver=iHD’ for option ‘init_hw_device’: Invalid argument Error parsing global options: Invalid argument”

“[WRN] The WebRootPath was not found: “/var/lib/jellyfin/wwwroot”. Static files may be unavailable. [ERR] FFmpeg exited with code 234”