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Jellyfin

Media server for streaming movies, TV shows, and music.

Hardware Transcoding

GPU Information

lspci -nn | grep -Ei "3d|display|vga"

Output: 

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation
Alder Lake-UP3 GT1 [UHD Graphics] [8086:46b3] (rev 0c)

Intel QuickSync Configuration

For hardware-accelerated transcoding on Intel Alder Lake integrated graphics:

  1. Pass through /dev/dri to the container
  2. Ensure the container user has access to the render and video groups
  3. Enable Intel QuickSync in Jellyfin admin dashboard

Docker Compose Example

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    user: 1000:1000
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - /path/to/config:/config
      - /path/to/cache:/cache
      - /path/to/media:/media
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0
    restart: unless-stopped