linuxserver/jellyfin:10.6.4-1-ls96 broke Intel Quicksync (most likely due to jellyfin-ffmpeg4.3.1-4-focal)

[fightforlife]

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Expected Behavior

hardware transcoding using quicksync on Intel platforms should work
last working build: linuxserver/jellyfin:10.6.4-1-ls95 with jellyfin-ffmpeg4.3.1-3-focal

Current Behavior

hardware transcoding using quicksync on Intel platforms is not working
first non working build: linuxserver/jellyfin:10.6.4-1-ls96 with jellyfin-ffmpeg4.3.1-4-focal

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run linuxserver/jellyfin:10.6.4-1-ls96 with jellyfin-ffmpeg4.3.1-4-focal
2. activate Intel QS
3. Play any file that needs to be transcoded

Also discussed here: jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg#62

Environment

OS: Ubuntu 20.10
CPU architecture: x86_64 Intel J3455
How docker service was installed: Using the suplied docker compose including the device configuration /de/dri

Command used to create docker container (run/create/compose/screenshot)

services:
  app:
#    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin
    image: linuxserver/jellyfin:10.6.4-1-ls95
#    image: linuxserver/jellyfin:10.6.4-1-ls96
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
    volumes:
      - config:/config
      - /mnt/HDD/share:/data
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    restart: unless-stopped
    
volumes:
  config:

Docker logs

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc (hevc_qsv) -> h264 (h264_qsv))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (aac (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, hls, to '/config/data/transcodes/286304083d50f88764ac6e8a54d5dba1.m3u8':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf58.45.100
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (h264_qsv), qsv, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=-1--1, 8003 kb/s, 25 fps, 90k tbn, 25 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc58.91.100 h264_qsv
    Side data:
      cpb: bitrate max/min/avg: 8003532/0/8003532 buffer size: 16007064 vbv_delay: N/A
    Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (libmp3lame), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 224 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      encoder         : Lavc58.91.100 libmp3lame
[h264_qsv @ 0x559e6f5a2640] Error during encoding: device failed (-17)
Video encoding failed
[libmp3lame @ 0x559e6f7e47c0] 3 frames left in the queue on closing
Conversion failed!

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[aptalca]

Since the only difference between those two builds is the jellyfin ffmpeg package version, it probably should be reported upstream

[fightforlife]

jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg#62

I just wanted to also post it here, so that users of this image quickly find the error.

Here is some discussion about it. Could be some updated intel driver dependencies. https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/ljoozp/intel_quicksyncqsv_transcoding_broke_with

[aptalca]

Great, thanks

[StableNarwhal]

Workaround for the meantime:

Add this script at /config/custom-cont-init.d (You'll most likely have to create the folder manually, reference here):

apt update
apt install -y gpg-agent wget
wget -qO - https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/intel-graphics.key | apt-key add -
echo 'deb [arch=amd64] https://repositories.intel.com/graphics/ubuntu focal main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt install --only-upgrade -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free

Now you'll have a persistent solution to automatically fix the container until it gets fixes upstream.

[fightforlife]

Thank you, works perfectly fine!

[tces1]

GREAT！It works well for me, my NAS is synology 220+

[matrixn]

For n00bs -- like me :)) i should mention that they have to add the following at the start of the script file.

#!/bin/bash

Thanks for the workaround!

[lyz-code]

The solution worked for 10.7.1 too

[Vercety87]

Hello,

I tried with your workaround but still unable to play movie with hw encode :

ffmpeg version 4.3.1-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-shared --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --enable-libfontconfig --enable-fontconfig --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libdrm --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libdav1d --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --arch=amd64 --enable-opencl --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libmfx --enable-vdpau --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-ffnvcodec
  libavutil      56. 51.100 / 56. 51.100
  libavcodec     58. 91.100 / 58. 91.100
  libavformat    58. 45.100 / 58. 45.100
  libavdevice    58. 10.100 / 58. 10.100
  libavfilter     7. 85.100 /  7. 85.100
  libswscale      5.  7.100 /  5.  7.100
  libswresample   3.  7.100 /  3.  7.100
  libpostproc    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
Device creation failed: -542398533.
Failed to set value 'qsv=hw' for option 'init_hw_device': Generic error in an external library
Error parsing global options: Generic error in an external library

Any ideas ?

My docker-compose file :

version: "2.1"
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
    volumes:
      - ./library:/config
      - /mnt/sdb1/media:/media/sdb1
      - /mnt/sdc1/media:/media/sdc1
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
      - 8920:8920 #optional
      - 7359:7359/udp #optional
      - 1900:1900/udp #optional
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.jelly.rule=Host(`jellyfin.jmtserv.duckdns.org`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.jelly.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.jelly.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt"
      - "traefik.http.services.jelly.loadbalancer.server.port=8096"
      - "traefik.http.routers.jelly.middlewares=security@file, compression@file"
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - proxy
networks:
  proxy:
    external: true

Proc model :
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2420 v2 @ 2.20GHz

[MenchenFive]

Are there no updates on this? It's been two weeks; this is not critical, but an official fix would be nice instead of having to continue with the workarounds.