Does anyone have a compose.yaml for an Nvidia GPU that works that they would like to share? Here’s my current file, it gives a white screen with “server error” on it: https://pastebin.com/AaV17cTz

I went through Jellyfin’s instructions on setting a GPU up, but the instructions weren’t clear (in my opinion) so who knows if it’s correct. I installed some Nvidia tools as a prerequisite and ‘nvidia-smi’ shows the card. I attached my Jellyfin settings from before it self-destructed according to Nvidia’s transcoding matrix (which also wasn’t descriptive enough in my opinion), do they look right for a 2080?

Update: after making this post, and changing nothing, it suddenly works

  • antsu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I had the same problem: Debian host + official Jellyfin Docker image, all set up according to the official guide, but it would fail to transcode anything.

    There was no relevant information about what was wrong in the logs so what I did was:

    • Copy the ffmpeg command from the logs.
    • docker exec -it into the Jellyfin container.
    • run the same ffmpeg command manually so I could see the error directly.

    Long story short, because the Nvidia toolkit uses the driver/libraries from the host, the error was that I was missing the library libnvidia-encode1 on the host. After installing that, everything works as it should.

  • the_shwa@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    This works for me, rtx 4060

       jellyfin:
     image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
     container_name: jellyfin
     user: 108:114
     network_mode: 'host'
     environment:
       - JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR=/var/cache/jellyfin
       - JELLYFIN_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/jellyfin
       - JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/jellyfin
       - JELLYFIN_LOG_DIR=/var/log/jellyfin
       - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=URL_REDACTED
       - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all
       - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
     volumes:
       - /etc/jellyfin:/etc/jellyfin
       - /mnt/driveF/jellyfin/cache:/var/cache/jellyfin
       - /mnt/driveF/jellyfin/data:/var/lib/jellyfin
       - /mnt/driveF/jellyfin/log:/var/log/jellyfin
       - /mnt/Movies:/movies
       - /mnt/TV:/tv
       - /mnt/Music:/music
     runtime: nvidia
     deploy:
       resources:
         reservations:
           devices:
             - driver: nvidia
               count: all
               capabilities: [gpu]
     restart: 'unless-stopped'
     extra_hosts:
       - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    17 hours ago

    Here are some relevant stuff, also have nvidia drivers and vids libs installed.

    Running in a podman quadlet on fedora

    After=nvidia-cdi-generator

    [Container]

    Image=docker.io/jellyfin/jellyfin

    PodmanArgs=–privileged --gpus=all

    Environment=NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all

    AddDevice=/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0

  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    21 hours ago

    I have an intel igpu. It was hella painful to pass through the guy into a normal container and I never figured it out. I just ended up running the container with the —privileged flag. QuickSync hwaccel works fine now, I assume it would be the same for NVENC, since the flag basically just passes everything to the container.

    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Jellyfin isn’t the most secure piece of software out there, I would avoid giving it permissions it doesn’t need.

      Step 1) Check /dev/dri for the GPU

      user@debian:~/compose$ ls /dev/dri
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root        120 Jan 25 11:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root       3360 Feb 11 03:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root        100 Jan 25 11:50 by-path
crw-rw----  1 root video  226,   0 Jan 25 11:50 card0
crw-rw----  1 root video  226,   1 Jan 25 16:39 card1
crw-rw----  1 root render 226, 128 Jan 25 11:50 renderD128

      Documentation indicates renderDXXX typically refers to Intel GPU’s

      Make sure at least one renderD* device exists in /dev/dri. Otherwise upgrade your kernel or enable the iGPU in the BIOS.

      1. Edit your docker-compose.yaml and add this In your Jellyfin block
      devices:
 - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      1. Start your container and enter it to verify the device is recognized.

      sudo docker compose up -d; sudo docker exec -it jellyfin bash

      Once inside ls /dev/dri to confirm the GPU is recognized inside the container, once you confirm it then you can exit the container.

      user@debian:~/compose$ sudo docker exec -it jellyfin bash
I have no name!@jellyfin:/$ ls /dev/dri
renderD128
I have no name!@jellyfin:/$ exit
exit
user@debian:~/compose$
      1. On the Jellyfin dashboard go to the hardware acceleration page and follow the notes left by Jellyfin devs.

  • HybridSarcasm@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    0·
    21 hours ago

    The biggest concern here would be 1) have you installed the Nvidia container toolkit, and 2) how are you passing the GPU into the Jellyfin docker container.

    I’ve got an Ansible-playbook that takes care of the Nvidia stuff. I’ve also got a compose file I can share. Will edit this post when I can provide a link.

      • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        In your compose file, make sure you’ve added runtime: nvidia.

        You also don’t need to deploy the resources and reserve the GPU, you can remove the entire deploy section when using the nvidia runtime.