docker-jellyfin VS media-driver

The container's Dockerfile is based on Ubuntu Jammy and performs a straight-up install of the debs from repo.jellyfin.org, so it'll be the same as on any Debian-based system, indeed /var/lib/jellyfin/plugins.

The Linuxserver.io image is, first of all, a 3rd party unofficial image, but with our blessing. They take a base Ubuntu OS image and install our official Ubuntu packages in the Docker environment. On startup it also executes the same binary in the end, so functionally, to anyone who doesn't know any different, they're the same: you get Jellyfin out in the end.

Are you using Docker? If so you’ll probably need to expose the device through to Docker too. Instructions for Pi here, which may or may not work: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-jellyfin

I'm on an Arch Linux host with linuxserver image (J4005 with UHD600). OpenCL tone mapping does not work out of the box. I have to add DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:jellyfin-opencl-intel , per this GitHub issue, as an additional environment flag to my docker-compose.yml file, lest ffmpeg complains about not able to find device ocl@va.

If you don't want to migrate to the official one, just wait for https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-jellyfin/pull/155

You might need to install the non-free intel media driver: https://github.com/intel/media-driver

Intel had VP9 decode since Kaby Lake (7th gen); original Skylake (6th gen) could not handle it (see here).

I've heard intel-media-driver was the way to go for supported hardware, but I also heard that it could decode slower than libva-intel-driver (like #925), and that Intel doesn't officially support some kind of decode feature in intel-media-driver, but it's implemented in libva-intel-driver.

I reproduced the issue on my end and opened a ticket to let intel devs know. https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1628

I can see 22.6.6 was released in December ( Releases · intel/media-driver (github.com) ), but I'm having troubles getting it installed.

You should be able to choose FFmpeg VAAPI encoder, though it is suggested that kernel 6.2 is needed for this to actually work. I can confirm that it's broken with my A770, while I can choose the device, encoder is failing. No such problem with my Rapter Lake iGPU.

On GitHub there are similar problems reported: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1282

Source: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/blob/master/docs/media_features.md