Fresh Proxmox install, having a dreadful time. Trying not to be dramatic, but this is much worse than I imagined. I’m trying to migrate services from my NAS (currently docker) to this machine.

How should Jellyfin be set up, lxc or vm? I don’t have a preference, but I do plan on using several docker containers (assuming I can get this working within 28 days) in case that makes a difference. I tried WunderTech’s setup guide which used an lxc for docker containers and a separate lxc of jellyfin. However that guide isn’t working for me: curl doesn’t work on my machine, most install scripts don’t work, nano edits crash, and mounts are inconsistent.

My Synology NAS is mounted to the host, but making mount points to the lxc doesn’t actually connect data. For example, if my NAS’s media is in /data/media/movies or /data/media/shows and the host’s SMB mount is /data/, choosing the lxc mount point /data/media should work, right?

Is there a way to enable iGPU to pass to an lxc or VM without editing a .conf in nano? When I tried to make suggested edits, the lxc freezes for over 30 minutes and seemingly nothing happens as the edits don’t persist.

Any suggestions for resource allocation? I’ve been looking for guides or a formula to follow for what to provide an lxc or VM to no avail.

If you suggest command lines, please keep them simple as I have to manually type them in.

Here’s the hardware: Intel i5-13500 64GB Crucial DR5-4800 ASRock B760M Pro RS 1TB WD SN850X NVMe

  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    LXC is going to be better, IMO. And we can definitely get hardware acceleration going.

    So first, let’s do this from the console of the lxc:

    ls -la /dev/dri/

    Is there something like card0 and renderD128 listed?

    • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      LXC is fine with me, the “new Jellyfin” instance is mostly working anyway. It just has a few issues:

      1. Config and user data from “old Jellyfin” isn’t there and doesn’t want to connect. I tried connecting my NAS’s docker data to Prox host like the previous mount, but it doesn’t like it.
      2. Aforementioned HWA errors (I’m guessing I checked an incorrect box)
      3. Most data from the NAS isn’t showing up. I added all libraries and did a full rescan and reboot, but most of the media still isn’t there. I’m hoping passing config data will fix that

      And yes, I see card0 and renderD128 entries. ‘vainfo’ shows VA-API version: 1.20 and Driver version: Intel iHD driver…24.1.0

      • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Ok lets start with that rendering - seeing those is good! You should only need to add some group access, so run this:

        groups jellyfin

        The output should just say “jellyfin” right now. Thats the user thats running the Jellyfin service. So lets go ahead and…

        usermod -a -G video,render jellyfin
groups jellyfin

        You should now see the jellyfin user as a member of jellyfin, video, and render. This gives access for the jellyfin user to make use of the gpu/hardware acceleration.

        Now restart that jellyfin and try again!

        • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          21 hours ago

          Ok, consider it done! My concern is this section of the admin settings:

          I followed Intel’s decode/encode specs for my CPU, but there’s no feedback on my selection. I’m still getting “Playback failed due to a fatal player error.”

          • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            1·
            21 hours ago

            What do you have above that?

            There should be a hardware acceleration dropdown, and then a device below that. Since you have /dev/dri/renderD128, that should be in the “device” field, and the Hardware Acceleration dropdown should be QSV or VAAPI (if one doesn’t work, do the other)

              • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                1·
                21 hours ago

                Just checked one of mine, VAAPI is where I’m set, with acceleration working. 7th or 8th gen or so on that box, so VAAPI should do the trick for you.

                  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
                    1·
                    20 hours ago

                    Might be a better question for someone who knows more JF ffmpeg configs, but I think the HEVC up top should be checked and the bottom range extended hevc should be unchecked. I think you should have AV1 support too.

                    Worst case, start with h264 and move down the list