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Hello everyone, I’m setting up an Emby server on a NAS DS224+ and have reached the transcoding section, a topic I’m not very familiar with. The NAS processor is an Intel Celeron J4125, which, according to its technical specs and what I found on Wikipedia, has the following compatibility: Transcoding: MPEG-2, AVC, VP8, HEVC, HEVC 10-bit. Decoding only: VC-1, VP9, VP9 10-bit. My question is how to interpret this information in Emby’s settings. Each codec seems to have at least two configuration options, and there’s a priority order between them. I recently purchased the Emby license, giving me access to the Transcoding Tests plugin. However, I found it quite overwhelming due to the number of available options. I decided to perform the file-based test and selected all the options available. Then, I assigned a folder for the tests and started the task. This generated several files in the assigned folder and began a series of tests, but most of them are returning errors. Additionally, I noticed there are over 1200 tests, and after 2 hours, only 16 tests have been completed. Is this normal, or did I do something wrong? I’d greatly appreciate it if someone with experience in this topic could guide me on how to properly configure transcoding in Emby. Thank you in advance!

Hello everyone, first of all I am new here and also in Emby, you will see me actively here often asking questions. I have a question, I have a proxmox server and inside 2 LXC one of jellyfin which is the one I currently use and another that I created a while ago to test Emby, I really want to see how it is because I have been told it is more advanced than Jellyfin and has more features and better clients, my doubt to all this is that my server has an intel i5 12500 with an iGPU UHD 770, currently I have by passthrough the 770 in the LXC of jellyfin and transcoding works perfectly and makes use of it if necessary, my question here is: In Emby will it also work the same way? or do I need a premium version? PD: this is how I have it configured in both Jellyfin and Emby, that's why I ask if I need the premium version to transcode or not.

Hi guys, I am having trouble with the hardware acceleration in docker. I'm using the integrated graphics card of the Intel N100 and the system is Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS. My emby is 4.7.14.0 With the commands: getent group video | cut -d: -f3, I got 44 getent group render | cut -d: -f3, I got 109 So Here is my docker compose: emby: image: emby/embyserver:latest container_name: emby environment: - UID=1000 - GID=100 - GIDLIST=44,109 - TZ=Asia/Shanghai volumes: - /root/emby/config:/config - /root/emby/cache:/cache - /root/media:/media devices: - /dev/dri:/dev/dri ports: - 8096:8096 restart: unless-stopped After emby started, I found several errors in hardware_detection: Devices": [ { "DeviceIndex": 0, "DeviceInfo": { "VendorName": "Intel Corporation", "DeviceName": "Alder Lake-N [UHD Graphics]", "SubsytemVendorName": "Intel Corporation", "VendorId": 32902, "DeviceId": 18129, "SubsytemVendorId": 32902, "SubsytemDeviceId": 29296, "DevPath": "/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0", "DrmCard": "/dev/dri/card0", "DrmRender": "/dev/dri/renderD128", "IsEnabled": 1, "IsBootVga": 1, "Error": { "Number": -1, "Message": "Failed to initialize VA /dev/dri/renderD128. Error -1" } } } ], I also tried: ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -i input.mp4 -vf 'format=nv12|vaapi,hwupload' -c:v h264_vaapi output_VAAPI.mp4 It works in Ubuntu but not in Docker: Could you give me any advice? hardware_detection-63837216517.txt

Hi guys, I'm currently figuring out how I can enable ffmpeg to use my /dev/dri/renderD128 device which is the iGPU of my intel chip. Currently I have the following things covered: - drm module is loaded and /dev/dri/renderD128 is accessible in jail - emby user has access to the device node - I have installed libva-intel-driver and it is picked up by vainfo - ffmpeg is compiled with libva support I'm sure that emby can access the node and use it with the ffmpeg supplied by emby. As show in the following command output: Even if I supply an input file and output file for the sake of example it starts transcoding just fine on hardware. This indicates to me that the user emby is able to use /dev/dri/renderD128 and should be able to use the device node and hardware. In the web interface under transcoding I see nothing popping up as possible hardware accelerators as show in picture. I have attached my hardware detection log and my most recent server log where the server starts up and does some hardware detection stuffs. This is my output from vainfo: Log.txt Log.txt

Hey everyone, I've just finished moving my emby server off my main pc to a small unit (Intel N5105) running linux and while it's all working I noticed it was falling back on software transcoding all the time, Intel QSV is setup and working however I get this error message in the emby logs before it witches to software; 10:13:34.714 Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter 'Parsed_null_0' and the filter 'auto_scale_0' 10:13:34.714 Error reinitializing filters! 10:13:34.714 Failed to inject frame into filter network: Function not implemented 10:13:34.714 Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:0 10:13:34.715 [libmp3lame @ 0x215ec80] 3 frames left in the queue on closing 10:13:34.729 Conversion failed! I'm running the latest emby server in a docker container on endevouros with kernel 5.19.11.1 and any help would be brilliant ffmpeg-transcode-32b0a7e5-549c-42a6-8dc3-efe272d29371_1.txt

With the new Emby server release, I see that there are two options for each hardware encoder/decoder now: the existing VA-API one and a new QuickSync one. My Emby Server runs directly in Debian on a Pentium Gold G5420, identified as Coffee Lake (gen9.5). So what's the difference? Which one is preferred, and why? (Technical details welcome.) Is this an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" case or a "try it and see what works better/faster" deal? TIA

Hey, my emby Server setup: Ubuntu Server 18.04 Intel Xeon E-2126G (Quick Sync Video, H.265 encode/​decode, VP9 encode/​decode) P11C-I Intel No I stuck on get hardware transcoding working. I installed VAAPI but emby don´t show any available hardware transcoding settings. Is here a way to get it work?

So, lately I've been using NVENC with a crf of 18, and the ultrafast preset. Most of the time this seems to be fine, but sometimes video's will just start glitching. This is usually the case with videos with AAC audio. So, I heard QuickSync is more reliable, but doesn't this run entirely on the CPU? I prefer encoding on the GPU, since it's stronger than my CPU. Anyways, I'd like to know what settings I should use. I don't really mind a little quality loss, just nothing too severe, but what I find most important is that every video plays back without any glitches, and that the encoding process is fast. My specs: 8GB RAM i5-4440 CPU GTX 970 GPU

Hi, few weeks ago there was an announcement that Emby Server will (is already) support Intel Quick Sync for transcoding. This is basically I believe the biggest step forward in terms of transcoding that can be achieved. Even a low budget Intel HW with QS support will be able to decode heavy streams with ease, probably even multiple ones. Running a Braswell based board based on N3150 SoC would do an incredible job, why waste money on expensive, load, power hungry hw like i3-i5-i7 when an N3150 can do the job just fine? @@Luke is there any progress on this on Ubuntu Server (14.04.x LTS or later), running kernel 3.9 or 4.4.0? Is it already working and ready for testing? If not, what would you say, when can we expect to have this feature enabled? Important to have this support available on kernel version higher then 4.3, as there is a fix starting from kernel 4.3 that with previous kernels prior 4.3 caused serious problems on Braswell based boards. Prior to that, a patch needed.

Dear Community. I am quiet new to emby. Until now i like it very much, it is clean and simple. On my archlinux box i am playing around with it. During that time i tried the hw acceleration of my i7-3770, which supports h264 accel through vaapi within ffmpeg. Running vaapi as root just works fine. Emby fails. Hardware Intel i7 3770 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8 series motherboard Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 emby ffmpeg log: https://ip:port/emby/videos/2867cee654bf0d0ca3dc637f1bbfde0b/hls1/main/0.ts?DeviceId=ab07cd0fea138a788857db2bddfb59f6aef25385&MediaSourceId=2867cee654bf0d0ca3dc637f1bbfde0b&VideoCodec=h264&AudioCodec=aac&AudioStreamIndex=1&VideoBitrate=1616000&AudioBitrate=384000&Level=51&Profile=high&PlaySessionId=140d0cd68d4143569460200aff7e460a&api_key=754de6dbb1fa4a8782f4805076e40931&CopyTimestamps=false&TranscodingMaxAudioChannels=6&EnableSubtitlesInManifest=false&Tag=8f6ad6ae07ff85e31aec350a5a796098&RequireAvc=true&RequireNonAnamorphic=false&DeInterlace=true&SegmentContainer=ts&MinSegments=1&BreakOnNonKeyFrames=False&TranscodeReasons=AudioCodecNotSupported,ContainerBitrateExceedsLimit {"Protocol":"File","Id":"2867cee654bf0d0ca3dc637f1bbfde0b","Path":"/demo.mkv","Type":"Default","Container":"mkv","Name":"720P/H264/AC3","IsRemote":false,"ETag":"8f6ad6ae07ff85e31aec350a5a796098","RunTimeTicks":24835198976,"ReadAtNativeFramerate":false,"IgnoreDts":false,"IgnoreIndex":false,"GenPtsInput":false,"SupportsTranscoding":true,"SupportsDirectStream":true,"SupportsDirectPlay":true,"IsInfiniteStream":false,"RequiresOpening":false,"RequiresClosing":false,"SupportsProbing":true,"RequiresLooping":false,"VideoType":"VideoFile","MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"h264","Language":"eng","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1/50","Title":"demo","DisplayTitle":"demo","NalLengthSize":"4","IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":true,"BitRate":7602939,"BitDepth":8,"RefFrames":1,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Height":720,"Width":1280,"AverageFrameRate":25,"RealFrameRate":25,"Profile":"High","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"16:9","Index":0,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":41,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"ac3","Language":"ger","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1/48000","Title":"AC3 5.1 @ 640 kbps","DisplayTitle":"Ger AC3 5.1 @ 640 kbps","IsInterlaced":false,"ChannelLayout":"5.1","BitRate":640000,"Channels":6,"SampleRate":48000,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Audio","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"ac3","Language":"eng","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"1/48000","Title":"AC3 5.1 @ 640 kbps","DisplayTitle":"Eng AC3 5.1 @ 640 kbps","IsInterlaced":false,"ChannelLayout":"5.1","BitRate":640000,"Channels":6,"SampleRate":48000,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Audio","Index":2,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"PGSSUB","Language":"ger","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"0/1","Title":"Forced PGS","DisplayTitle":"Ger Forced PGS","IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":true,"IsForced":true,"Type":"Subtitle","Index":3,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"DVDSUB","Language":"ger","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"0/1","Title":"Forced VobSub","DisplayTitle":"Ger Forced VobSub","IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":true,"Type":"Subtitle","Index":4,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"PGSSUB","Language":"ger","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"0/1","Title":"Full PGS","DisplayTitle":"Ger Full PGS","IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Subtitle","Index":5,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"DVDSUB","Language":"ger","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"0/1","Title":"Full VobSub","DisplayTitle":"Ger Full VobSub","IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Subtitle","Index":6,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"PGSSUB","Language":"eng","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"0/1","Title":"Full PGS","DisplayTitle":"Eng Full PGS","IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Subtitle","Index":7,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false},{"Codec":"DVDSUB","Language":"eng","TimeBase":"1/1000","CodecTimeBase":"0/1","Title":"Full VobSub","DisplayTitle":"Eng Full VobSub","IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Subtitle","Index":8,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":false}],"PlayableStreamFileNames":[],"Formats":[],"Bitrate":8882939,"RequiredHttpHeaders":{}} /usr/bin/ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i file:"/demo.mkv" -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 h264_vaapi -b:v 1616000 -maxrate 1616000 -bufsize 3232000 -level 41 -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced*3)" -vf "format=nv12|vaapi,hwupload" -copyts -vsync -1 -codec:a:0 aac -strict experimental -ac 6 -ab 384000 -f segment -max_delay 5000000 -avoid_negative_ts disabled -start_at_zero -segment_time 3 -individual_header_trailer 0 -segment_format mpegts -segment_list_type m3u8 -segment_start_number 0 -segment_list "/var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/0c452153ac505b7983821dc637462816.m3u8" -y "/var/lib/emby/transcoding-temp/0c452153ac505b7983821dc637462816%d.ts" ffmpeg version 3.3.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 7.1.1 (GCC) 20170630 configuration: --prefix=/usr --disable-debug --disable-static --disable-stripping --enable-avisynth --enable-avresample --enable-fontconfig --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgsm --enable-libiec61883 --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libssh --enable-libtheora --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxcb --enable-libxvid --enable-shared --enable-version3 libavutil 55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100 libavcodec 57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100 libavformat 57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100 libavdevice 57. 6.100 / 57. 6.100 libavfilter 6. 82.100 / 6. 82.100 libavresample 3. 5. 0 / 3. 5. 0 libswscale 4. 6.100 / 4. 6.100 libswresample 2. 7.100 / 2. 7.100 libpostproc 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100 [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x559975fa6a40] No VA display found for device: /dev/dri/renderD128. [vaapi @ 0x559974a64050] Failed to create a VAAPI device but permissions should be okay? ls -la /dev/dri/ insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 100 26. Jul 10:54 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 3040 26. Jul 11:36 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 26. Jul 10:54 by-path crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 26. Jul 10:54 card0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 128 26. Jul 10:54 renderD128 groups emby emby video Running that ffmpeg command as root seems to work just fine. I cannot play the result cause it splits in so many pieces. any other permissions emby needs now? Any other thoughts? derdigge

Hello All Starting with stable release 3.2.35.0-3 (released today), Emby Server now includes improved h/w transcoding support for platforms that support Intel's VA-API. For some recent background, take a look at this thread: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/48771-va-api-pixelation-on-ds416play/?p=505088. Any questions, issues or comments please post them here... Best - James

A quick question about the new transcoding option.. I have a Radeon HD 7850 video card and don't use the internal intel video card on my Haswell system. Will this still work? Is it processing outside of the video card?

So, got my server rebuilt and am ready to test out emby again. New system is running on an i5 6600k, so has quicksync available. Yay! I'm running Proxmox on the bare metal to handle vm's. I'm running Emby on a Debian 8 container, pretty vanilla install (just added repo, apt-get update, apt-get install). Went thru settings & set transcode to Intel Quick Sync explicitly. inxi says this about my video card in the container: Graphics: Card: Intel Device 1912 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1912 Display Server: N/A driver: N/A tty size: 204x59 Advanced Data: N/A for root So it seems it should work (assuming Linux support is there - the 20+pages of the big thread are . . . hard to follow. thanks guys!

Looks interesting. Would be great if it could run MBT or the Windows 8.1 app smoothly. There is also a Linux cheaper version. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/07/intel-compute-stick/

I thought this was interesting. I love my NUC. The next generation will definitely be something to look out for. Intel’s NUC 2.0 leaks: The next unit of Steam Machines and home theater PCs