Hardware acceleration is not using nvidia and uses VAAPI

[AltairGPL 2]

Im very new to emby and I'm trying to make the hardware acceleration work (possibly always), without which most of my library buffers a lot in a way its unwatchable. When I enable hardware acceleration, nvidia gpu is not used even if I select it explicitly. I made sure my nvidia drivers are upto date. Im on Ubuntu 22.04.3.
 

Mon Oct 23 01:51:42 2023       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.113.01             Driver Version: 535.113.01   CUDA Version: 12.2     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050        Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   44C    P3              N/A / ERR! |    271MiB /  4096MiB |      4%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

I have tried enabling only nvidia options and also with the others. I did restart the emby server everytime I changed the settings, I even did restarted the system every time I changed settings in the end. I tried it with the CUVID option as well.





Even with this selected, the decoder being used was VAAPI,

Here is the video details




Am I missing something or doing something wrong? Let me know if more info is needed.

[AltairGPL 2]

Here is a log I tried with enabling only NVDEC options.

ffmpeg-transcode-6e44d3d1-00a9-42ae-ba6a-02ebf56bb23e_1.txt

Edited October 22, 2023 by AltairGPL

[softworkz 3342]

Lets try to narrow this down:

• Try playing the same file without subtitle selection
  (and post the ffmpeg log)
• Try playing a different file which is not an HDR file

Thanks!

[AltairGPL 2]

Hey, I decided to install Emby beta in the mean time and it worked! Im on the latest beta version and haven't faced the issue anymore. I tried to go back to main version thinking if the fix is just because of a re-install but I was unable to do say, the server wouldn't start, due to some major config changes may be I guess. But I think its the re-install that fixed it