Issues with HW Transcode DS218+

[safetyguy14 1]

I have consistent issues with significant stuttering and freezing when transcoding on my DS218+.  I've tried various permutations of transcoding settings, I have all subtitles turned off and I know my CPU supports hardware transcoding (it works great in Plex...); however, no matter what I do I get terrible transcode performance unless I restrict the client to like 3Mb/s 720p.  My DS218+ CPU is constantly pegged at 100% usage while it's transcoding.

embyserver.txt.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-2cf63115-5fbb-45b4-914b-2349f6fc556e_1.txt

Edited August 26, 2019 by safetyguy14

[Happy2Play 8296]

Looks like HWA fails an it falls back to software.

    Last message repeated 2 times
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x636840] No VA display found for device: /dev/dri/renderD128.
Device creation failed: -22.
[mpeg2video @ 0x6a6300] No device available for decoder: device type vaapi needed for codec mpeg2video.
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 (mpeg2video) -> deinterlace_vaapi (graph 0)
  deinterlace_vaapi (graph 0) -> Stream #0:0 (h264_vaapi)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (ac3 (native) -> mp3 (libmp3lame))
Device setup failed for decoder on input stream #0:0 : Invalid argument
T=0.023s

[safetyguy14 1]

Well I went with the nuclear method of adding the embyserv user to the admin group and it seems to be able to access hw transcoding now.

[rouq 23]

Make sure that embysvr user is part of the video group.

[Luke 37096]

Did you follow our hardware acceleration setup guide?

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Hardware-Acceleration-Overview

[safetyguy14 1]

Did you follow our hardware acceleration setup guide?

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Hardware-Acceleration-Overview

Maybe I'm missing something, but the way I read that guide says essentially that I don't need to do anything beyond installing the server?:

Required Setup Steps Intel

The latest Intel drivers are included with Emby server.

[Luke 37096]

I just wanted to make sure. Thanks.