Does Emby support HW transcoding on the Rockchip RK3588S?

[parmi93 0]

I recently set up Emby on my NanoPi R6S with OpenWRT v24.10.04 through Docker, and it’s working pretty well overall. The only issue is that when I choose a video quality like 1080p for 4K content, the playback starts lagging with constant loading. This happens because the transcoding is being handled by the CPU, and all 8 cores are constantly maxed out at 100%.

Additionally, when I select a resolution different from the original, the video starts buffering immediately, and after about 30/60 seconds of waiting, the streaming is interrupted and Emby returns to the movie detail page without any error. At that point, I have to start the video again, and it plays with the resolution I had previously selected.

I think these issues are all due to the fact that Emby is not using hardware transcoding, for which I need to buy Emby Premiere (I was looking at Emby Lifetime), but before I do that, I would like to know if Emby actually supports hardware transcoding for the RK3588S?
Looking at the documentation https://emby.media/support/articles/Hardware-Acceleration-Overview.html, I couldn't find any information about it.

I've seen on other forums that people say Jellyfin supports hardware transcoding on the RK3588, but I personally haven't tested it yet.

[GrimReaper 4739]

3 minutes ago, parmi93 said:

I think these issues are all due to the fact that Emby is not using hardware transcoding, for which I need to buy Emby Premiere (I was looking at Emby Lifetime), but before I do that, I would like to know if Emby actually supports hardware transcoding for the RK3588S?

AFAIK not, and it may pass some time before support gets added. 

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, we'll have a new ffmpeg build on the server beta channel in the near future, so stay tuned for that. Thanks.

[parmi93 0]

Can I subscribe to this beta channel to get notifications? I would like to test the beta releases.

Also do you know if it will work on official OpenWRT?

Apparently Jellyfin need BSP Kernel to support HW transcoding.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-how-to-enable-hw-transcoding-on-the-rk3588-with-openwrt

 

[TMCsw 247]

16 hours ago, parmi93 said:

Can I subscribe to this beta channel to get notifications?

Not that I know of.

16 hours ago, parmi93 said:

I would like to test the beta releases.

The latest betas and stable releases (Not Docker, Snap, or Flatpak) can be found here: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases. Check often.

[Luke 42077]

And also follow the testing area in the community.

[williamclot 2]

+1! I’m a lifetime Emby user & I’d also be keen to run Emby on a RK3588. I can test this out once it’s available in pre-release.

[Dzmitry 0]

 +1 Need  transcoding on rockchip`s.  Using Jellyfin   as temp solution