Does Anyone Know How To Setup Hardware Transcoding within a podman rootless container

[AlakHul 2]

Same as title, been trying to figure can't find much on the forums. below is my current compose.yml I just took it off the emby docker hub page. I can't see any of the decoders. I am on ubuntu server 24.04 LTS

version: "2.3"
services:
  emby:
    image: emby/embyserver
    container_name: embyserver
    runtime: nvidia # Expose NVIDIA GPUs
   # network_mode: host # Enable DLNA and Wake-on-Lan
    environment:
      - UID=1000 # The UID to run emby as (default: 2)
      - GID=100 # The GID to run emby as (default 2)
      - GIDLIST=100 # A comma-separated list of additional GIDs to run emby as (default: 2)
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config # Configuration directory
      - /mnt/md0/media/tv:/mnt/share1 # Media directory
      - /mnt/md0/media/movies:/mnt/share2 # Media directory
    ports:
      - 8096:8096 # HTTP port
      - 8920:8920 # HTTPS port
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri # VAAPI/NVDEC/NVENC render nodes
  #    - /dev/vchiq:/dev/vchiq # MMAL/OMX on Raspberry Pi
    restart: on-failure

[Luke 42505]

@AlakHuldid you figure this out?

[AlakHul 2]

No I didn't, ended up getting lazy and just running it with docker

[s3rgb 2]

I'm a bit late to the party, but I did figure out rootless HW transcoding. I am using non-official image because I was under the impression that official image does not support rootless. Am I wrong?. Anyway, I'm running Emby server as Podman Quadlet:

[Unit]
Description=Emby

[Container]
ContainerName=emby
Image=ghcr.io/home-operations/emby:rolling@sha256:00043bf0bd27338c7be491345ef03f24d2738aa10c89dab23436be0977f61674

Environment=TZ=Europe/Amsterdam

HealthCmd=curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:8096/
HealthStartPeriod=1m
HealthStartupInterval=5s

Network=arr.network
Network=proxy.network
HostName=emby

User=%U:%G
UserNS=keep-id

Volume=%h/containers/data/emby/config:/config
Volume=%h/containers/cache/emby/cache:/cache
Volume=%h/containers/cache/emby/transcode:/transcode
Volume=/srv/video:/video:ro

AddDevice=/dev/dri:/dev/dri
GroupAdd=keep-groups

[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

 

[s3rgb 2]

I think the problem with the official image was related to the GIDLIST. Group ids inside the container are different (mapped).

[Luke 42505]

Hi, did you resolve your issue?