I assume it’s not nvidia. Yet I have no idea how to differentiate between them and neither do I know what a good price is.
Let’s say I don’t want to think about what the video type is. I just want a smooth experience.
Edit: thank you guys!
I hear good things about the Intel Arc A380. You basically only need it to convert video and the Intel is not too bad at that for not too steep a price
Thx. 130€? That’s surprisingly cheap.
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I’ve got one and it handles about 3 transcodes from x264 to AV1 fairly effortlessly.
It’s a champ for Jellyfin. It’s 2024 and Intel produced a really good GPU… the world is weird. :P
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-arc-a380-review/5
Blows the 6950XT and 3090 out of the water in transcoding performance. I would say that is performing very well. That was before drivers have gotten much much better too probably a bigger difference now.
I have one, it is fantastic.
Someone said that it is “not terribly performent” but it doesn’t matter for transcoding. It can do multiple 4k streams of AV1 & HEVC. That is perfect.
According to benchmarks, it beat the 3080 and 6800XT when it was released for transcoding performance. That is what you have to look at in this case, you aren’t gaming on it.
Just remember to enable all of the correct kernel modules to get it working. You often have to manually download the firmware git repo and move it to the firmware folder in Debian to get it working.
How do I need to configure jellyfin in order to work properly?
I added
device: - /dev/driAnd I tried
/dev/dri/renderD128but both don’t work. Moreover, I enabled encoding in HEVC format, hardware encoding and selected hardware accelleration with intel quicksync (QSV) and enabled hardware decoding for H264, HEVC, …But if that’s enabled, transcoding doesn’t work at all on the player.
I guess I fail at. any advice?
podman exec -it jellyfin /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/vainfo Trying display: drm error: failed to initialize displayI managed to enable it by giving itnprivileged access.
What problem are you trying to solve?
I try to solve the problem that the cpu isn’t powerful enough wheras my gpu isn’t supported and I need a new one and I want to have a seemless experience.
What CPU do you have?
I’ve run Jellyfin without transcoding from a raspberry pi for 2-3 streams without stuttering.
Without transcoding that works but if there’s something off with the video file it stutters
That will happen, yes, but the bigger question then is what’s wrong with the video file.
No idea :) it works on my phone…
Intel integrated graphics or if you want to go overkill go with an Arc GPU.
Avoid AMD
I’d look into AV1 decoding benchmarks, regardless of NVIDIA vs AMD, as I’ve been using NVIDIA on Jellyfin for a while with no issues.
HEVC is not as relevant IMO, as it’s not available through browsers due to license restrictions (ffmpeg / mpv works fine), so I’d focus on AV1 capabilities, which is not available in many cards.
I can’t get my nvidia to work with it :(
What model of graphics card are you having problems with?
NVIDIA Corporation TU116 GeForce GTX 1650
AV1 decode is supported on the RTX 3000 series, encode + decode in the RTX 4000 series
For Intel Arc, AV1 encode + decode support is present on all Arc Alchemist GPUs,
For AMD, AV1 decode is on RX 6000 series, encode + decode on all RX 7000 series GPUs
As someone else has recommended, a low end Intel Arc alchemist GPU is pretty great for stuff like Jellyfin, very low price to entry for gfx accelerated AV1 transcoding.
The nvidia 1650 can’t do AV1 but it can handle hevc just fine, I’m currently using a 1660 on mine and before that it was a 950. Unless you need more than 3 steams at a time you should be able to get it working.
My RX580 does the job just fine. Does 1080p at 3x realtime for HEVC, and 10x for h.264.
They’re dirt cheap second hand.
