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If you have changed the user option after you have already installed Jellyfin, you have to change the ownership of the folder /var/lib/jellyfin to the user you set it to by doing this: | If you have changed the user option after you have already installed Jellyfin, you have to change the ownership of the folder `/var/lib/jellyfin` to the user you set it to by doing this: | ||
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sudo chown -R /var/lib/jellyfin | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /var/lib/jellyfin | |||
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Additionally, you should also change the ownership of the cache directory to avoid transcoding issues: | |||
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sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /var/cache/jellyfin | |||
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Finally, restart Jellyfin for the changes to take effect: | |||
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systemctl restart jellyfin | |||
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VAAPI and QSV is often available on platforms with Intel GPUs but need their corresponding packages in <code>hardware.graphics.extraPackages</code>. | VAAPI and QSV is often available on platforms with Intel GPUs but need their corresponding packages in <code>hardware.graphics.extraPackages</code>. | ||
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{ pkgs, lib,config, ... }: | { pkgs, lib,config, ... }: | ||
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vaapiVdpau | vaapiVdpau | ||
intel-compute-runtime # OpenCL filter support (hardware tonemapping and subtitle burn-in) | intel-compute-runtime # OpenCL filter support (hardware tonemapping and subtitle burn-in) | ||
# OpenCL support for intel CPUs before 12th gen | |||
# see: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/356535 | |||
intel-compute-runtime-legacy1 | |||
vpl-gpu-rt # QSV on 11th gen or newer | vpl-gpu-rt # QSV on 11th gen or newer | ||
intel-media-sdk # QSV up to 11th gen | intel-media-sdk # QSV up to 11th gen | ||
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services.jellyfin.enable = true; | services.jellyfin.enable = true; | ||
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If you want to use an Arc GPU for transcoding, you may need to override the ffmpeg version used by jellyfin to ensure that it is compiled with <code>vpl</code> and, potentially, <code>unfree</code>. An example to achieve this through [[Overlays|an overlay]]:<syntaxhighlight lang="nix"> | If you want to use an Arc GPU for transcoding, you may need to override the ffmpeg version used by jellyfin to ensure that it is compiled with <code>vpl</code> and, potentially, <code>unfree</code>. An example to achieve this through [[Overlays|an overlay]]:<syntaxhighlight lang="nix"> | ||