jellyfin-amd - Docker mode for Jellyfin

This mode adds the mesa libraries (v20.1+) needed for hardware encoding (VAAPI) on AMD GPUs to the Jellyfin Docker container.

Docker compose

The docker-compose file needs a devices entry for jellyfin (Official Documentation)

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: linuxserver/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - UMASK=<022> #optional
      - DOCKER_MODS=pascalminder/jellyfin-amd:jellyfin-amd
    volumes:
      - /path/to/library:/config
      - /path/to/tvseries:/data/tvshows
      - /path/to/movies:/data/movies
      - /opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib #optional
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
      - 8920:8920 #optional
      - 7359:7359/udp #optional
      - 1900:1900/udp #optional
    devices:
      # VAAPI Devices
      - "/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128"
      - "/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0"
    restart: unless-stopped

Docker cli

docker run -d \
  --name=jellyfin \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -e UMASK=<022> `#optional` \
  -e DOCKER_MODS=pascalminder/jellyfin-amd:jellyfin-amd
  -p 8096:8096 \
  -p 8920:8920 `#optional` \
  -p 7359:7359/udp `#optional` \
  -p 1900:1900/udp `#optional` \
  -v /path/to/library:/config \
  -v /path/to/tvseries:/data/tvshows \
  -v /path/to/movies:/data/movies \
  -v /opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib `#optional` \
  --device /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128 \
  --device /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/jellyfin

Settings in Jellyfin

Under server administration in Server > Playback the Hardware acceleration can be set to Video Acceleration API (VAAPI) and the VA API Device has to be set to the device given in the Docker configuration. For example /dev/dri/renderD128.