Tdarr LXC on Intel i7-1360P - QSV not working

[damianharbr]

I managed to get Tdarr working fine on a 12th gen intel with QSV in a VM, but I had no luck with passing through the Intel Iris on the 13th gen machine, so I tried this script.

The Plex LXC I tested and it hardware transcoding works, so I know that it's possible to pass it through on a gen 13.
But I can't get Tdarr QSV working with any of the plugins.

The regular one I use is throwing up this error

`

Device creation failed: -12.

Failed to set value 'qsv:hw_any,child_device_type=vaapi' for option 'init_hw_device': Cannot allocate memory

Error parsing global options: Cannot allocate memory`

I'm not super knowledgable about how this all works, so if anyone has any suggestions for me it would be appreciated. The plugin in question is Boosh Transcode QSV which I've had success with in the past on older machines.

[Dennis0162]

Hello i'm facing the same problem, did you managed to solved this?
Failed to set value 'qsv:hw_any,child_device_type=vaapi' for option 'init_hw_device': Cannot allocate memory
Error parsing global options: Cannot allocate memory

[kraizelburg]

Same error as above, GPU is correctly passed through as it works in jellyfin with transcoding just fine.

[kaitallaoua]

Same issue on a i5-8500T, both unprivileged and privileged have the same issue, using the same plugin

[kaitallaoua]

I found the issue for my cpu at least. seems some confusion on intel-media-va-driver-non-free, my cpu needs it, only intel-media-va-driver states:

Only a limited set of encoders is available via this driver: JPEG (Skylake and newer), AVC (Boxton and newer), HEVC and VP9 (Ice Lake and newer

.. and im using coffee lake. Also, the ffmpeg included with tdarr does not have qsv built in which is suprising. Need to use another one. Check with /opt/tdarr/Tdarr_Node/node_modules/ffmpeg-static/ffmpeg -encoders -hide_banner | grep qsv nothing shows up = bad

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/intel-media-va-driver
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/intel-media-va-driver-non-free
#1278
https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/tag/latest

Slightly incomplete/lazy commands:
---> if your cpu is new enough you may not need to install the non-free drivers.. idk

cat <<EOF >/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
EOF

apt-get update
apt-get install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free

Pick your arch for ffmpeg

A good guess is: wget https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/latest/ffmpeg-n7.1-latest-linux64-gpl-7.1.tar.xz

tar -xvf ffmpeg-n7.1-latest-linux64-gpl-7.1.tar.xz

mv the ffmpeg-n7.1-latest-linux64-gpl-7.1 wherever. I chose /opt/tdarr/Tdarr_Node/node_modules/ffmpeg-static-7.1/ to keep old ffmpeg if needed

sanity check this ffmpeg was built with qsv support: /opt/tdarr/Tdarr_Node/node_modules/ffmpeg-static-7.1/bin/ffmpeg -encoders -hide_banner | grep qsv

should show similar to:

 V..... av1_qsv              AV1 (Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration) (codec av1)
 V..... h264_qsv             H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10 (Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration) (codec h264)
 V..... hevc_qsv             HEVC (Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration) (codec hevc)
 V..... mjpeg_qsv            MJPEG (Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration) (codec mjpeg)
 V..... mpeg2_qsv            MPEG-2 video (Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration) (codec mpeg2video)
 V..... vp9_qsv              VP9 video (Intel Quick Sync Video acceleration) (codec vp9)

nano /opt/tdarr/configs/Tdarr_Node_Config.json

change the ffmpeg path to your new one:

"ffmpegPath": "/opt/tdarr/Tdarr_Node/node_modules/ffmpeg-static-7.1/bin/ffmpeg",

rm ffmpeg-n7.1-latest-linux64-gpl-7.1.tar.xz

reboot ct

reboot

[nfribeiro]

Thank You so much. You solved mine also. Intel i5-10400 CPU

[Titan1732]

Thanks! This solved it for my i5-8500t

EDIT:
This version of FFMPEG was badly breaking the transcoded videos - transcoded file playback was extremely artifacty and glitchy/not playable.

I instead used jellyfin-ffmpeg as described here by tteck and now my transcodes are working perfectly using the "Boosh-Transcode Using QSV GPU & FFMPEG" tdarr plugin

TL:DR
I got the latest version of jellyfin-ffmpeg
wget https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg/releases/download/v7.0.2-4/jellyfin-ffmpeg7_7.0.2-4-bookworm_amd64.deb

Had to install a missing dependency:
apt install libllvm16

installed jellyfin-ffmpeg
dpkg -i jellyfin-ffmpeg7_7.0.2-4-bookworm_amd64.deb

changed the node config to use this version of ffmpeg instead
nano /opt/tdarr/configs/Tdarr_Node_Config.json
"ffmpegPath": "/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg",