Can the flatpak client take advantage of hardware decoding?
from UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca to jellyfin@lemmy.ml on 26 Nov 03:40
https://lemmy.ca/post/55821111

When I watch videos in jellyfin on my laptop its cooling fan runs pretty much constantly but is silent when I watch a youtube video. Is the flatpak client unable to use the Intel igpu for decoding?

OS is fedora 43 with all the rpm fusion video codec stuff installed.

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yaroto98@lemmy.world on 26 Nov 04:00 next collapse

From what I understand (probably wrong) but you can get it to work, but it requires passing the device through. Sort of like in a docker container.

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Nov 04:40 next collapse

Were you using the flatpak of the server, or of Jellyfin Media Player, the client? Is the server on the laptop too, or just the client you were streaming to?

UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca on 26 Nov 13:09 collapse

My laptop is running the flatpak client. The server is running in a docker container on my NAS.

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Nov 15:15 collapse

Got it. That’s pretty odd then. The client should use hardware decoding by default. You could try watching from your web browser indtead and see if that helps, I guess.

UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca on 26 Nov 16:44 collapse

I discovered that intel has an equivalent for nvidia’s nvidia-smi tool for looking at GPU usage, it’s intel_gpu_top in the igt-gpu-tools package and Jellyfin is able to use my laptop’s igpu. I might need to replace the thermal paste and clean out the heatsink.