Does anyone have a compose.yaml for an Nvidia GPU that works that they would like to share? Here’s my current file, it gives a white screen with “server error” on it: https://pastebin.com/AaV17cTz
I went through Jellyfin’s instructions on setting a GPU up, but the instructions weren’t clear (in my opinion) so who knows if it’s correct. I installed some Nvidia tools as a prerequisite and ‘nvidia-smi’ shows the card. I attached my Jellyfin settings from before it self-destructed according to Nvidia’s transcoding matrix (which also wasn’t descriptive enough in my opinion), do they look right for a 2080?
Update: after making this post, and changing nothing, it suddenly works


I have an intel igpu. It was hella painful to pass through the guy into a normal container and I never figured it out. I just ended up running the container with the —privileged flag. QuickSync hwaccel works fine now, I assume it would be the same for NVENC, since the flag basically just passes everything to the container.
Jellyfin isn’t the most secure piece of software out there, I would avoid giving it permissions it doesn’t need.
Step 1) Check /dev/dri for the GPU
user@debian:~/compose$ ls /dev/dri total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 120 Jan 25 11:50 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 3360 Feb 11 03:03 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jan 25 11:50 by-path crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 Jan 25 11:50 card0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 1 Jan 25 16:39 card1 crw-rw---- 1 root render 226, 128 Jan 25 11:50 renderD128Documentation indicates renderDXXX typically refers to Intel GPU’s
devices: - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128sudo docker compose up -d; sudo docker exec -it jellyfin bashOnce inside
ls/dev/dri to confirm the GPU is recognized inside the container, once you confirm it then you can exit the container.user@debian:~/compose$ sudo docker exec -it jellyfin bash I have no name!@jellyfin:/$ ls /dev/dri renderD128 I have no name!@jellyfin:/$ exit exit user@debian:~/compose$Huh? I have an ARC A380 and I just followed the tutorial. AFAICT everything’s working fine.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/intel#configure-with-linux-virtualization
Man, I have an intel iGPU myself, in a little Dell optiplex 7090 and it was a breeze on my Debian sever. Installed through apt and it’s running as a systemd service. No issues so far. Only one issue I had was when I played a 70GB 4k HDR movie that’s loaded with audio and subs and picture enhancements on my OLED TV. The server’s little fan was screaming and the movie kept pausing every 20 seconds. Other than that I have a ton of other movies and shows and I have no issues.
I use Intel too and had a heck of a time getting things working with portainer. Turns out portainer only worked with Nvidia (at least the version I used when I set it up). If I spun up the container via terminal, it worked.
I think a newer version may have added compatibility because I don’t remember jumping through hoops with Immich.