To install the i965-va-driver you need to add the focal universe repository to your container (maybe also the focal-updates universe, I don't really know the difference between the two) and do an update: add-apt-repository 'deb focal universe main' If you want to make sure everything stays opensource use the i965-va-drivers package if you don't mind some closed source/proprietary binaries in your container consider trying i965-va-drivers-shaders as that's one uses some proprietary Intel code that might result in better output (smaller files, higher quality, etc).įYI, I haven't seen any difference in output between the two in my limited testing. So you need to update the i965-va-drivers apt package to 2.4.0 using the focal distribution. However I ran into a bug in the version that comes with the Tdarr container at the time of writing (2.1.0) causing the output files to be horrible, super small with tiny bit rates. You can verify which version will be used by running the command: sudo vainfo You can switch back to the iHD driver by modifying these container environment variables. You need to edit the /etc/sudoers file to make sure these environment variables are passed to the sudo session.ĭefaults env_keep += 'LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH'Īt this point Tdarr should use hardware encoding/decoding (assuming you have the right processor).

Next, start up the docker container and connect to a terminal window. LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/ Then you need to add the following two environment variables to the docker container: LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965

I've tried setting the environment variable LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME to i965 (this seems to work for other systems) but that doesn't seem to be checked/used.ĮDIT: Solved! This can totally be done, you can read the comments below or enjoy by TL DR here:įirst, make sure your container is running with elevated privileges. Is there a similar option with Tdarr/ffmpeg?

Plex has a workaround that allows you to use the i965 driver instead of iHD where you add VaapiDriver='i965' to the preferences file. Although this processor supports HEVC 10bit encoding the iHD driver does not currently support Gemini Lake processors. I recently upgraded to a DS920+ that has a Gemini Lake processor. That processor only supported HEVC/h265 8bit encoding, not 10bit. I had Tdarr up and running on a Synology DS918+ in a Docker container.

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