immich hardware transcoding

[jtrotsky]

This is the guide for getting transcoding working on the host once the pkgs are added here daemonless/immich-server#9.

It's Claude written but is pretty technical so reads ok. the "!!! warning" is a bit cheese but it actually hit me, so worth keeping.

Also it doesnt feel that good asking people to run this as the devfs commands feel a bit vague to me, but it's worthwhile to get transcoding working until podman is patched upstream on freebsd.

Here's the command i had to run after loading the packages and drives (my container is called immich_microservices )

sh -c 'R=$(podman mount immich_microservices); devfs -m "$R/dev" rule apply path drm unhide; devfs -m "$R/dev" rule apply path "drm/*" unhide mode 0666; devfs -m "$R/dev" rule apply path dri unhide;
devfs -m "$R/dev" rule apply path "dri/*" unhide; podman unmount immich_microservices; podman exec immich_microservices ls /dev/dri/'

[ahze]

This is great -- now we have a single place for hardware transcoding instead docs in multi-repos.

There might be some legacy some stuff to clean up at some point (emby, jellyfin, etc) and point to this doc.