add VAAPI transcoding support via Intel iHD media driver#9
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good catch!! I missed that when porting jellyfin-ffmpeg. |
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One of the features of Immich 3.0 is HLS and Real-Time Video transcoding. I wanted to revisit how to get transcoding working on my Intel N150 and was successful but with a bit of a hack to get it working in podman which im not sure is viable:
feat: add Intel iHD driver for VAAPI hardware transcoding
Add libva-intel-media-driver and libva-utils to the runtime PACKAGES so
Intel iGPUs can hardware-transcode. The image already ships jellyfin-ffmpeg
built with --enable-vaapi and libva, but without iHD_drv_video.so the
driver chain dead-ends.
Verified on an Intel N150 (Twin Lake): 1080p30 H.264 -> HEVC via hevc_vaapi
at ~90 fps (3x realtime), using ~2% of the CPU time of libx265 medium on
the same clip (1.2 s vs 55 s CPU). The same box cannot software-encode
1080p30 HEVC in realtime (0.66x).
Host setup (DRM driver, firmware, /dev/dri passthrough) is documented in
the daemonless.io Immich Hardware Transcoding guide (separate PR).