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QSV is no longer being detected on Arc/Core Ultra. Additional finding: ffmpeg at /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg is not linked against libmfx or libvpl (ldd confirms no MFX linkage). The QSV encoders are present but the oneVPL GPU runtime path is unavailable. ffmpeg needs to be rebuilt with --enable-libmfx or --enable-libvpl for Intel Arc QSV to function correctly via the oneVPL runtime. Confirmed via: bash ldd /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg | grep -iE "mfx|vpl" # returns nothing

I had to do this as well (the cache mount). The cache drive is mounted in a different path for me. Simple enough fix: Add a new Path in the docker Name: Cache Containter Path: /mnt/cache/x265-butler Host Path: <wherever you want the cache to be.> I put it in /mnt/user/appdata/x265-butler/cache, since my appdata is on a ZRAM buffered enterprise SSD.

I got it working, it was only missing one final package! Add the following to the dockerfile. RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmfx-gen1.2 I think this should resolve the MFX session -9 errors for all QSV hardware.

It's better, but it's still failing. It kinda seems like this wasn't a full rebase to Trixie, some of the errors I am seeing point to the driver base not being completely up to date: root@Server:~# docker exec -it -u root x265-butler apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease I tried patching the running container to test some things, and found some missing components, but hit a wall. Missing runtime libraries — libmfx-gen1.2 and libigfxcmrt7 are not installed. Without these the MFX session cannot initialize at all (MFX_ERR_DEVICE_FAILED: -9) iHD driver version too old — Bookworm ships intel-media-va-driver-non-free 23.1.1, which predates reliable Arc support. Attempting to install Intel's current driver (25.2.4) from their Ubuntu repo fails due to libva ABI incompatibility with the Bookworm base LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME not set — Without ENV LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD, the VA-API runtime doesn't know to use the iHD driver for Arc hardware If you can validate the base is fully Debian 13, the following changes need to be put in the dockerfile to get it to work. RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ libmfx1 \ libmfx-gen1.2 \ libigfxcmrt7 \ intel-media-va-driver-non-free \ libva-drm2 \ libva2 ENV LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD The last var can be set client side with a VARIABLE entry, might be a better choice if it steps on AMD

QSV on my Arc A380 is still failing, and I think I know why - the container is using a version of GLIBC that's too old to support modern Intel drivers. I copied the driver over from my working Jellyfin container, and the app stopped recognizing QSV. Looking at the errors, the container looks to be built on Ubuntu 22.10 or Debian 12, which is slightly too old to support Intel DG2 (Arc/Core Ultra). So for this to work, the image would need to be rebased to Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

I figured this out, the image doesn't have any drivers in it. From the console inside the container, run the following (assuming you are using Intel QuickSync): sed -i 's/Components: main/Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources apt-get update apt-get install -y vainfo intel-media-va-driver-non-free If you are running Nvidia or AMD, you can throw those into Gemini and ask it to give you the equivalent commands to install the drivers for them. EDIT: Sorry, I forgot a step: In your Unraid template for the x265-butler container, add a new Environment Variable: Key: LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME Value: iHD

Seems to me that prioritizing ZFS support was a mistake. People don't pick Unraid over TrueNAS because they want to use ZFS; in fact, many choose it because they can avoid using ZFS. Unraid's strength is in its simpler setup and flexibility with hardware support, and a lot of that is now lost because we are stuck waiting for them to update ZFS.

Using the wget installer for Fedora above will get you version 3.3.2, which is almost as out of date as the Docker container. You can get the latest version (4.1.22 as of my typing this) running on a Debian/Ubuntu VM by following the steps on the HOOBS official website. I just finished setting it up; it works perfectly, and has a lot of improvements.