I am having issues with Jellyfin not finding ffmpeg on FreeBSD. Is there any solution to this?

  • Faceman🇦🇺English
    90·
    8 months ago

    Is it related to this issue posted to the bsd forks github?

    I cant help you directly as I run Jellyfin on linux, but that should be your first port of call. just keep in mind jellyfin on FreeBSD is 100% unofficial so you are on your own.

    • socphoenixEnglish
      50·
      8 months ago

      This appears to be correct. See:

      EncoderAppPath was simply not present at all in encoding.xml! There was only the display value: <EncoderAppPathDisplay /> My own installation was completely fixed by adding <EncoderAppPath>/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg</EncoderAppPath>

      From the page

  • rabaukeEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    set the path to /use/local/bin/ffmpeg works fine for my installation (directly on freebsd 14 host. not jail. I fail to get hwaccel running, though…)

  • Procedure8295English
    21·
    8 months ago

    I had the same problem, sorry to say i had to run it in a Linux Docker container instead to get it to work optimally.

    • TheHolmEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Are you running it natively as “jail” ?

      • Procedure8295English
        10·
        8 months ago

        No, in a linux VM that then has a docker running in it.