Hardware transcoding on Synology

ChrisHansen

Hi all,
I'm trying to run ErsatzTV on my Synology but I can't get hardware transcoding to work. There was a thread about that on the subreddit but I wasn't able to see the answers before the closure. Any help?

jason

These are the guides I linked in that post re: Synology 1019+

https://ryanbritton.com/2021/03/custom-iptv-channels/
https://ryanbritton.com/2022/05/hardware-transcoding-on-synology-docker-without-privileged-mode/

And the response was

Thanks. I figured it out and have it working now. I needed to use vaapi with i965 driver, the renderD128 device and HLS Segmenter mode. Now works great.

Let me know how they work for you.

ChrisHansen

jason Awesome guide, I'll try it out.

jam20143

Update - rookie mistake - realized my synology does not support hardware transcoding.

New to ersatztv and been trying to follow the guides. Still not able to view any videos.

I am running the latest-vaapi docker on a Synology923+.

I set up the container with executive privilege.

The driver chosen in the Ersatz settings is: /dev/dri/renderD128.

I'm getting errors in the container logs that include:
Error detecting VAAPI capabilities.
and then Broken Pipe.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you!