hwaccel.md

I want hardware acceleration and I want it now!

Step 1: compatible image

replace the following in your docker-compose.yml

services:
  stash:
-   image: stashapp/stash
+   image: nerethos/stash-jellyfin-ffmpeg
+   image: ghcr.io/feederbox826/stash-s6:hwaccel-jf
...

Both use jellyfin under the hood

Step 2: Hardware-specific configuration

NVIDIA CUDA/ NVENC

• Make sure you have the NVIDIA Container Toolkit installed

add the following to your docker-compose.yml

services:
  stash:
    ...
    runtime: nvidia
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - capabilities: [gpu]
    ...

Intel VAAPI / QuickSync

add the following to your docker-compose.yml

services:
  stash:
    ...
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri

If you are on Intel 5xxx to 8xxx Add the following

services:
  stash:
    environment:
    ...
    LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME_JELLYFIN=i965
    LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965

Step 3: Stash Configuration

1. Verify your hardware support
   1. This is under logs and you should see a line similar to

   [InitHWSupport] Supported HW codecs:
     h264_nvenc
   

2. Enable hardware acceleration
   1. Settings -> System -> Transcoding -> FFmpeg hardware encoding

Step 4: Profit

Try streaming an incompatible scene and check your GPU activity with nvidia-smi or nvtop for NVIDIA or vainfo for Intel