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Jellyfin on FreeBSD (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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…)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

How did you set that path exactly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you running it natively as "jail" ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Here's the solution

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Debian can also be FreeBSD https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

Unfortunately died last year

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The fact that debian GNU/FreeBSD died before debian GNU/Hurd is kinda sad, honestly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately died last year

so... it can not be FreeBSD? :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Hahahaha, duck you

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This appears to be correct. See:

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

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