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1y ago

Jellyfin on FreeBSD

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

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- Hahahaha, duck you
- Debian can also be FreeBSD https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
  Unfortunately died last year
  
  Unfortunately died last year
  so... it can not be FreeBSD? :)

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.
- 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

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…)
- How did you set that path exactly?

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.
- Are you running it natively as "jail" ?
  
  No, in a linux VM that then has a docker running in it.

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