Hardware acceleration on Ugreen DXP4800 Plus

Posted by Jonas3108

Hi, I think I enabled hardware accelerated on my Ugreen DXP4800 Plus but the Video (4K HEVC Dolby Vision Profile 8.1 (HDR10)) still stutters when I play in 40mbps. I set the hardware transcoding to VAAPI with the path set to: /dev/dri/renderD128. On 20mbps it runs just fine but on 40mbps It stuttery and it takes some time to load. Is this a hardware limit or can I improve some settings in sparkbox? Thank you for answering - Jonas

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Chris wrote:

Good news, nothing's broken on your end. That SparkBox setting only turns on the connection to your Ugreen's graphics chip -- Jellyfin itself still needs to be told to use it separately. In Jellyfin, go to Dashboard Playback, set Hardware acceleration to VAAPI, and enter the same /dev/dri/renderD128 path you already set in SparkBox, then save. Right now playback is likely falling back to software encoding, which keeps up fine at 20mbps but chokes at 40mbps -- once Jellyfin's own toggle is flipped it should stop stuttering.