stack traces and playback errors after upgrade to 10.9.0 about jellyfin HOT 21 CLOSED

Does /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg exist in your system?

Oh, it does not, but I'm sure it was there before the 10.9.0 upgrade. I checked the installed packages and jellyfin-ffmpeg was not working any more, but either jellyfin-ffmpeg6 or jellyfin-ffmpeg5 were offered as a replacement. I installed jellyfin-ffmpeg6 and not it is working again!

Thank you very much for this pointer, case closed!

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You should not use jellyfin-ffmpeg5 with 10.9. Please don't look at the changelog from years ago to make any deicision

for the record: jellyfin-ffmpeg5 is mentioned in yesterday's changelog or was your comment not targeted at me?

That is done a year ago before our new CI. Remember the changelog contains 2 years of changes and not all of them reflects to the latest status.

We are on ffmpeg6 now, all 10.9 installation should use ffmpeg6

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I couldn't modify the location of ffmpeg in the UI

This is intentionally removed due to security reasons. Please, please, please, use the --ffmpeg cli parameter to configure the ffmpeg location, okay?

CLI parameter for which command? I'm using the Docker container and don't ever connect to the container to issue commands. Will configuring with the parameter survive container re-creation? I have /config mapped to persistent storage.

Then it seems like you are not using our official docker container image.

This cli is straight in our entrypoint:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-packaging/blob/a974263fbfdb924632c0553ceb83588cf75e0272/docker/Dockerfile#L199

Cool. I created my own Dockerfile built from jellyfin/jellyfin and my entrypoint is pointing to a script I wrote. I was then handing over to your entrypoint with:

exec "/jellyfin/jellyfin" --datadir "/config" --cachedir "/cache" --ffmpeg "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

Seems the relocation of the ffmpeg binary messed it up. Thanks for the help though everyone.

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Does /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg exist in your system?

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Also what is your output of systemctl status jellyfin? Somehow it's not finding ffmpeg where it should be.

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Also what is your output of systemctl status jellyfin? Somehow it's not finding ffmpeg where it should be.

I'm not using systemd, I checked all relevant logs for hints and found nothing indicating the real problem (missing jellyfin-ffmpeg6 package). Thanks anyway!

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Not sure why this has been closed. I've just upgraded and to 10.9.0 and I'm experiencing the same issue.

I've found ffmpeg at /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg

The encoding.xml file lists it being here: /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg

But this is blank and not editable:

and I'm seeing this in the log when attempting to start a video:

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Not sure why this has been closed. I've just upgraded and to 10.9.0 and I'm experiencing the same issue.

I've found ffmpeg at /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg

The encoding.xml file lists it being here: /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg

But this is blank and not editable:

Technically, it is not a bug, I guess, because the replacement of ffmpeg is mentioned in the changelog (I skimmed it before upgrading, but did not see that part):

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/v10.9.0 see

"fix: swap to jellyfin-ffmpeg5 [PR https://github.com//pull/9256], by @brettpetch"

but the package jellyfin-server does not require the package jellyfin-ffmpeg5 which would replace the old ffmpeg package, so I guess this is the real bug: missing dependencies in the Debian package.

Anyway: I installed jellyfin-ffmpeg6, restarted jellyfin and it worked again (see FFmpeg path, which should be populated again afterwards)

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encoding.xml

encoding.xml's path is deprecated and should no longer being used. You should use --ffmpeg cli parameter to specify where the ffmpeg is.

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Anyway: I installed jellyfin-ffmpeg6, restarted jellyfin and it worked again (see FFmpeg path, which should be populated again afterwards)

How did you manage that?

My container thinks it's already installed:

dpkg --list *jellyfin-ffmpeg6*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version          Architecture Description
+++-================-================-============-================================================================
ii  jellyfin-ffmpeg6 6.0.1-6-bookworm amd64        Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files

Or do you mean you installed jellyfin-ffmpeg5?

Edit: I've installed ffmpeg5 and now it crashes with MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder: FFmpeg: Failed version check: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

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I installed jellyfin-ffmpeg6, not 5, don't ask me why, I just chose the "newer" one. Oh and I'm not using Docker, sorry, Debian on baremetal.

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You should not use jellyfin-ffmpeg5 with 10.9. Please don't look at the changelog from years ago to make any deicision

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Found this in the logs, but again, I couldn't modify the location of ffmpeg in the UI

[19:27:26] [ERR] [1] MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder: Error validating encoder

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (2): An error occurred trying to start process '/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg' with working directory '/config'. No such file or directory

   at System.Diagnostics.Process.ForkAndExecProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo, String resolvedFilename, String[] argv, String[] envp, String cwd, Boolean setCredentials, UInt32 userId, UInt32 groupId, UInt32[] groups, Int32& stdinFd, Int32& stdoutFd, Int32& stderrFd, Boolean usesTerminal, Boolean throwOnNoExec)

   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartCore(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)

   at MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.EncoderValidator.GetProcessOutput(String path, String arguments, Boolean readStdErr, String testKey)

   at MediaBrowser.MediaEncoding.Encoder.EncoderValidator.ValidateVersion()

Linked the location with:

root@jellyfin:/config# ln -s /usr/share/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

Restarted Jellyfin and it's back in action

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I couldn't modify the location of ffmpeg in the UI

This is intentionally removed due to security reasons. Please, please, please, use the --ffmpeg cli parameter to configure the ffmpeg location, okay?

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I couldn't modify the location of ffmpeg in the UI

This is intentionally removed due to security reasons. Please, please, please, use the --ffmpeg cli parameter to configure the ffmpeg location, okay?

CLI parameter for which command? I'm using the Docker container and don't ever connect to the container to issue commands. Will configuring with the parameter survive container re-creation? I have /config mapped to persistent storage.

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I couldn't modify the location of ffmpeg in the UI

This is intentionally removed due to security reasons. Please, please, please, use the --ffmpeg cli parameter to configure the ffmpeg location, okay?

CLI parameter for which command? I'm using the Docker container and don't ever connect to the container to issue commands. Will configuring with the parameter survive container re-creation? I have /config mapped to persistent storage.

Then it seems like you are not using our official docker container image.

This cli is straight in our entrypoint:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-packaging/blob/a974263fbfdb924632c0553ceb83588cf75e0272/docker/Dockerfile#L199

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You should not use jellyfin-ffmpeg5 with 10.9. Please don't look at the changelog from years ago to make any deicision

for the record: jellyfin-ffmpeg5 is mentioned in yesterday's changelog or was your comment not targeted at me?

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for the record: jellyfin-ffmpeg5 is mentioned in yesterday's changelog or was your comment not targeted at me?

I just connected to my container and saw that jellyfin-ffmpeg6 was already installed. With the link mentioning the swap out to jellyfin-mpeg5, I thought you meant you'd rolled back but typo'd it.

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You should not use jellyfin-ffmpeg5 with 10.9. Please don't look at the changelog from years ago to make any deicision

for the record: jellyfin-ffmpeg5 is mentioned in yesterday's changelog or was your comment not targeted at me?

That is done a year ago before our new CI. Remember the changelog contains 2 years of changes and not all of them reflects to the latest status.

We are on ffmpeg6 now, all 10.9 installation should use ffmpeg6

Thanks for clarifying, I just wanted to make sure I did the right thing. Thanks for your work and the support too! <3

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Oops. Sorry if I caused any panic lol.

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