Question: Using videotoolbox for Hardware Acceleration Encoding w/Docker on MacOS about sonarr-sma HOT 2 CLOSED

Is that encoding option not part of the default set? I see the headers mentioned on this pull request from a while back

jrottenberg/ffmpeg#240

This would be more of a question for jrottenberg but ultimately if this doesn't support it you'll probably have to supply a custom built binary. You can either pull this from an HTTP source by setting SMA_FFMPEG_URL which will override the default URL. You can also just provide the binary by a mounted volume in docker

The script basically runs

# ffmpeg
if [[ $(which ffmpeg) ]]
then
    :
else

so if you mount an ffmpeg/ffprobe binary somewhere in the system paths (/usr/local/bin for example) using docker volumes the system will use those binaries instead and not overwrite or bypass them

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Sounds like what I'm trying to do is not possible. I'm using a MacOS host and passing through the MacOS device to the Linux VM in Docker to leverage hardware acceleration isn't doable. Maybe I'll find a way to do the conversions outside of the container, directly on the host. Thanks again for the help.

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