From f189e1630b15ca5c0e204dca7ce04e62b4ae9a35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sausageroll2077 <85130548+Sausageroll2077@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:39:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add /app/emby/lib/dri to LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH for Intel
 VA-API/QSV

Emby bundles its VA-API drivers (iHD, i965, radeonsi, etc.) under
/app/emby/lib/dri on the beta image, but the service's LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH
only searched /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri (empty) and
/app/emby/extra/lib/dri (not populated on beta). libva then failed to
load any driver and Emby reported 'Failed to initialize VA
/dev/dri/renderD128. Error -1', falling back to software transcoding on
any Intel GPU.

Adding /app/emby/lib/dri to the search path lets libva find the bundled
driver. Validated on an Intel iGPU: emby:beta went from 'Error -1' to
detecting the Intel iHD driver with full codec enumeration. Harmless on
images that ship the driver in extra/lib/dri (path simply ignored).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 readme-vars.yml                          | 1 +
 root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/svc-emby/run | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/readme-vars.yml b/readme-vars.yml
index 6830e3b9..ef9c361d 100644
--- a/readme-vars.yml
+++ b/readme-vars.yml
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ init_diagram: |
   "emby:beta" <- Base Images
 # changelog
 changelogs:
+  - {date: "19.06.26:", desc: "Add /app/emby/lib/dri to LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH so Intel VA-API/QSV hardware transcoding works out of the box."}
   - {date: "12.01.26:", desc: "Set home to /config."}
   - {date: "13.08.24:", desc: "Rebase to Ubuntu Noble."}
   - {date: "12.02.24:", desc: "Use universal hardware acceleration blurb"}
diff --git a/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/svc-emby/run b/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/svc-emby/run
index e1af5154..664492dd 100755
--- a/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/svc-emby/run
+++ b/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/svc-emby/run
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export OCL_ICD_VENDORS="${APP_DIR}"/extra/etc/OpenCL/vendors
 export AMDGPU_IDS="${APP_DIR}"/extra/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids
 export PCI_IDS_PATH="${APP_DIR}"/share/hwdata/pci.ids
 if [[ -d "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" ]]; then
-    export LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:"${APP_DIR}"/extra/lib/dri
+    export LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:"${APP_DIR}"/lib/dri:"${APP_DIR}"/extra/lib/dri
 fi
 export SSL_CERT_FILE="${APP_DIR}"/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
 export HOME="/config"