Nico_198X

Hey there!

i have an Owncast container that needs two extra files added to it every time it starts up because the base image doesn't include them. they can be downloaded from within the container. i just need a way to tell the container to always do that when it starts up.

i've tried adding this to my quadlet:

[Container]

Exec=apk update && apk add --no-cache mesa-va-gallium mesa-dri-gallium

but it doesn't work.

does anyone know how to correctly automate this?

thanks!

SOLVED: turns out mesa is not enough for this. i also had to install:

mesa-va-gallium mesa-dri-gallium

now we're good!

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hi all!

i've hit a wall here and could use your input if you have any thoughts!

i'm running Owncast latest via rootful Podman on a distro with SELinux.

i'm trying to implement hardware acceleration via the server's AMD GPU, but it is not working.

AMD Radeon RX 7600

Kernel: 6.15.4-1-default

i've turned VAAPI on in the web admin settings.

the container comes with ffmpeg 6 and libva.

For SELinux, i've run:

setsebool -P container_use_devices true

In my quadlet i've added:

[Container]

AddDevice=/dev/dri

Exec=apk add mesa

the devices appear rw in the container:

/app # ls -l /dev/dri

total 0

crw-rw---- 1 root 486 226, 0 Jul 9 15:58 card0

crw-rw---- 1 root 489 226, 128 Jul 9 15:58 renderD128

here is the error i'm getting:

time="2025-07-09T15:58:46Z" level=error msg="[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7f96891c7cc0] Failed to initialise VAAPI connection: -1 (unknown libva error)."

time="2025-07-09T15:58:46Z" level=error msg="Failed to set value '/dev/dri/renderD128' for option 'vaapi_device': I/O error"

time="2025-07-09T15:58:46Z" level=error msg="transcoding error. look at data/logs/transcoder.log to help debug. your copy of ffmpeg may not support your selected codec of h264_vaapi https://owncast.online/docs/codecs/"

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=info msg="Inbound stream connected from 192.168.0.235:42698"

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=info msg="Processing video using codec VA-API with 3 output qualities configured."

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=error msg="[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7f8a2a047cc0] Failed to initialise VAAPI connection: -1 (unknown libva error)."

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=error msg="Failed to set value '/dev/dri/renderD128' for option 'vaapi_device': I/O error"

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=info msg="Inbound stream disconnected."

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=error msg="unable to write rtmp packet io: read/write on closed pipe"

time="2025-07-09T16:04:25Z" level=error msg="transcoding error. look at data/logs/transcoder.log to help debug. your copy of ffmpeg may not support your selected codec of h264_vaapi https://owncast.online/docs/codecs/"

any help to troubleshoot this would be most appreciated! thank you!