My Jellyfin config has some YAML like this.
# Sometimes work
devices:
- /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
- /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0
Occasionally when I reboot my server, I end up with no card0 and instead I have /dev/dri/card1. This breaks my Jellyfin server…
I noticed there is also dri/by-path, which I’m guessing is a more stable path than a card index… however, doing this doesn’t work for me.
# No work
devices:
- /dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-render:/dev/dri/renderD128
- /dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-card:/dev/dri/card0
I tried with and without quotes and the result is the same. Error to start. I’m guessing Docker is failing to correctly parse the string because of the colons in pci-0000:00:02.0-card…
How’s everyone else handling this problem? I’ve been updating my compose.yaml every time the index switches, card0 to card1 to card0… but this is getting annoying now. (This is a worse problem now that I’m running Fedora IoT!)
Any thoughts?


If you download hevc main 10 level 5.1 content or below you probably won’t need to transcode and can skip the whole problem 🧠