[BUG] 10.11.11 image rebuild breaks Intel Arc QSV (qsv=qs@va → child device handle -17); previous local image works

[tws101]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

After pulling the current lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:10.11.11, Intel Quick Sync fails to initialize on an Intel Arc A310.
VA-API opens successfully; creating QSV from that VA-API device fails:

Error setting child device handle: -17
Device creation failed: -1313558101.
Failed to set value 'qsv=qs@va' for option 'init_hw_device': Unknown error occurred

A previous local image that used to be tagged 10.11.11 (now untagged / retagged as 10.11.11-previous) works correctly with the same host, devices, and settings. Full hardware transcodes complete at ~40× realtime with hevc_qsv.
This looks like an in-place rebuild of the 10.11.11 tag that changed the jellyfin-ffmpeg / Intel media stack.

Expected Behavior

QSV derived from VA-API (-init_hw_device vaapi=... -init_hw_device qsv=qs@va) should initialize and transcode on Arc A310, as it did with the previous 10.11.11 image build.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Host: TrueNAS Scale, dual Intel Arc A310; container only gets one card:
   /dev/dri/card2
   /dev/dri/renderD129

2. Run current image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:10.11.11

3. Inside the container:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -hide_banner \
  -init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD129,driver=iHD \
  -init_hw_device qsv=qs@va \
  -f lavfi -i nullsrc=s=640x360:d=1 -frames:v 1 -f null -

4. Observe failure with -17 / qsv=qs@va.
5. Switch to previous image (local ID 54e2a6bc7d26, digest below) with the same devices/config.
6. Same command succeeds; Jellyfin QSV transcodes work (SDR HEVC → hevc_qsv).

VA-API-only init succeeds on both images:

/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -hide_banner \
  -init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD129,driver=iHD \
  -f lavfi -i nullsrc=s=640x360:d=1 -frames:v 1 -f null -

Environment

OS: TrueNAS Scale 25.10.x (Linux)
CPU architecture: x86-64
GPU: Intel Arc A310 (Alchemist)
Docker: TrueNAS apps / compose
Devices passed: single Arc render node (renderD129 + card2)
HW acceleration: Intel QSV (Jellyfin); failure is at ffmpeg device init, independent of UI

Role,Tag / note,Image ID,Repo digest
Broken (current Hub tag),10.11.11,06822bf918e5,sha256:b8dcc7b71d0ea872b74314da4b995c0cf282b1778438c295996e7be88c70fdda
Working (previous build),"was 10.11.11, now local only",54e2a6bc7d26,sha256:bb8d372e35d5c4a6cb61d830a06f5b5846528315b97cf5d38b80eea1e430efa7

docker buildx imagetools inspect lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:10.11.11 matches the broken index digest b8dcc7b7….

ffmpeg version difference

Working image: jellyfin-ffmpeg built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 24.04)
Broken image: jellyfin-ffmpeg built with gcc 15 (Ubuntu 15.x / newer base)

Both report ffmpeg version 7.1.4-Jellyfin, but the build environment differs.

CPU architecture

x86-64

Docker creation

Compose 

  jellyfin:
    container_name: jellyfin
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:${JELLYFIN_VERSION}
    hostname: jellyfin
    restart: unless-stopped
    devices:
      - ${ARC_CARD_2}
      - ${ARC_RENDER_2}
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=4000
      - TZ=${TZ}
    volumes:
      - ${JELLYFIN_CONFIG}:/config
      - ${JELLYFIN_MEDIA}:/data/media:ro
      - ${TESTMEDIALIB}:/data/testmedialib:ro
    tmpfs:
      - /tmptranscode:uid=1000,gid=4000,mode=1777,size=25g
    networks:
      proxy:
        ipv4_address: 172.24.1.100
    expose:
      - 8096
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.jellyfin.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.jellyfin.rule=Host(`${JELLYFIN_DN}`)
      - traefik.http.routers.jellyfin.tls=true
      - traefik.http.services.jellyfin.loadbalancer.server.port=8096
    cpus: 8
    mem_limit: 32g

Container logs

libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[AVHWDeviceContext] Error setting child device handle: -17
Device creation failed: -1313558101.
Failed to set value 'qsv=qs@va' for option 'init_hw_device': Unknown error occurred

[aptalca]

A previous local image that used to be tagged 10.11.11 (now untagged / retagged as 10.11.11-previous)

That doesn't help us narrow down the image. Please use the proper static tags with the lsXX build number.

See here for more info: https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/docker-tags-so-many-tags-so-little-time#2-build-tag-static

With that said, the image was rebased to ubuntu resolute a couple of weeks ago

Also, I don't know what this is supposed to be:

    devices:
      - ${ARC_CARD_2}
      - ${ARC_RENDER_2}

[tws101]

It is here

Broken (current Hub tag),
10.11.11,06822bf918e5,sha256:b8dcc7b71d0ea872b74314da4b995c0cf282b1778438c295996e7be88c70fdda

Working (previous build),"was 10.11.11, now local only",
54e2a6bc7d26,sha256:bb8d372e35d5c4a6cb61d830a06f5b5846528315b97cf5d38b80eea1e430efa7

additional reference
docker inspect 54e2a6bc7d26 --format '{{index .Config.Labels "build_version"}}'
docker inspect 06822bf918e5 --format '{{index .Config.Labels "build_version"}}'
Linuxserver.io version:- 10.11.11ubu2404-ls42 Build-date:- 2026-07-21T14:23:47+00:00
Linuxserver.io version:- 10.11.11ubu2604-ls43 Build-date:- 2026-07-25T11:13:15+00:00

devices:
- ${ARC_CARD_2}
- ${ARC_RENDER_2}

Sorry did not show the ENV for those when I posted it
ARC_CARD_2=/dev/dri/card2
ARC_RENDER_2=/dev/dri/renderD129

one single card passed into the container ARC 310 QSV

Key difference in these two builds
ffmpeg version difference

Broken image: jellyfin-ffmpeg built with gcc 15 (Ubuntu 15.x / newer base)
Working image: jellyfin-ffmpeg built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 24.04)