Servers & Self-Hosting
7 curated resources, easiest first.
An iSpyConnect camera-database page that doubles as a short guide to adding an IP camera to Agent DVR using the IP Camera Wizard or an ONVIF scan, then choosing an RTSP URL (port 554 here). The URLs are crowdsourced and may be out of date, and the site says your camera credentials stay on your machine.
Advice on configuring cameras for Frigate: prefer H.264 video with AAC audio, use a low-resolution sub stream for detection and a high-resolution main stream for recording, keep the same aspect ratio on both, and set frame rates in the camera rather than in Frigate.
How to run Jellyfin in Docker with persistent config and cache folders, media bind mounts (optionally read-only), ports 8096/TCP and 7359/UDP, and a restart policy. Host networking is only needed for DLNA. Containers are only supported on Linux hosts; Windows and macOS users are told to install natively.
On an Intel N100, VA-API worked in the Jellyfin container but Quick Sync did not. The fix (from moderator TheDreadPirate, confirmed by the poster) was to find the host's render group ID and add it under group_add in the compose file, with the /dev/dri device mappings left in place; another reply advised against chmod on the devices because it resets on reboot.
Install guide for the Frigate NVR, which runs as a Docker container and works best on a bare-metal Debian-based host. It covers storage paths, ports, a shared-memory size that is too small by default (Docker's 64 MB), and warns that LXC is not officially supported and that port 5000 is unauthenticated, so reverse proxies should use 8971.
Guide to enabling Quick Sync or VA-API transcoding on Intel iGPUs and Arc cards, including the Docker route of passing the render group and /dev/dri device into the container and verifying with vainfo. QSV is not available on Windows Docker or WSL, and older chips are losing QSV support on Linux.
The poster got Intel Quick Sync working in a Docker Jellyfin running inside a Proxmox LXC and wrote up the steps; a Jellyfin moderator confirmed them and pointed to the Intel docs. The fix is to pass the /dev/dri devices into the LXC with their group IDs, then give the container the render group.