Building My Own TV Station: ErsatzTV in a FreeBSD Jail, With Intel Hardware Transcoding

Being ill for a week taught me that a large Jellyfin library is not entertainment, it is homework. ErsatzTV turns a media library back into linear television with real channels and schedules, but it only ships for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It is a . NET application driving ffmpeg, so I built it in a FreeBSD Bastille jail instead. One missing conditional was all that stood between FreeBSD and…