From b45c22092d6d4db406c8ce003d88afac7ba1ce19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Dove <1695733+jasongdove@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:26:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix startup on systems unsupported by nvencsharp (#2678)

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                              | 2 ++
 .../Capabilities/HardwareCapabilitiesFactory.cs           | 8 ++++++++
 .../Capabilities/Nvidia/NvEncSharpRedirector.cs           | 4 ++++
 ErsatzTV.Scanner.Tests/Core/FFmpeg/TranscodingTests.cs    | 4 ++++
 ErsatzTV/Services/RunOnce/PlatformSettingsService.cs      | 4 ++++
 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1c6077afa..f47548082 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+### Fixed
+- Fix startup on systems unsupported by NvEncSharp
 
 ## [25.9.0] - 2025-11-29
 ### Added
diff --git a/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/HardwareCapabilitiesFactory.cs b/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/HardwareCapabilitiesFactory.cs
index fce8e934a..150ef1f7b 100644
--- a/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/HardwareCapabilitiesFactory.cs
+++ b/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/HardwareCapabilitiesFactory.cs
@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ public partial class HardwareCapabilitiesFactory(
         {
             // do nothing
         }
+        catch (TypeInitializationException)
+        {
+            // do nothing
+        }
 
         // if we don't have a list of cuda devices, fall back to ffmpeg check
 
@@ -644,6 +648,10 @@ public partial class HardwareCapabilitiesFactory(
         {
             // do nothing
         }
+        catch (TypeInitializationException)
+        {
+            // do nothing
+        }
 
         logger.LogWarning(
             "Error detecting NVIDIA GPU capabilities; some hardware accelerated features will be unavailable");
diff --git a/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/Nvidia/NvEncSharpRedirector.cs b/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/Nvidia/NvEncSharpRedirector.cs
index fc1ac7967..db82f986b 100644
--- a/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/Nvidia/NvEncSharpRedirector.cs
+++ b/ErsatzTV.FFmpeg/Capabilities/Nvidia/NvEncSharpRedirector.cs
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ public static class NvEncSharpRedirector
         {
             CudaHelper.IsLoaded = false;
         }
+        catch (TypeInitializationException)
+        {
+            CudaHelper.IsLoaded = false;
+        }
     }
 
     private static IntPtr Resolver(string libraryName, Assembly assembly, DllImportSearchPath? searchPath)
diff --git a/ErsatzTV.Scanner.Tests/Core/FFmpeg/TranscodingTests.cs b/ErsatzTV.Scanner.Tests/Core/FFmpeg/TranscodingTests.cs
index fe4661657..7e14380ba 100644
--- a/ErsatzTV.Scanner.Tests/Core/FFmpeg/TranscodingTests.cs
+++ b/ErsatzTV.Scanner.Tests/Core/FFmpeg/TranscodingTests.cs
@@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ public class TranscodingTests
         {
             // do nothing
         }
+        catch (TypeInitializationException)
+        {
+            // do nothing
+        }
 
         var localFileSystem = new LocalFileSystem(
             new MockFileSystem(),
diff --git a/ErsatzTV/Services/RunOnce/PlatformSettingsService.cs b/ErsatzTV/Services/RunOnce/PlatformSettingsService.cs
index e0af3cd92..2f5b02956 100644
--- a/ErsatzTV/Services/RunOnce/PlatformSettingsService.cs
+++ b/ErsatzTV/Services/RunOnce/PlatformSettingsService.cs
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ public class PlatformSettingsService(IServiceScopeFactory serviceScopeFactory) :
                 {
                     // do nothing
                 }
+                catch (TypeInitializationException)
+                {
+                    // do nothing
+                }
             }
 
             if (runtimeInfo.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Linux))