I will add, what helped me the most with Plex/Jellyfin load was using Tdarr to normalize my library’s formats into something easy to direct stream to any device without transcoding.
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soulofdragnsfire@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoWhat’s your hardware solution for that? I’ve reached the limit of my configuration and may need to look into more robust hardware (or moving things like jellyfin off to a dedicated machine)
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
soulofdragnsfire@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’ll check out tdarr. If it’s something I can configure to run overnight it probably would be worth the effort. Thanks!
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I ran tdarr for a while, eventually I found for most things that it was faster (and better quality) to re-download in better formats than to re-encode.
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s fair!
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s old but fairly beefy. Most of the RAM is reserved for ZFS reads, but in reality theres tons of headroom.
CPU: 2x E5-2630L v2 Motherboard: Intel S2600CP RAM: 8x8GB DDR3 1333 ECC Disk:
I’ll probably be moving this to a cluster of mini computers whenever prices look right, just for power efficiency.