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 10 months 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 10 months ago
soulofdragnsfire@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
That’s fair!
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.