Comment on [Help] Media Server + *arr stack: Follow TRaSH guides or my own setup?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I feep like the trash guides also assume you’ll have a lot of storage space. For instance their custom format guides are driven by quality and not space constraints (i.e. they are somewhat staunchly against h265).
This all being said, their guides are excellent and will save you a lot of headache in future. I wish I hsd followed them to a T sooner than I did.
100% I was using recyclarr and ended up tearing it down. I don’t want an 80gb 2 hour movie. Also I have a lot of old niche content that it made harder to find because of bitrate rejections.
What I was left with was a good starting point to tune my own profiles from.
It is aimed at members (often new)of private trackers, a hobby which often assumes you’ve already got a 170tb NAS at home that just needs content to fill it. This is evidenced by the fact they inherit HDBs “golden popcorn” system and tier their groups pretty high up.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Yeah this, the guide is great but the size limits and such can be kind of nuts. I went back and used the guide but stick to 1080p for more chances at finding stuff and less bloat.
A lot of the guide feels geared to hosting just for you if you have a great TV setup. Considering half the people that use my stuff are on a phone, 1080 is fine, saves transcode and headaches with things that older decides can’t even stream.
No one listens to me, so no one updates their stuff so sadly I still can’t use 265 cus it doesn’t work on a lot of stuff :(
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
I bit the bullet and invested in a dedicated transcoding GPU. Then I setup Tdarr to transcoding all the things nightly into x265. I figure the money I saved in soteage offset the vost of the GPU. And it handlew multiple streams pretty flawlessly, for any devices that don’t support the codec.
felbane@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Subscribe.
I’ve got TrueNAS running on a reasonably recent PC but not a ton of space on the drives. I’d love to transcode the handful of 8GB+ movies and 40GB+ seasons sitting around taking up space. How complicated was it to set up tdarr and how long does it usually take to transcode?