Comment on Tip: mount Jellyfin transcode directory to hard drive!

Novi@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have like a dozen people using my Jellyfin and sometimes 3-4 people watch something at the same time which results in a lot of transcoding data. At the moment my transcoding directory (which is cleaned every 24 hours) is almost 8 GB big. I don’t have the RAM to do this.

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  • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Starting with 10.9 you can enable segment deletion so files are cleaned up while still transcoding.

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    • passepartout@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Im so looking forward to this. When i tried to use tmpfs / ramdisk, the transcoding would simply stop because there was no space left.

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    • dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Version 10.9 is not even released, right?

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      • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope, release target is mid-April currently.

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• LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How is this done? If you don’t mind sharing 🤗

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  • Novi@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tmpfs is the filesystem you are looking for. You can mount it like any other filesystem in /etc/fstab.

    tmpfs /path/to/transcode/dir tmpfs defaults 0 0

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can just point it to /dev/shm as a transcoding folder, for a quick and dirty way.

    Otherwise you’d mount a ramfs disk.

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• agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I will have to try that once my ram upgrade gets here.

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  • Novi@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can restrict the size of the ramdisk so you do not end up killing processes. A large amount of ram is not mandatory.

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good to know. Well I have 16G now that should give me plenty to spare.

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