How is this done? If you don’t mind sharing 🤗
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Novi@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I transcode to ramdisk.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Novi@sh.itjust.works 10 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
Shadow@lemmy.ca 10 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.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I will have to try that once my ram upgrade gets here.
Novi@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good to know. Well I have 16G now that should give me plenty to spare.
dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 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.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 10 months ago
Starting with 10.9 you can enable segment deletion so files are cleaned up while still transcoding.
passepartout@feddit.de 10 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.
dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Version 10.9 is not even released, right?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 10 months ago
Nope, release target is mid-April currently.