What's your process for recoding? I'm nearing 120tb used space and would like to re-encode some of the stuff my *arr stack grabbed before I got my profiles tuned in.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://home.tdarr.io/

I used to use the built in convert options in Emby server, but recently switched to Tdarr to manage all my conversions. It's got far more control/configurablity to encode your files exactly how you'd like.

It can also 'health check' files by transcoding them, but not saving the output; checking for errors during that process to ensure the file can actually be played through successfully. With 41k+ files to manage, that made it much easier to find and replace the dozen or so broken files I had, before I found them by trying to play them.

Fore warning; this is a long and intensive process. Converting my entire library to HEVC using an RTX 2080 took me over 2 months non-stop. (not including health checks)

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Awesome. Thanks for the info. I have been running Plex for years and started the switch to Jellyfin last year. Have a container running Emby but haven't put any work in to configuring or much yet.

Same situation with Tdarr. Threw together a quick container and got caught up in a billion other projects. I have an old 3600x / 1080ti system I'll likely use as a transcoding node. Just need to go over the docs and figure out how to setup input / output paths.

[–] code@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why dont you just redownload hevc on whats available and convert the rest?

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure redownloading would save any time.

I'd imagine there's a way to set that up with the *arrs but my personal path of less resistance is to just recode what I got rather than figure a process to redownlod out. There's is more resources than time at my disposal currently.

[–] code@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I assume youve seen trashs guides. But yea I get it. Im sure your aware reencoding can kill quality too. Many grab the blueray and then reencode that to hevc just depends what works

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Configuring input/output paths are only really necessary when you have multiple systems that don't see the media at the same paths. Such as a Linux server and a Windows node working together.

Honestly, I just wish I'd have known about and set it up sooner:

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why not let *arrr find good HEVC releases by searching again? Just set remux to be considered as lower quality as the other releases, and *arr will upgrade the files by replacing remux with non-remux files. Did that, got many TiB back 😁

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I may see how easy that is to set up. I noted above though, I've been learning the *arr stack piece by piece. And it never seems to quite work the way that I'm expecting it to so doing local recodes ends up being a more viable solution for me since I have a shit ton of processing power and limited time to read through things like trashes guide. Thank you for the suggestion though. Maybe if I get some time in the coming month to dig into my settings I'll give that a shot. It would be cool to automate the recovery process that way.

Cheers.

[+] onlinepersona@programming.dev -11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's your electricity bill like? That's 0.12 pb. Monstrous in my opinion.

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[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The majority of my stack as well as vehicles run off renewables / solar. So it's hard to tell. May seem like some massive library but it has been accumulated over 25 or so years and is composed of a shit ton of physical rips from a pretty extensive library of everything from VHS and vinyl to uhd..

[+] onlinepersona@programming.dev -11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty cool that you're able to use renewable energy. Do you know how much power it consumes? And do you have a backup power supply? Uninterrupted Power Supply I think it's called.

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[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Overall it's (currently) a couple jbods plugged in to a NUC. Total draw is at 81W currently. That's based off of a quick remote check on my UPS.

That's a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro, Modem, Ubiquiti U7 Pro, 2 - 6 disc jbods running Seagate exos 20tb, and the NUC.

There's a secondary drive array but it only powers on once a week for a few hours to run backups/differentials. Even under that load I don't really spike above 100W.

Compared to the draw my old full rack with a couple loaded up r210's has, this is incredibly efficient.

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Which JBODs do you use for your 20TB Seagate Exos, and would you recommend?

I'm looking for recommendations for a solution that will work for 3 × 22TB white-label Seagate Exos, but it seems to me that only very few of the various JBOD enclosures available online are actually good products worth buying, but it isn't always clear to me if they even support 22TB drives...

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you're just using jbod? with that many disks, aren't you worried about them failing? or do you just redownload it if that happens

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I have a full mirror. If both arrays fail, I figure I have bigger problems and redownlod would be low on the list.