I have an extensive movie/tv show library. Been collecting for years and is a mixed bag of media types. I would like to convert all to h265 or something similar to try and conserve space. Currently my media is sitting at around 30TB’s I know from a previous post that is not as significant as some others but converting one by one would be a nightmarish undertaking. I am hoping someone has a cli script to do the conversion.

I am currently using radarr, sonarr, lidarr and readarr for my media I know lidarr and readarr are dead and am looking for an alernative either for those or the full stack. I would also like to perform the conversion of media from the downloaded format to what is suggested to the best format.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    My server currently doesn’t have a video card (just the crappy on-board), it transcodes fine for one user (which is all I ever have). I don’t even notice an uptick in cpu when it’s transcoding (I’m sure it does, it just doesn’t seem to impact performance).

    This is a 5 year old Dell SFF, running Windows, with 3 Windows VMs in VMware. It has no trouble transcoding, while converting videos using Handbrake. It’s maxed, but it does it.

    I do plan to get a video card, it’s just not urgent.

    Edit: Just did a test and with 2 simultaneous transcodes, Jellyfin will jump the cpu about 5% on video start, but settle back down to less than 1%.

    Disk usage skyrockets with the second transcode, bouncing between 50% and 90%, and the network connection has some hard spikes at video start (with a gigabit connection).