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Tip: mount Jellyfin transcode directory to hard drive! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I noticed my home servers SSD running out of space and it ended up being my Jellyfin Docker container which wasn't clearing the directory for transcodes in /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes correctly.

I simply created a new directory on my media hard drive and bind mounted the above mentioned directory to it. Now Jellyfin got over 1 TB of free space to theoretically clutter. To prevent this I simply created a cronjob to delete old files in case Jellyfin isn't.

@daily /usr/bin/find /path/to/transcodes -mtime +1 -delete

Easy!

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[–] stuckgum@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why not write to ram instead?

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How much RAM would this consume?

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

that does not matter you can just download more ram

[–] Novi@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I transcode to ramdisk.

[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 0 points 6 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.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

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