Selfhosted

51931 readers

1272 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world

HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz

How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is something that has been increasingly prevalent with my server, for the longest time I could torrent, have two people watching and everything's fine, but lately, especially with specific shows, it will take upwards of a minute for a show to start.

I've looked into it and the culprit is ffmpeg most of the time, I assume this has something to do with the specific files not having transcoding "baked in" but I don't know enough to know if that's the case. Can anyone help me optimize my pipeline at all?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Jellyfin Dashboard will tell you what's causing a streaming session to have to be transcoded. I believe it's the little info "I" circle on the session thumnail. Logs should also tell you. I'd suggest starting there and identifying the cause, in order to then find the proper prescription.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It says direct playing the source file is entirely compatible with this client and is receiving the file without modifications, this is as I look over to the hanging episode

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Are you streaming to a Chromecast, by any chance? Or a older Galaxy device?
The 4k Chromecast with Google TV does not support AV1, but the 1080p version does. Jellyfin tried Direct Playing AV1 files, which obviously went poorly.

I run the same CPU in my NUC as you do, and all data is on a NAS shared with NFS. It's been absolutely bulletproof for about a year, so I'm confident you should be able to make this work.

Any other containers running at the same time?
No cooling issues?

Just asking because mine dropped massively in temp when repasted.

load more comments (4 replies)