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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?

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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

why are you transcoding at all? it's the first thing I turn off on jellyfin (and previously plex) installs. negligible cpu usage on both server and client when directplaying content.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So you have absolutely no devices that are a different resolution than you download? You don't direct play 4k on a 1080p screen for example.

[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I am asking the dude doing the transcoding why he's doing it. I am not waging a crusade against all dudes doing transcodings.

to answer your question, no, I don't, all media I got is 1080p and all my devices can display it.

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