It’s there some way to pre-convert the files to a playable format? Like automatically optimise them for my TV?
Now it seems that they get converted when I start watching, and my cpu is struggling to keep up.
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You could “pre-convert” convert them using Handbrake. This Programm uses your graphics card to transcode the media into a playable format like mp4 for example. Then your tv doesn’t have to do anything other than just play the stream.
Handbrake would be a great tool for this. Another application that could work is tdarr, which is better at storing different transcoding parameters per directory.
I would use ffmpeg for this but I am not very familiar with handbrake. ffmpeg runs in a terminal so you may not want it if you don’t like that.
I’m comfortable in a terminal but I’d prefer that I didn’t have to do it manually, just set it in a configuration file somewhere and have it happen automatically.
I don’t think there is any plan from Jellyfin to support pre-converting from what I remember reading. It is going to be quite resource-intense either way, but you might be able to schedule something during a time you wouldn’t use the computer.
That said, what kind of machine you got? Just asking because it is not unpopular to use a raspberry pi as a server, but converting media on it will not work very well.
I have an old HP microserver with an AMD Turion II in it. It would be nice to be able to transcode overnight and not while trying to watch. Space isn’t an issue.
If space isn’t an issue 💯 just use handbrake and save a version that is for your TV.
