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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 5 days ago (7 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.

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

Is that an option? It was my understanding anime stuff typically comes with several subtitles and in my case dual audio for each episode

[–] gajahmada@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I watch a bunch of weekly anime stuff myself. Never have to worry about transcoding with my devices (locally) and just directplay it. Unless I watch it remotely then it transcodes, I never mess with the default settings and it's fine.

My cpu is i3 8100 so I think you would be fine as well, unless it's multiple streams at once I have no reference for that.

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