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External trickplay generation - lostb053 - 2025-09-06
Idk if it's weird but for my setup, i am using a windows laptop as my main machine. i didn't want to run jellyfin on it, so i got nuc (running debian) and sharing disks over samba share (cifs) via ethernet cable.
but NUC is using a really old cpu (i5 5th gen U model), which i think is a bottleneck in my case right now. i was wondering if i could use some ffmpeg script/cmd to generate trickplays on my main laptop with newer n more powerful CPU, and then migrate it to NUC storage
i have over 2TB of data to be processed, and otherwise it appears it'll take over a month
or if there's a better way to speed up trickplay generation
for extra context:
i don't save images/nfo with media, as i want my main folders to be clean.
i am a new user exploring jellyfin, so a lot of stuff i am not much knowledgeable about, would appreciate the help
RE: External trickplay generation - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2025-09-06
Make sure to enable keyframe generation for trickplays in its dashboard settings.
Keyframes makes the process go by way faster since ffmpeg no longer needs to go frame-by-frame on each video to generate the trickplays.
RE: External trickplay generation - lostb053 - 2025-09-06
Thanks. That sped the process up a lot. earlier it was taking about an hour for 0.1% progress