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Transcoding Cleanup - Lost_Ones - 2024-09-07
Hello, ( Updated )
I have noticed that when watching live TV for a while I will eat up all the available disk space and I can see that this is due to transcoding of live TV.
I have Jellyfin 10.9.10 installed with docker compose, using a proper UID and GID. I launch the docker container with the same user. What is very odd is I cannot 'cd' beyond config to get to the transcoding folder. If I am sudo su -, I can then get to the dir, ad see that the cache and the transcode directories are both owned by my user id.
I seem to not be able to even delete these manually, using "find /opt/jellyfin/config/cache/transcodes/*.ts -type f -mmin 15 -delete" with either my id or sudo su - ( maybe there is a better command ), but I can delete them one by one. QUICK UPDATE - I added in -mmin +15 and it seems that I can delete files older then 15 minds. I was missing the +, there for I think I was deleting the 'younder ones'. I presume that I can set a crontab, but if I can do via the gui, that would be preferred.
Under Dashboard I have:
1) Under Scheduled tasks, every 15 mins I have clean transcode Dir configured.
2) Under Playback -> Transcoding I have everything default except I have ticked Delete Segments, and set the Time to Keep Segments set to 300 seconds.
When I am watching live TV, neither one of these seems to be working. However, if I close out of live TV, all transcodes are removed.
Am I not properly configured to cleanup transcode so I don't run out of space?
Thank you in advance for some direction.
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - TheDreadPirate - 2024-09-07
I have confirmed what you are seeing and I don't see any open github issues. I'll look at the code and open a github issue once I've found where in the code this isn't getting set for live TV.
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - Lost_Ones - 2024-09-09
Once it is released I will test and report back.
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - TheDreadPirate - 2024-09-09
TLDR; this issue is not a bug, per se. I'm a pretty amateur programmer, but I went down this rabbit hole learning this section of the code last night and today. After a lot of new debug logging I found that the delete segments functionality needs a lot of variables to be "true", not be null, or be non-zero for it to work. And with how live TV, and live TV transcoding, currently works to get delete segments to work with live TV will require a lot of rework in a lot of different parts of Jellyfin's code.
So don't expect a fix any time soon, but this will be my learning opportunity since this functionality is important to my setup (RAM disk for transcodes).
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - Lost_Ones - 2024-09-09
I really appreciate the feedback and the efforts. In the meantime, I will keep a sudo crontab to clean them out.
#*/15 * * * * find /opt/jellyfin/config/cache/transcodes/*.ts -type f -mmin +15 -delete # removes .ts file in the transcode folders that are older then 15 mins
Thank you
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - timminator - 2024-10-09
I came across this issue aswell today.
Are there any updates on this?
I can't find an open or closed issue on this on Github.
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - TheDreadPirate - 2024-10-09
Negatory. This would require a pretty big change that will not make it into Jellyfin until, at least, 10.11.
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - timminator - 2024-10-09
But that means there's no need to open an issue on Github about this?
The Jellyfin Team is aware of this issue?
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - TheDreadPirate - 2024-10-09
We are aware.
RE: Transcoding Cleanup - timminator - 2024-10-09
Thank you and the Jellyfin Team for your hard work. I appreciate it a lot!