Trickplay and Chapter Images storage location.

[pcm]

While I do understand the advantage of keeping the trickplay files locally (they can be "pruned" if the media is removed) if there is more than one jellyfin server, they cannot be "shared", and if one wants to do a clean install, then they need to be recreated from scratch, which even with hardware acceleration is a fairly slow process.

Any options for saving with media in the future?

Well you can create a shared volume between all your jellyfin-server instances and mount the shared volume to /var/lib/library ... that way you are sharing all your media metadata including trickplay amongst all your server instances.

I would really love an option that allows trickplay file storage within the media folder again.

One solution would be to create a softlink for library metadata directory to the media directory. Something like,

Code:

ln -s /path/to/your/media/metadata/folder /var/lib/jellyfin/metadata/library

would do the trick. Ofcourse you'd need to first move the current library metadata first before creating the softlink.