2025-02-17, 01:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-02-17, 01:48 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
If you want to see a visual of what trickplay files are, see this: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-trickplay-t...dth-height
I would suggest that you go to your Jellyfin dashboard and change the trickplay settings so that it uses keyframes. Keyframes make trickplay generation go by extremely fast.
I would also avoid setting HWA for trickplays unless you got a really underpowered CPU. HWA is usually slower than keyframe generation too.
By making Jellyfin have access to less resources, you're just making it take way longer for the task to finish.
I'm assuming that you populated your server for the first time. Trickplay generation is probably the most resource-intensive task that Jellyfin has currently.
Jellyfin basically has to open each video, read through it all linearly and pick frames to then convert to single images based on the time interval that's set in the settings.
If you have a lot of media, this will take a while. But once your initial set of media have trickplays generated, your system won't be placed under prolonged heavy load as you won't be adding tons of new media at once afterwards.
To give you an idea, a modern CPU can create a trickplay file with default settings for a 24 minute video in around 2 minutes or so. A 1.5 hour movie takes around 5-6 minutes.
And by enabling keyframes, this goes by much faster.
I would suggest that you go to your Jellyfin dashboard and change the trickplay settings so that it uses keyframes. Keyframes make trickplay generation go by extremely fast.
I would also avoid setting HWA for trickplays unless you got a really underpowered CPU. HWA is usually slower than keyframe generation too.
By making Jellyfin have access to less resources, you're just making it take way longer for the task to finish.
I'm assuming that you populated your server for the first time. Trickplay generation is probably the most resource-intensive task that Jellyfin has currently.
Jellyfin basically has to open each video, read through it all linearly and pick frames to then convert to single images based on the time interval that's set in the settings.
If you have a lot of media, this will take a while. But once your initial set of media have trickplays generated, your system won't be placed under prolonged heavy load as you won't be adding tons of new media at once afterwards.
To give you an idea, a modern CPU can create a trickplay file with default settings for a 24 minute video in around 2 minutes or so. A 1.5 hour movie takes around 5-6 minutes.
And by enabling keyframes, this goes by much faster.