2023-10-17, 11:58 AM
(2023-10-17, 11:52 AM)toytown Wrote: Depending on the quality of your collection you may find that you actually don't have enough RAM. I just opened up 1 of my 4K movies and transcoding it set to "auto" took up 81GB in the transcode folder, or in your case this would have been 81GB of ram needed and that's just for a single transcode. If you run out of RAM then the transcode will fail and the movie will stop at the position it ran out of space at.
Even one of the cheap (45$ 1TB SSD) is going to give you around 50,000 transcodes before you hit the warranty endurance level and most SSDs ive seen will hit 2x-3x that easily.
Ah ok, so maybe best I just mount a new SSD share into the VM and use that for transcoding - RAM wise I have 128GiB of RAM on the host machine but I can see that 1x 4K transcode is already near to depleteing that
...I'll wait for other suggestions from the community but will otherwise look to mount an SSD (mainly just so I don't kill my expensive VM SSD during transcode - now I know
)Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it @toytown!