2023-07-01, 06:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-07-01, 06:27 PM by skribe. Edited 3 times in total.)
(2023-07-01, 04:57 PM)DGinSD Wrote: So I tried changing the transcode location to a folder on the hard disk drive but that got me no playback instead of ridiculously slow playback. Do I need to set certain ownership and permissions for that folder to work as the transcode location.
Also how would I go about writing it to RAM disk as an alternative?
I do not suspect that this issue has anything at all to do with your storage. The Pi 4 is simply not a powerful device. It really cannot be used to transcode media. You just need to ensure that your media never needs to be transcoded, or use a server device which can handle such functionality. That is not a factor of the storage speed. It's a factor of the computational power of the device itself. You can keep troubleshooting the storage if you want, but a Pi based server really should just not be used for transcoding at all.
The solution here is in your media, really. Just don't serve content with a Pi 4 based Jellyfin server that a client cannot direct play.