2025-10-07, 04:34 PM
(This post was last modified: Today, 07:55 AM by Spacey. Edited 2 times in total.)
Hi!
I'm new here - even using Jellyfin for over a year now for my private collection. First - Thanks a lot - this is a really great project! Before I used VLC to play videos from a shared directory but that was barely used because it was awful handling. Now this is perfect .... great!
To the topic itself: I've got many videos in h264 and want to convert them for example in FileFlows to h265. My workflow there preserves the "change date" because I want to keep that for reasons. So I'm converting my files and save some space. I replace the original file in the Jellyfin media path with the converted movie (with the exact same name and same change date). Then I do a manual re-scan of my Jellyfin lib - but the changes to the files won't be recognized. When I check the media information the file size is still the old one and the codec still says h264 (even the file now is h265 and it is the smaller one in the Jellyfin media directory). Restart Jellyfin didn't help either.
So how can I force Jellyfin to re-scan the file(s) really? ... and get the new codec and size...
I checked the Jellyfin Plugin within FileFlows but the documentation was really very basic and I didn't get the path thing there (even since I don't want to change paths for the old and new files).
Any ideas? Thanks!
I'm new here - even using Jellyfin for over a year now for my private collection. First - Thanks a lot - this is a really great project! Before I used VLC to play videos from a shared directory but that was barely used because it was awful handling. Now this is perfect .... great!
To the topic itself: I've got many videos in h264 and want to convert them for example in FileFlows to h265. My workflow there preserves the "change date" because I want to keep that for reasons. So I'm converting my files and save some space. I replace the original file in the Jellyfin media path with the converted movie (with the exact same name and same change date). Then I do a manual re-scan of my Jellyfin lib - but the changes to the files won't be recognized. When I check the media information the file size is still the old one and the codec still says h264 (even the file now is h265 and it is the smaller one in the Jellyfin media directory). Restart Jellyfin didn't help either.
So how can I force Jellyfin to re-scan the file(s) really? ... and get the new codec and size...
I checked the Jellyfin Plugin within FileFlows but the documentation was really very basic and I didn't get the path thing there (even since I don't want to change paths for the old and new files).
Any ideas? Thanks!