11 hours ago
Hello Everyone
I've been using Plex for almost a decade now. I got that lifetime Plex pass right out of the gate with them, but like most things in life, there's good with the bad. When it all started, what they offered was pretty much what I wanted. Almost ten years down the road, we have drifted apart. Let's just chalk it up to "irreconcilable differences" and let it go at that.
Tonight, I decided to devote some time to Jellyfin and give it a go. I have to say. I'm impressed, I think this could work, but I'm having a few issues. The bulk of my stuff has been transcoded to H.265 MKV files. I prefer them because I can embed the subtitles, etc. Then I use a piece of software called MetaX to rename and embed all the metadata into the MKV container. One of my pet peeves with Plex is that it will only read metadata from an MP4 container, dont know why, but after 7 years they still haven't fixed it. Here is the problem. My system has 6 rather large hard drives, of which 4 are data drives and the other two are parity drives for SnapRAID, then 2 4Tb M2 ssd's the system runs on. So I get Jellyfin installed and it winds and grinds for a few hours, I fire it up on the big screen for the wifey to check it out. She's happy, I'm happy. Then I go back and check things, and I find that it's been writing metadata to my data drives. I saw the setting where it asked if I wanted them with the data, I didn't check it, and figured it would write everything to the second SSD where I installed Jellyfin. I went back in and unchecked metadata savers.
So my question is, do I need to have these metadata files it's making? Or can I delete them and force it to read the metadata that is already embedded into the MKV files? I mean if push comes to shove and it's a quality of life thing, I can go back and move some stuff around, then resync Snapraid, and then rerun Jellyfine and let it do what it wants.
Any input would be much appreciated.
Thanks, and sorry for the long-winded ramble.
I've been using Plex for almost a decade now. I got that lifetime Plex pass right out of the gate with them, but like most things in life, there's good with the bad. When it all started, what they offered was pretty much what I wanted. Almost ten years down the road, we have drifted apart. Let's just chalk it up to "irreconcilable differences" and let it go at that.
Tonight, I decided to devote some time to Jellyfin and give it a go. I have to say. I'm impressed, I think this could work, but I'm having a few issues. The bulk of my stuff has been transcoded to H.265 MKV files. I prefer them because I can embed the subtitles, etc. Then I use a piece of software called MetaX to rename and embed all the metadata into the MKV container. One of my pet peeves with Plex is that it will only read metadata from an MP4 container, dont know why, but after 7 years they still haven't fixed it. Here is the problem. My system has 6 rather large hard drives, of which 4 are data drives and the other two are parity drives for SnapRAID, then 2 4Tb M2 ssd's the system runs on. So I get Jellyfin installed and it winds and grinds for a few hours, I fire it up on the big screen for the wifey to check it out. She's happy, I'm happy. Then I go back and check things, and I find that it's been writing metadata to my data drives. I saw the setting where it asked if I wanted them with the data, I didn't check it, and figured it would write everything to the second SSD where I installed Jellyfin. I went back in and unchecked metadata savers.
So my question is, do I need to have these metadata files it's making? Or can I delete them and force it to read the metadata that is already embedded into the MKV files? I mean if push comes to shove and it's a quality of life thing, I can go back and move some stuff around, then resync Snapraid, and then rerun Jellyfine and let it do what it wants.
Any input would be much appreciated.
Thanks, and sorry for the long-winded ramble.