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    Jellyfin Forum Support General Questions Storage Use & Least Playback Taxing Video Format

     
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    Storage Use & Least Playback Taxing Video Format

    noob
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    #1
    10 hours ago
    Greetings, 

    Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, I could not find in my searches. 

    I am hosting JF pre-October update on Docker V4.49, on Ubuntu Desktop 24.04.3 LTS OS on this hardware https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beelink-Lake-N1...dp_d_2_t_1 . Which in turn is attached to NAS.

    The SSD on the device is 500GB and is almost full, mostly used by the docker. The only other application I run on it is PiHole. I have media library on the NAS that is taking 11.8Tb of space, but I have not viewed most of it.

    Working on the assumption that the storage is mainly used by JF, is it normal for it to take so much space on the SSD? I tried to look into what exactly is using so much space and suspect it is the transcoding temp folder. I no longer can expand it, to check. At one point, after I could not expand it in the docker file viewer,  I did delete it, it did re-appear, but the space is still taken. I still cannot expand it.

    If possible, I would like to not utilise encoding/decoding on the host device or streaming device as lately it cannot play 4k smoothly. I use JF app instlaled on LG smart TV  for playing and web-browsers. I use Handbrake for converting the files. I have one 4k video that plays smoothly, but lately new 4k files are stuttering (coding/decoding enabled). Is there a preferred video format? For 4k I tend to use the Handbrake 4k AV1 pre-set, but lately it is not playing well.

    Thank you.
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    #2
    8 hours ago
    For transcoding use RAMDISK, so you don't wear your ssd out. I don't know if it exists on Ubuntu because I use Windows.

    For storage, use a big HDD to store just the files(movies, series, music, pictures etc.), you can find higher capacity for same money compared to ssd.

    There might be a lot of cache taking up a lot of space if you have many devices and many users with many devices.

    The easiest video format on hardware is probably HEVC, x265 in mkv. AV1 is fine if the server and all clients have AV1 support. Make sure the gpu is being utilized for the transcoding and all settings are correct in jellyfin host. Hope I touched upon all stuff
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