Transcode Data and Cache

[Jr Valino]

hi good evening. i have learned today that my vm where jellyfin installed is now full for some reason. i have found that there's an additional 5gb allocated on jellyfin's config/data/transcode. when i navigate to jellyfin playback, the transcode location entered is config/cache/transcode which is empty when i navigate to it. my question is, is it safe to delete those transcode files from config/data/transcode? i already enabled delete segments but its still in there. thank you.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Yes. The transcode folder only receives temporary files.

Basically when transcoding, Jellyfin will store the multiple transcoded segments within the transcode folder.
When the client is done watching the stream and/or exits, Jellyfin is supposed to remove the transcoded segments from the transcode folder.

Mayabe something happened that prevented that from happening on your end.
They're safe to delete.

[Jr Valino]

its not matter if there's transcoded file in both config/data/transcodes and config/cache/transcode since they both safe to delete? thank you for your response by the way

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Yeah, you can delete them in both directories.

Something probably happened where the transcode directory switched for you.

[Jr Valino]

thank you so much sir.