Transcoding Cleanup

[Lost_Ones]

Hello,  ( Updated )

I have noticed that when watching live TV for a while I will eat up all the available disk space and I can see that this is due to transcoding of live TV.

I have Jellyfin 10.9.10 installed with docker compose, using a proper UID and GID.  I launch the docker container with the same user.  What is very odd is I cannot 'cd' beyond config to get to the transcoding folder.  If I am sudo su -,  I can then get to the dir, ad see that the cache and the transcode directories are both owned by my user id.

I seem to not be able to even delete these manually,  using "find /opt/jellyfin/config/cache/transcodes/*.ts -type f -mmin 15 -delete"  with either my id or sudo su - ( maybe there is a better command ), but I can delete them one by one.  QUICK UPDATE - I added in -mmin +15 and it seems that I can delete files older then 15 minds. I was missing the +, there for I think I was deleting the 'younder ones'. I presume that I can set a crontab, but if I can do via the gui, that would be preferred.


Under Dashboard I have:

1)  Under Scheduled tasks, every 15 mins I have clean transcode Dir configured. 

2) Under Playback -> Transcoding I have everything default except I have ticked Delete Segments, and set the Time to Keep Segments set to 300 seconds.  


When I am watching live TV, neither one of these seems to be working.  However, if I close out of live TV, all transcodes are removed.

Am I not properly configured to cleanup transcode so I don't run out of space? 


Thank you in advance for some direction.

[TheDreadPirate]

I have confirmed what you are seeing and I don't see any open github issues. I'll look at the code and open a github issue once I've found where in the code this isn't getting set for live TV.

[Lost_Ones]

Once it is released I will test and report back.

[TheDreadPirate]

TLDR; this issue is not a bug, per se. I'm a pretty amateur programmer, but I went down this rabbit hole learning this section of the code last night and today. After a lot of new debug logging I found that the delete segments functionality needs a lot of variables to be "true", not be null, or be non-zero for it to work. And with how live TV, and live TV transcoding, currently works to get delete segments to work with live TV will require a lot of rework in a lot of different parts of Jellyfin's code.

So don't expect a fix any time soon, but this will be my learning opportunity since this functionality is important to my setup (RAM disk for transcodes).

[Lost_Ones]

I really appreciate the feedback and the efforts.  In the meantime, I will keep a sudo crontab to clean them out.

#*/15 * * * * find /opt/jellyfin/config/cache/transcodes/*.ts -type f -mmin +15 -delete    #  removes .ts file in the transcode folders that are older then 15 mins

Thank you

[timminator]

I came across this issue aswell today.
Are there any updates on this?
I can't find an open or closed issue on this on Github.

[TheDreadPirate]

Negatory. This would require a pretty big change that will not make it into Jellyfin until, at least, 10.11.

[timminator]

But that means there's no need to open an issue on Github about this?
The Jellyfin Team is aware of this issue?

[TheDreadPirate]

We are aware.

[timminator]

Thank you and the Jellyfin Team for your hard work. I appreciate it a lot!