TV Guide Scan

[Stash201518]

I have Jellyfin installed in Docker on an Asustor AS3201T. After many iterations to improve the app speed and to stop him slowing down my NAS, I decided to use it only for recordings on my IPTV service. So bare minimum. However, the TV Guide scan is still super slow, it takes 4 hrs to scan the listings for 2000 chanels. The format is an EPG link.

Is it a way to improve speed? Like, I don't know, transforming the EPG link in an XMLTV link?

[TheDreadPirate]

The your data may already be an XML since EPG can be XML, JSON, or M3U.

2000 channels is a lot of for the dual core, Braswell Intel CPU in your NAS. Another factor is the 2GB of RAM, assuming you haven't upgraded that, and it may be struggling to process 2000 channels due to running out of memory.

[Stash201518]

Thank you, I'm going to look into upgrades to memory if that will improve speed. However I think Jellyfin is eating a lot of resources compared to any other media app I'm using (like Plex or NextPVR). Those are snappy like a Ferrari on my old Asustor.

[TheDreadPirate]

I'd check what your actual memory usage is during these EPG ingests before purchasing memory. I was only hypothesizing.

[Stash201518]

73% memory usage, 6% CPU. And I looked around, my Asustor cannot be upgraded for memory. 2GB is max. I'm on AS3201T v2.

[TheDreadPirate]

Is Jellyfin's application data, including its database, running on a SSD or HDD?

[Stash201518]

6TB WD Red HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 256MB Cache

[TheDreadPirate]

That might also be a contributing factor. It is recommended that Jellyfin's application data be run off of a SSD due to the IO of the database and all the images and metadata.