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Asking for suggestions on managing media (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have an extensive movie/tv show library. Been collecting for years and is a mixed bag of media types. I would like to convert all to h265 or something similar to try and conserve space. Currently my media is sitting at around 30TB's I know from a previous post that is not as significant as some others but converting one by one would be a nightmarish undertaking. I am hoping someone has a cli script to do the conversion.

I am currently using radarr, sonarr, lidarr and readarr for my media I know lidarr and readarr are dead and am looking for an alernative either for those or the full stack. I would also like to perform the conversion of media from the downloaded format to what is suggested to the best format.

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It is not necessarily about saving space so much as it is about uniformity. And yes my server is beefy but you get 3 or 4 people all transcoding at the sane time and that beefy server will choke. As I have said I have been collecting for many years with a very large mixed bag of codecs I am just trying to clean up the mess that is my media.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    OK, but why do you care about uniformity? If it's just some OCD-adjacent urge - that's fine; do what makes you happy.

    But from a technical point of view, VLC will play back no matter what the codec and compression level.

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