This is something that has been increasingly prevalent with my server, for the longest time I could torrent, have two people watching and everything’s fine, but lately, especially with specific shows, it will take upwards of a minute for a show to start.

I’ve looked into it and the culprit is ffmpeg most of the time, I assume this has something to do with the specific files not having transcoding “baked in” but I don’t know enough to know if that’s the case. Can anyone help me optimize my pipeline at all?

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    11 hours ago

    Is it Intel?

    If so I would use GPU acceleration

    Edit: I see it is a N100. Definitely use hardware acceleration. I would also make sure that you run your media though Handbrake if it is in raw form.

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      3 hours ago

      Given they use a N100, I’d suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time, energy and quality savings (i.e cost).

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        2 hours ago

        Downloading from where?

        You get the content from blurays typically (you surely aren’t talking about piracy)