rffmpeg VS Emby2Jelly

I got rffmpeg for distributed transcoding. Probably I understood Tdarr wrong, Tdarr leaves the files already transcoded or does transcoding on demand just like Rffmpeg? I got a lot of content on 4k that I would prefer to leave it like this for the best clients, and transcode as needed for 1080p computers

I'd love to point out https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

Just having support for a remote transcoder, along the lines of unicorn transcoder or rffmpeg would be a good first step to let us start homebrewing a solution.

In the rare case you need transcoding I would suggest you use a script like rffmpeg to offload transcoding to a more powerful target and/or use my script which creates trascoding workers when need be and deletes them afterwards (could be used with Unmanic as well).

rffmpeg

> Also, remote transcoding of videos seems like a huge win! Makes it so you won't need as beefy as a system to run PeerTube.

You can technically do it if you're willing to hack around. Since it uses the ffmpeg binary you could technically replace it with rffmpeg[1], the setup isn't pretty but it's doable. I haven't done it myself but have seen reddit posts on the jellyfin community that it works pretty well once setup.

[1] https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

If it's a normal Jellyfin install you can just use the rffmpeg python script directly, or you could run docker on Windows or WSL.

Maybe in the future you can use multiple machines to do your transcoding?

rffmpeg is supposed to do that. I haven't used it.

It should hopefully be pretty straightforward. We've got a user who's been working on autoscaling it with Kube and Hesner, so might be worth checking that out (see https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg/issues/34 and specifically the last comment; his profile has his repos).

Here is a link to a script that uses the Jellyfin API to migrate users and watched status from one instance of Jellyfin to another. It was linked to in the migration steps of the Jellyfin documentation. Hope this helps!

I have used this script to do some of that: https://github.com/CobayeGunther/Emby2Jelly

Try using Emby2Jelly.

This script still works, last I checked.

I remember this tool, hasn't been updated in over a year and I doubt it still works.

You can use https://github.com/CobayeGunther/Emby2Jelly. I've used it to copy over watch data between two servers a few different times. If you go that route you still need to set up other config settings manually, plus the new server needs to have all of your libraries fully scanned and all of the metadata imported.

With the database changes, is there a new way to migrate my users with their watched histories from Emby to Jellyfin? I used to use this: https://github.com/CobayeGunther/Emby2Jelly