Proactive transcoding

[rifaterdemsahin]

For example my main worker is in synolgy NAS. it is not hardware-capable of transcoding / decoding.
I have a workstation which can do it when turned on would it be able to put into jellydin using rffmpeg to be used in future ?

[JeWe37]

(Just saw this and figured I know the answer) Well no. What you describe is storing transcoded files that will no longer require transcoding to play back. Jellyfin doesn't provide the ability to prepare the streams itself(yet), so rffmpeg won't be of much use.

There do however exist a number of systems that do exactly what you want, look into Tdarr or FileFlows. I like the latter better, however it is not under an open source licence(but the sources are public and it's free for most features). They also provide the ability to deal out transcodes jobs to remote systems.

I personally find all of these wholly insufficient and wrote my own script to run generated ffmpeg commands(that one actually does use rffmpeg run) but that is a rather advanced approach.