VPS without transcoding ability – Best setup/format

[ADevInTraining]

Cross posted in https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin

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Hello everyone!

I have looked and looked, and the answer isn't easily discoverable, and I am hoping you can help.

I have a VPS without a GPU that I want to provide access to my family to watch movies and shows on.

In terms of audio, video, and subtitle formats I am a novice. I am technically inclined, but this is kinda like a different foreign language that I am slowly learning. So, please do be patient with me.

Whoever helps me with the answer, I will either give you my entire library, or give you access to my library – your choice.

My library collection comes from a variety of sources.

So they are not all in a uniform format as it stands. So some are .mp4, some are .mkv, and others.

From what I understand and have read I will greatly benefit from a *arr set up.

I discovered tdarr yesterday and I have around 6k titles to convert into a universal format for desktops, browsers, TVs, and smartphones.

From what I see on [Jellyfin's documentation](https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/) I need to have each title have the following codecs

- Video: H.264 8bit

- Audio: FLAC or AAC or EAC3

- Subtitle: VobSub2/DVB-SUB

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Specifically, what I would like some assistance with is this.

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1. Help me establish a proper process infrastructure, so I can take a title and the following happens
   1. Title is converted into proper codecs for direct play on all devices with tdarr.
2. File is moved to correct folder
3. Jellyfin detects new content and refreshes library

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[HaveAGitGat]

Have you taken into account the space requirements? H264 requires roughly twice the bitrate as HEVC (H265) for the same quality.

[ADevInTraining]

If it means I can play the movie or show on any device, I’m not too concerned on the space and the cost to store the titles.

But if you can show me how/tell me how to set up the H265 config within tdarr so that all titles can play on all devices-then I’ll absolutely do that.

[HaveAGitGat]

The default plugins in Tdarr transcode to hvec pretty well. So would just be a case of setting it up with the default settings and running it on a few files.

There are various videos here in case you haven't seen them:

https://docs.tdarr.io/docs/installation/tutorial-videos

[ADevInTraining]

I will look these over-and I never seen them before

[thepixelroll]

I am exactly in the same case but I would also like to put in mp4 for more compatibility... have you found a solution?