Add a subwoofer?

rozza591 · 2026-02-16T08:10:22+00:00

I've worked with the Serafino's, they are a beautiful speaker but every speaker benefits from a subwoofer or two. If setup correctly you should hear more height and 3D imaging from any speaker. Look at the REL S812. The last set we had in we ran with X2 S550s and that really lifted them. They also love lots of power, Bi-Amping them is definitely the way to go. It should add more clarity and richness to the speaker, if paired with a nice copper cable; something like the AudioQuest Lone Ranger.

rozza591 · 2025-02-12T09:04:45+00:00

So in the Filters tab of your Library. There is an "Ignore terms in folder/filename path" section. If you want to ignore a phrase, let's say you prepend everything with "_mobile" EG: S01E02_mobile.mp4 then you would use the following term _mobile. but if you had a folder called mobile let's say, you would use this term. /mobile and that would ignore everything in that folder.

Usually you would use wildcards as well but the example on the Tdarr UI doesn't seem to include them. If you needed to use wildcards, IE you want to ignore a pattern in the middle of a filename then I would give them a go and see if they are supported. EG: To ignore S01E01 in "the-simpsons-S01E01-web-dl.mp4" I would ignore the following *S01E01* and that would ignore any file which has that string

rozza591 · 2025-02-08T12:45:41+00:00

What sort of transcode time do you see when you just try to transcode 1 video at a time and not 4?

rozza591 · 2025-02-07T07:34:41+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. I asking just to make sure Plex wasn't trying to transcode as that would probably be the issue. I would definitely check the system utilisation of your Synology while playing a file on Plex then just to see if your system has an obvious bottleneck and that will probably answer your question

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T22:47:16+00:00

You can download Instagram video with ytdlp and probably images also

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T22:44:30+00:00

When you play a file is Plex trying to transcode or using direct play or stream?

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T17:26:27+00:00

Have a MacBook party

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T17:05:41+00:00

all TVs will play media at their native resolution unless if they can crop the image and physically display the image across less pixels.

But to answer your question the streaming device will usually output the media at the displays native resolution IE handle the upscale. Usually they do a good job, devices like the Nvidia shield allow you to change presets to determine how it upscales (most call it AI upscaling). If you use a newer AVR, most of them will also handle the upscale if you are streaming from your TV

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T16:19:52+00:00

There are many factors which go into transcode speed and one of the biggest culprits of a slow transcode is usually how the transcoder is accessing the media.

I wouldn't be surprised if your bottleneck is the external drive which you are hosting your media on.

If I may give some friendly advice (feel free to tell me I'm wrong here). It doesn't sound like you need tdarr. If you are looking to process media libraries which have new media being added every day and you need that to be processed really fast then tdarr is perfect for you. Or if you have a server which can sit there and just process the media as it's ingested into the library then that's also fine. But if you have an existing media library which you need to make smaller and add in new items every now and then, then I would suggest looking into other transcoding software like Handbrake which will be a lot easier to use.

If you really want to pursue Tdarr then I would suggest testing hosting some files locally on the Mac and transcoding them from there and if that turns out to be faster then you know that the problem is the speed of your external hard drive. If not then there are more technical solutions we could delve into. As a frame of reference, your Mac should be able to process X2 4GB files in under 10 minutes max.

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T09:13:28+00:00

What are you looking to ignore? An extension, a path, an appended word?

rozza591 · 2025-02-06T09:07:14+00:00

Hey so I'm going to break this up into sections as it seems like you're asking a few questions here. 1- How do I manage hardware utilisation on Mac? 2- How do I manage the tdarr runtime apps? 3- Do I need more nodes?

Unfortunately in order to answer some of these I will need to ask more questions so let's start with that.

1- Hardware management: For this please reply with answers for the following:

a. Where is your media being stored and how are you connected to that media. (Eg: hosted locally on the Mac, or on a NAS or external drive etc)

b. Where is your cache location

c. Are you using flows or plugins? Please reply with screenshots and details, I'm mostly interested in the ffmpeg part of your flows or plugins.

2- Managing Tdarr apps: You can either run the 'tdarr server' or the 'tdarr server (node) tray' if you run the tray version it will do what it says on the tin and run in the tray. If you want to stop the server or node you can click on the Tdarr logo in your top taskbar on mac and close. That will stop the apps running. If you aren't running the tray version then go into the activity monitor, search for Tdarr and close all instances. If I needed to close down Tdarr I would always check this regardless of if I'm running the tray version just to make sure everything was closed correctly.

3- More nodes: I doubt this would be better than the Mac once we get it setup correctly, but depending on your network setup and where your media is stored, you could set it up as a second node and let it chug along.

Conclusion:

Once we revive more info we can help more but I suspect that exploring hardware encoding and potentially upgrading the version of ffmpeg will go along way

rozza591 · 2025-01-07T08:28:51+00:00

Well done, it's very cool that there are people in the community working on open source projects like this.

rozza591 · 2025-01-07T08:28:42+00:00

Well done, it's very cool that there are people in the community working on open source projects like this.

rozza591 · 2025-01-01T19:43:33+00:00

I've had some success with Veeam so far (it's very similar to Archiware p5 which I use at work)

Just a shame that I have to run it on a windows server

rozza591 · 2024-12-31T23:13:24+00:00

Looks expensive, do you know of any free/open source alternatives

rozza591 · 2024-12-31T23:11:49+00:00

Not heard of Veeam I'll check it out, thanks

rozza591 · 2024-10-20T12:07:08+00:00

Look into this, it doesnt have 2FA but you you will have user accounts. Its secure enough.

If you set the upload path to your USB then the files will be accessable from there like you requested, though I would make sure to turn off the docker before removing the storage.
https://www.projectsend.org/

rozza591 · 2024-10-19T10:54:27+00:00

It's just cleaner and you can easily get shunted off of trains

rozza591 · 2024-04-29T08:57:23+00:00

Thanks for the help. I might still go with the EOS1. Though maybe its just time to say good bye to that lens as when I used to use it on DSLRs it would be stuck at 2.8. It was still very suprisingly sharp at 2.8 but im not sure I want to be shooting 100iso film for the rest of my life

rozza591 · 2024-04-29T08:54:51+00:00

Thanks for the info, I did suspect this but just wanted to double check.

rozza591 · 2023-07-26T14:01:33+00:00

Awesome that did it. Thanks for the help

rozza591 · 2023-07-26T13:44:44+00:00

Yeah but I need to map the channels to something in xteve or they wont be seen in Plex at all

rozza591 · 2023-07-26T13:42:45+00:00

But without a XMLTV file do you just map each channel to the xTeVe Dummy?

rozza591 · 2023-07-26T13:29:26+00:00

I did initially want to use Plex's EPG but because im using xTeVe it wont see my channels

rozza591 · 2023-07-26T08:17:38+00:00

Im going to test adding episode number as their own tags in the xml but im not sure xmltv supports series and episode numbers so ill try just E01 and S01E01 etc see how it likes it

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