My use-case: streaming video to a Linux virtual mount and want compression of said video files on the fly.
Rclone has an experimental remote for compression but this stuff is important to me so that’s no good. I know rsync can do it but will it work for video files, and how I get rsync to warch the virtual mount-point and automatically compress and move over each individual file to rclone for upload to the Cloud? This is mostly to save on upload bandwidth and storage costs.
Thanks!
Edit: I’m stupid for not mentioning this, but the problem I’m facing is that I don’t have much local storage, which is why I wanted a transparent compression layer and directly push everything to the Cloud. This might not be worth it though since video files are already compressed. I will take a look at handbrake though, thanks!
I’m going to be using an SBC for this, which doesn’t have the capacity for an extra storage drive. Also, I’m planning to move in a couple of months, and I wouldn’t want to deal with storage in the middle of all of this. The cloud isn’t as insanely expensive as I initially thought; B2 is $6/TB, and I hope that with reencoded streams at an OK resolution I wouldn’t go beyond 1.5TB a month (I’ll be deleting stuff with bucket policies, of course).
I’ll take a look at tdarr alongside ffmpeg, thanks!
Okay fair play, if you’re doing this super short term it could make sense. Though I question what SBC you’re using that’s capable of transcoding video but not the ability to plug in an external drive.
$12/m for your 2TB of usage would make sense for maybe 5 months before it would be cheaper to buy an external disk—and of course that storage is gone once that time is up, Vs a hard disk which will probably last you a decade or so
I was considering the usual BananaPi/OrangePi/Raxda/Pine64 SBCs, are those not enough horsepower? I’d like to stay under $80 for my SBC purchase, and it will be doing double duty with managing some services like DNS and music scrobbling alongside uploading to the cloud
Hardware transcoding on SBCs is generally not fantastic, you’re gonna want to look for one that has VAAPI/VDPAU support or you’re gonna be looking at 100% CPU for half a day to transcode a film, which will make your other services effectively unavailable at the time.
I used to run my Plex server on a Pi4 with 4GB of ram and it basically crashed any time transcoding kicked in, I swapped to an intel NUC so I could get QuickSync for transcoding.
I’ll point out though, every SBC you’ve listed has usb, which is all you need for an external disk. If you’re worried about size, I’ve got a 5tb external drive that’s about 5cm², which is basically the footprint of any SBC you could use in this scenario
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I’m going to be using an SBC for this, which doesn’t have the capacity for an extra storage drive. Also, I’m planning to move in a couple of months, and I wouldn’t want to deal with storage in the middle of all of this. The cloud isn’t as insanely expensive as I initially thought; B2 is $6/TB, and I hope that with reencoded streams at an OK resolution I wouldn’t go beyond 1.5TB a month (I’ll be deleting stuff with bucket policies, of course).
I’ll take a look at
tdarralongsideffmpeg, thanks!Okay fair play, if you’re doing this super short term it could make sense. Though I question what SBC you’re using that’s capable of transcoding video but not the ability to plug in an external drive.
$12/m for your 2TB of usage would make sense for maybe 5 months before it would be cheaper to buy an external disk—and of course that storage is gone once that time is up, Vs a hard disk which will probably last you a decade or so
I was considering the usual BananaPi/OrangePi/Raxda/Pine64 SBCs, are those not enough horsepower? I’d like to stay under $80 for my SBC purchase, and it will be doing double duty with managing some services like DNS and music scrobbling alongside uploading to the cloud
Hardware transcoding on SBCs is generally not fantastic, you’re gonna want to look for one that has VAAPI/VDPAU support or you’re gonna be looking at 100% CPU for half a day to transcode a film, which will make your other services effectively unavailable at the time.
I used to run my Plex server on a Pi4 with 4GB of ram and it basically crashed any time transcoding kicked in, I swapped to an intel NUC so I could get QuickSync for transcoding.
I’ll point out though, every SBC you’ve listed has usb, which is all you need for an external disk. If you’re worried about size, I’ve got a 5tb external drive that’s about 5cm², which is basically the footprint of any SBC you could use in this scenario
Thank you for the tip, I’ll keep a look out for VAAPI/VDPAU support. Thanks!