Transcode to Ram

[jjr3211 0]

So I’m not sure if this is the right spot but I have a few questions I was reading about transcoding to Ram and it looks like it is not recommended. Not exactly sure why but I do know that I use unraid the problem that I’m having is with live TV filling up the ram.Is it best not to transcode to ram or can I transcode to an SSD? What is the best way to set this up? The problem is it used to just be one or two streams and it really wasn’t an issue but now it’s more like 5 to 7 streams. Everything works great. The ram just gets filled up and it doesn’t delete it so the only way to fix it is to reboot the Emby container and then it’s fine for a little bit and then it does it again that’s why I’m wondering about using an SSD to transfer code to and then my other question would be what happens when the SSD fills up with the ram it boggs the system down to the point where almost always end up, rebooting it and then it goes into a parody check, which is a lot of stress on the system. Just trying to figure out what the best option is.

[Lessaj 467]

Transcode to an SSD. You'll have to gauge how large of one to use based on your environment, but to my knowledge if it runs out of space it won't cause the system to crash, but streams would start to fail, though likely as soon as one stream fails and it reclaims the disk space from clearing the session the rest can continue.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Technically it is supposed to start deleting the oldest chunks if space is limited.  

But yes size of drive really depends on how many users one will potentially have transcoding/remuxing at one time.

Note if transcode sessions are not being cleaned up as this has happened to some devs will most likely need to see server logs for a specific example and currently only a server restart will automatically clean the folder as part of the start routine.

Would have to search but others have made their own scripts to clean this folder also.