He is super focused on the highest quality available. Unless you're watching on a huge 4k/UHD screen with professional a sound system, take those guides with a grain of salt. Modify the values to your own screen resolution. If your screen is an older model it may not accommodate more than 1080p or even 720p video anyway.

Bandwidth may also be an issue depending on where you live and what your ISP provides. If so, downloading larger files than your screen/projector affords is a double waste. Go for h265 instead of h264 and save yourself the wait. You can always download them in a better quality when you upgrade your home theatre.

I want to make clear, I would have been lost in the *arr settings if not for the Trash Guides, but man. They're absolutely written for somebody with ample bandwidth and a huge home cinema setup.

[–] camilobotero@feddit.dk 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Regarding the speed of my internet, that it is not a problem (I have 1000mb downloading), neither with the max resolution (my tv supports 4k). Now, regarding the sound and storage you have a point here. I need to increase my RPi storage capacity. Another issue could be the content language, I need at least 3 different ones, and not just subtitles. Thanks for it!

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like BlueRay Remux and Web Downloads are what you should be looking for. Radarr and Sonarr shine at this.

High quality audio can consume a great deal of disk space, but it’s probably going to unavoidable if you’re looking for releases with multiple audio and subtitle tracks available. I would not exactly call this rare anymore, but it’s definitely not the default so you want to wait until after you have search and download working across the board.

The only thing I didn’t see on your list is any type of library optimization. I kind of gave up on it myself because it’s faster for me to just redownload something than recompress it, and that’s their major use case… but you might find utility in removing additional audio or subtitle tracks, or to rearrange defaults.

Handling additional data streams like subtitles and multiple languages is not quite as mature, hardware players often have strong preferences. Something to keep in mind as your planning out your setup.

[–] camilobotero@feddit.dk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Great insights!

I am almost giving up because my setup isn’t working properly. I really cannot see what is the problem. I have everything installed and running, but I could not follow the TRaSH Guides, nor the very few videos available outside there.

What am I waiting of it? “Simple.” To open Jellyseerr, look for something I want to add to my library (series or movies), then have it available on Jellyfin (through my server), doing the automatic download using RD.

I am missing something, and I really don’t know what is it.

Do you have any suggestions of a step-by-step guide? If yes, I would appreciate it so much!

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately I can’t be of much specific help, my setup is pretty specific to my NAS and my content comes from usenet so it’s a little bit different.

But the first thing to do is bring it up in stages, starting with running one workflow. Say movies because they are a bit simpler. Run your search from inside Radarr and check the logs, you should get a good idea of where it’s breaking. Once Radarr is working as expected and placing the processed download in the right place you can move the same settings to Sonarr. After those are working then try running them from Jellyseerr.

If you get stuck post the error message you’re getting, without that we can’t help.

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