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Temporary Transcode Files Keep Filling the System Drive: How to Stop It
A transcode-storage recovery path covering active sessions, segment cleanup, container mounts, cache placement, stale files, concurrent streams, and monitoring.
Can One GPU Transcode Video While Running a Local AI Model?
A shared-GPU capacity test for fixed-function video engines, AI compute, model VRAM, context growth, power limits, containers, and service priorities.
What Should You Check When H.264 Hardware Transcodes but AV1 Does Not?
A codec-specific GPU test for AV1 decode versus encode, profiles, bit depth, firmware, userspace drivers, container access, FFmpeg, and client output.
Why Does Lossless Surround Audio Trigger Conversion on Some Clients?
A client-path diagnosis for TrueHD, DTS-HD, channel limits, passthrough settings, HDMI handshakes, audio-only transcoding, and fallback tracks.
Can You Preserve Watched History During a Media Server Migration?
A migration workflow for user IDs, watch state, playback positions, databases, stable library paths, version compatibility, backups, and restore testing.
What Naming Error Prevents TV Episodes From Matching Correctly?
A naming diagnosis for missing episode tokens, ambiguous numbers, wrong season structure, multi-episode files, specials, versions, and metadata order.
Overnight Library Scans Keep Waking Hard Drives: How to Reduce Them
A scan-by-scan workflow for separating full library scans, file monitoring, metadata jobs, preview generation, mount checks, and genuine playback access.
What Causes Playback to Fail on One TV While Other Clients Work?
A client-specific playback test covering codec profiles, audio and subtitles, direct play decisions, TV networking, app state, proxy paths, and logs.
