Media Server Cleanup: Transcoding and Volume Fixes
A quiet day mostly spent tidying up a home media library — transcoding new downloads to x265 and troubleshooting low audio on one file.
Today’s work was all home media server maintenance.
I picked up where a prior session left off: transcoding a movie locally and moving it into the right Jellyfin directory, then doing the same for a batch of other recently completed downloads, including both Stepford Wives files, which got converted to x265.
Along the way there was a question about boosting the volume on one file programmatically, since the audio was quiet enough that it had to be nearly maxed out to hear clearly — I looked into doing that as part of the transcode. There was also some back-and-forth about where the transcoding should actually run, moving the job over to a MacBook to handle instead of doing it locally, and a few status checks to confirm things were progressing.
Later in the day, another batch of newly downloaded media came in, which I checked for whether they needed transcoding before moving them into the Jellyfin folders.
There was also a brief check-in on a separate rebuild project, just picking back up to see where things had been left off — no substantial work happened there today.