xemle / home-gallery

Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery
https://home-gallery.org
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Transcoding video, photo preview #96

Closed mxm199 closed 6 months ago

mxm199 commented 8 months ago

Hello. Such a question, is it possible to disable the transcoding of mp4 video files so that the video is played directly from the connected /data folder? I have the entire library stored on my home server, and for backup storage I copy it to an external hard drive. If the video files are transcoded by the server, the cache folder increases greatly in size and there is almost duplication of content. There is also a question about photo files, the preview is limited to the size of 1920 and it is in no way possible to use the original file for the final viewing? There seems to have been information in the documentation that the source folder is used only for preparing gallery files and after full content processing is not used, only for processing new files. If so, then I probably answered my own question)))

xemle commented 8 months ago

Such a question, is it possible to disable the transcoding of mp4 video files so that the video is played directly from the connected /data folder?

Currently this feature is not yet supported.

Also original files in general are not suppoted yet.

There is also a question about photo files, the preview is limited to the size of 1920

The preview sizes are customizable via the config.

There seems to have been information in the documentation that the source folder is used only for preparing gallery files and after full content processing is not used, only for processing new files.

Correct. The storage folder contains all required data for the gallery. The original folder is not required. This was an design decition for the gallery to gave the possibility to browse/preview all files in little space

xemle commented 6 months ago

Closing due to inactivity