Radar / Sonarr, Plex and Tdarr
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Connerzzz6 · 2023-11-13 01:00

Okay so, I don't know if it's because I have baby brain or not but I'm
struggling to wrap my head around this.

I already have all my automation setup but have now decided I want to
transcode any new media that is downloaded BEFORE it is added to Plex.
I just can't seem to work out how I would do that.

Currently Sonarr / Radarr do their thing, then the media is moved into
the directory of the Plex library.

I feel like the media would need to be downloaded and placed somewhere
else for Tdarr to pick it up, them have Tdarr move it to the Plex
directory, however, I can see this causing issues in Sonarr / Radarr
as it would think that the file is in the Tdarr directory. I'm not
aware of any communication between Tdarr and Sonarr / Radarr.

Am I being a smooth brain? Is there any easy way here that I'm not
seeing?

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Vinnie5 · 2023-11-13 01:48

I just have Tdarr do the transcoding directly on the file in the
Jellyfin/Plex directory. Do you have a reason why you need the
transcoding to happen before Jellyfin/Plex get the file?

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Connerzzz6 · 2023-11-13 01:49

No real reason, I thought it may be better to do it before hand, but I
suppose Plex will just rediscover the file if it has to change format?

Everything is being spat out as MKVs

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Vinnie5 · 2023-11-13 02:15

Unless you are using a file renaming plugin the filename stays the
same, so I would guess Plex wouldn't have actually need to re-discover
it. I admittedly have only had Tdarr setup for a week or so, but so
far my Jellyfin instance has had no issues automatically "re-finding"
any of the movies files I have processed with Tdarr without me doing
anything.


Now if you are renaming any of the files, you probably will need to
have Plex re-scan to library to pick those up.

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happytaz411 · 2023-11-13 02:38

Do you want to keep the original file with the transcoded file or do
you want the transcoded file to replace the original file?

Instead of using Tdarr to transcode, why don't you just download a
lower size version of the file?