Memories Transcoding with external storage

[billdotmu]

Hello,

I have 175GB of photos I’d like to access in Memories. I also want transcoding for the videos. Transcoding isn’t supported on external storage.

The photos are stored on my Unraid NAS and accessed by Samba inside the operating system (i.e. mounted into a folder in /media with NEXTCLOUD_MOUNT=“/media/” in the AIO startup script) and then in Nextcloud as external storage using the Local provider. I need some scripts to re-index when I add photos to the share outside Nextcloud but otherwise it works well. Except transcoding.

My Nextcloud VM doesn’t have enough space to store 175GB of photos but I could do something like provision an NFS share for ncdata (which at the moment is just a disk connected to the VM) and create a symlink on the file server into the directory holding the photos. Or I could try mounting the samba share inside the existing ncdata location, which sounds horrible and I’m guessing wouldn’t work like I’d expect.

How do you solve this? I can’t imagine I’m the only one hacking around Memories limitation on transcoding files on external storage.

Thanks in advance.

[Sanook]

You can try to mount the external storage in /etc/fstab as cifs to /mnt/Storage and then add /mnt/Storage as local external storage to Nextcloud. I did not try but it could work.

[billdotmu]

Thanks, but that’s how I’m running at the moment. Memories does not allow transcoding using external storage full stop, even if it’s local.

[scubamuc]

have you seen

Configuration - Memories

maybe that answers some questions? especially this;

Configuration - Memories

[billdotmu]

I had. Given the tone of the replies here suggesting it probably should work, I started to think maybe I’d done something wrong and I should test further so I switched it on and for some reason it now works. It didn’t before and I assumed it was related to this bit of text above the hardware settings:

“Note that this may be very CPU intensive without hardware acceleration, and transcoding will not be used for external storage.”

Transcoding absolutely will be used for external storage if you use local external storage (as Sanook suggests) and / or ask nicely. For anyone else having trouble, the link in the previous post from scubamuc is what I followed. I don’t know why it didn’t work when I set it up but works today. I wish I could tell you what I was doing wrong before. Maybe something got updated. No idea.

Thanks for your help.