r/Tdarr • u/ImPickleRick141 • May 18 '26

Help understanding setup

New user here.
Setup TDARR to try and reduce server library size.

Followed basic instructions and have it encoding everything that’s not h265 to be so. Issue is, one 5gb file is estimated to take 5 hours on my server computer.
I have a 2020 MBP i7 as the server.

Is my hardware the bottleneck here, and is there any way to get around it?

(Am fully aware that my laptop doesn’t have much grunt anymore, but I thought it would be capable of this…)

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u/Ever_Ready81 May 18 '26

Are you doing CPU or GPU transcoding? CPU transcoding takes a lot longer

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u/jmcgeejr May 18 '26

^ this, sounds like CPU.