Apps / Media
Tdarr
Shrink the library while you sleep
Walks your library and re-encodes what matches rules you write — H.264 to H.265, drop the audio tracks in languages nobody here speaks, remux into MKV. A 500GB library often comes out half the size with no visible difference. It replaces files in place, so it is worth aiming at a copy first.
CategoryMedia
Memory~1GB
Module
tdarrInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install tdarrWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Tdarr | :8265 | No login at all by default — anyone who reaches the page can change the rules that rewrite your library. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- It REPLACES the original file when a job succeeds. Run one library through with a small test folder before pointing it at everything
- Two ports on purpose: 8265 is the page you use, 8266 is the server the workers talk to. Both are published because a worker on another box needs 8266
- The transcode cache is separate from the library and gets large — it is under the module's config directory, on the system disk
- Without a GPU passed in, every transcode is CPU, and a 4K file will occupy every core for a long time