stupid question, but does your server have a video card or only the CPU’s (or SOC’s) built-in GPU?
If you do, you might want to make sure you’ve configured ffmpeg to use the hardware acceleration
Also, could be that unmanic is trying to reencode the files, which would eat up wayyyyyyyy more resources than necessary. It looks like the least overhead/performance hungry option will be to just run ffmpeg directly, so you know exactly what’s being done.
right? I know the unix philosophy disagrees, bur goddamn is it so convenient and versatile.
plus overpowered CLI tools like ffmpeg are the definitive case where CLI is definitely preferable to GUI by almost every metric. Why go hunting through a labyrinth of dropdowns and dialog boxes when I could just search the man page and type a few characters.