3. Environment Variables

Required Variables

ENV Variable	Description	Example
BACKUPPROCESSED	If set to true this will result in transcoded files being backed up for x days	false
BACKUPRETENTION	Number of days to retain a backup copy of transcoded media	14
MEDIAMOVIEFOLDERS	Top level movie directories. Multiple directories must be seperated by ", " (Comma and a trailing space) and not be surrounded by quotes.	/media/test/movies, /media/test/movies02
MEDIASHOWFOLDERS	Top level show directories. Multiple directories must be seperated by ", " (Comma and a trailing space) and not be surrounded by quotes.	/media/test/shows

Optional Variables

ENV Variable	Description	Example
ENDTIMEUTC	End of timeframe that transcoding is allowed in UTC 24 hour format	02:00
MINAGE	Minimum age in hours of a file before it's processed	1.5
MOVIESCRF	Constant Rate Factor for configuring trancode quality	21
PROCDELAY	Time delay in hours between processing files	4
SHOWSCRF	Constant Rate Factor for configuring trancode quality	23
STARTTIMEUTC	Beginning of timeframe that transcoding is allowed in UTC 24 hour format	17:00
SKIPAV1	Skip processing files that are av1 encoded	true
SKIPHEVC	Skip processing files that are x265/hevc encoded	false
SKIPKBPSBITRATEMIN	Skip files below a minimum bitrate in kbps	1000
SKIPMINUTESMIN	Skip files below a minimum legnth in minutes	30
SKIPDOVI	Skip files containing Dolby Vision metadata	true
SKIPHDR	Skip files containing HDR metadata	false
UPDATEMETADATA	If true, existing media will have metadata updated only	true

Variable Notes

• If setting BACKUPPROCESSED to true be careful. This can easily lead to filling up drive free space dependent on media processed during the BACKUPRETENTION period.
• UPDATEMETADATA can be used to index existing media. Useful if existing media was previously transcoded. After metadata has been updated remove this variable and restart the container.
• If ENDTIMEUTC is an earlier time than STARTTIMEUTC, then it will be treated as next day. For example 18:30 UTC start time with an end time of 03:00 UTC, the end time will stop processing new transcodes the next day for the given UTC Datetime.
• PROCDELAY and MINAGE defaults are 4 hours. PROCDELAY will respect UTC time windows. It is recommended to maintain a larger processing delay to limit excessive disk reads.