Is anyone using Immich? Compared to Photos?
Was wondering if this was worth setting up and how it compares to Synology Photos. Photos is ridiculously slow for me on WAN. I'm not really even sure if it's a Syno Photos issue because my upload speed is only 20mbps. I'm connecting thru DDNS but still slow. Immich seems to have some cool features like hardware transcoding.
I switched from Synology Photos over to Immich primarily because Photos couldn't play my 4k/60p H.265 files smoothly either on web or mobile. This is I think because of the way it transcodes videos. If I upload videos from mobile, Photos transcodes them at 15fps, which is not very smooth to look at. If I upload them using rsync, Photos seems to fail to transcode them for some reason. Photos either mobile or web tries to play them at full resolution/fps, which consumes a lot of bandwidth. It stutters and even worse the mobile app crashes in tens of seconds.
In Immich, there are settings to tweak transcoding parameters. Now I can play my videos just fine. Jan 18, 2024 2 likes