From 0366a0346b0f98a05e3c5647bd8f22a27b2d7094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erich Blume Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 08:43:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Set Frigate preview quality to CRF 8 for faster timeline loading Previews are ~4MB/hour at default quality (CRF 1), served over NFS from sifaka. Reducing to CRF 8 shrinks preview files to improve review page load times when scrubbing older footage. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) --- argocd/manifests/frigate/frigate-config.yml | 3 +++ docs/changelog.d/+frigate-preview-quality.infra.md | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/changelog.d/+frigate-preview-quality.infra.md diff --git a/argocd/manifests/frigate/frigate-config.yml b/argocd/manifests/frigate/frigate-config.yml index 35f7ccd..b10f18e 100644 --- a/argocd/manifests/frigate/frigate-config.yml +++ b/argocd/manifests/frigate/frigate-config.yml @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ model: path: /media/frigate/models/yolov9-c-640.onnx labelmap_path: /labelmap/coco-80.txt +preview: + quality: 8 + record: enabled: true continuous: diff --git a/docs/changelog.d/+frigate-preview-quality.infra.md b/docs/changelog.d/+frigate-preview-quality.infra.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b13333 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/changelog.d/+frigate-preview-quality.infra.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Set Frigate preview quality to CRF 8 (from default 1) to reduce preview file sizes and improve review timeline loading over NFS.