# Media

## Settings

```yaml
########################
##### MEDIA CONFIG #####
########################

# Config pertaining to media uploads (media, image descriptions, emoji).

# Size. Max size in bytes of media uploads via API.
#
# Raising this limit may cause other servers to not fetch media
# attached to a post.
#
# Examples: [2097152, 10485760, 40MB, 40MiB]
# Default: 40MiB (41943040 bytes)
media-local-max-size: 40MiB

# Size. Max size in bytes of media to download from other instances.
#
# Lowering this limit may cause your instance not to fetch post media.
#
# Examples: [2097152, 10485760, 40MB, 40MiB]
# Default: 40MiB (41943040 bytes)
media-remote-max-size: 40MiB

# Int. Minimum amount of characters required as an image or video description.
# Examples: [500, 1000, 1500]
# Default: 0 (not required)
media-description-min-chars: 0

# Int. Maximum amount of characters permitted in an image or video description.
# Examples: [1000, 1500, 3000]
# Default: 1500
media-description-max-chars: 1500

# Size. Max size in bytes of emojis uploaded to this instance via the admin API.
#
# The default is the same as the Mastodon size limit for emojis (50kb), which allows
# for good interoperability. Raising this limit may cause issues with federation
# of your emojis to other instances, so beware.
#
# Examples: [51200, 102400, 50KB, 50KiB]
# Default: 50KiB (51200 bytes)
media-emoji-local-max-size: 50KiB

# Size. Max size in bytes of emojis to download from other instances.
#
# By default this is 100kb, or twice the size of the default for media-emoji-local-max-size.
# This strikes a good balance between decent interoperability with instances that have
# higher emoji size limits, and not taking up too much space in storage.
#
# Examples: [51200, 102400, 100KB, 100KiB]
# Default: 100KiB (102400 bytes)
media-emoji-remote-max-size: 100KiB

# Int. Number of instances of ffmpeg+ffprobe to add to the media processing pool.
#
# Increasing this number will lead to faster concurrent media processing,
# but at the cost of up to about 250MB of (spiking) memory usage per increment.
#
# You'll want to increase this number if you have RAM to spare, and/or if you're
# hosting an instance for more than 50 or so people who post/view lots of media,
# but you should leave it at 1 for single-user instances or when running GoToSocial
# in a constrained (low-memory) environment.
#
# If you set this number to 0 or less, then instead of a fixed number of instances,
# it will scale with GOMAXPROCS x 1, yielding (usually) one ffmpeg instance and one
# ffprobe instance per CPU core on the host machine.
#
# Examples: [1, 2, -1, 8]
# Default: 1
media-ffmpeg-pool-size: 1

# The below media cleanup settings allow admins to customize when and
# how often media cleanup + prune jobs run, while being set to a fairly
# sensible default (every night @ midnight). For more information on exactly
# what these settings do, with some customization examples, see the docs:
# https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/media_caching#cleanup

# Int. Number of days to cache media from remote instances before
# they are removed from the cache. When remote media is removed from
# the cache, it is deleted from storage but the database entries for
# the media are kept so that it can be fetched again if requested by a user.
#
# If this is set to 0, then media from remote instances will be cached indefinitely.
#
# Examples: [30, 60, 7, 0]
# Default: 7
media-remote-cache-days: 7

# String. 24hr time of day formatted as hh:mm.
# Examples: ["14:30", "00:00", "04:00"]
# Default: "00:00" (midnight). 
media-cleanup-from: "00:00"

# Duration. Period between media cleanup runs.
# More than once per 24h is not recommended
# is likely overkill. Setting this to something
# very low like once every 10 minutes will probably
# cause lag and possibly other issues.
# Examples: ["24h", "72h", "12h"]
# Default: "24h" (once per day).
media-cleanup-every: "24h"
```