I’m running a RPI3 and it works well. But, when it’s doing stuff it slows down.
The Alerts don’t say when a ‘transcoding has begin or ended.’ (last time I checked).
A ‘Transcoding’ is performed to generate a bitmap file for FF viewing on roku.
It is ‘like’ a ‘Now Playing’. The RPI3 has a single USB controller and EVERYTHING
goes through that for my network media libraries, Ethernet, WiFi, USB drives.
I am build a rpi3 plex server for a friend but I don’t want to teach him how to look
and see how busy his plex media server is. (And I don’t want to write a channel to show it.)
Is there a simple way to get stuff to show up in ‘Now Showing?’
You can easily turn off those index files, to eliminate the generation, and the CPU required to do it. Or you can set it to run as a scheduled task.
The settings for this are found in the Web App Settings > Server > Scheduled tasks > Generate video preview thumbnails. set this to Never or As a scheduled task and it should happen when you set the scheduled tasks to preform. (Or never, if that’s the setting you used.)
I want the bif files. I want it to run as it does, on schedule and when directory changed.
I also want to see the status of the New Transcoder.
There is a “progress url” in the new transcoder command line.
http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/bif/progress?X-Plex-Token=blahblah
didn’t show anything…
http://http://127.0.0.1:32400/?X-Plex-Token=blahblah
did show and prove Im talking to a plex server…
I specified the URL of the server and that didn’t help either.
Well, if you want them on when the directory is changed, such as when new media is put in, then you are going to have to wait for them to be created. If those don’t matter, but streaming is more important, well, there it is. I guess you have to figure out what has a higher priority to you. I know streaming is a higher priority to me, so…
Right now, there isn’t a way to see what the Plex New Transcoder is doing with new media. I use NetData and tried to set that up to monitor the transcodes for Bif files and streams. Doesn’t work, since the process is spawned from Plex Media Server, and considered a child process. And NetData can’t separate child processes from parent processes.
I offered a solution based on the CPU you have in that device, to allow you to watch your media whenever you wanted. Having them made during off-peak times seems the best of both worlds, IMO. Based on what you are asking, this solution is probably the best all around. No skin off my nose if you don’t want to follow it… 
Thanks… It’s not that I’m not following it. I’ve been using plex for years and years.
I was looking for a way to SEE what it’s doing without using ssh and a laptop.
Currently the html client shows status on what is being played, synced and alert status log info.
But the status log reports processing complete when transcoding is kicked off to create a bif file.
I use ps -ef | grep Transcode to shows processes. I don’t want to login to the server to see that status.
So I am interested in finding detailed programming level brainstorming about obtaining the status.
There is a progress file which is built into the command which is used to create the status. I was wondering
how to view that.
