The same to you and yours!
[It’s my wife’s birthday too… only happens Leap Year, when her birthday falls on a Sunday, and there’s a blue moon… or something like that 
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With your conversion scripts, I set autoProcess.ini video-bitrate =
11000, but it doesn’t work? Just copies the video at the original bitrate.
I’m probably missing something very simple but edited the settings.py also and can’t seem to get it to work.
@shpankey said:
@benadderson said:
@cayars I’m curious - have you adopted ffmpeg v3 yet?I have a similar script that I wrote myself a couple of years ago (though not as sophisticated as yours), and when I dropped in v3 I found that, for the exact same CLI parameters, the conversion seems to be much slower.
Unfortunately I haven’t had chance to properly investigate why this might be, so was wondering if you (or anybody else) has had the same experience?
Well, just did some informal testing and you’re right. With the very latest ffmpeg, it is quite a bit slower than with the ones cayars has. Not sure what’s up with that, but it’s very noticeable, just guessing it is roughly twice as fast w/ his.
Thanks. I’m glad its not just me experiencing it, since that suggests it not just a weird issue with my setup.
Any thoughts/ideas as to why this might be the case?
That’s because I’m that good. LOL
Whatever it is, I went back to his. Speed is critical for me, I’ve been running this for a week now and not even 1/4th through my library.
@cayars said:
That’s because I’m that good. LOL
Does this process support 4K? I wasn’t 100% sure and didn’t want to convert my 4K videos if it didn’t.
Yes it does.
What a wealth of information on setting up Plex. Thanks @cayars! 
@danjames92 said:
With your conversion scripts, I set autoProcess.ini video-bitrate =
11000, but it doesn’t work? Just copies the video at the original bitrate.I’m probably missing something very simple but edited the settings.py also and can’t seem to get it to work.
anyone help with this?
@danjames92 said:
@danjames92 said:
With your conversion scripts, I set autoProcess.ini video-bitrate =
11000, but it doesn’t work? Just copies the video at the original bitrate.I’m probably missing something very simple but edited the settings.py also and can’t seem to get it to work.
anyone help with this?
This does not currently work. When I get a chance I plan on taking a look at it.
@cayars said:
@danjames92 said:
@danjames92 said:
With your conversion scripts, I set autoProcess.ini video-bitrate =
11000, but it doesn’t work? Just copies the video at the original bitrate.I’m probably missing something very simple but edited the settings.py also and can’t seem to get it to work.
anyone help with this?
This does not currently work. When I get a chance I plan on taking a look at it.
Ah ok no worries. Just to confirm in it’s current state. It creates a copy of the video track (web-optimised), audio track 1 is the compressed aac, audio track 2 is the original correct?
@cayars said:
This does not currently work. When I get a chance I plan on taking a look at it.
</sarcasm on>
We might see a new version of Cayars’ scripts, when a version of Plex is released that allows control of bandwidth at the server level…
</sarcasm off>
JMWY… 
Not sure if I’m understanding this right, so forgive me if I’m speaking from ignorance here, but one major flaw with this script, because you have set it to strip out all of the metadata, now Sick Beard sees EVERYTHING as SD. This is an absolute deal breaker for me and has ruined my whole setup. What setting can I change in your script to reput in all of the metadata? I now will have to re-run that on my entire library.
I wouldn’t have noticed this if I hadn’t just setup a new RAID drive and moved all of my files over to it, reset Sick Beard and reimported all my existing shows. It seen everything that had been converted as SD and started sabnzbd to download thousands of files.
Please, if this is the case and is why Sick Beard now sees everything as SD only, let me know how to correct this in the Script so I can re-run my library. Now I will have to toggle the option to process mp4 files too, so this has set me back considerably. Doesn’t Plex already ignore local file metadata and get its own?
I’m thinking it may be this one…
cmds.extend([’-map_metadata’, ‘-1’])
in ffmpeg.py? What should I change it to? auto, 0, 1? I dunno.
I intentionally strip the metadata out because it confuses the heck out of Plex when you get your data from some “other” places instead of your own rips. Plex will use the meta-data instead of the agents for things like Title and this is extremely annoying.
I do not use Sick Beard. Can you explain what Sick Beard is doing that causes the problem?
Hmm weird, never had that issue w/ Plex. Just move the local md down on the list and it will always pull data from the sources above it.
@JasonMeudt said:
@cayars said:
This does not currently work. When I get a chance I plan on taking a look at it.
</sarcasm on>
We might see a new version of Cayars’ scripts, when a version of Plex is released that allows control of bandwidth at the server level…</sarcasm off>
JMWY…
I fixed it. Just needed to edit it so it looked like this in the auto process ini:
video-bitrate= 4000
Working great, thanks for the script @cayars , just a shame my crappy 3570k encodes so slowly. 
Anyone remember the command to use certain cores when encoding with ffmpeg?
it’s in his ffmpeg.py file in the converter sub-directory. open the file and search for…
cmds.extend([’-threads’, ‘auto’])
…and change the auto to however many cores you want to use. it defaults to 0 I believe (auto).
Hi,
So I got upto page #19 with all this awesome info and reading material but I think at that point it was way too much info. For now, I just have a simple Q for all. I’m building a new system. It should have 8x3TB drives. I’ll have all the data backed up to external drives as well. I wanted to use some form of RAID. Options are Storage Space, on board raid card (it’s fairly well known and stable MB company - ASRock - so getting a replacement board with same RAID card shouldn’t be an issue OR get some other software based RAID like FlexRAID or something. Please provide suggestions. Sorry, it’s a short post after reading 19 pages… half the brain keeps saying PLEX PLEX PLEX…
@bhav111 said:
Hi,
So I got upto page #19 with all this awesome info and reading material but I think at that point it was way too much info. For now, I just have a simple Q for all. I’m building a new system. It should have 8x3TB drives. I’ll have all the data backed up to external drives as well. I wanted to use some form of RAID. Options are Storage Space, on board raid card (it’s fairly well known and stable MB company - ASRock - so getting a replacement board with same RAID card shouldn’t be an issue OR get some other software based RAID like FlexRAID or something. Please provide suggestions. Sorry, it’s a short post after reading 19 pages… half the brain keeps saying PLEX PLEX PLEX…
It’s not freeware but check out unRAID. It’s hugely driven by community on the app side which is great and everything can run directly from it. It’s a software raid solution from Lime Technology. I’ve been using it without issue for about 4 years now and each and very year it becomes more polished and more community active. unRAID was started as a media solution NAS. So movies, photos etc was the focus. You can have multiple parity drives for double the safety and so forth.
