Generating video preview thumbnails keeps redoing a handful of specific episodes over and over

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Can you PM me a link to that file?

Apr 13, 2022 12:12:58.939 [0x14d6e6c7eb38] ERROR - BaseIndexFrameFileManager: expected 346 images, but found 4

Try this:

Video Preview Thumbnail Generation Fails for Some Items

Oh my gosh … There’s a much better way than the binary hacking above. I found a hidden setting: In Preferences.xml, add: GenerateBIFKeyframesOnly="0" By default this setting doesn’t exist, the default value is 1, and Plex uses -skip_frame:v nokey. This is fast but has occasional problems on certain files if FFmpeg doesn’t detect enough keyframes. Adding this and changing it to 0 causes Plex to not use that argument and not skip frames. This is much slowe…