I have some questions about how the skip intro feature functions that I was hoping one of the developers could answer.
When it is scanning a season, and it is analyzing the audio does it only analyze the first 10 minutes (possibly first half of episode with the release notes from the latest changelog), or does it read the entire file? When it is analyzing it does it only read the audio stream or is reading audio/video. For example if a 60 minute episode is a 3GB mkv file how much of the file is going to be read?
Once it has detected the intro is a sample of that stored somewhere in the Metadata or does the addition of a new episode require re-scanning all episodes in a season. For example if Episode 1-8 of a season are present and all 8 episodes have an intro marker. Episode 9 gets added which triggers another intro detection for whatever show and season, does it have a sample to analyze episode 9 against or does it re-scan episodes 1-8 in addition to episode 9 in order to get the intro marker for episode 9?
Finally what happens when changes are made to the intro scanner, the most recent Plex Pass release had some notes to indicate it will now search the first half of the episode as well as changes for it to better detect an intro. What about all of my media that has already been scanned and previously marked as scanned, no intro detected. Do I need to manually re-scan individual seasons then or will it automatically re-scan items that don’t have an intro from a previous scan during the scheduled task window if the option for during scheduled tasks is chosen?
These questions may not affect many of your users but a good chunk of us have our media stored on a cloud platform and so far I have gotten two separate API bans due to the number of requests being made against my cloud drive and/or the bandwidth being used as all the media is being read, because of the intro scan. I have shortened my scheduled task window significantly to prevent this from happening again at the expense of it taking far longer to complete the scan for my entire library.
