OK, when I pulled the movie from the Plex directory, the continuous 2 AM scanning stopped.
The next day I put the file back inside it all started back again but I captured the debug log on two nights. I cut / pasted the sections of the log in the attached two text files. Hopefully someone can recognize what its doing.
I can just re-create the movie from the original media if you think that will solve this.
Thanks again for any insight.
Both logs only show a relatively normal (and short) update of metadata and poster for the same movie.
I see that you have matched this movie to TheMovieDatabase.
Make a test and re-match it to ‘Plex Movie’ instead. See if this changes anything about the nightly behaviour.
(You can switch the metadata agent of a movie with the ‘Fix Match…’ command. Click on ‘Search Options’ and then select the desired agent in the search mask.)
Second test to conduct is to drag the file into MKVtoolnixGUI and remux it that way.
@OttoKerner said:
Both logs only show a relatively normal (and short) update of metadata and poster for the same movie.I see that you have matched this movie to TheMovieDatabase.
Make a test and re-match it to ‘Plex Movie’ instead. See if this changes anything about the nightly behaviour.
(You can switch the metadata agent of a movie with the ‘Fix Match…’ command. Click on ‘Search Options’ and then select the desired agent in the search mask.)Second test to conduct is to drag the file into MKVtoolnixGUI and remux it that way.
OK I did the “fix match.” I’ve used this before when a movie couldn’t be found automatically by Plex. It’s rare but it has needed help on a few occasions.
It took a while but eventually seems to have worked. I say “seems to” because after searching for what felt like a few minutes, nothing changed.
I attached what I think is the relevant section of the log from the update if it tells you anything but of course wanting to know that it actually worked, rather than timing out and keeping the old settings. I looked in the section of the lot from tonight from a little before to a little after the first and last appearance of “The Host” It’s actually a pretty long chunk.
Is there somewhere in the Plex movie data you can see what database it sync’d too?
You mentioned running it through MKVtoolnixGUI next. I take it making no changes, just open and process it as is?
Sorry, that log file snippet doesn’t tell me anything.
Is there somewhere in the Plex movie data you can see what database it sync’d too?
Yes, when you look at the Plex XML info of an item, there is a guid= property. If this contains imdb then it is matched to ‘Plex Movie’.
You mentioned running it through MKVtoolnixGUI next. I take it making no changes, just open and process it as is?
Precisely. Only remuxing into a new container - without any changes to codecs, bandwidth and quality.
@OttoKerner said:
Sorry, that log file snippet doesn’t tell me anything.Is there somewhere in the Plex movie data you can see what database it sync’d too?
Yes, when you look at the Plex XML info of an item, there is a
guid=property. If this containsimdbthen it is matched to ‘Plex Movie’.You mentioned running it through MKVtoolnixGUI next. I take it making no changes, just open and process it as is?
Precisely. Only remuxing into a new container - without any changes to codecs, bandwidth and quality.
remuxing did not work, but recreating the file from the original media did. After a week, the behavior has not returned.
Thanks for the help!
