Media file hash?

[peterjaclark]

Does Plex create/store a media file hash in the database or elsewhere?

I recently lost a HDD, and whilst I have been able to recover a lot of files some now have playback issues. I’d like to be able to sanity check the files without having to play 8TB of video to check for errors, but did not have hashes from before this happened.

When plex is analysing the media files does it create and store a hash of the files anywhere?

[OttoKerner]

Plex does create only a “bogo-hash”, which only uses a portion of the file. So that cannot be used to check a whole movie.

I once found a script here in the forums which uses ffmpeg for that. I just have to find the thread again…

[OttoKerner]

I think it was this one:

Attempting to Analyze ~1000 Movies. It will stop after a few

Here is a small excerpt that will help you. Simply saveas whatever.cmd and drag a file you want to check. Oh yeah, you need ffmpeg.exe in the same folder as batch file. @ECHO OFF TITLE IntegrityCheck CD /D %~DP0 IF NOT EXIST ffmpeg.exe ECHO ffmpeg.exe not found! & ECHO Hit a key to exit. & PAUSE>NUL & EXIT IF [%1] EQU [] ECHO. & ECHO ERROR! You must drag over a file. & PAUSE>NUL & EXIT IF [%2] NEQ [] IF [%Total%] EQU [] ECHO. & ECHO Sorry, you may only drag over one file at a time. & PAUSE>…

But it still may not find all issues.