I do not want a skip intro button popping up over my videos. There better be a way to completely disable this because if I start seeing this annoying and intrusive feature forced on me (like Netflix and Disney Plus does) then I’m done with Plex.
@Emissary35 It’s an opt-in feature mate. Nothing to worry about.
I didn’t know that, certainly nothing to worry about as long as it stays that way and is never forced on people like Netflix does, which is so inconsiderate. I’m glad Plex is not behaving as badly as that terrible company.
In my experience this new feature was enabled by default (!) and the Transcoder that’s doing the job is not honoring the Transcoder temporary directory setting. So, since it’s now using the OS default temp directory instead of the one I’ve specified to PMS, my OS drive got hammered slowing my system down to a crawl.
Not a very nice way to find out and can cause a bunch of issues as we’re now seeing in various threads. Sloppy roll-out by the Plex Team, but they seem to be on the ball to fix the problem.
I still haven’t found a fix for this.
I tried changing the temp-directory to something other than /tmp/ both via override.conf for systemd (and verified that it actually picks up and works), but the intro detection still doesn’t work. I think in all this time it has successfully done intro markers for maybe 10 episodes, all in all.
@mescon Hopefully a fix is coming soon.
Server/Settings/Transcoder:
Enable Video Transcoding.
If that’s off - nothing can happen.
The ‘Transcoder’ is the thing that’s doing the work.
Yeah, here’s my settings currently.
The temporary directory used to be /tmp/, but I tried changing it to something else (in thius case /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/).
Still not working anywhere.
Nothing from Plex either…
I’ve also upped inotify slots: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 in sysctl…
Where is this mentioned by Plex devs? or is it a guess?
No Guess. Tis a fact.
The ‘Transcoder’ is the thing that analyzes the audio track.
If it’s off - it can’t do it’s work.
The wording of that is also misleading.
Video Transcoding would indicate only Video Transcoding is affected when you cut it off at the knees, when in reality, Video Transcoding means ‘Transcoding’. ALL Transcoding.
A whole bunch of us wondered what was gonna happen when users got the option to disable the transcoder. Well, we knew - but now everyone else is finding out.
As non-sensical as it sounds, I had success with this too some time last week.
However, Plex appeared to be still starting the Transcoder process (you could see it with ps aux) but it just took so long to complete a single file, it was next to useless.
Yea - if you wanna drive to the store - and your car has no engine - it’s gonna take a while.
Except that analogy doesn’t quite work, as it does do something, just very slowly.
I had the same thing. I could see detecting intros spinning in the progress bar, but it would take hours for any progress.
What I ended up needing to do was start the conversion of some media. I did the optimize option on some media to trigger it to begin.
After that, I went to see the status of the concerting media and saw that it was paused (you don’t see if it’s paused unless you have some media pending). Once I unpaused the conversion, I deleted my optimization job and the intros started rocketing along.
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Testing this now… started optimize on a file, went to the status, saw that it was paused, unpaused it and then removed the optimization job for that file I started… now it seems to be chugging.
I’ll just let this sit for a while and see if it actually detects the intros and writes it to the XML.
Thank you VERY much for this approach - it’s progress! 
UPDATE: It seems to be chugging along nicely now! Thank you @hassetbj for your suggestion, it worked!
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With input from @JuiceWSA (thanks!)
I was able to test and therefore conclude that in fact it is the ‘transcoder’ that causes this issue, meaning that it needs to be kept on (not disabled) until a fix for the fingerprint scanner service is found by the Plex team.
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this actually worked! was taking 24 hours for a season before, now its taking 20 - 40 seconds…
I have a fix for the “24 hours / season” landing in the next release (1.19.5)
For now, unchecking the “Disable video stream transcoing” will (as you have noticed) speed things up.
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“Disable video stream transcoing” has always been off here. but follow @hassetbj steps made something happen
I’m guessing this is exactly what I’m seeing here:
@StSimm1, do you anticipate the fix also applying to other background media tasks - video preview thumbnail generation, optimization jobs, etc?
Thanks!
