Yeah, I agree. That seems like a long time. But it’s a lot of media, and some of the analysis is very dependent on CPU performance. And if there is any rework going on that would delay things too.
I’ve noticed that tasks start a few minutes after the start time is reached. I don’t think they will begin in the middle of the task window.
If you don’t care as much about Video Preview Thumbnails, you can turn them off for now. Let the tasks you care about complete first.
I like your idea to expand the time window and let it make more progress.
I don’t know! Some of the tasks definitely seem to process alphabetically, but others seem to process shows in the date they were added.
I really agree. I’m going to go see if there’s already a Feature Suggestion, and I’ll make one if not.
ExportTools is the best solution for this today, as far as identifying media that has or hasn’t been analyzed.
That’s often the sign of a video file that wasn’t encoded or muxed to be “streaming friendly”, and the client fails to seek directly to a timestamp in the file. Different playback devices are more resilient about this than others.
Sometimes you can disable Direct Play in the client (keep Direct Streaming enabled) to allow the PMS to remux the container. And sometimes files can be fixed by manually remuxing them in MKVToolNix.
I’ll try to keep it crunching away and see if it ever ends.
Meantime the other problem should probably be a separate thread. While turning off Direct Play may help, it’s my understanding that it won’t help my remote users. But I will say that knowing how to remux them in mkvtoolnix would be helpful. Perhaps email me (Andrew@DeFaira.com).
There are some users who have automated media collection (download) tools.
Those tools were configured to have Read/Write access directly into where PMS monitors.
When done that way, every time the date/time stamp changes, PMS gets triggered.
(this is how Linux & Inotify work)
If PMS isn’t configured for “Partial Scan” in addition to “Automatic”, an avalanche is created where the entire task can get interrupted and PMS starts from the beginning.
I do use automated tools such as Sonarr, NZBget, etc. And while inotify may be alerted to a new download, as I understand it, Plex is configured only to do these scheduled tasks between 2-5 Am (I’ve since changed that to allow more time for processing). Here are the Scheduled Tasks that I have. Note some of them say things like every week so I assume they only happen every week, etc.
Do you realize You’ve configured Scheduled Tasks to run whenever they are needed, beginning at Midnight (0:00 hrs) and having all night and all day until 11pm the next night? (23:00 hrs) ?
anything that happens which will need processing is allowed to run.
I’m fully aware of that as I said in my previous post:
Plex is configured only to do these scheduled tasks between 2-5 Am (I’ve since changed that to allow more time for processing).
Yes, I did change it to Midnight - 11 Pm purposely to allow it time to “finish the job” of indexing, intros, thumbnails, or whatever all of my media and that I would “keep an eye on it”. I also turned off the Preview Thumbnails on a number of my libraries but I had left it on for my more active and larger libraries for now. It was initially, and for the last 54 days, set to 2-5 Am and I’ll set it back that way after I “drain” the current work. Or at least that’s the plan.
