# PMS as a service

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-as-a-service/53381>\
**Category:** Tips, Tricks & How-Tos\
**Tags:** server-windows, tipstricks\
**Created:** [January 9, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-as-a-service/53381 "2014-01-09T09:55:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sa2000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sa2000/32/6922_2.png) [@sa2000](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sa2000)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-as-a-service/53381/49 "2014-02-26T16:29:43Z")

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> Let me know or if the existing logs tell you smart folks something.

Some slow access to the database - 1 second for 5 items. Previously this suggestion was given:

> [@WARN on transaction length in scanner log](https://forums.plex.tv/t/warn-on-transaction-length-in-scanner-log/12121):
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> Running an index/scan of my TV shows. I’m seeing an awful lot of WARN’s on Library/Dir.cpp and transaction held too long (Plex Media Scanner.log) \<br /\> Nov 09, 2011 00:14:50 [0xf5c2a960] DEBUG - Looking for path match for [/c/media/Videos/TV/SERIES/SEASON/EPISODE]\<br /\> Nov 09, 2011 00:14:50 [0xf5c2a960] DEBUG - It took 110.000000 ms to retrieve 1 items.\<br /\> Nov 09, 2011 00:14:50 [0xf5c2a960] DEBUG - Path matched, we're reusing media item 3366\<br /\> Nov 09, 2011 00:14:51 [0xf5c2a96…

Some Plug-in timeouts - this normally fixes a lot of such issues :&nbsp;[https://plexapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201119258-Resetting-System-and-Framework-bundles](https://plexapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201119258-Resetting-System-and-Framework-bundles)

Issue with scanning some media : may be setting verbose logging in PMS Settings / Advanced would give more info relating to the media file concerned

Could also try disabling automatic indexing initially in Library settings and bring it later

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - Matched video stream: FFmpeg index 0 (id 0) -\> MediaInfo stream index 0 (id 1)

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - &nbsp;\* MediaInfo: format=AVC, bitrate=4778850

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - &nbsp;\* FFmpeg: codec=h264, bitrate=0

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - Matched audio stream: FFmpeg index 1 (id 0) -\> MediaInfo stream index 0 (id 2)

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - &nbsp;\* MediaInfo: format=AC-3, language=eng, bitrate=384000, channels=6

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - &nbsp;\* FFmpeg: codec=ac3, language=eng, bitrate=384000, channels=6

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - Matched subtitle stream: FFmpeg index 2 (id 0) -\> MediaInfo stream index 0 (id 3)

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:104 [7600] INFO - &nbsp;\* MediaInfo: format=srt, encoding=UTF-8, language=eng

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:47:791 [7600] WARN - Held transaction for too long (Library\MediaItem.cpp:1015): 0.655000 seconds

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:48:305 [7600] INFO - [FFMPEG] - Unknown entry 0xF0

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:48:305 [7600] INFO - [FFMPEG] - Unknown entry 0xF0

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:48:305 [7600] INFO - [FFMPEG] - Unknown entry 0xF0

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:48:305 [7600] INFO - [FFMPEG] - Unknown entry 0xB2

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:48:305 [7600] INFO - [FFMPEG] - Unknown entry 0xF0

Feb 26, 2014 10:30:48:305 [7600] INFO - [FFMPEG] - Unknown entry 0xF0

goes on and on

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