Hi All, Is anyone aware of a script that can generate the video preview images multi threaded and using the GPU? I have to regenerate my entire lib due to multi loss of HDDs in a raid. My lib is large and it will take a very very long time. I have 24 cores but the process only uses 1 core, single…

:+1: Fastest and easy. I agree it’s not a place where fidelity matters much. Some clients display it as a postage stamp. FPS is the other primary knob for file size. On Roku the minimum interval between frames seems to be 10 seconds anyway. Apple TV is smaller (but 10 feels ok). I don’t know what A…

Agree. Frame interval is where the real space savings can be made. I’ll let @stevezau chime in before I make any more commits.

Thanks @jasonsansone i’ve merged the PR

Thank you for merging the PR. I am submitting a new PR which should: Display unconfigured variable error on screen in addition to logging. Fix regression in HDR detection. Convert ffmpeg quality settings to a user configurable variable.

Turns out the problem wasn’t special characters. The issue was the multi-part episode . The script actually handles special characters, including a plus sign ("+") just fine.

I’ve never looked, how does that work? Does each file get an index-sd.bif? Or each episode+part tuple?

@dane22 is the expert and odds are high I will misspeak. However, it appears to me that every episode with metadata from tvdb receives its own db entry with corresponding thumbnails and metadata information even though those db entries may reference one media file. There is only one bundle hash an…

No, that answers my question! This isn’t new, but I didn’t notice it before. This looks like a foot-gun to me. shutil.rmtree(TMP_FOLDER) Consider the user who sets TMP_FOLDER = '/tmp'.

Yes, it bit me the first time I used the script. I unknowingly nuked a folder. The new default is a dedicated subfolder in tmpfs . Considering how small the memory overhead is, I would suggest making the working a directory a variable that isn’t in the recommended user configurable section to avoi…

I’m suggesting that the script shouldn’t delete any directories it didn’t create - is that what you’re saying? (Aside: /dev/shm is such a weird Linuxism.)

Script to regenerate video previews multi threaded?

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jasonsansone May 29, 2022, 3:13am 70

Will respond in new post and tag you.

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