Looked to see if this has been discussed already but could not find a topic on it.
So we all know Skip Intro has been added and nightly the Scheduled Tasks kicks in to do the work to analysis and find the Intro – for example on my server looking in the alerts I can see The butler generated 393 season intro markers reported from last nights run.
However, is there a way to understand overall what has been completed and what is left to do ? I could not find any setting or summary anywhere to give me this information.
It may be only of interest to a few users after having added a lot of media or creating the server/library afresh.
For the rest, it doesn’t really matter as long as it works.
If you are wondering why it doesn’t work on a particular episode, you can check if it already has those markers, by looking at the Plex XML info of that episode.
There should be a line similar to this: <Marker type="intro" startTimeOffset="227668" endTimeOffset="247071"/>
If it is missing, there are several possible causes:
the season hasn’t been analysed yet
the season has only one episode (e.g. it is a new season or it is the Specials season)
there are no similar parts of audio which also occur in at least 20% of the other episodes in that season, within the first 10 minutes
Understood but I’m more interested in working out an estimated timeline on when the vast majority of the backend work will complete as a scheduled task. For example, my library consists of almost 300 shows with god knows how many seasons, probably 1000s.
I have my server doing scheduled tasks between midnight and 7am each day and this skip intro analysis is an intensive operation even for my powerful server, can’t imagine doing this on a NAS and how long it would take Anyhow, would like to figure out if this will take days, weeks or months to complete.
Will take a look at ExportTools but IMO this should have been exposed in the UI on day 1 of this
feature release.
BTW… fully understand new content added is different, just quering the first complete pass of content in the TV libaries.
It took my server 3 nights to crunch through my close-to-300 shows. (admittedly, there are a lot of anime shows among them with rarely more than 1 season).
And I have only a 3 hours maintenance window per night.
My server is a 7 year old i7 CPU. All media drives are attached locally. Which is beneficial to speed, no doubt.
I also wondered about disabling it – I’ll be honest its not really a feature I looked for or felt I needed but I can see in this impatient world folks wanting an easy way to skip forward.
I’d guess setting Generate intro video markers to never might disable it but the more I think about it probably not for markers already generated. Sigh … Really should be a big red button to completely disable if the feature is undesired.
Noticed in my status / alert page this morning The butler generated 0 season intro markers. which I guess means its finished. Took 3-4 days to complete on my system with scheduled tasks set between midnight and 7am.
I would also love an answer to the question of how to get rid of this. I’ve disabled the generation of intro video markers but the button keeps showing up since the markers were already generated. I think this was a great feature to add because I know a large number of people wanted it, but it doesn’t interest me at all and I wish it hadn’t been turned on by default (at least without an obvious way to undo it). I’m looking for a clean watching experience and the button is frustratingly distracting.
Anyhow, would like to figure out if this will take days, weeks or months to complete.