Per Elan’s release notes for PMS 0.14.0:
NEW
* Add support for generating chapter thumbnails.
Does this allow for chapter thumbnails without generating thumbnails for the entire video? If so, how is this enabled?
It’d be very nice to have chapter thumbs without requiring the extra disk space used by full length thumbnails!
Edit: The most recent PMS release resolves this, thanks! It’s great to see images instead of the grey placeholder boxes.
It is only useful with a client that actually supports chapter marks.
Currently, that is only the iOS client to my knowledge.
Is this on by default? I searched but couldn’t find an option to turn it on or off.
Edit: I just checked and i don’t have chapter-thumbnails on my recently added movies on my iPad.
Then it will be probably added in the future. So this is just the basis for the feature.
Seems like this new feature does a full scan AND thumbnail generation of chapter markers as well, even when thumbnail media generation is disabled. This has slowed down and made my Plex server unusable until it finishes, and it takes a LOONNGGG time on a Drobo 5N.
Is this present in the server options yet? I can only find ‘Generate video preview thumbnails’; no reference to ‘support for generating chapter thumbnails’ anywhere. I’m on version Version 0.9.14.5.
Chapter thumbnails is done during the same phase as the media thumbnail generation. Note, I am not talking about the full thumbnail generation (BIF files) here.
When a new media is added to plex, it is analyzed. Part of this analysis is to read the file and examine its audio and video tracks, get media info, etc… It will also extract a few thumbnails from the video for the purposes of previews. You may have noticed these thumbnails displayed on a movie or TV episode before it has fetched the artwork from the internet. This is also the artwork that is displayed for home movie media types. Chapter image extraction is done during this phase. If you had media pre-existing before this was done, it will not re-process those items unless an analyze is done.
The most recent PMS release resolves this, thanks! It’s great to see images instead of the grey placeholder boxes.
