I have a couple of suggestions for the creation of the media index file.
As mentioned on the feature announcement enabling the media index file creation can make low powered systems cry :) I have a dual core HP microserver acting as my media server and it certainly weeps a little. After I kick off a scan of a bunch of new media files I renice the scan process and transcoder process to nice level 20. It still completed eventually but not at the expense of killing media streaming.
Could we have the scanner run at nice 20 by default?
Second - I have a whole bunch of media already in my library. The media index creation only gets kicked off when the media is added. Could we get a button in Plex/Web to mark a series as requiring a media index file creation on the next scan?
Second - I have a whole bunch of media already in my library. The media index creation only gets kicked off when the media is added. Could we get a button in Plex/Web to mark a series as requiring a media index file creation on the next scan?
when you enable "generate indexes", any media in the library already can have the indexes generated by analysing it. There are existing options to do that at the episode, movie, show, section and library level.
when you enable "generate indexes", any media in the library already can have the indexes generated by analysing it. There are existing options to do that at the episode, movie, show, section and library level.
Thanks for the tip. Anyway to get the process priority reniced automatically?
These dont seem to work for me. I can't even list the sections...
[root@medianas plexmediaserver]# pms
Plex Media Scanner (c) 2010, 2011 Plex Development Team.
-h, --help Display this message.
-v, --verbose Show more output.
-p, --progress Show special progress output.
Actions:
-r, --refresh Refresh the metadata.
-a, --analyze Analyze media information.
-b, --index Generate a media index file.
-s, --scan Scan for new media.
-i, --info Get information.
-l, --list List.
-g, --generate Regenerate thumbnails/fanart.
-t, --tree Show a section tree.
-w, --reset Delete all media out of a section.
-n, --add-section --type --location Add a new section.
-D, --del-section Delete a section.
Items to which actions apply:
-c, --section A library section ID.
-o, --item An item ID.
-d, --directory A directory path.
-f, --file A file.
Modifiers to actions:
-x, --force Force an operation (e.g. refresh).
-e, --deep Perform a deep scan.
--no-thumbs Do not regenerate thumbs when analyzing.
--thumbOffset Percent offset into video for thumbnail image generated during media analysis.
--artOffset Percent offset into video for fanart image generated during media analysis.
