Server Version#: 1.19.3.2852
OS: MacOS 10.15.5
I’ve recently upgraded to Plex Pass, and I’ve noticed it’s slowly chipping away at my library ‘Detecting Intros’. This seems to be chugging away at > 1% CPU.
Looking at the Status dashboard, both Plex and the System are hardly being used.
As I’m not currently doing anything on that box, I wondered if it’s possible to allow Plex to use more of the system resources get through the library quicker?
Depending on how it is set in Server settings / Library will result in different system load patterns
The latter i would suggest is in the background
I’ve been told by a plex employee that this is because it’s a highly single-threaded workload, so there’s no way to speed it up.
I’m having an issue where it’s trying to detect intros for the same season over and over again, but no one seems to be able to help me.
Thanks for this. I have it set to scheduled and when media is added. This morning, I converted an added a season to my library, and it seems to have been plodding through the 8 episodes all morning.
If I left this to the overnight scheduled task, would this do it quicker?
Thanks. Hopefully I’m not seeing the same issue.
This morning I did try disable a feature like in this topic and it seems that the intro detection was a lot faster.
Well at least you won’t notice it if your scheduled maintenance is when your computer idle.
Interesting, and thanks for the pointer. With your suggesting and a few other settings I found (didn’t realise the intro detection used the transcoder), I’ve managed to power through the 8 episodes.
Untick - Run scanner tasks at lower priority
Transcoder Quality - Make my CPU hurt
Untick - Disable video stream transcoding
In the time it’s taken to write this, it’s now complete.
Thanks for all for your help.
I already had similar settings, that why I had not noticed
Yea, you use the transcoder as intended - to transcode something if necessary.
ALL my stuff Direct Plays, but I would never even think of disabling the transcoder. What would happen if I needed it? Nuthin’, that’s what…lol
LOL! I totally understand.
All my media is mp4 and formatted for my AppleTV(s) and iDevice(s). However, I don’t remember turning off the transcoder. The only purpose of the Mac Mini is a Plex Server, I don’t think I’ll have intentionally disabled it…however, who knows…I may have accidentally done it in the early days. 
Well, thanks for your advice, it helped 
You know, I’m not certain that won’t magically be ‘on or off’ against your wishes all by itself - but that is worth looking at.
Also the wording is so strange, you have to read it 3 times to know what it’s going to do when you enable/disable whatever it does…lol
You missed the step where you copy and paste the wording into Google, to see how others think it works
… ever tried to assemble an IKEA Bookshelf using the instructions?
Similar thing.
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