What is 'Plex Media Scanner Deep Analysis' and how do I disable it?

[OttoKerner]

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Deep Analysis questions

Hi, how often is a deep analysis on files performed? Just once? Reason for asking: I have tons of stuff on a cloud drive and notice rclone running with high CPU during the entire maintenance period. I noticed the butler mentioning creation of chapter thumbnails (which I just disabled) and deep analysis on files. If this is done only once per file I will simply let it finish during the next weeks and let it have fun during the nightly maintenance periods. If this however is happening periodical…

What is Media Analysis & Do I Need It

A short version of Media Analysis is performed when you add new items into your library. This should be enough to play these items successfully. With one exception: Bandwidth determination. The ‘short’ version only uses the averaged bandwidth (file size/play time) and then puts some safety margin on top to account for ‘peaks’. No real-world video file has an even bandwidth. It largely depends on how the video stream was encoded. Some videos were encoded with a constant bandwidth (which then…