I have checked the Plex Media Scanner Deep Analysis.log, but it never prints the final answer. Most of my media is being reported as double the required bandwidth, resulting in all my files being transcoded. This is true even after Deep Analysis has been preformed. Even when I encode them with a constant bitrate. Even when I use Plex to optimize my media, it still doubles the required bandwidth.
Can plex2csv be used to find this information?
@skubiszm said:
I have checked the Plex Media Scanner Deep Analysis.log, but it never prints the final answer. Most of my media is being reported as double the required bandwidth, resulting in all my files being transcoded. This is true even after Deep Analysis has been preformed. Even when I encode them with a constant bitrate. Even when I use Plex to optimize my media, it still doubles the required bandwidth.Can plex2csv be used to find this information?
You can view the XML of a particular piece of media and it will show up there, and yes I believe plex2csv now shows the info as well.
Take a look at the XML info of the item.
If the deep analysis has been performed, there will be one or several requiredBandwidths="27166,26312,24247,22347,21003,19838,15765,14563"
entries in there, one for the whole file and sometimes one for each of the video, audio and subtitle streams.
The first number is the required bandwidth in the worst case, if your Plex client has only a tiny network buffer.
The various numbers are the required bitrate for 5,10,25,50,75,100,250,500MB network buffer sizes.
Yes, you can export this info with Plex2CSV. Just make sure to use the latest version of it and a detail level of at least 5 (for movies).
