Why is my transcoder running?

Sometimes I feel my server being a bit sluggish and I shell in to find the plex transcoder running and using quite a bit of CPU. Very often this is later in the evening. I check the activity panel and see no one actually watching content. Is there some scheduled task that would run the transcoder from time to time? If so, how can I turn that off? If no one is using the server then I want it to just sit there :slight_smile:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201697383-Why-is-Plex-Transcoder-using-my-CPU-when-nothing-is-playing-

most likely preview thumbnail and/or chapter thumb generation. turn it off in library settings

DVR conversion when saving file
syncs

ok. video preview generation was never but chapter thumbnails was a scheduled task. I set it to never. hopefully that will fix it. Thanks!