Would you like more Optimize Features like auto optimize when added to library and replace orignal?

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Currently Optimize is a manual feature where you have to select which records to optimize. It would be great to have more configurable options where you can set for Movies and TV Series to automatically Optimize when added to the library and with which setting. Additionally to have the original file automatically replaced to save space after conversion is complete.

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I would like auto optimize, but not replacing the original

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maybe if it were a certain folder or folders that you would want this to happen then yes, but overall, no.

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Absolutely love it - anyone thatā€™s on a seedbox and has resources in mind would like an auto optimize feature. I would also like the optimized file to be the only one added to the library.

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More options for optimization would be welcome.

Also it would be good to be able to manually start an optimization from the Plex app, i dont understand why its only a option in the web interface?

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This would be GREAT for DVR recordings since they are so large and could be compressed easily.

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This would be awesomeā€¦ Sounds like an obvious option to me.

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Absolutely need Optimize versions to watch my DVR recordings on my Roku. Automatic optimization would be an awesome feature!
Please, please, please.

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Hello,
this is already possible and very easy to set up.

But I will admit itā€™s not something thatā€™s easy to find in the Support pages. Heck I canā€™t even find the original post that helped me figure this one out (so credits should go to someone I canā€™t track)!

1-Click on the ā€˜Homeā€™ icon (top left)
2-Click on your library on the left
3-Under the search bar, you can select wether you want to see everything (All), or filter thing out based on a number of presets (Year, Collection, Author, etc). But you can also pick the last item: Custom filter
4-To filter for new recordings, pick ā€˜Date addedā€™ and enter your setting (last day, last hour)
5-You can add more filters (Unwatched) and restrict to a certain number (to avoid optimizing too many recordings
6-Once youā€™re happy with your filter, find the ellipsis (ā€¦) thatā€™s at the top right and pick ā€˜Optimizeā€™.
7-In the next box, uncheck the number of items and pick your settings (and enter a name the summarizes your filter. For example ā€œUnwatched Movies <12 hrsā€.

VoilĆ ! :grin:

FYI This will not only optimize all the items in the current list, but it will also create a persistent entry in your Optimized Versions (go to your Settings > Server > Optimized Versions, your optimization filter should appear at the bottom of the list).

I wish this was part of the main Plex help pages (or easier to find because Iā€™m sure many people are looking for this feature).

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Hi,

Iā€™m wondering if anyone has a ā€œsimpleā€ solution to this. What Iā€™d like to happen is this:

  1. Plex sees a new item in library.
  2. Plex downloads new metadata for newly added item.
  3. Plex auto-optimizes the newly-added item according to my settings (optimize for tv). NOTE: the option to queue these optimizations to run overnight would be a bonus.
  4. Plex checks to see if the optimization ran successfully. If it did, delete the original file and move the optimized file to the location of the original file, then update the Plex database.
  5. Plex sends a notification to Sonarr or SickBeard/SickRage to update their database with the new filename.

I can see where to manually tell Plex to optimize stuff, but Iā€™ve been unable to find a way to tell it to delete the original version. What I currently have set up to handle this is Febooti Automation Software (free version for personal use), which has a filewatcher trigger on my TV Shows folder. When it sees a new file, it copies it to a working folder, launches MediaInfo from the command line to get things like duration and dimensions, and then launches the Handbrake command line interface to re-encode the file, then moves the new file back to the location of the original file. If the duration of the two files is the same, it assumes success and deletes the original file. It works, but it seems far more complicated than necessary to have to set all that up when most of it already exists within Plex.

Thanks.

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