Taking forever to scrape movies

[jsc1205 51]

Not sure why or what is going on, but Emby is taking an extremely long time to scrape files.  I recently cleaned up my files and had to remove all the drives mapped to the library.  When I added them back, Emby is taking forever to add the movies back to the library.  Its almost to the point where I have to use the "identify" function to get it to populate.  BUT even doing that, Emby just sits and spins.  Any ideas why???  Here is log file as well.embyserver (1).txt

[Luke 42083]

Hi, it's scanning them as if they are new. You may see better scan performance by removing these plugins:

2023-08-03 20:55:34.495 Info App: Loading Emby.MediaInfo, Version=1.0.1.20, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/plugins/Emby.MediaInfo.dll
2023-08-03 20:55:34.495 Info App: Loading InfuseSync, Version=1.4.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/plugins/InfuseSync.dll
2023-08-03 20:55:34.495 Info App: Loading MovieThemeSongs, Version=1.7.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from /var/packages/EmbyServer/var/plugins/moviethemesongs.dll

 

[rbjtech 5284]

The log is filled with Emby creating the thumbnail images - that is why it is taking longer than expected as it does it sequentially.

Set it to only do this on a scheduled scan (out of hours).

 

To note - The MediaInfo Plugin is even not mentioned in the log - so it has no impact on any performance issues you may be having elsewhere.  I do see entries for Infuse - but I'm unaware on the performance impact this may have.

 

[MrPaulo 8]

On 04/08/2023 at 04:13, jsc1205 said:

Not sure why or what is going on, but Emby is taking an extremely long time to scrape files.  I recently cleaned up my files and had to remove all the drives mapped to the library.  When I added them back, Emby is taking forever to add the movies back to the library.  Its almost to the point where I have to use the "identify" function to get it to populate.  BUT even doing that, Emby just sits and spins.  Any ideas why???  Here is log file as well.embyserver (1).txt

I would not worry about it - It was a surprise for me too when it first happened I though it was a bug or bad install. I would just let it work - wait a few days for it to complete. It is a one off exercise. Once complete it will be fine.

As an example - I renamed all my tv shows folders to have the tvdbid on the name - I was getting a few mismatches for some content and took the plunge to reorganise. Below is a screenshot - the thumbnail extraction will probably take days, if not weeks. It is a docker container running on a decent server, quad core AMD CPU, 32GB ram, 6 spindles 20TB raid 6 and 2x1tb mirrored R&W ssd cache.

 

[Luke 42083]

There should also be some improvement in the upcoming 4.8 server release. Thanks.