Question about my plugins

[byusinger84 1]

Question for you guys that is probably pretty easy, but I'm curious. I had to rebuild my server and as such do a new initial scan of the library folders. Given that there is about 7 TB of data there, I understand it can take a while, especially if the chapter extraction option is set in the folder options for each library. The media scan started that way since I guess that's the default. I stopped the scan, turned that off, and started it over again but it appears to just pick up where it left off. At this point it's been running for 24 hours. I don't want to stop it and start over only to have it start from scratch, but I also am wondering if it's still trying to do a chapter extraction since that was the original task it had begun and it's somehow cached. I can see FFMPEG is running and using quite a bit of CPU even though no one is streaming. 

 

My question is: 1) is there a way to stop it completely and start over so that it can do a quick initial scan so that the media is available faster to my users and 2) if I do start it over, am I even going to be saving time at this point? The last time I checked the logs it was in the F's. Probably about 40-50% of my library. Thoughts? 

Edited October 31, 2017 by byusinger84

[Luke 42086]

hi @@byusinger84, chapter images are actually off by default for newer server installations. Nowadays you only get them if you ask for them. It sounds like you probably just want to turn them off.

Please try that, and if you still think it's slow, then please attach the emby server log. thanks.

[byusinger84 1]

Weird. I don't remember turning this on. 

 

I did turn them off, per my first post. Same thing. That's why I was thinking the initial scan is just caching the previous initial scan request. Log attached.

Log.txt

[ebr 16199]

Hi.  That log doesn't appear to contain a library scan...

[byusinger84 1]

Huh. That's the log that has current entries and you can see it's doing something with FFMPEG to each episode. And if I screen shot the dashboard it says it's doing a library scan.

 

[Luke 42086]

hi @@byusinger84, you installed the Roku thumbnail generator plugin. In fact, when you set that up you were told that it would cause library scans to take a significantly longer time, and yet here we are

 

Please uninstall the plugin. Thanks.

[byusinger84 1]

Oh good grief. I thought that would run as a separate task. :-p 

 

Sorry for wasting your time. Thanks!

[Luke 42086]

By default it is off during the library scan, which means you also would have had to check the box to have it occur during the library scan.

 

How do we improve this? Are you just not reading the help text?

[byusinger84 1]

I installed that plugin a while ago and since the initial scan had already happened I didn't think about it. I do remember reading the help text at the time. When I reinstalled, I didn't think twice about it so it's not your fault, it's mine. That said, I really do not remember checking the box to have it do the Roku thumbnails during the library scan but usually when I work on this it's late at night so that's entirely possible. Thanks for your help and again sorry for wasting your time on a silly issue.

[Luke 42086]

Thanks for the feedback.