How to Stop Ongoing Folder Conversions

[PhantamaroK 0]

Context

 

Without entirely knowing what I was doing, I started a folder conversion of all my movies (hoping this would reduce buffering/jittering while streaming). I selected "replacing original files," "TV," "original quality," and "automatically convert new content."

 

Issue

 

Some unexpected things happened.

1. 4K content was downsampled to 1080p.
2. Subtitles, if present, were burned into the video.

Steps Taken

1. I saw on the server management page that I could cancel a job in progress, which I did.
2. I went to "Scheduled Tasks" and stopped "Cloud & Folder Sync" and "Convert media."
3. I deleted triggers for "Cloud & Folder Sync" and "Convert media."

Questions

1. Have I fully undone the conversion process? I don't see anywhere to disable "automatically convert new content."
2. Is there a way to do this with no downside (e.g. without downsampling or subtitle burn-in)?

Any help is very much appreciated!

[Luke 42095]

I would not have done 2 and 3. Instead just delete conversion jobs in the download and sync section.

[PhantamaroK 0]

Thank you for your help; the deletion of the conversion jobs in the download and sync section is the piece I was missing. I re-added the triggers I deleted, with 3-hour intervals, which I believe was the default.

 

I noticed in the plugins section one named "PolymorphTV," which seems to do what I want. Was this plugin's functionality folded into Emby in the form of the "convert" function?

 

Also, is the downsampling from 4K to 1080p a bug/limitation, or am I missing something?

[Luke 42095]

 

I noticed in the plugins section one named "PolymorphTV," which seems to do what I want. Was this plugin's functionality folded into Emby in the form of the "convert" function?

 

No, I'm afraid I'm not familiar with what it's doing. I would ask the developer in the thread for the plugin.

[Luke 42095]

 

 

Also, is the downsampling from 4K to 1080p a bug/limitation, or am I missing something?

We'd have to look at an example, but it's probably related to the chosen quality setting when converting.