What type of media is emby converting in scheduled tasks?

[hgewald 8]

Hello,

I just transferred a giantic set of pictures (150 GB) to my QNAP in order to watch the family pics via emby.

Now a scheduled task started to "convert media".

I am not 100% sure that it is converting the .jpgs (why would it convert these?), or something else.

1) Is there a way to find out which files emby is converting?

2) What is the other scheduled task "transfer media" doing?

Thanks for enlightening me

H.

[Luke 42077]

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1) Is there a way to find out which files emby is converting?

Hi, whatever media you scheduled to convert by using the "Convert media" feature.

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2) What is the other scheduled task "transfer media" doing?

Same answer as above. This transfers the converted result to it's destination.

[hgewald 8]

I have a German installation. What is emby's German term for "convert media" and where do I find this feature?

I lookd around everywhere but did not find a corresponding function.

I assume there is no point in converting jpg files...

[Luke 42077]

@cayars can point you to our KB article. You can check out the original announcement for it here:

 

[Carlo 4560]

Here is the link to the KB article for Media Conversion:

https://emby.media/support/articles/Convert-Media.html

Edited November 6, 2025 by GrimReaper
KB article link updated

[hgewald 8]

Thank you!

I read the article.

However, I do not want to convert my photos. But I cannot find an option to not convert (only options to manage the conversion).

Do I have to convert everything?

[Luke 42077]

14 minutes ago, hgewald said:

Thank you!

I read the article.

However, I do not want to convert my photos. But I cannot find an option to not convert (only options to manage the conversion).

Do I have to convert everything?

You don't have to convert anything. The feature does not do anything unless you actually use it. Are you using it?

[hgewald 8]

That is a good question.

I would say no (I have never intenionally used it).

However, there are two scheduled tasks running wich are converting and transferring hpotos. So appreantly I must have started it somehow.

How can I stop it and prevent it from doing further conversions of this specific folder?

[Luke 42077]

The scheduled tasks are also used by the download features from mobile apps, folder sync, cloud sync. So you could have used any of those features.

[hgewald 8]

I think I found it. I deleted the running tasks and now it stoped...

I hope I did not damage anything

 

[Luke 42077]

I wouldn't worry about stopping the scheduled task. The task is only running because you asked the server to do something that requires it.

So I would instead go to that, and cancel whatever that is. You can check the Conversions and Downloads section of the server dashboard.

[hgewald 8]

Thanks Luke, all looks good now.
I have no idea why the "photo" folder tried to convert its media... Must have been me, but I do not recall initiating it.

However, all good now.

Best

H.

[hgewald 8]

 

Thanks again

Edited December 9, 2020 by hgewald
Made a mistake in the oroginal post