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Support / Documentation Questions

Open edddeduck opened this issue 5 months ago • 7 comments

I have a couple of questions surrounding the tool that would be really helpful.

  1. When it comes to setting GPU_THREADS what metric should I look at to choose the number? Is it the number of simultaneous transcodes the GPU can handle in Plex?
  2. When setting PLEX_BIF_FRAME_INTERVAL does this need to match Plex servers setting? Can I just leave Plex server disabled and use this tool to generate all my thumbnails?
  3. Is there a maximum value for PLEX_BIF_FRAME_INTERVAL I have seen mention of 10 seconds but nothing confirmed.
  4. I assume this tool will notice if the thumbnails have already been generated and not generate them a second time. For example if I run this tool every month to create thumbnails for new videos will it try and replace all the existing ones I generated last month (assuming I keep the PLEX_BIF_FRAME_INTERVAL time the same)?

Once I have tested the tool myself I'd be happy to (if it's useful) submit a pull request with these details added to ether the main page or an FAQ area as I think it could be useful to others.

edddeduck avatar Sep 25 '24 22:09 edddeduck