batmaniam

I'm not seeing color space, but there's a bit depth of 8 and some schroma info. Also I'm seeing a codec: MPEG4 and a CodecID: XVID

Thank you for the walkthrough! I was loosely familiar with how transcoding worked, but wasn't sure if this specific library (tdarr) was coded in a way it became a "default" tool to replace plexs transcoding. My background is in small embedded systems for the most part, and I've gotten burned by tools which by default set themselves up to be the, well, default. I'm just used to dealing with much smaller pipelines/stacks.

Based on another response it looks like the issue may actually be around some HDR formatting. I could see that as after I transferred the new machine was using a completely different hardware set, including GPU.

Thanks to you and everyone for walking be through a new tool! If it is an HDR format issue, I imagine I may be able to use Tdarr to address it.

I certainly am not sure lol. I did try disabling the HDR tone mapping to no affect. It's possible this is the issue as when I transferred the library, it was to new hardware with a different GPU.

Is there a way to tell the color format from the file info?

Thank you!

Edit: I wanted to add context, as I think this may be the culprit. I initially transferred the files from one machine to another via filezilla. About a week after, we had a power outage, which screwed up the SSD that had the operating system (lesson learned about surge protectors). To get the Plex back and running quickly, I simply pulled the physical hard-drive, and popped it into a 3rd machine. So it does make sense to me that the file itself may be fine.

edit2: @[email protected] you are definitely onto it! I just downloaded the file to another machine, and it played with no color issues. So my guess is it's something to do with the GPU on the machine hosting plex?

Thanks for explaining, but I still want to make sure I understand the purpose of Tdarr. One thing I've noticed about tools like this is the documentation usually gets right into the "how" and skips over the "what and why". So Tdarr transcodes a library with intention of a new, permanent output library? Is that correct? I'm used to transcoding in the context Plex does it: On the fly to serve to a client, and temporary.

If my understanding is correct then maybe it'll help address issues, but still an awesome tool to help optimize my library.

Thanks for taking the time. Most of my coding background is mostly from monitoring and control, so I'm still learning a lot about the nuts and bolts of the whole stack that makes stuff like plex work.

I actually do have the torrent, files for a lot of them, but I've moved folders and I'm not really clear how that might affect things.

By my guess it's probably about 10% of the library that's corrupted, so re-downloading them wouldn't be the worst (I've already been doing it piece wise as they come up).

While I'm not great with system level and IT stuff, I'm OK with coding. I'm debating writing a python script to get the average color of each video file, I'd bet there's some libraries out there to help with that.

this looks like it may be helpful, but I'm not super clear on what it does exactly. It looks like it does conditional transcoding, but I'm not clear on what that means. Would this screw with plexs own traditional transcoding? Or does it attempt to repair a file by transcoding.

Thank you for the input!

It's still best not to bring it up. I've known folks that, due to series of miscarriages, didn't talk about it until like month 6 or 7. For similar reasons some cultures are different about it. My Russian friend talked about hers, but said in Russia you really don't. Like a family will put together a nursery but not really discuss it until after the baby is born. That was one person for the record, I don't know a ton of Russians, but it kinda indicated different people do it differently.

Right, said Fred.

It's wild. I had a high school biology teacher in 05 do a whole class on intersex stuff, including what you mentioned and mosacism. It really drove home how complicated sex is, let alone something more abstract like gender. No way she'd be able to teach that now.

I'd say the difference in this case is it was truly bought. US colonialism is an issue, but not from anywhere these came from. Its just not on the same category as the stuff in the British museum, for instance. Plus, it's not like the countries of origin haven't had their own Rockefellers then and since.

You're getting lots of friendly advice but wanted to add one more. In this case the string snapped and the ball/retainer was launched into orbit. Sometimes a string my snap and stay put. It's perfectly OK to use an Allen wrench to poke, or some plyers to pull, the busted string out. That should more or less be a through hole with nothing hiding in it.

Be firm but gentle, and go to pulling if poking doesn't work. They can get kinda stuck sometimes.

Keep fucking around. There's not a ton that you can truly "forever break" on a guitar. Exceptions are maybe the neck truss tension and the finish itself.

... Now AMPS on the other hand...

Pretty solid. The supreme court only gets a say on a case thst gets to them, which is to say while they have a ton of sway, they're still a court. Someone has to file a suite, and it has to then be appealed (because neither side in a suite like that is going to NOT appeal). Each time you appeal it moves "up the chain" of a specific judicial circuit. While the circuits were meant to be more of geographical admin thing, the Trump presidentancy saw McConnell absolutely jam pack a circuit with shitty judges. The shenanigans during the document trial with Judge Cannon are a perfect example.

So they'd have to start with an actual suite. But that could be something as small as "in one polling place we found a Harris sign 99ft from the entrance!" (in the US it has to be 100ft). Normally that would be laughed out of court, but if the judge agrees the judge agrees. Then you appeal, and... Well...