How often should the Plex DLNA server analyze media?
My PMS runs on Mac OS X El Capitan.
I have Plex running on the following devices: Apple TV4, Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, LG Smart TV.
I left an MKV file remuxing in Subler and when I returned 30mins later it wasn't even 20% complete. This normally takes 1 minute max. I checked Activity Monitor and the Plex DLNA server was using up 100% of one core. That still shouldn't be causing anything else to run slow as there were 3 cores untouched.
So, I shut Plex down to see what happened, and the file that was remuxing finished in under 20 seconds.
I checked the logs and the DLNA server was analyzing every media item in my library. I restarted PMS and allowed the DLNA server to finish. Then a few hours later the same thing happened. It started analyzing ALL media again. Doing the exact same thing it did a few hours earlier, but there'd been no changes to the library.
This has been going on for weeks now. The DLNA server analyzes every media item multiple times each day.
Is this normal? It seems a tad excessive.
I have a huge library, 3,000 movies. But my library has always been large and I've never had any issues before.
I don't know if it's always been like this as I've never noticed any performance issues to warrant constantly checking Activity Monitor.
Here is an example of what the log shows for every media item:
Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: analyzing media item 3416 Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: Boyhood (2014): Direct Playing due to no transcode profile Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: Boyhood (2014): Direct Play is disabled Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: Boyhood (2014): no direct play video profile exists for http/mp4/h264 Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: Boyhood (2014): no direct play video profile exists for http/mp4/h264/aac Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - Boyhood - video.width limitation applies: 1920 > 320 Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.119 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: Boyhood (2014): selected media 0 / 3416 Oct 25, 2016 17:02:36.123 [0x700000f6b000] DEBUG - MDE: received PLEX_PROTOCOL_ANY from client, but could not determine best protocol. Defaulting to HTTP
Now I don't know much about this kind of thing, but each line seems to contradict the one above. It spews out exactly the same for every media item in my library over and over again.
