<h1id="suggested-plex-media-server-settings">Suggested Plex Media Server Settings<aclass="headerlink"href="#suggested-plex-media-server-settings"title="Permanent link"></a></h1>
<p>So, what are the best Plex Media Server settings?</p>
<p>This is something that can't be answered, as it depends on the use case and your personal preference.</p>
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<p>Here we will provide some suggestions and try to explain why we recommend these settings. Adjust it to your liking, and keep in mind that it is only a suggestion. <imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.1.0/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">Here we will provide some suggestions and try to explain why we recommend these settings. Adjust it to your liking, and keep in mind that it is only a suggestion. <imgalt="‼"class="twemoji"src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/jdecked/twemoji@15.1.0/assets/svg/203c.svg"title=":bangbang:"/></p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>Some settings are only visible for Plex Pass holders.</p>
<pclass="admonition-title">Some settings are only visible for Plex Pass holders.</p>
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<p>All changes need to be done on your Plex Media Server.</p>
<pclass="admonition-title">Why didn't you cover option .... ?</p>
<p>We will only cover settings that we think might be interesting or are personal preference, if you would like me to cover some other settings, please contact me on <ahref="https://trash-guides.info/discord"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank"><imgalt="Discord chat"src="https://trash-guides.info/assets/discord.png"/></a></p>
<p>We will only cover settings that we think might be interesting or are personal preference, if you would like to see other settings covered, please contact us on <ahref="https://trash-guides.info/discord"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank"><imgalt="Discord chat"src="https://trash-guides.info/assets/discord.png"/></a></p>
<summary>TIP - Autoscan - [Click to show/hide]</summary>
<p>If for some reason ex. your operating systems don’t provide this trigger or your storage is mounted on a network (SMB/NFS/Cloud Storage) or your library just doesn't automatically scan, or is just plain impractical, You might want to consider using autoscan. IBRACORP (A Youtube channel we collaborate with) has a video explaining it in further detail.</p>
<p>In some cases, an operating system may not support this trigger - for example, if your storage is mounted on a network (SMB/NFS/Cloud Storage). In other cases, you may just find that your library doesn't automatically scan on its own. In these cases, you could consider using autoscan. IBRACORP (A Youtube channel we collaborate with) has a video explaining it in further detail.</p>
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<p>Please don't forget to check out his other Unraid Videos <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/c/IBRACORP/videos"rel="noopener noreferrer"target="_blank">HERE</a></p>
<p>Credits markers can be generated locally and/or retrieved via an online database. Online markers may not always exist, if this preference is set to 'both' then any locally detected markers are submitted anonymously back to the online database for future use.</p>
<p><em>If you notice that the markers don't match your releases try <code>local detection only</code>.</em></p>
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<h4id="generate-video-preview-thumbnails">Generate video preview thumbnails<aclass="headerlink"href="#generate-video-preview-thumbnails"title="Permanent link"></a></h4>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/settings-library-generate-video-preview-thumbnails.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Settings - Library - Generate video preview thumbnails"src="../images/settings-library-generate-video-preview-thumbnails.png"/></a></p>
<p>This option creates a series of preview thumbnails from a media item when it is analyzed. These images are used by some Plex apps when you move back and forward in an app with the timeline scrubber. They’ll also be displayed in Now Playing when someone is streaming from you so that you can see where they are in the video.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>as a scheduled task and when media is added</code></strong></p>
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<h4id="generate-credits-video-markers">Generate credits video markers<aclass="headerlink"href="#generate-credits-video-markers"title="Permanent link"></a></h4>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/settings-library-generate-credits-video-markers.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Settings - Library - Generate credits video markers"src="../images/settings-library-generate-credits-video-markers.png"/></a></p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>as a scheduled task</code></strong></p>
<p><em>or</em></p>
<p><strong>Suggested: <code>as a scheduled task and when media is added</code></strong></p>
<p>This allows the server to analyze the audio stream to detect voice activity for movies and episodes. The analysis must be run on the video before it’s possible to make use of auto-syncing for that video.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>as a scheduled task</code></strong></p>
<p><em>or</em></p>
<p><strong>Suggested: <code>as a scheduled task and when media is added</code></strong></p>
<p>Chapter thumbnails provide images in the chapter view on supported apps. They can take a little time to generate and consume very minor additional disk space.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>as a scheduled task and when media is added</code></strong></p>
<p>Set the size of the main database cache, in MB. The default value is 40 and should be sufficient for just about every user. Increasing much beyond the default value is likely to only benefit users with extremely large media collections (as in, hundreds of thousands of episodes or music tracks).</p>
<p>Plex’s tone mapping support should generally be able to produce good color mapping and help avoid the “washed-out” colors that occur when converting HDR content without tone mapping.</p>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/settings-transcoder-tonemapping-algorithm.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Settings - Transcoder - Tone Mapping Algorithm"src="../images/settings-transcoder-tonemapping-algorithm.png"/></a></p>
<p>Plex Media Server owners can choose which tone mapping algorithm is used when transcoding HDR content to SDR. Note: this feature is not yet available on Intel-based Windows systems.</p>
<p><em>This is a personal preference depending on what you prefer</em><br>
<em>- hable: Preserve both dark and bright details better than reinhard, at the cost of slightly darkening everything. Use it when detail preservation is more important than color and brightness accuracy.</em></p>
<h4id="use-hardware-acceleration-when-available">Use hardware acceleration when available<aclass="headerlink"href="#use-hardware-acceleration-when-available"title="Permanent link"></a></h4>
<p><aclass="glightbox"href="../images/settings-transcoder-use-hardware-acceleration-when-available.png"data-type="image"data-width="100%"data-height="auto"data-desc-position="bottom"><imgalt="!Settings - Transcoder - Use hardware acceleration when available"src="../images/settings-transcoder-use-hardware-acceleration-when-available.png"/></a></p>
<p>To use Hardware-Accelerated Streaming in Plex Media Server.</p>
<p>The GPU or other hardware device that will be used for transcoding. The default setting will have the Auto option selected. If you have multiple devices capable of hardware-accelerated transcoding (e.g. both an integrated and discrete GPU), you can select a particular device.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>Whichever device you wish to use for hardware transcoding</code></strong></p>
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<h4id="maximum-simultaneous-video-transcode">Maximum simultaneous video transcode<aclass="headerlink"href="#maximum-simultaneous-video-transcode"title="Permanent link"></a></h4>
<p>Set the maximum number of transcoding sessions that you will allow simultaneously. For instance, if you only want to allow two transcodes to happen at any one time (even if your computer is capable of more), you can set the value to 2.</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>However many your setup is capable of</code></strong></p>
<p>In some cases, you may have more than one library and perhaps it doesn’t make sense to do this detection for all of your libraries. For any individual library, you can choose whether or not content in that library is included in detecting credits.</p>
<p><em>If Enable credits detection is disabled, then content from that library will not be included for analysis. Disabling for the library will also prevent the skip credits button from appearing and any skip credits behavior such as minimizing even if the markers have already been detected</em></p>
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<p>Ad detection</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>For all items</code></strong></p>
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<p>Enable voice activity detection</p>
<p>Depending if you want to make use of Auto-Sync Subtitles.</p>
<p><em>Have you ever watched a TV show, and it starts playing that same minute and a half credits intro that you've already seen multiple times? Well, you can have your Plex Media Server analyze your TV shows to try and detect those introductions, and then let you skip through them with a single click!</em></p>
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<p>If you want to show your Collection in your library</p>
<p>Enable credits detection</p>
<p>In some cases, you may have more than one library and perhaps it doesn’t make sense to do this detection for all of your libraries. For any individual library, you can choose whether or not content in that library is included in detecting credits.</p>
<p><em>If Enable credits detection is disabled, then content from that library will not be included for analysis. Disabling for the library will also prevent the skip credits button from appearing and any skip credits behavior such as minimizing even if the markers have already been detected</em></p>
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<p>Generate intro detection for items in this library when enabled in server settings.</p>
<p>Ad detection</p>
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<p><strong>Suggested: <code>For all items</code></strong></p>
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<p>Enable voice activity detection</p>
<p>Depending if you want to make use of Auto-Sync Subtitles.</p>
<p><em>Ever watch a TV show and it starts playing that same minute and a half credits intro that you've already watched multiple times? Well, you can have your Plex Media Server analyze the TV shows to try and detect those introductions and then let you skip through them with a single click!</em></p>
<p><em>If you want to make use of Auto-Sync Subtitles for this library</em></p>
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