What is this script?

This script was created to speed up the Plex preview thumbnails process. It will use multi threaded processes with a mixture of nvidia GPU and CPU for max throughput

Questions or support?

Create github issue OR see thread https://forums.plex.tv/t/script-to-regenerate-video-previews-multi-threaded/788360

STEP 1 - Install ffmpeg

Ensure ffmpeg is in your path https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

STEP 2 - Install python3 Deps

Requires python3

pip3 install loguru rich plexapi gpustat requests pymediainfo

STEP 3 - Download script and edit the Vars

Download the plex_generate_previews.py script to your machine. Open it in your fav editor and update variables.

To get your plex url and token

1. Open plex web https://app.plex.tv/ and go to any video file
2. Open the ... menu and select "get info"
3. Click "view xml" on bottom left
4. Use the url (without the path) for the PLEX_URL var in the python script. For example https://xxxx.plex.direct:32400/ or https://127.0.0.1:32400/ if running locally.
5. Find Plex-Token in the url and insert the value into PLEX_TOKEN var in the python script.

STEP 4 - Run

You can specify an OPTIONAL cmd line arg which will tell the script to only work files which contain that text python3 plex_preview_thumbnail_generator.py <ONLY_PROCESS_FILES_IN_PATH>