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So, with the Create a stereo clone of streams turned off, does Unmanic still passthrough stereo AAC tracks? I would not be opposed to that. BTW. After completing the upgrade to the latest release and re-saving my settings, I was noticing some issues still with enabling subtitles even though I am converting to MKV. I've disabled subtitles (again) for now to resolve the encoding issues surrounding subtitles.

Q: What is the benefit of cloning multichannel audio into a separate stereo audio track? My understanding is creating maximum compatibility, but if I am using Plex, isn't this redundant? The only advantage I can see is using less system resources when playing back an AAC stereo track VS an AC3 passthrough or AAC 5.1 > AC3 transcode on the fly via Plex. Unless I can be convinced otherwise, I'm disabling the clone function for now. I searched in this thread and couldn't find an answer.

Imagine that. Learn something new every day. I wouldn't have thought about that.

At this point you don't. The soul purpose of Unmanic is to convert your library to h.265 as per the program's description. Actually, I thought about this before and forgot about it. My workaround would be like this: Create a separate "archive" library in Plex. Direct your downloads to the "archive" folder. The idea is to have your archive folder outside of the watch folder that Unmanic keeps an eye on. That again, is the point. h.265 is the newer codec that eventually we will all switch over to. The algorithms allow for the same quality of video at a higher compression. The downside at this time is that encoding is slower because the codec is more CPU intensive than h.264; wait for technology to catch up and h.265 encode times will drop. What does this all mean? Think about the abolishment of Net Neutrality. ISP's are happy to charge Netflix more money for them to stream their content to you. (Which then those costs are passed onto you the consumer...another story for another time.) And if your ISP has data caps on your home internet, then larger files means less content you will be able to watch unless you want to pay for overage fees. In order to save both the consumer and the company (Netflix) itself money, Netflix will need to compress the video more without losing quality. That's what h.265 does great. example: Let's say a h.264 movie to stream is 8 GB (I'm just using a random number.) That same movie to stream on h.265 may now only "cost" ~1.2 GB. Same video quality, less space. What h.265 doesn't do: Up-res. From your comment it can be inferred that one may have expectations (present company excluded) h.265 to improve the quality of the video that is being re-encoded. But like a copy machine — a copy of a copy of a copy results in degradation each time. If your Plex server is not on a powerful machine, then you may not want to re-encode into h.265 because currently, Plex will always transcode h.265 to h.264 on the fly when streaming on your devices. Well, that's not entirely true — I know that the Nvidia Shield TV on a LAN will direct stream the video without transcoding and the same with the Pixel 2 XL on a LAN. But accessing Plex from outside of your home — yes, Plex will transcode to h.264 every time (unless you change your remote streaming settings from your Plex client (notice I didn't say server.) Not possible at the moment, although myself and others have requested this feature. Magic 8-Ball says: My sources say no. Maybe in future updates, but Unmanic is developed and maintained by a single developer at the moment. However, if you are coding savvy, I encourage you to make contributions to the GitHub to push development further. I would heed my own advice, but I haven't progressed past power user into programmer. But, if someone wants to take me under their wing and teach me to code or pay for me to go back to school — I won't turn down a free lunch.

Well, it doesn't really need a DB, because the way the Unmanic was written, it scans your video files to check to see if they are already encoded in h.265. If they are, then those files are skipped. source: Page 1 of this thread

I've been getting some weird stuff in my logs when it comes to movies. I have the library pointed to '/library/' And then the linking in Docker is as follows: TV /library/TV -> /mnt/user/Plex/TV Movies /library/Movies -> /mnt/user/Plex/Movies Inside Unmanic via the GUI /library/ TV shows get encoded just fine. For some reason with movies it spits out an error. I haven't investigated too much into the matter, but should I come across anything else I'll be sure to update here. AMD Threadripper 1950x with 8 cores on die #2 pinned for Unmanic. I can't remember the times off of my head, but it's about 1.5x in terms of speed. With my previous Handbrake automation (see SpaceInvaderOne's videos) and with my custom h.265 settings, I was averaging about ~40-60 fps on movies.

Looks like lag is introduced once you do the pass-through of the GPU. Just completed a fresh install of High Sierra yesterday keeping everything the same from Space Invader One's video. I didn't change the system profile to a newer one in Clover like SPO does. It may just have to do with the graphics card (EVGA GTX 1060 6G) because I am not experiencing the issues with the MSI GT 710 with vbios pass-through. Okay, so I am passing through the GTX 1060 with vbios pass-through and it appears to be working more smoothly. I'll report back if conditions worsen. Another update...so it may have to do with resolution. Inside Clover, the resolution is set to 1920x1080. When I change the display to 2550x1440 (the resolution of my Thunderbolt display), that's when I start to have issues with lag and such. BTW I run my macOS VM on a headless server. So far, the VM has been smooth at 1080p resolution.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/76878-support-josh5-unmanic-library-optimiser/

Still experiencing hard lag/freezes. It comes and goes. When it happens, I just have to walk away from the computer for 5-10 minutes and let it do its thing. I am able to pass through the GTX 1060. No problems there. I have to use either Apple Remote Desktop (VNC) or Splashtop to access the VM. There is no way around it as my server is ran in a headless state. #headlesshorseman

I threw in a GT 710 GPU so that I could pass through my GTX 1060.

I'm not doing pass through. My Unraid server is headless (no monitor). I use my MacBook as a thin client (connected to my Thunderbolt display) + VM when I need to do any heavy lifting (video/photo editing) or gaming. I don't pass through the vbios on my GTX 1060 in either Windows or macOS. The card is in slot 1 and I haven't had any issues with pass through (granted I have a second GPU for Unraid). @Lytic Is there any advantage of using the vbios in my setup then? My understanding is that you want to use the vbios for your GFX when you only have one GPU that is being used by Unraid and that you want to use with a VM.

Was doing some more testing. I've noticed that a few TV shows weren't encoded due to some sort of errors similar listed below in this post Unmanic is able to watch two folders/libraries which is good Tried importing a movie this afternoon and found errors in my Docker logs Zero reports inside the Unmanic GUI's "Failure" tab 2019-07-05T17:12:51:ERROR:Unmanic.Worker-1 - [FORMATTED] - Exception in processing job with Worker-1: - ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', '/library/Movies/ (2014)/ (2014) [-1080p].mkv', '-hide_banner', '-loglevel', 'info', '-strict', '-2', '-max_muxing_queue_size', '512', '-map', '0:0', '-map', '0:1', '-map', ' 0:1', '-map', '0:2', '-map', ' 0:2', '-map', '0:3', '-map', ' 0:3', '-map', '0:4', '-map', ' 0:4', '-map', '0:5', '-map', ' 0:5', '-map', '0:6', '-map', ' 0:6', '-map', '0:7', '-map', ' 0:7', '-map', '0:8', '-map', ' 0:8', '-map', ' 0:9', '-map', '0:10', '-map', '0:11', '-map', '0:12', '-map', '0:13', '-map', '0:14', '-map', '0:15', '-map', '0:16', '-map', '0:17', '-map', '0:18', '-map', '0:19', '-c:v', 'libx265', '-c:a:0', 'copy', '-c:a:1', 'aac', '-b:a:1', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:1', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:1', 'copy', '-c:a:2', 'aac', '-b:a:2', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:2', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:2', 'copy', '-c:a:3', 'aac', '-b:a:3', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:3', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:3', 'copy', '-c:a:4', 'aac', '-b:a:4', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:4', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:4', 'copy', '-c:a:5', 'aac', '-b:a:5', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:5', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:5', 'copy', '-c:a:6', 'aac', '-b:a:6', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:6', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:6', 'copy', '-c:a:7', 'aac', '-b:a:7', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:7', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:7', 'copy', '-c:a:8', 'aac', '-b:a:8', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:8', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:8', 'aac', '-b:a:8', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-c:s:8', 'copy', '-c:s:9', 'copy', '-c:s:10', 'copy', '-c:s:11', 'copy', '-c:s:12', 'copy', '-c:s:13', 'copy', '-c:s:14', 'copy', '-c:s:15', 'copy', '-c:s:16', 'copy', '-c:s:17', 'copy', '-y', '/tmp/unmanic/file_conversion-1562371936.667099/ (2014) [-1080p]-1562371936.667107.mkv'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/lib/worker.py", line 176, in run self.process_task_queue_item() File "/app/lib/worker.py", line 157, in process_task_queue_item self.current_task.success = self.process_item() File "/app/lib/worker.py", line 139, in process_item ffmpeg_args) File "/app/lib/ffmpeg.py", line 510, in convert_file_and_fetch_progress raise FFMPEGHandleConversionError(command) lib.ffmpeg.FFMPEGHandleConversionError: ['ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', '/library/Movies/ (2014)/ (2014) [-1080p].mkv', '-hide_banner', '-loglevel', 'info', '-strict', '-2', '-max_muxing_queue_size', '512', '-map', '0:0', '-map', '0:1', '-map', ' 0:1', '-map', '0:2', '-map', ' 0:2', '-map', '0:3', '-map', ' 0:3', '-map', '0:4', '-map', ' 0:4', '-map', '0:5', '-map', ' 0:5', '-map', '0:6', '-map', ' 0:6', '-map', '0:7', '-map', ' 0:7', '-map', '0:8', '-map', ' 0:8', '-map', ' 0:9', '-map', '0:10', '-map', '0:11', '-map', '0:12', '-map', '0:13', '-map', '0:14', '-map', '0:15', '-map', '0:16', '-map', '0:17', '-map', '0:18', '-map', '0:19', '-c:v', 'libx265', '-c:a:0', 'copy', '-c:a:1', 'aac', '-b:a:1', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:1', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:1', 'copy', '-c:a:2', 'aac', '-b:a:2', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:2', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:2', 'copy', '-c:a:3', 'aac', '-b:a:3', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:3', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:3', 'copy', '-c:a:4', 'aac', '-b:a:4', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:4', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:4', 'copy', '-c:a:5', 'aac', '-b:a:5', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:5', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:5', 'copy', '-c:a:6', 'aac', '-b:a:6', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:6', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:6', 'copy', '-c:a:7', 'aac', '-b:a:7', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:7', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:7', 'copy', '-c:a:8', 'aac', '-b:a:8', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-metadata:s:a:8', "title='Surround Stereo'", '-c:a:8', 'aac', '-b:a:8', '128k', '-ac', '2', '-c:s:8', 'copy', '-c:s:9', 'copy', '-c:s:10', 'copy', '-c:s:11', 'copy', '-c:s:12', 'copy', '-c:s:13', 'copy', '-c:s:14', 'copy', '-c:s:15', 'copy', '-c:s:16', 'copy', '-c:s:17', 'copy', '-y', '/tmp/unmanic/file_conversion-1562371936.667099/ (2014) [-1080p]-1562371936.667107.mkv']

27" Apple Thunderbolt

AMD Threadripper. It's a beast of a server. Shreds through my Light L16 raw files like it was nothing. With GPU pass through in Windows, I get near bare metal performance. FCP X is pretty smooth as well. Apple's native Screen Share works great (it's a VNC) I am able to hear sound via Splashtop It's unfortunate that sound isn't implemented in Apple's Screen Share For color correction I would stick with Apple's native screen share (that is if your thin client is macOS) Splashtop changes the color profile even if you set it on your thin client and host VM, so colors aren't accurate while using Splashtop I haven't tried sound pass through I tried USB pass through, but I forgot/didn't setup the correct kext files, so I don't quite know how that works yet

Happy to see the project is out of Alpha and into Beta. I just got the Docker image up and running a few hours ago and have been kicking the wheels around. Kudos @Josh.5 for getting this project up and running! 🙇‍♂️ Let us know how we can support you and in what capacity. Things I'd like to see: More finite control over video quality Define how audio will be encoded or passed through or both Flag folders to exclude/skip e.g., nightly/weekly news broadcast or variety show that are automatically deleted after viewing don't need to be encoded in h.265 (saves time & energy) Cancel current workers/encodes (See section 3.1 above) 😉 Ignore "._" files

While I wait for @Josh.5's UnManic project to mature, is there any way @SpaceInvaderOne that I can filter specific programming from being automatically encoded? i.e., nightly & weekly news programs that I simply watch and have Plex auto delete do not need to be re-encoded into h.265 since I am not archiving them. This would save not only on time, but energy as well. 💸💸💸 I was trying to think of ways to do it inside of SABnzbd so that when completed, the files get moved to another monitored Sonarr folder that is hidden from Handbrake, but I don't see how it is possible unless I knew how to write a script that would allow me to do so (beyond my skill set.)

As long as the data transfers in both directions to the exFAT drive and the errors are benign — I can live with that.

I'm new to it, but from what I've been reading here in the forums, it seems way better than Apple Finder's "merge" function. I just wish exFAT played better with Unix & Linux. Happy Sunday fun day and have a great 4th of July (for those that celebrate!)

I simply ended up running the command: rsync -arPv --no-perms /mnt/user/Avid\ 101/ /mnt/disks/SPJ Files seemed to copy over with a few of those permission errors/noticies early on, but eveything seemed to transfer over just fine. I will find out later when I get back to working with the files. Thanks for the help!

For as popular as qBittorrent has been getting recently — it sure is difficult to get qBittorrent working out of the box with Sonarr, Radarr, & Binhex's SABnzbd-VPN. The port changing isn't as straight forward in this container as it is in the other Binhex containers. I give up and I'm going back to the old setup that SpaceInvaderOne outlined in his video — which works with the Handbrake automation.

Why do the permissions problems happen when trying to copy to /mnt/disks/Drive_Name? I see it in Midnight Commander and rsync I've formatted the external hard drive via the U.D. plugin to exFAT (I need macOS read/write compatibility) and I have these errors I could simply attach the HDD to my computer and transfer through SMB, but it's slower in doing so. Plus, macOS's merge function in the Finder isn't straight forward The same goes if I mount the HDD to the Unraid server via U.D. and then transfer the files from the macOS VM via SMB = slow Seems to happen when the functions are trying to create the base folders on the external HDD at the drive's root level

That's great to hear! I just wish I could figure out what causes my system to freeze/hang from time to time. It's really hampering my work progress on Avid. What version of Clover are you running @J.Nerdy? What hardware profile do you have selected in Clover? Maybe that is my issue. I'll try to reset the hardware profile to the one that comes pre-selected in the Clover install from @SpaceInvaderOne's video.

Hopefully your macOS VM runs smoothly. I'm running headless so I have to use either VNC or Splashtop. Ha. I think you found the delete button on your second post so, you're all good to go. Have a great weekend!

The freezing/lag issue of the macOS VM speaks for itself if it is happening on both Intel & AMD chips. I'm debating on rolling back, but not sure of the implications if I were to do so. Then again, you mentioned previously that you were experiencing performance issues in 6.6.7 as well. --- @J.Nerdy Let us know if your macOS VM is running smoothly and not lagging.

It's still happening today. I even pinned all of the CPU's onto one die/core to make sure the "magic fabric" on the Threadripper wasn't the root cause. So currently the macOS High Sierra VM is on the first CPU of the Threadripper — still causing issues. I'll have to test out my other macOS VM that I created prior to upgrading to 6.67 to see if it is affected as well. That VM image got deleted previously...doh! Until then...stand-by to stand-by. @Amigaz You didn't happen to roll back to 6.6.7 did you? If you did, did the problems go away?