JBOPS VS Tdarr

Tautulli for monitoring and notifications, plus some scripts for "maintenance," such as killing 4K transcodes and stopping remote streams after they've been paused for X minutes. These are from the JBOPS repository.

Unless someone has already created what you're looking for (JBOPS/reporting is a good initial place to look), you'll probably have to write something yourself that makes calls to Tautulli's API.

You can use the Plex API to bulk lock/unlock fields, including posters. It looks like this script that utilizes Python-PlexAPI should make it fairly easy if you're familiar with running Python scripts.

Set up Tautulli and use the kill_stream custom script to stop playback when someone attempts to play 4K content (or if direct play is okay, when someone is transcoding 4K), though you again need a Plex Pass, since the ability to kill remote streams also requires a Plex Pass.

Read this to get a better idea of how to use the scripts.

Next, download the script. Go to the github page, go into the right and click the button that says raw, then right click on the next page and click save as. It should save as a python script.

If you don't want to go the separate library route and you have a Plex Pass, you could install Tautulli and use the kill_stream custom script (install instructions here) to stop playback when it detects 4K is transcoding.

The ability to trigger custom scripts. I think the most popular around here is generally kill_stream.py which folks use to stop remote transcoding of 4k streams

You could also use tdarr to automate transcoding as soon as stuff enters your library so that it’s direct playable when you decide to watch it, but I’ve never needed to try it

Have a look at Tdarr for distributed transcoding. I have it on a few nodes and it’s been pretty easy on the network.

You can also use tdarr if you have more than 1 file it can auto transcodes multiple files in a directory all at once. https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr

or this: https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr

No, MakeMKV will only rip the disc as-is. HandBrake is a solid option, and ffmpeg works too if you're okay with getting into nitty-gritty command line options. Tdarr is a newer option that's great if you're looking to bulk-convert a bunch of files automatically based on various conditions. I haven't used it personally, but I've heard good things.

Typically because you are trying to play media with codecs that aren't supported by your browser, and transcoding is either not working or working suboptimally. Native clients (like MPV, VLC, or the desktop app) tend to have better codec support and support decoding the native media stream directly.

Some people work around this by making sure they only store supported codecs, either by being selective with media or offline transcoding (which can be instrumented with software like https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr).