python-plexapi VS Tdarr

Oh shit! I never even bothered to look because I asked a long time ago and was given and emphatic no. It looks like there is a playlist class. So I'll have to play with that and see what it can do.

I wanted a way to pick a random album from a collection and tell the Plexamp client connected to my speakers to play it. I wrote a detailed post about a simple way and a fancy way to do this using the unofficial Python Plex library.

It is the library agent change this guy was on the right track https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi/issues/534

Sources: https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi

There's no in the box option for that, but you can easily make something that can do it with things like the python plex api. Get random movie, send play command with offset for some random point. Sleep some random amount of time. Send a stop command and repeat the previous steps.

You should look into the python PlexAPI wrapper library. Here is an equivalent script using PlexAPI.

I am not sure if there is an official way most people do this, but I think the best bet would be to use data directly from plex - https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/server.html#plexapi.server.PlexServer.sessions to loop through every so often and get a list of current sessions (currently playing media). Once that goes empty start a timer for shutdown. If a session starts again end the shutdown, you could even look at to see if something is "paused" and have a different shutdown time for paused vs nothing playing if you really wanted.

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

The only place I can find mention of the script is Tdarr_Server is not closing exiftool.exe after use. #423 and tdarr_server.exe crashes often #412

I've had issues with my 11600k and now 11400 in unraid too. Though it's CPU encoding in my case. See https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr/issues/777 .

So I read through this issue and I have a couple nodes setup, some with QSV and others with NVENC. The respective node capabilities are designated for exactly one of QSV or NVENC.

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

I have created a feature request in the Tdarr GitHub page; https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr/issues/772

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