Do not do deep scans on personal library?

Channels DVR Server Feature Requests
#1

My personal movie collection is in cloud storage that is mounted to my local home server. When Channels does library scans of my movies it seems like it is actually downloading large portions of the Movie instead of just picking up on folder / file name which is structured per the usual recommendations. I am personally okay with not getting the extra metadata such as resolution and encoding tags that show up. I'm fine with the basic images, descriptions, etc.. that get pulled.

As such I can't really use Channels for personal media, which really bums me out because I love it. I've tried Jellyfin/Emby for live tv and media management and they are simply not as polished as Channels IMO. If I add a movie it will saturate my home internet for 20 minutes to an hour @ 30-50 MB/s while it does library scans.

When I try other media management software like Plex, Emby, Jellyfin they do not generate the same type of network traffic when doing network scans yet yield great results as far as metadata scraped for a given movie.

#2

You can turn off the "Pre-Optimize Personal Media" setting

#3

I didn't know that as an option. I just did that. Restarted the server. Added the remote path and it still is completely saturating my connection. I am showing 72MB/s right now as it's indexing.

#4

This actually did work, sorry. When clicking the checkbox it doesn't render correctly (tried Firefox and Safari) it was actually on when my browser was displaying it as off. I verified it was off and tried again and do not spike above 3 MB/s. Thank you!

#5

Just for the record, cloud storage is not technically supported.

We do not engineer for it, test for it, or even consider it when building Channels. So while this worked out nicely, you may have something else come up in the future that we won’t necessarily be able to help with.

So your mileage will vary.

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