Path mapping help needed (Plex on Ubuntu, Script on Windows, Media on Unraid) #52
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kpatdev
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I think you found a bug @dezerving. i just pushed version 1.2.3 which should fix it. can you test ? |
Hey thanks for that quick work. Looks like that does correctly translate the beginning of the path, but doesn't handle the rest of the path with the slashes (converting / to \). That would probably require a bit more work I assume. Not sure if there's anything I can do on my end to make Windows paths appear as or accept forward slashes. PS C:\files\apps\plex_generate_vid_previews> python plex_generate_previews.py
2024/10/16 17:59:48 | ℹ️ - GPU Detection (with AMD Support) was recently added
to this script.
2024/10/16 17:59:48 | ℹ️ - Please log issues here
https://github.com/stevezau/plex_generate_vid_previews/issues
2024/10/16 17:59:48 | ℹ️ - Found NVIDIA GPU
2024/10/16 17:59:48 | ℹ️ - Getting the media files from library 'Movies'
2024/10/16 17:59:58 | ℹ️ - Got 4000 media files for library Movies
⠋ Working... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0% -:--:-- 0/40002024/10/16 17:59:58 | ❌ - Skipping as file not found D:\media/movies/2 Fast 2
Furious (2003) {tmdb-584}/2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) {tmdb-584}
[Bluray-1080p][DTS-HD MA 5.1].mkv
2024/10/16 17:59:58 | ❌ - Skipping as file not found D:\media/movies/2 States
(2014) {tmdb-259720}/2 States (2014) {tmdb-259720} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1].mkv
2024/10/16 17:59:58 | ❌ - Skipping as file not found D:\media/movies/8 Found
Dead (2023) {tmdb-1035705}/8 Found Dead (2023) {tmdb-1035705} [Bluray-1080p][AC3
5.1]-OFT.mkv |
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Just doing a quick look, it looks like we could use the |
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@dezerving you are right.. I don't handle windows too well. Let's fix that.. Just confirming.. you are running the script directly right? not in docker? |
Yes directly on Windows, not Docker. Docker on Windows (through WSL) was having issues as well - although with your fix in 1.2.3 I could probably try it again (since I can use forward slashes on there). Will give it a go later to see if that works. Regardless yeah it'd be good to fix the paths from the ground up so there's no issues in the future. This tool is gonna be so useful for my 50TB library - had to redo because my db got corrupted. |
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Ill sort this out in the next day or two. |
Sounds good, looking forward to that update. Will help test as needed. |
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In the meantime I was able to get this script to run with my setup using Docker (since you can use forward and backward slashes freely). I'll leave the documentation below (or PR if you want): Guide for Docker script, Ubuntu Plex, and Unraid (or any NAS) media location
Assumptions:
.env file:---
services:
previews:
image: stevezzau/plex_generate_vid_previews:latest
container_name: plex-thumbs
environment:
- PLEX_URL=https://<plex_server_ip>:32400
- PLEX_TOKEN=<token>
- PLEX_BIF_FRAME_INTERVAL=10
- THUMBNAIL_QUALITY=4
- PLEX_LOCAL_MEDIA_PATH=/media # be sure this is the correct volume mapped from below
- TMP_FOLDER=/tmp/previews # probably want to make this RAM disk in the future
- PLEX_TIMEOUT=60
- GPU_THREADS=5
- CPU_THREADS=5
volumes:
- T:/Media:/media # volume of your plex db folder (SMB mapped to network drive)
- plexmedia:/mnt/nfs # CIFS mount of your actual media mapped at bottom of file
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
count: 1
capabilities:
- gpu
volumes:
plexmedia:
driver_opts:
type: cifs
device: "//<server or IP>/data/media"
o: username=user,password=passwordWill reformat later but this is the gist. |
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@dezerving can you test the script on windows again? I just pushed a change that will hopefully fix it b374f8b note, i haven't pushed a new docker release yet, i will oce you confirm the above works. |
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Re the Docs, this is great, perhaps you can look at the existing section in the README and update it as required via a PR? |
Will test early tomorrow morning and report back. |
Will also look at cleaning up docs over the next week. Maybe would require more time if implementing anything from #53. |
So I just tested and it appears like the slashes do get corrected to the correct style but it still cannot find my files (even though they exist). PS C:\files\apps\plex_generate_vid_previews> python plex_generate_previews.py
2024/10/18 11:30:27 | ℹ️ - GPU Detection (with AMD Support) was recently added
to this script.
2024/10/18 11:30:27 | ℹ️ - Please log issues here
https://github.com/stevezau/plex_generate_vid_previews/issues
2024/10/18 11:30:27 | ℹ️ - Found NVIDIA GPU
2024/10/18 11:30:27 | ℹ️ - Getting the media files from library 'Movies'
2024/10/18 11:30:37 | ℹ️ - Got 4004 media files for library Movies
⠋ Working... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0% -:--:-- 0/40042024/10/18 11:30:37 | ❌ - Skipping as file not found D:\media\movies\1BR
(2019) {tmdb-611605}\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1]-iFT.mkv
2024/10/18 11:30:37 | ❌ - Skipping as file not found D:\media\movies\2 Fast 2
Furious (2003) {tmdb-584}\2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) {tmdb-584}
[Bluray-1080p][DTS-HD MA 5.1].mkvWhen I paste Not sure if this is an issue with the path mapping implementation or if I'm screwing up the paths somehow. I've tried quotes, non-quotes, etc. Nothing has allowed the script to actually see the files correctly directly on Windows (works through Docker WSL). My .env: PLEX_URL=https://<plex_server>:32400/
PLEX_TOKEN=<token>
PLEX_BIF_FRAME_INTERVAL=10
THUMBNAIL_QUALITY=4
PLEX_LOCAL_MEDIA_PATH="\\\<server>\plexdb\Media"
TMP_FOLDER=C:\Users\<user>\tmp
PLEX_TIMEOUT=60
PLEX_LOCAL_VIDEOS_PATH_MAPPING=D:\media
PLEX_VIDEOS_PATH_MAPPING=/mnt/nfs
GPU_THREADS=1
CPU_THREADS=0 |
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@dezerving hmm that's odd. Can you do a quick test.. open python3 in your console and paste in the below. What's the output? |
Changed the movie since that movie was recently upgraded and that's not the actual movie file path. The movie (1BR) is actually present at this path: >>> import os
>>> path = 'D:\media\movies\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv'
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
False
>>> print(os.path.isfile(path))
False
>>> print(path)
D:\media\moviesBR (2019) {tmdb-611605}BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkvLooks like Python cannot see that path on Windows because the single backslashes are causing issues and are being lost. I would think you have to double escape every backward slash but that's not the case either as the first two backslashes are fine. It's only the backslashes that are directly before a number that have to be double escaped. Even then, that doesn't result in the path being seen. Going a bit simpler, I just wanted Python to be able to see a directory on the >>> path = 'C:\files'
>>> print(path)
C:
iles
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
False
>>> path = 'C:\\files'
>>> print(path)
C:\files
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
True
>>> path = 'C:/files'
>>> print(path)
C:/files
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
TrueSo both ways work for files on the C:\ drive but for some reason do not work for files on the D:\ drive (network mapped drive). >>> path = 'D:/media/movies/1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}/1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [B
luray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv'
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
False
>>> print(os.path.isfile(path))
False
>>> print(os.path.isfile(path))It's so annoying but this is how far I've gotten so far. Will keep trying things and update the post. But let me know if you find an answer before I do lol. |
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@dezerving i'm not sure what is going on but i don't have a windows machine to test it.. If you find out what is happening ill update the code but without access to your machine it is a bit difficult as i cannot reproduce. However... can you try run all those again but use double quotes not single quotes and share the output? |
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Works on Windows for me with:
Tried answers from here after a bunch of other places and this worked. Definitely not solved but workable for my case right now. How I came to the solution above: >>> path = 'D:/media/movies/1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}'
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
False
>>> print(path)
D:/media/movies/1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}
>>> path = '\\\<server>/data/media'
>>> print(path)
\\<server>/data/media
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
TrueScript runs fine directly on Windows now: 2024/10/18 17:56:19 | ℹ️ - GPU Detection (with AMD Support) was recently added to this script.
2024/10/18 17:56:19 | ℹ️ - Please log issues here https://github.com/stevezau/plex_generate_vid_previews/issues
2024/10/18 17:56:19 | ℹ️ - Found NVIDIA GPU
2024/10/18 17:56:19 | ℹ️ - Getting the media files from library 'Movies'
2024/10/18 17:56:29 | ℹ️ - Got 4005 media files for library Movies
⠋ Working... ━━━━━━━╸━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 20% 0:02:32 798/40052024/10/18 17:58:32 | ℹ️ - Generated Video Preview for \\<server>\data\media\movies\The Convert (2024) {tmdb-1066262}\The
Convert (2024) {tmdb-1066262} [Bluray-1080p][AC3 5.1]-BHDStudio.mp4 HW=True TIME=85.3seconds SPEED=85.8x |
Double quotes or single quotes did not change anything for me. You still lose the backslash when a number immediately follows it. Looks to be an issue with how Python sees network drives? Because it can see local drives fine with any of the methods to convert paths (double backslash Output: >>> path = "D:\media\movies\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv"
>>> print(path)
D:\media\moviesBR (2019) {tmdb-611605}BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
False |
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Hey @dezerving, hmm looking at your last output It looks like the print(path) is incorrect tho? It shows as when it should be Something odd is going on. can you try with raw string mode? can you also try |
stevezau
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documentation
It actually should be
Sure. And this is where it gets interesting. It's able to actually get the correct path but Python is still unable to see it. I'm thinking this is because of it being a network drive that is mapped to a letter ( Using the UNC path as shown in my previous comment does work for me. Raw string mode: >>> path = r"D:\media\movies\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv"
>>> print(path)
D:\media\movies\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv
>>> print(os.path.exists(path))
False
>>> print(os.stat(path))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'D:\\media\\movies\\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605}\\1BR (2019) {tmdb-611605} [Bluray-1080p][DTS 5.1][x264]-iFT.mkv'I think this thread will be of use to anyone who has a "complicated" setup like I do. |
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Ok got it, thanks @dezerving I pushed 22e2630 to add an FAQ. Closing this one out now. |
Hello, I need some help with path mapping. Not sure why I can't figure this out but hoping some smart people in here can give me a hand.
I am running Plex on an Ubuntu 22.04 server, my media is located on an Unraid server and the script is running on a Windows server.
Plex database on Ubuntu is at
/var/lib/plexmediaserver.... I've exported that SMB share and it is visible at\\<server>\\plexdb\Mediaon both my Windows machine and a separate Mac machine.The issue seemingly is at the next point which is the path mapping for the actual media itself.
Plex sees all the media under
/mnt/nfs(which is an exported NFS share from Unraid) so for movies it would be/mnt/nfs/moviesand so forth. That same Unraid share I have mounted toD:\mediaas an SMB share on Windows. It is visible. The only difference between the share on Windows and Ubuntu is the root path. I thought I had the correct .env based on my scenario but it doesn't appear so and I can't seem to figure it out.My .env is as follows:
When running the script here is sample output:
Would appreciate any insight on how to resolve this. I have checked all documentation and searched previous issues but can't seem to get an answer to my specific scenario. Thank you in advanced!
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