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Media Preview Generator

by stevezau · io.github.stevezau.media-preview-generator

Not TrustedWeb appUnrated★ 272 stars

Self-hosted, GPU-accelerated preview thumbnails and Skip Intro/Credits…

Self-hosted, GPU-accelerated preview thumbnails and Skip Intro/Credits detection for Plex, Emby and Jellyfin. Starts the moment Sonarr or Radarr imports a file.

Screenshots

  • Tears of Steel in the Plex, Jellyfin and Emby web players, each showing a preview thumbnail over the seek bar
    Tears of Steel in the Plex, Jellyfin and Emby web players, each showing a preview thumbnail over the seek bar
  • Servers page with one card each for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby
    Servers page with one card each for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby
  • Dashboard with GPU workers making previews for three films
    Dashboard with GPU workers making previews for three films
  • One film's previews published to Plex, Jellyfin and Emby
    One film's previews published to Plex, Jellyfin and Emby
  • A Jellyfin job waiting to retry while the server indexes a new film
    A Jellyfin job waiting to retry while the server indexes a new film
  • hdr before after
    hdr before after

About

Plex, Emby and Jellyfin can make preview thumbnails themselves, but they do it inside the server, mostly on the CPU, and mostly on a schedule. On a big library that can take days, and the episode that arrived tonight can sit with a blank timeline until the next maintenance window. Media Preview Generator makes them on your GPU, for each file as it arrives. When more than one server holds the same file, it decodes it once and writes each server's own format. It also adds Skip Intro and Skip Credits. It finds each file's intro and end credits once and sends the markers to every server that has the file. When it isn't sure, it sends nothing and the file waits for your review. Media Preview Generator is the open-source project stevezau/media_preview_generator (https://github.com/stevezau/media_preview_generator) by stevezau, released under MIT. Ion packages it unmodified from commit 3b3c023282a8, adding only a manifest, an icon and a start script.

Source

Written by stevezau, published to Oikou by Ben Grande.

  • ★ 272 stars on GitHub
  • Licence: MIT
  • Upstream version 4.4.2
  • Built from commit 3b3c023282a8

View the repository on GitHub

Age rating

Not rated. Nobody has said who this app is suitable for, so Personal Clouds and the Oikou app treat it as 18+.

What version 4.4.2 may do

Internet

It asks to reach these hosts, and no others:

  • cdn.jsdelivr.net
  • fonts.googleapis.com
  • support.plex.tv
  • emby.media
  • jellyfin.org
  • radarr.video
  • shortlistapp.dev
  • sonarr.tv
  • www.plex.tv

Folders on your Personal Cloud’s computer

  • Can read and change files in a folder on your Personal Cloud’s computer that you choose: Your media library; previews for Emby and Jellyfin are written next to each video (/path/to/your/media) (media)
  • Can read and change files in a folder on your Personal Cloud’s computer that you choose: Plex's application data folder, where Plex's preview (BIF) files are saved (Plex config folder) (plex)

You choose each folder on your Personal Cloud, and whether it may only read it (the default) or also change it. It can send what it reads to the internet hosts above.

Personal Cloud tools

None. It uses nothing from your Personal Cloud beyond its own storage.

Notifications

It does not send push notifications.

Storage

Up to 512 MB on your Personal Cloud.

Its address

Works best with its own address. A Personal Cloud shared through Cloudflare can give it one; on a private Personal Cloud on Tailscale it opens under your Personal Cloud’s address, where it may not work fully. Private and shared Personal Clouds

Add to Personal Cloud

Sign in to add this web app to a Personal Cloud of yours. It runs there, on your own computer, and you open it from there; nothing is installed on your phone.

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Versions

4.4.2 Latest Shown above

Published · a ready-built bundle

Imported from stevezau/media_preview_generator at 3b3c023282a8 (4.4.2).

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