Analyze and Analyze Deeply - Why Needed?

[mrobgithub]

Just trying to understand under what circumstances the normal Plex Server processes (Scan/Refresh and Scheduled Tasks) don't perform these functions automatically resulting in the need to manually perform them via scripts? Is this just necessary due to complications with ACD hosted content?

[ghost]

I use it to identify corrupt files (delete) so plex doesn't need to rescan these at every scheduled task.

[ajkis]

I use it since sometimes Plex can "loose" the analyze information from video and then you cant play that file until you analyze it ( and that can be done in Plex interface only by server owner)

Iam running it every 3h and usually its around 5 to 10 movies daily that are getting "reanalyzed"

[Animosity022]

Plex can do the analyze 'on the fly'. The problem with 'on the fly' with the ACD items is it takes time and people are impatient so they can cancel out/restart/etc as it has to analyze the file usually before it plays it.

This definitely a nice addition and is going into my crontab to make sure everything is analyzed all the time.