Trouble transcoding iPhone8 video, possibly stalling progress of library import

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Thank you for the settings update suggestion. Iā€™m interested in testing it.

Regarding editing the settings.toml,
I tried following the suggestions here

  1. Power up PS with env PS_START_PAUSED=true (this was passed using an unraid container variable)
  2. Complete initial PS welcome steps (authenticate, tell it not to automatically organize, etc)
  3. Once it loads the ā€˜paused statusā€™, stop the container with Unraid
  4. Edit config/settings.yaml
  5. Start the PS container with unraid
  6. Launch the WebUI but find that it starts back over with the ā€˜welcomeā€™ settings screen. If I re-complete these steps, it replaces the settings.toml file, which removes my prior edits.

Hereā€™s a snip of what I changed. Just removing the comment characters+whitespace and altering the lines you have in the post above:

# CAUTION: this is an advanced setting. Editing this may cause videos that
# require transcoding to not be imported, or not be viewable on all browsers
# and platforms. See
# <https://forum.photostructure.com/t/poor-transcoding-of-videos-in-wider-color-spaces-rec-2020/646>
# for more details.
#
environment: "PS_FFMPEG_TRANSCODE_ARGS"
ffmpegTranscodeArgs = [
  "-c:a",
  "aac",
  "-c:v",
  "libx264",
  "-pix_fmt",
  "yuv420p",
  "-vf",
  "colorspace=all=bt709:iall=bt601-6-625:fast=1",
  "-movflags",
  "faststart",
  "-profile:v",
  "high"
]

I suspect Iā€™m introducing syntax error(s) causing PS to replace the file? I donā€™t think Iā€™m introducing linux/windows whitespace problemsā€¦at least Iā€™m making an effort to avoid that.

Any obvious newb mistakes you notice in my settings.toml changes?
Happy to rtfm regarding settings.tomlā€¦can you suggest a post/doc different from the steps above?

Thanks!