Trouble transcoding iPhone8 video, possibly stalling progress of library import

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Thank you for the settings update suggestion. I’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 ‘paused status’, 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 ‘welcome’ settings screen. If I re-complete these steps, it replaces the settings.toml file, which removes my prior edits.

Here’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 I’m introducing syntax error(s) causing PS to replace the file? I don’t think I’m introducing linux/windows whitespace problems…at least I’m making an effort to avoid that.

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

Thanks!