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Content: so if i use GAP and add an overlay, what happens when adding new videos? Does gap have to run on a chron/scheduler? Would that cause an issue if we run PMM again and there's already an overlay on the images?
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wraith robin
nothing happens when you add videos to plex. If you rerun gap after that, it will detect the changes and add them
No it does not HAVE to run on cron/scheduler
No, PMM and GAP both have detections to avoid overlaying onto an overlaid file
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turbid coral
Oh sorry, didnt see this. Thank you
if you do not run it on a cron/scheduler, how does GAP work on the newer video? Would you not want to do this regularly ?
turbid coral
No, PMM and GAP both have detections to avoid overlaying onto an overlaid file
oh thats good to know
wraith robin
Oh sorry, didnt see this. Thank you
GAP just looks that plex and pulls whatever is NOT in your assets directory
if you set it up that way
the answer to regularly depends on a lot of different things
my library does not change much... so I dont run it much
i only run PMM 1 time per day
if you dont use overlays, then you may not need GAP
if you dont use a lot of overlays, then you might be off between runs... but the next run, pmm will know to apply the overlay based on the newly acquired asset that GAP placed in the asset directory
next crystal
The entire point of GAP is just to grab posters from Plex in various ways.
It can grab the current poster, or some number of the posters Plex has available;
it can ignore posters wth overlays from either or both PMM or TCM;
It can put them in a PMM asset directory, or not.
It can grab only things added since the last time it ran, or look at everything every time.
Totally up to you.
next crystal
I wrote it initially because I wanted to set the art on things to theatrical onesheets and wanted a way to grab all the posters so I could sift through them to put the ones I wanted in an asset directory rather than going clickety click in the UI for hours and hours
and then having to do it again when I rebuilt the library.
Now it's useful for populating an asset directory with your current art if you've done a lot of customization, perhaps, or just as a starting point.
But there's no one correct way to use it
turbid coral
Im just at a starting point, so trying to understand everything.
Its starting to become mroe clear, thank you both
wraith robin
it takes time.
turbid coral
In the beignning i just wanted some overlay and didn't think much about collections. After seeing some of the examples in the showcase section got me wanting to do it all. lol.
Some reason i couldnt understand the assets part but now i do.
wraith robin
