From 406f1d078a56298ce95e4a8feca324dfc7bbbe8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Koushik Dutta <koushd@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:44:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] server: fix converter weighting

---
 server/package-lock.json   | 4 ++--
 server/package.json        | 2 +-
 server/src/plugin/media.ts | 6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/package-lock.json b/server/package-lock.json
index a80814b4a..356556862 100644
--- a/server/package-lock.json
+++ b/server/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@scrypted/server",
-  "version": "0.0.156",
+  "version": "0.0.157",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@scrypted/server",
-      "version": "0.0.156",
+      "version": "0.0.157",
       "license": "ISC",
       "dependencies": {
         "@mapbox/node-pre-gyp": "^1.0.8",
diff --git a/server/package.json b/server/package.json
index efc79fb80..b4d565cec 100644
--- a/server/package.json
+++ b/server/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@scrypted/server",
-  "version": "0.0.156",
+  "version": "0.0.157",
   "description": "",
   "dependencies": {
     "@mapbox/node-pre-gyp": "^1.0.8",
diff --git a/server/src/plugin/media.ts b/server/src/plugin/media.ts
index 7fe9c271d..23c7f29a3 100644
--- a/server/src/plugin/media.ts
+++ b/server/src/plugin/media.ts
@@ -320,9 +320,13 @@ export abstract class MediaManagerBase implements MediaManager {
                     }
                 }
 
+                // edge matches
                 if (mimeMatches(mediaMime, inputMime)) {
-                    mediaNode[targetId] = 1;
+                    // catch all converters should be heavily weighted so as not to use them.
+                    mediaNode[targetId] = inputMime.essence === '*/*' ? 1000 : 1;
                 }
+
+                // target output matches
                 if (mimeMatches(outputMime, convertedMime) || converter.toMimeType === ScryptedMimeTypes.MediaObject) {
                     node['output'] = 1;
                 }