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Paul MaudDib posted:Is this thread Plex-specific, or do you guys do Emby too? (or is there another thread that would be better for that?) There's a thread for Emby: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3753964
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Paul MaudDib posted:Is this thread Plex-specific, or do you guys do Emby too? (or is there another thread that would be better for that?) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3753964 is the Emby thread. Plex doesn't support that AFAIK.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen that come up on the Plex forums before. If I remember correctly, the general response was a solid "why". If your storage box can't handle transcoding duties, then just install Plex on a separate box that does have the horsepower.
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Apr 23, 2018 22:24
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Paul MaudDib posted:AFAIK neither Plex or Emby has support for offloading encoding to another machine on the network, right? IOwnCalculus posted:I'm pretty sure I've seen that come up on the Plex forums before. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/178320/plex-remote-transcoder-a-distributed-transcoding-backend-for-plex and yeah, if you have enough clients you're building an encoding farm, it's real hard to handwave it away as "family and close friends sharing some media" so you'll never see it officially supported.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:30
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Got one of those discounted Plex Pass emails. Not sure if it's worth it. Did someone upgrade on a whim and find a killer feature they can't imagine living without?
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Apr 24, 2018 16:43
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DVR is basically the only good reason for plexpass, IMO. So if you're into that go for it, otherwise let it pass you by.
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Apr 24, 2018 16:53
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The killer features to me are offline sync and multiple users for home, both of which I use daily. I would not be able to use Plex without separated watched status tracking between my girlfriend and I.
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KingKapalone posted:Got one of those discounted Plex Pass emails. Not sure if it's worth it. Did someone upgrade on a whim and find a killer feature they can't imagine living without? I did. Synchronizing stuff is nice with how easy it is, and Plex Pass enables hardware decoding which saves me computer power going forward. I won't lie though - Plex TV is still pretty bad, especially when compared to competitors like Youtube TV.
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Apr 24, 2018 16:55
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TheScott2K posted:DVR is basically the only good reason for plexpass, IMO. So if you're into that go for it, otherwise let it pass you by. And this would require an HD antenna?
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Apr 24, 2018 17:09
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KingKapalone posted:And this would require an HD antenna? And a tuner. And, if we're being honest with ourselves about how well 1080i transcodes on the fly, client devices that support MPEG2.
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Apr 24, 2018 17:14
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The Plex Pass sub is well worth the money. I have 5 or 6 users in my home account, beautiful thing.
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Apr 24, 2018 17:19
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porksmash posted:The killer features to me are offline sync and multiple users for home, both of which I use daily. I would not be able to use Plex without separated watched status tracking between my girlfriend and I. Can you explain this please? My wife and I have no problems sharing an account. Are you both watching the exact same movie/tv episode and stopping at different points or something?
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Apr 24, 2018 20:47
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We watch very different types of shows when not together and I didn't like reality TV showing up in my on deck section. If you watch the same stuff it's probably not a big deal.
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Apr 24, 2018 20:57
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Oldstench posted:Can you explain this please? My wife and I have no problems sharing an account. Are you both watching the exact same movie/tv episode and stopping at different points or something? So, with my users, my son is one of them so i restrict what in the library he can see and has access to. The rest are family members and for the TV shows that they watch, that is all they can see in my library. Otherwise it is cumbersome for them to sift through all my shows to find their shows. You cannot do that without a Plex Pass. If you just have you and your wife, you probably do not need the Plex Pass. Guys like me with remote users and different tastes and age restrictions you would. You can restrict which libraries each user has access to and can then tune it down to only show them specific shows/movies/artists within those libraries. EDIT: Each user is locked with a pin number derk fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Apr 25, 2018 |
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Not really sure where to post this but how are tvdb, sonarr, Plex, et all going to handle the remixed s4 of arrested development that just came out? I don't know of any show that has done something like this before so not sure of the naming convention that should be used.
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May 4, 2018 02:17
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Knowing tvdb? Badly. I expect it’ll be considered a Special and they’ll make entries in there for it, and hopefully thexem will patch scene versions in ok.
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I underestimated how much the tvdb staff sucks. My fault, as I should've immediately jumped to 'handled in the worst possible way' and not just 'badly'.quote:Because per our rules we don't list recuts of any sort and only list the original version. It would be duplicate episodes. So they're not listing it at all. And because it's 7 episodes more than the original version, it can't even be forced in.
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May 4, 2018 17:47
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Nothing stopping you from using your own information or some other source.
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May 4, 2018 18:20
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Just swap your default indexer to the movie dB and don't worry about it
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May 4, 2018 18:29
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Ah that’s true, I forget that Plex let’s you use other sources while Sonarr doesn’t. I’ll just do some manual work for this one then. But the important thing to remember is that the people who run tvdb suck (this is by no means an isolated thing).
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May 4, 2018 18:47
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For now I've just setup the remix as a separate show.
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I just got Tautulli (formerly Plexpy) working and sending email notifications (protip, don't use google, use outlook for smtp). And am liking it, but it looks like it's picking filename from the properties->details->Title which (as far as I know) neither SABNzbd or Sickbeard touches when it renames the file. For example the file starts as: RARBG.someshow.S02E05.WEBRip.x264.ION10.mkv And it get's renamed: Someshow.S02E05.EpisodeName.mkv But in the properties it remains: RARBG.someshow.S02E05.WEBRip.x264.ION10.mkv (details and comments) So Plexpy picks up this info, instead of the new and improved file name. It's a minor annoyance, but I'm a goon soooooo... Does Sonarr 'fix' this?
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May 16, 2018 15:44
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Sonarr keeps a record of the original name but in its own database, it strips it from the file details.
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porktree posted:I just got Tautulli (formerly Plexpy) working and sending email notifications (protip, don't use google, use outlook for smtp). And am liking it, but it looks like it's picking filename from the properties->details->Title which (as far as I know) neither SABNzbd or Sickbeard touches when it renames the file. For example the file starts as: Are you sure it's not pulling out of the files meta data rather than the filename
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May 16, 2018 18:52
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What the heck is Sonarr, Sickbeard, etc? I’ve seen it mentioned time and time again when looking up renaming utilities, but when I investigate them they seem to be about  and downloading TV episodes from a USENET provider.
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Craptacular! posted:What the heck is Sonarr, Sickbeard, etc? I’ve seen it mentioned time and time again when looking up renaming utilities, but when I investigate them they seem to be about They are downloaders that you set up to automatically download what you want. They search indexers periodically for things. They also organize your files by moving them around and renaming them.
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Craptacular! posted:What the heck is Sonarr, Sickbeard, etc? I’ve seen it mentioned time and time again when looking up renaming utilities, but when I investigate them they seem to be about The latter, but they automatically rename stuff and move it into your Plex library too.
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fluppet posted:Are you sure it's not pulling out of the files meta data rather than the filename Ya, that's what I said as unclearly as possible. I you look at the properties of the file, in the meta data under details, the title still has the RARBG name. Plex pulls the title from the meta data if it exists.
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Lawen posted:The latter, but they automatically rename stuff and move it into your Plex library too. How does sonarr compare to something like FileBot?
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BoyBlunder posted:How does sonarr compare to something like FileBot? Completely different. FileBot looks like it's strictly a tagging and renaming tool. Sonarr/Radarr are much more focused on keeping a list of tv shows/movies that you want and watching for them on the usenet/torrent indexers that you configure. When it finds something you've told it to look for it passes the info to your usenet/torrent client to download the file. Once the file finishes downloading/extracting, sonarr/radarr take back over, rename it sanely (e.g. TV.Show.s01e01.720pWebRip.L33tReleaseGrOuP.mkv becomes "Tv Show - s01e01.mkv" or however you configure it) and moves it into your Plex directory so that Plex can find it. Then Plex adds it to your library and uses its own tools to find a match on tvdb/tmdb and do all the tagging/cover art/trailers downloading. So the renaming part is just a tiny bit of what they do. If you just need something to tag and rename your media, sonarr/radarr aren't what you're looking for. But if you want an automated DVR-like system it's great. You can just tell it "Hey, I watch Westworld" and boom, the new episode of Westworld magically shows up in your Plex, tagged and ready to watch, about 30 mins after it airs, with no further intervention on your part.
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There's a thread for Usenet and these programs, with a well-written OP. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3409898
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Ive recently begun aquiring some shows in HEVC. They play fine on openPHT/rasplex. But on appletv, the audio is f’d. All the center channel audio is coming from the right speaker. Help me goons TIA
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May 18, 2018 06:28
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My guess is the files you are trying to playback don't meet whatever HEVC profiles the Apple TV supports: https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/76qkv3/hevc_h265_and_the_apple_tv_4/
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teagone posted:My guess is the files you are trying to playback don't meet whatever HEVC profiles the Apple TV supports: https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/76qkv3/hevc_h265_and_the_apple_tv_4/ If I’m reading right, ATV doesnt support AAC LC beyond 160kbs. Why doesnt PMS just transcode the audio to DD or something it DOES support? Seems odd.
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I’m sure I’ve seen something in the Apple TV board on the Plex forum with some code people have added into one of the profile files on PMS that helps with things like this. Might be worth a look in there.
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I have a uhd rip and a .srt file for subtitles. I am playing the straight rip without reencoding it because I want 10 bit HDR and don’t want to mess with staxrip. When I enable the subtitles playback stutters. I get a few seconds of video, pause, a few seconds of video, pause, etc. Without subtitles enabled the movie plays fine. Is there a way to get subtitles to work without stuttering and without burning them into the video? I’m not sure where the bottleneck is. Tautulli reports that the video and audio are being direct streamed but the subtitles are being transcoded. Is subtitle transcoding for srt files that much of a processor hit that it’d cause the stream to stutter? Or maybe adding subtitles jacks the bandwidth requirements way up for some reason and the network can’t keep up? What should I even look for?
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What are you using as a Plex server and what does it report for CPU usage when this is happening?
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Talking about subs reminds me of an issue last night. Have a 3D SBS film with some forced subs for foreign language parts, but couldn’t get it to work right with any client I tried. I’m guessing subs + 3D just isn’t supported? The subs were PGS not SRT in case that makes a difference.
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IOwnCalculus posted:What are you using as a Plex server and what does it report for CPU usage when this is happening? I found the transcode process that's running on that movie and it's using ~1% cpu with spikes up to 11%. Using iftop I looked at the bandwidth being taken up by the stream. It hits as high as 40 Mb but that shouldn't be a problem, the network is gigabit and it hits the same rates when subtitles are turned off and it's not stuttering. Maybe it's the TV's plex client? The subtitle format that's being transcoded to is webvtt and the tv is a samsung.
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So I want to build a cheap (it won't be used much, so I'd rather not spend much on it) Plex server for my lake cabin. I have no internet there so I want a basic box to be able to stream Plex to a couple TVs. Would setting up a Raspberry pi be the way to go for this? I was thinking use the Pi, hook up an external HD, use an old wireless router and stream to a couple old FireTV sticks I have laying around.
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