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No idea on the first. On the second, yes if you want to use the app (or sync), no if you're fine using it via Safari.
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bolind posted:Dumb questions: if there is no transcoding involved it should be fine IMO.
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bolind posted:Dumb questions: Ive never tried it, but provided your content is all lowbitrate, it might be ok. Also, transcoding will be horrible/not possible. If your goal is to save money, just seek out a use windows 10 laptop. Cornjob fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Nettle Soup posted:Weird issue. Running plex in Firefox, if I move whatever I'm watching to my second screen, the colours look fine and correct. If I move it back to the main screen, it makes them washed out. Moving it back to the other screen makes it right again. It's super visible and it's plex or something adjusting the brightness, because it holds the brightness/contrast from the other screen until I unpause. This was hardware acceleration in firefox, just for reference. Turned it off, it stopped changing the brightness.
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I am looking to create stub entries for my itunes movies. Does anyone have a stub video file I can throw in a folder that just says "watch in itunes"?
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Nettle Soup posted:This was hardware acceleration in firefox, just for reference. Turned it off, it stopped changing the brightness. Are the screens running on different graphics cards?
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It's pretty bullshit they killed plugins.
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We have TIDAL integration now, though!
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Fuzz posted:It's pretty bullshit they killed plugins. Did they? I had a trakt one that I really liked 
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FCKGW posted:Did they? I had a trakt one that I really liked The trakt one can still be run, but it's a pain in the butt from what I read. The plugins still exist on a reeeeeeal basic level but you can't interact with them easily, you need a 3rd party client.
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My drat plex stopped picking posters for new movies and picks a random screenshot now. I tried messing with Agent settings to no avail! Whyyyy
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Delthalaz posted:My drat plex stopped picking posters for new movies and picks a random screenshot now. I tried messing with Agent settings to no avail! Whyyyy Did you update your Plex? I thought they sent an email about this and an old version not being compatible with where they pull art from
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Delthalaz posted:My drat plex stopped picking posters for new movies and picks a random screenshot now. I tried messing with Agent settings to no avail! Whyyyy When you changed the agent settings, did you try swiching between Plex Movies and The Movie DB? Whichever one you've got as the primary might be having API issues or something.
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Astro7x posted:Did you update your Plex? I thought they sent an email about this and an old version not being compatible with where they pull art from Yeah it’s up to date. It does pull them , I can go in and choose posters from my pc when i connect to the server, it just automatically pics this ugly crap first and I need to change it
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I was trying to direct play a 4k video earlier. Plex kept pausing and told me that my connection wasn't fast enough. The file had a 70MB/s bitrate, but I was trying to watch over lan, with my client TV connected via ethernet and my server connected via 5ghz AC WiFi, so the bitrate shouldn't have been an issue. If I transcoded to a lower bitrate everything was fine, so I know it's not a problem with my drive read speed. Is there a way I can speed test my connection to the server, and my server to the router to try and find where the week link is?
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astral posted:Are the screens running on different graphics cards? Nope.
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Tea Bone posted:The file had a 70MB/s bitrate, but I was trying to watch over lan, with my client TV connected via ethernet and my server connected via 5ghz AC WiFi, so the bitrate shouldn't have been an issue. Rule out the WiFi entirely (even if its 5GHz AC, the airspace could be congested). Hardwire your server and see if that makes a difference.
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Tea Bone posted:I was trying to direct play a 4k video earlier. Plex kept pausing and told me that my connection wasn't fast enough. Besides wifi being terrible, check if your TV is connected at 100mbps or 1000mbps. Your 70MB/s file is running at 560mbps, unless you mean 70mbps. Case sadly matters here. Even then - 70mbps is close to wire speed on a 100mbps TV. The chips and switches in between could be not up to the task of actually going wire speed. Plus if that's average you could have high bitrate scenes going over double that amount. Try using mkvmerge/edit to cut out everything except the actual language you use in a lower bitrate format and the video + Dolby vision tracks as relevant. Dump the subtitles too. Should wind up with a 2 or 3 track file which doesn't have a dts-hd ma track. If that works directly you're right at the limit of your network.
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Delthalaz posted:Yeah it’s up to date. It does pull them , I can go in and choose posters from my pc when i connect to the server, it just automatically pics this ugly crap first and I need to change it I ran into this last month and it was loving annoying to debug. See this post of mine and follow the directions on the Plex forums. Let me know if that addresses it. I suspect it might be the same thing.
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H110Hawk posted:Besides wifi being terrible, check if your TV is connected at 100mbps or 1000mbps. Your 70MB/s file is running at 560mbps, unless you mean 70mbps. Case sadly matters here. Even then - 70mbps is close to wire speed on a 100mbps TV. The chips and switches in between could be not up to the task of actually going wire speed. Plus if that's average you could have high bitrate scenes going over double that amount. Ah thanks. Sorry yeah, I did mean 70mb. It looks like the TV's ethernet port is only 100mbs so I guess my options are either re-encoding as you suggested or getting a shield.
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Tea Bone posted:Ah thanks. Sorry yeah, I did mean 70mb. It looks like the TV's ethernet port is only 100mbs so I guess my options are either re-encoding as you suggested or getting a shield. There are many, many factors you could check in your output chain that might be the problem but I would agree step 1 should be: Stop using the client on your "smart" TV and switch to one of the recommended streaming boxes. I've never seen a built in client do even half as good a job as a standalone streamer, never mind better. That may well not be where the problem is but there are other benefits so start there.
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Tea Bone posted:Ah thanks. Sorry yeah, I did mean 70mb. It looks like the TV's ethernet port is only 100mbs so I guess my options are either re-encoding as you suggested or getting a shield. Before buying a new streamer box or queuing up new encodes, I really suggest hardwiring your server to see if that makes a difference. Even if it means having to pick up your server to move it closer to your switch/router, I recommend doing so just for a quick troubleshoot to be absolutely sure it's not your WiFi. teagone fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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Agreed. If 100mbps wasn't enough, lots of folks wouldn't be able to stream remotely.
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Internet Explorer posted:Agreed. If 100mbps wasn't enough, lots of folks wouldn't be able to stream remotely. He’s talking about 4K files, which if they’re remuxes are definitely not going to work on a 100mbit link. They pretty much all spike above that bitrate throughout. WEB 4K will be fine, though.
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Is there an easy way to stream a non-app based website via Plex to a TV? I used to be able to watch KissAnime via a plugin, but with plugins phased out you can't do that anymore.
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The Gunslinger posted:I ran into this last month and it was loving annoying to debug. See this post of mine and follow the directions on the Plex forums. Let me know if that addresses it. I suspect it might be the same thing. Ahh thanks! That fixed it. It was a bit of a pain in the rear end since the file is not where they said it would be in the Synology, but I found it and the problem looks solved. Awesome!
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Is there any way to force Plex to stop reverting back to the new experimental player? It's giving me problems. For one, it routinely has a terrible time resuming where we left off on a movie or TV show. It will just load forever. When this happens, it always turns out that it went back to the experimental player. Turning the experimental player off and resuming the video again always fixes this. Secondly, I like that pressing left and right will jump left and right in a movie. On the experimental player, pressing left and right just brings up the time scroll bar, then you have to press up, then you can scroll through the time. I know it's first world problem but I like just pressing left and right. I am using the latest NVidia Shield and my server is a high end Intel i7 with 64 gb of RAM and I am using cat5e cable for everything so it's not like there's some sort of bottleneck in my hardware. The experimental player is just really bad at resuming playback for whatever reason in my home. Anyway this wouldn't be a problem but it seems like Plex arbitrarily reverts back to the experimental player and it results in me getting a phone call at work once a week from my wife asking me how to fix Plex. Is it possible when Plex auto-updates it just turns it back to the experimental player?
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Of course Nvidia would start sales on the new Shield remote in the early morning for it to sell out by the time I wake up. 
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I just finished getting Plex setup on a little mini Lenovo I bought off ebay and threw an SSD in. This software is fantastic! Its done a great job organizing all of my media and playing everything through my tv. No gripes or nothing, just seems to work for my simple needs. If anyone was considering it, you dont have to spend a ton to get this all setup.
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Do you have something cleansing the filenames before you use Plex? If not, consider it because it can be a little picky sometimes and will likely throw you for a loop when it suddenly doesn't do what you expect it to do. If you source stuff from the internet, then a combination of Sonarr (v3 is in beta but works great, for TV) and Radarr (for movies) is a great combo.
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Thinking about getting a new device to run the server because my current one is just my old Core 2 Duo running Ubuntu headless. It's too noisy and power hungry to leave up all the time, so I've just been turning it on when someone in the house needs to watch something. Unfortunately this means anything else I want to do like maybe a VPN server, some DIY dropbox thing, irssi, pi-hole, etc would have to be on a separate device so it can be up 24/7 or I'll have to replace the server. Is there something I can get that has low power consumption, but can ramp it up when it needs to transcode? Is the answer just the Shield like everyone recommends?
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I mean, even a C2D isn't going to consume as much power while sitting idle as it does when transcoding - but the newer the processor, the lower that idle draw gets.
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I could just get a quieter cooling set up for it and it wouldn't bother me near as much. Still, I can't help worry about power usage since we pay more than 0.25 CAD per kWh. I suppose actually doing the math might help me make a decision. odiv fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Yikes. Yeah it would be worth it to measure the actual power draw on that, both idle and loaded.
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Is there an external hard drive that can act as a Plex server without getting into NAS territory? I have a Synology but don't want to use it for this if I can avoid it. It looks like WD Passport can do this, but with some compatibility issues (solvable). Is there something better? I'm looking for around 5 to 10TB capacity if that helps any.
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if you’re definitely not going to need transcoding at all (sanitized media), the cheapest, fastest option is probably a raspberry pi with usb 3 externals (via a powered usb hub because the pi can’t push the voltage for them by itself). that’ll get you 16-24tb of storage with a server to run plex. really though, your synology with run it fine. if you don’t want to draw from your storage pools, just plug an external into it and keep it separate. edit: it goes without saying that you need hardware to run the actual plex server package; a hard drive will only store media. brains fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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nickhimself posted:Is there an external hard drive that can act as a Plex server without getting into NAS territory? I have a Synology but don't want to use it for this if I can avoid it. It looks like WD Passport can do this, but with some compatibility issues (solvable). Is there something better? I'm looking for around 5 to 10TB capacity if that helps any. A Plex server needs a network to operate, and a NAS is a network attached storage. You're gonna need something with an Ethernet/WiFi connection of some type regardless.
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nickhimself posted:Is there an external hard drive that can act as a Plex server without getting into NAS territory? I have a Synology but don't want to use it for this if I can avoid it. It looks like WD Passport can do this, but with some compatibility issues (solvable). Is there something better? I'm looking for around 5 to 10TB capacity if that helps any. Nvidia shield is probably what you want.
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