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Tatsuta Age: Apr 21, 2005; so good at being in trouble

I just set the plex app to deep sleep mode so it doesn't do anything unless I open it. probably would impact downloading things locally, but I only use that feature very sparingly on trips.

# ? Sep 19, 2021 14:55

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# ? May 17, 2024 04:16

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

Sir DonkeyPunch posted:

Is there any reason to even have notifications from the Plex app at all?

it's nice to know when new shows are added.

# ? Sep 19, 2021 19:01

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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Yeah if you�re fully automated, the plex notifications are often how you find out something has come out.

# ? Sep 19, 2021 19:23

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

EL BROMANCE posted:

Yeah if you�re fully automated, the plex notifications are often how you find out something has come out.

For me that would be the "recently added" bar when you start Plex.

# ? Sep 19, 2021 20:12

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

I just have *arr dump notices into a Slack channel whenever it grabs and downloads anything.

# ? Sep 19, 2021 20:27

The Gillman: Jul 8, 2004; Beaten with a sack of sweet Valencia oranges; Grimey Drawer

Starting to think using Pushover might be over kill now

# ? Sep 20, 2021 01:45

diremonk: Jun 17, 2008

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

For some reason I thought this was part of the Plex server (which I am using on a Windows 10 server PC) but is there any way within Plex to take live TV recordings and convert them automatically?

For example we always DVR stuff like Jeopardy, Dateline, 48 Hours, etc, but the drat files are insane; like 4GB each. Is there an easy way within Plex that after it records it to then covert it to something more sane (I'd be fine with 480p for that stuff!) and then auto-delete the gigantic files?

I figured it also would help with the fact that it sucks fast forwarding or rewinding through these recordings. It always seems to jump way too far ahead and the lips always get out of sync.

I used to use MCEbuddy in combination with Plex to do kind of what you are talking about. Plex would record the show then run a script to start MCEBuddy to strip the commercials and convert it to a h.264 file. It worked for the most part, but I'm not sure how it does now since the only guide I can find on it is from 5 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/52v7vd/guide_commercialfree_experience_with_plex_dvr/

I wonder if you could make a post processing script to start a ffmpeg conversion on it, something like the Sickbeard automator. But most of that is over my head technically.

# ? Sep 20, 2021 22:28

TheScott2K: Oct 26, 2003; I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

I could have sworn Plex DVR had a built in thing that spat out an h264 version of TV recordings

# ? Sep 20, 2021 22:43

WhyteRyce: Dec 30, 2001

Plex has built in post-record transcoding option. I shut mine off eventually because the performance hit when transcoding in combination with other live tv streams or other dvr transcodes was too much for me. At least on my old Kabylake

I think you can even have something like QuickSync do it but the quality is garbo

# ? Sep 20, 2021 23:06

Cornjob: Jun 12, 2007; NOT AN ACTOR

TheScott2K posted:

I could have sworn Plex DVR had a built in thing that spat out an h264 version of TV recordings

You can set the �optimize� the Function to convert specific folders. My tv recordings go to their own DVR folder, which has optimization enabled

# ? Sep 22, 2021 23:43

Sir DonkeyPunch: Mar 23, 2007; I didn't hear no bell

Our pals at Plex apparently broke the updater, so now that there's a new version out, my desktop (windows) client was crashing the client every 3 minutes or so. Manually pulling the new update fixed it

# ? Sep 24, 2021 00:59

Violator: May 15, 2003

Sir DonkeyPunch posted:

Our pals at Plex apparently broke the updater, so now that there's a new version out, my desktop (windows) client was crashing the client every 3 minutes or so. Manually pulling the new update fixed it

Ah thanks, was a problem on macOS too.

# ? Sep 24, 2021 20:08

KingKapalone: Dec 20, 2005; 1/16 Native American + 1/2 Hungarian = Totally Badass

I'm trying to direct play a Dolby Vision file and it's lagging a lot. I'm thinking it's maybe because it's MP4 and I think my other DV files are MKV? I've never really had playback issues with my Shield and the server Plex runs on. The file works fine on my PC in VLC other than the colors being entirely wrong since it doesn't support DV.

# ? Sep 27, 2021 04:15

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

The Diddler posted:

How often does it break? I would write a batch file to cycle the service and schedule it to run daily (or whatever) that way I don't need to mess with it when it's TV time.

Eh, maybe 2 or 3 times a month. Often enough that's it's a pain when it comes up but not often enough that I immediately fix it - usually workarounds (such as restarting Sonarr & Radarr) are sufficient. It's kinda become a habit now that I check regularly so I can sort it out before TV time comes up.

Sorta related is some 1080p movies don't play on Plex but are fine in Kodi. I'm guessing codecs but I don't know if there's anything I can do about it.

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

it's nice to know when new shows are added.

I think I have the opposite problem because even though I have the Plex app on my phone I have never received a notification and don't know about new content until I actually open the client

nexus6 fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Sep 27, 2021

# ? Sep 27, 2021 13:44

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

Does anyone know why Plex transcoder would be using up so much CPU power? I just checked Tautulli and literally nobody is watching anything. It also isn't chopping commercials out of a live TV DVR recording or anything. Anyone know why this might be?

I mean, even if it WAS transcoding like 5 movies at once that seems a little high, no? The CPU is an i7 9700k @ 4ghz. It's doing this while completely idle.

Edit: I forgot to mention this is on top of the fact that I have hardware acceleration enabled and a compatible GPU.

Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Sep 29, 2021

# ? Sep 29, 2021 15:45

CopperHound: Feb 14, 2012

Maybe making previews for scrubbing?

# ? Sep 29, 2021 17:18

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

CopperHound posted:

Maybe making previews for scrubbing?

Never would have thought of that. Thank you!

# ? Sep 29, 2021 20:27

acksplode: May 17, 2004

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Never would have thought of that. Thank you!

Not sure if it's a Plex Pass feature, but the web admin dashboard should tell you when it's creating thumbnails or generally doing anything that requires a lot of processing.

# ? Sep 29, 2021 20:45

Chumbawumba4ever97: Dec 31, 2000; by Fluffdaddy

acksplode posted:

Not sure if it's a Plex Pass feature, but the web admin dashboard should tell you when it's creating thumbnails or generally doing anything that requires a lot of processing.

Awesome, I didn't know that. I guess I didn't think it could be related to scrubbing/video previews because the offending task file was called "plex transcoder". But I guess that's its general term for everything.

# ? Sep 30, 2021 14:39

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

I have a Plex media server running on an Nvidia shield. Locally it works fine, on my PC using both the desktop app and web interface it works fine, on my phone off the home wifi it works fine. In the settings remote access is enabled and apparently working fine.

However, a user using the Plex client on a LG TV says it can't connect to the server. This had been working without issues as of last week. I've restarted the Shield more than once and the user has even uninstalled the client and reinstalled it, requiring a new link set up, but still the client can't connect to the shield server and says it's unavailable?

Any recommendations? Since all had been working fine until recently I'm really at a loss as to what to do.

# ? Oct 2, 2021 13:32

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

nexus6 posted:

I have a Plex media server running on an Nvidia shield. Locally it works fine, on my PC using both the desktop app and web interface it works fine, on my phone off the home wifi it works fine. In the settings remote access is enabled and apparently working fine.

However, a user using the Plex client on a LG TV says it can't connect to the server. This had been working without issues as of last week. I've restarted the Shield more than once and the user has even uninstalled the client and reinstalled it, requiring a new link set up, but still the client can't connect to the shield server and says it's unavailable?

Any recommendations? Since all had been working fine until recently I'm really at a loss as to what to do.

https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-information-about-plex-for-smart-tvs-after-september-30-2021/746506

# ? Oct 2, 2021 19:00

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

That was it, thanks

# ? Oct 3, 2021 16:30

cruft: Oct 25, 2007

My dad, who is going deaf, is suddenly triggering a transcoder death on his RPi4 when trying to burn VOBSUB. Anybody else seeing this?

Failing a reproduce, does anybody understand ffmpeg enough to know what -crf:0 would do? Maybe I can kludge up an ffmpeg wrapper to drop that option...

code:


Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.705 [0xf1eb7d48] DEBUG - [Transcode/JobRunner] Job running: FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS='/config/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/be22e26-4019-linux-armv7neon/' X_PLEX_TOKEN='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder' '-codec:#0x01' 'h264' '-analyzeduration' '20000000' '-probesize' '20000000' '-i' '/media/peanut/Movies/O Brother Where Art Thou (2000).m4v' '-filter_complex' '[0:#0x03]scale=706:362[0];[0:#0x01][0]overlay[1];[1]scale=w=836:h=362[2];[2]format=pix_fmts=yuv420p|nv12[3]' '-map' '[3]' '-codec:0' 'libx264' '-crf:0' '16' '-maxrate:0' '1309k' '-bufsize:0' '2618k' '-r:0' '23.873999999999999' '-preset:0' 'veryfast' '-x264opts:0' 'subme=2:me_range=4:rc_lookahead=10:me=dia:no_chroma_me:8x8dct=0:partitions=none' '-force_key_frames:0' 'expr:gte(t,n_forced*8)' '-map' '0:#0x02' '-codec:1' 'copy' '-copypriorss:1' '0' '-f' 'dash' '-seg_duration' '8' '-dash_segment_type' 'mp4' '-init_seg_name' 'init-stream$RepresentationID$.m4s' '-media_seg_name' 'chunk-stream$RepresentationID$-$Number%05d$.m4s' '-window_size' '5' '-delete_removed' 'false' '-skip_to_segment' '1' '-time_delta' '0.0625' '-manifest_name' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/manifest?X-Plex-Http-Pipeline=infinite' '-avoid_negative_ts' 'disabled' '-map_metadata' '-1' '-map_chapters' '-1' 'dash' '-start_at_zero' '-copyts' '-vsync' 'cfr' '-y' '-nostats' '-loglevel' 'quiet' '-loglevel_plex' 'error' '-progressurl' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/progress'
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.705 [0xf1eb7d48] DEBUG - [Transcode/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 5713
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.727 [0xf24add48] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:50178 (Loopback)] PUT /video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/progress?status=startup (7 live) Signed-in Token (Dadoo32) (range: bytes=0-) 
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.727 [0xf333bd48] DEBUG - Completed: [127.0.0.1:50178] 204 PUT /video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/progress?status=startup (7 live) 0ms 203 bytes (pipelined: 1) (range: bytes=0-) 
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.731 [0xf24add48] ERROR - [Transcoder] Unrecognized option 'crf:0'.
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.732 [0xf24add48] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error splitting the argument list: Option not found

# ? Oct 3, 2021 19:24

astral: Apr 26, 2004

cruft posted:

code:

Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.705 [0xf1eb7d48] DEBUG - [Transcode/JobRunner] Job running: FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS='/config/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/be22e26-4019-linux-armv7neon/' X_PLEX_TOKEN='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder' '-codec:#0x01' 'h264' '-analyzeduration' '20000000' '-probesize' '20000000' '-i' '/media/peanut/Movies/O Brother Where Art Thou (2000).m4v' '-filter_complex' '[0:#0x03]scale=706:362[0];[0:#0x01][0]overlay[1];[1]scale=w=836:h=362[2];[2]format=pix_fmts=yuv420p|nv12[3]' '-map' '[3]' '-codec:0' 'libx264' '-crf:0' '16' '-maxrate:0' '1309k' '-bufsize:0' '2618k' '-r:0' '23.873999999999999' '-preset:0' 'veryfast' '-x264opts:0' 'subme=2:me_range=4:rc_lookahead=10:me=dia:no_chroma_me:8x8dct=0:partitions=none' '-force_key_frames:0' 'expr:gte(t,n_forced*8)' '-map' '0:#0x02' '-codec:1' 'copy' '-copypriorss:1' '0' '-f' 'dash' '-seg_duration' '8' '-dash_segment_type' 'mp4' '-init_seg_name' 'init-stream$RepresentationID$.m4s' '-media_seg_name' 'chunk-stream$RepresentationID$-$Number%05d$.m4s' '-window_size' '5' '-delete_removed' 'false' '-skip_to_segment' '1' '-time_delta' '0.0625' '-manifest_name' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/manifest?X-Plex-Http-Pipeline=infinite' '-avoid_negative_ts' 'disabled' '-map_metadata' '-1' '-map_chapters' '-1' 'dash' '-start_at_zero' '-copyts' '-vsync' 'cfr' '-y' '-nostats' '-loglevel' 'quiet' '-loglevel_plex' 'error' '-progressurl' 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/progress'
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.705 [0xf1eb7d48] DEBUG - [Transcode/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 5713
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.727 [0xf24add48] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:50178 (Loopback)] PUT /video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/progress?status=startup (7 live) Signed-in Token (Dadoo32) (range: bytes=0-) 
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.727 [0xf333bd48] DEBUG - Completed: [127.0.0.1:50178] 204 PUT /video/:/transcode/session/nezw7xfuo89rh9cno67q9avh/6dd84541-8d5b-4e90-945b-095d2d640d11/progress?status=startup (7 live) 0ms 203 bytes (pipelined: 1) (range: bytes=0-) 
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.731 [0xf24add48] ERROR - [Transcoder] Unrecognized option 'crf:0'.
Oct 03, 2021 10:18:59.732 [0xf24add48] ERROR - [Transcoder] Error splitting the argument list: Option not found

A quick google turns up: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

Looks like the issue is it should be

code:

-crf 0

and not

code:

-crf:0

# ? Oct 3, 2021 20:01

cruft: Oct 25, 2007

astral posted:

A quick google turns up: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

Looks like the issue is it should be
code:
-crf 0
and not
code:
-crf:0
.

Thanks. Hmm. I wonder why Plex is passing the wrong flag.

I'll poke around a bit to see if the ffmpeg transcode template can be specified in a config file, but this is starting to smell like a bug.

# ? Oct 4, 2021 00:43

Taima: Dec 31, 2006; tfw you're peeing next to someone in the lineup and they don't know

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Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Oct 6, 2021

# ? Oct 4, 2021 22:02

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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If you want to see high end servers, join Plexaholics on Facebook (when it's alive) and prepare to be amazed/confused. I don't consider mine anything close to high end, and it's 45TB or so.

# ? Oct 4, 2021 22:35

teagone: Jun 10, 2003; That was pretty intense, huh?

My 12TB Plex server is a ghetto rig mostly comprised of salvaged HDDs from obsolete builds and really old shucked externals, lol. It was running on a Phenom II X4 for the longest time before I upgraded it to a Ryzen 3 2200G back in 2018ish so I could stream games from it as well to a Steam Link.

# ? Oct 4, 2021 22:42

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

EL BROMANCE posted:

If you want to see high end servers, join Plexaholics on Facebook (when it's alive) and prepare to be amazed/confused. I don't consider mine anything close to high end, and it's 45TB or so.

I just looked at the NAS my plex box is pointed at. I'm at 130+ TB of raw storage space.

I think I have a problem.

(and yeah, it's mostly shucked drives I've gotten from time to time when there were good deals)

# ? Oct 4, 2021 23:09

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

I'm just shy of 100TB, though I'm also at the point where I don't really need to grow it anytime in the foreseeable future. This is also probably because I'm still not getting any 4K content.

# ? Oct 4, 2021 23:28

OldSenileGuy: Mar 13, 2001

Holy poo poo I thought I was bad with my 27TB (only about 20TB used).

When I upgraded to 27TB from 15 or so that I had, I figured it would take a loooooooong time for me to fill that up. And....I still kinda feel that way. My collection is growing a lot slower than it used to.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 00:01

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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Motronic posted:

(and yeah, it's mostly shucked drives I've gotten from time to time when there were good deals)

Pouring one out, I still haven't replaced a dead drive from earlier in the year because it's just stupid expensive.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 00:07

teagone: Jun 10, 2003; That was pretty intense, huh?

OldSenileGuy posted:

My collection is growing a lot slower than it used to.

Same. I honestly have no reason to go beyond my current ~12TB when I have access to HBO Max, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and Hulu.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 00:18

cryptoclastic: Jul 3, 2003; The Jesus

Mine is just an 8tb external hooked up to a 10 year old computer.

Want to get a NAS or something but since it hasn�t broken yet I can�t justify the investment.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 00:33

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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I went the DAS route connected to my Mac Mini and it�s always done me fine. 5 drives, and family and a few friends have never had issues even when it gets a little busy. Small footprint and the DAS enclosure wasn�t horribly priced in comparison to a NAS.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 01:15

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

To be fair on all of this, I'm not just a "Plex enthusiast".....I work in this industry so I can just get cast off "please take this away so we dont have to pay for disposal" 24 drive slot rackmount servers.....which is how this insanity started.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 03:56

BaseballPCHiker: Jan 16, 2006

teagone posted:

Same. I honestly have no reason to go beyond my current ~12TB when I have access to HBO Max, Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and Hulu.

I think I�m at like 5 TBs, a single drive connected to a tiny little eBay mini Lenovo.

Runs 4K stuff well enough locally. I just delete series as they get watched and move on. Maybe one day I�ll upgrade hardware but no need too yet at least.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 11:35

Enos Cabell: Nov 3, 2004

Finished clearing and adding a few more drives this week to bring my unraid server up to 72TB, with 2 12TB parity drives. About 50TB used and I have barely dipped my toes into 4k remuxes, almost all of it is regular old non-remuxed 1080p content. Gigabit ftth was the best/worst thing that ever happened to me.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 14:44

Corb3t: Jun 7, 2003

Anybody ever transcode their collection to H265 with Tdarr? My 55TB server is drat near full, and there hasn't been a good deal on disks in 6+ months. Over 75% of my collection is h264 - I could probably save 5-10 TB alone by transcoding everything.

Thoughts?

# ? Oct 5, 2021 14:49

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# ? May 17, 2024 04:16

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Gay Retard posted:

Anybody ever transcode their collection to H265 with Tdarr? My 55TB server is drat near full, and there hasn't been a good deal on disks in 6+ months. Over 75% of my collection is h264 - I could probably save 5-10 TB alone by transcoding everything.

Thoughts?

I use unmanic on unraid, similar to tdarr. I use it on stuff I don�t care about like kids shows and other videos. I don�t let it touch any of my main library, but I am sitting at 90+ TB.

It�s been working really well. Only piece of advice is to start with a folder of copied files and play around with the different plugins.

# ? Oct 5, 2021 14:57

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