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Also the new Clone High is treated as a new show, not as the 2nd season to the 2002 show. If you have both, put the old ones in a “Clone High (2002)” folder and the new one as Season 1 in a “Clone High (2023)” folder.
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univbee posted:Also the new Clone High is treated as a new show, not as the 2nd season to the 2002 show. If you have both, put the old ones in a “Clone High (2002)” folder and the new one as Season 1 in a “Clone High (2023)” folder. Yep, this did it. Thanks both of you!
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does the plex agent exclusively use The Movie Database now? Even for tv shows?
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Does there exist some master guide to Handbrake and what settings produce the best results with the smallest file sizes for Blu-rays? Also ideally this guide would assume I know nothing about Handbrake and what the difference between H.264 and H.265 and what fastest vs slowest presets mean. I see a lot of Youtube guides about these things but they never do any comparisons of their results vs native vs other popular settings so I basically have to take them at their word.
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buglord posted:Does there exist some master guide to Handbrake and what settings produce the best results with the smallest file sizes for Blu-rays? Also ideally this guide would assume I know nothing about Handbrake and what the difference between H.264 and H.265 and what fastest vs slowest presets mean. I see a lot of Youtube guides about these things but they never do any comparisons of their results vs native vs other popular settings so I basically have to take them at their word. H265, but otherwise, it's a quality/file-size ratio, which is up to you. I would do some of the 10-second encodes in a few settings if you're not sure. Fast and slow have to do with quality to encoding speed. You can encode a "better" video with fewer artifacts on slow, but it takes loving forever to do so. The easy way is to just go 265 and use the quality slider where you like it.
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Mister Speaker posted:Yep, this did it. Thanks both of you! While their use is more primarily for Linux iso downloads and management I’d strongly recommend taking a look at at Sonarr/Radarr for their ability for you to point at a show and a directory and tell it to make it work good. There’s also Filebot but you have to go get an old version as the dev made the newer ones pay to play. After “naming” SNAFU, the usual second culprit is file permissions.
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If I enable hardware transcoding for a Plex container is it like passing a GPU through to a VM where that GPU can no longer be used by the host machine or is it simply giving the container access to the GPU resources? It's Unraid so it's not that big a deal to be fully headless but I like having a monitor to fall back on if it's all locked up for some reason.
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Scruff McGruff posted:If I enable hardware transcoding for a Plex container is it like passing a GPU through to a VM where that GPU can no longer be used by the host machine or is it simply giving the container access to the GPU resources? It's Unraid so it's not that big a deal to be fully headless but I like having a monitor to fall back on if it's all locked up for some reason. Usually I'd take this sort of question, but I know so little about GPUs, I'm going to tack a few questions on: Can GPUs do pre-emptive multitasking like CPUs? Does the OS manage this, or a library? On machines with GPUs, does reserving one remove your ability to output video? Or are they more like math coprocessors, and you can do video, it's just slow?
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:does the plex agent exclusively use The Movie Database now? Even for tv shows? Mixture of both if you are using the new agents
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Scruff McGruff posted:If I enable hardware transcoding for a Plex container is it like passing a GPU through to a VM where that GPU can no longer be used by the host machine or is it simply giving the container access to the GPU resources? It's Unraid so it's not that big a deal to be fully headless but I like having a monitor to fall back on if it's all locked up for some reason. Giving a container GPU access isn't the same as passing through the GPU to a VM. You'll still be able to use that GPU in other containers as well as to output the Unraid GUI as you're hoping.
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kri kri posted:Mixture of both if you are using the new agents well i'm not sure how that could ever be a problem!
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You can override on a show level as needed.
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EL BROMANCE posted:You can override on a show level as needed. yeah its non-issue sonarr renames my folders to include the tvdbid and it usually works fine
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Yeah 99% of the time no issues, mainly comes into play when you’re dealing with Specials as those orders are made up anyway, and tmdb people don’t tend to match the tvdb people.
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I’m thinking of creating a plex server, but I’m a bit overwhelmed by the choices available. What should I be looking for? For example I found this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF4SWHQN/ref=sspa_mw_detail_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWwp13NParams Dabbling in a NAS sounds fun, but I’m not sure if this complete overkill or what.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I’m thinking of creating a plex server, but I’m a bit overwhelmed by the choices available. What should I be looking for? For example I found this: In that case, have you considered buying a Synology, dropping Plex Media Server on it, and patting yourself on the back for a job well done?
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You can essentially run Plex server on a potato, but it’s probably worth taking the time to think about what your needs right now are (how many TVs do you want to feed in the house, what clients will you use, how many people might use at once), and where you feel this might end. If you have super fast internet and friends/family that aren’t super technical, then Plex is as easy for them as Netflix is and you might want to share the love etc. So, upgradability might be a need.
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Plex can also run and transcode well off a newish Intel powered mini PC leaving the NAS free to use much older hardware if desired
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To be honest, I want to do it for the fun of it. I have two TVs in my house that would use it, and eventually it be cool to allow a few of my friends to use it as well. It’s why I was looking at a NAS, because setting one up just sounds interesting. But if something like a cheap mini pc would get basically the same thing done with no downsides, maybe that’s the way to go?
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cruft posted:In that case, have you considered buying a Synology, dropping Plex Media Server on it, and patting yourself on the back for a job well done? This isn’t a bad call, but the currently available models all use an AMD chip and don’t have quick sync iirc. The last “good” one for this was the 920+ I believe. Still get the Syn though as everyone should have a NAS.
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EL BROMANCE posted:You can essentially run Plex server on a potato In related news, I just added a disk to my raspberry pi 4 DAS, and am now rocking 24 TB (12 mirrored) 
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You are out of your goddamn mind, but I’m here for it.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:To be honest, I want to do it for the fun of it. I have two TVs in my house that would use it, and eventually it be cool to allow a few of my friends to use it as well. It’s why I was looking at a NAS, because setting one up just sounds interesting. But if something like a cheap mini pc would get basically the same thing done with no downsides, maybe that’s the way to go? If you have any relatively recent PC hardware hanging around, Unraid is a great option. Can handle a ton of different duties, and easy to upgrade the storage pool gradually as needs change.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:To be honest, I want to do it for the fun of it. I have two TVs in my house that would use it, and eventually it be cool to allow a few of my friends to use it as well. It’s why I was looking at a NAS, because setting one up just sounds interesting. But if something like a cheap mini pc would get basically the same thing done with no downsides, maybe that’s the way to go? I built my own Unraid NAS from old computer parts for the most part and ran plex off it. Later i moved Plex to its own mini PC with a decade newer intel chip. Its a good setup imo but not at all mandatory. Setting up your own NAS is fun / has utility and you can always use it for more or less other functions as desired / as budget allows. I prefer for mine to do very little other than storage.
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Warbird posted:This isn’t a bad call, but the currently available models all use an AMD chip and don’t have quick sync iirc. The last “good” one for this was the 920+ I believe. Still get the Syn though as everyone should have a NAS. I picked up the 923+. It's been a good upgrade from my 218+. Same chip as the 920+, but avail new for normal MSRP.
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Are you all talking about this? https://www.amazon.com/Synology-4-Bay-DiskStation-DS923-Diskless/dp/B0BM7KDN6R
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Warbird posted:This isn’t a bad call, but the currently available models all use an AMD chip and don’t have quick sync iirc. The last “good” one for this was the 920+ I believe. Still get the Syn though as everyone should have a NAS. The newish 423+ still uses an Intel chip. Unfortunately they stuck with an older gen chip than what other NAS brands are using now (same chip that's in the 920+), but it should still be decently capable for transcoding.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Are you all talking about this? Yes - and I'll chime in since I looked all of this up last week and now have one of these coming in the mail this week, to replace my aging DS416j. My understanding is that the DS423+ and the DS923+ are roughly comparable current 4-bay NAS units, with some smaller differences (the 923+ has more expandability in terms of RAM capacity and network card) and one major difference: the 923+ has an AMD chip that does not have a built-in GPU, while the 423+ still uses an Intel chip that is nominally slower than the AMD chip but has a built-in GPU capable of hardware video transcoding. In other words, the 423+ is much better than the 923+ specifically for running Plex on the NAS. If you're running Plex on a different computer and only using the NAS to store the data, then it makes no difference. And the 923+ should still be capable of running Plex for most content, it just won't be able to handle a lot of streams or 4K content nearly as well as the 423+. (Personally, I went ahead and got the 923+ that you linked because it was 1. on sale and 2. I'm running the Plex server on a different machine and don't need the NAS itself to run Plex. If you're looking for an all-in-one box, the 423+ would be better.) Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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For those here with large collections, are you backing up your media? I'm now at about 21TB of media, over two 16tb hard drives. All of my family photos are on a backup 1tb flash drive. What are my options? Just buying more drives and copying everything over, just in case one of the drives fail?
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Any linux ISOs I got from newsgroups or torrented I assume are already "backed up" for me. The *arrs will happily get them again should I need to. I only back up config data, VMs, and personal/unique data.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:For those here with large collections, are you backing up your media? I'm now at about 21TB of media, over two 16tb hard drives. I back up my photos, yeah. But that takes less than 1TB. I have two removable drives that I rotate through every 6 months, doing a differential rsync. They live at my dad's house.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Yes - and I'll chime in since I looked all of this up last week and now have one of these coming in the mail this week, to replace my aging DS416j. Another big difference is I believe the 923+ supports up to 9 disks via a 5-bay Synology expansion un6it, while the 423+ doesn't support the expansion units. It should also be noted that the 423+ can take more than the spec quoted 6GB of RAM (I think people have no troubles running it with 16GB). If you're only use-case for Plex is direct playing all your content, then the AMD vs Intel chip doesn't matter, but if you need to hardware transcode 4k and tonemap HDR to SDR via Plex on the NAS the 423+ with the Intel chip that has QSV will be much better. Outside of Synology though there are better options from a purely Plex transcoding performance perspective. E.g. the QNAP 464/646 use newer Celeron chips (N5105/N5095) that will perform better than the Synology Intel options. YMMV on Synology vs QNAP (or others) OS experience though.
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Motronic posted:Any linux ISOs I got from newsgroups or torrented I assume are already "backed up" for me. The *arrs will happily get them again should I need to. This
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deong posted:I picked up the 923+. Everyone covered the differences well. I just feel dumb for mixing up my setup. I have the 423+ because its the only always on machine at my house. So plex + *arr duty and wanted the ability to transcode. I put in dual NVME 500gb NVMe drives for the write cache and 16gb ram and it has been a champ. I am running 3x14TB drives. I'm also only keeping personally created media backed up and keeping my *arr config data as the backup source.
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Motronic posted:Any linux ISOs I got from newsgroups or torrented I assume are already "backed up" for me. The *arrs will happily get them again should I need to. Tbf if something is old enough your provider might not have it in retention. Even high retention block providers might not have it
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New to thread and want to see if anyone is experiencing the same issue I am having: Since the new update to Version 1.74.1.3913-9baac009 I have just noticed that the new option to choose your Hardware Decoding hardware is neglecting to show my NVIDIA Tesla P4 as an option and only wanting to acknowledge the iGPU in my Ryzen 5600G. For a laugh I used DDU to remove anything AMD related, and that only resulted in 'Generic Adaptor for Windows' being the option. Reinstalled the Teslas drivers and no change. Kinda really annoying to be honest. I'm running win10 64. The support forums and reddit threads all defeat my searching skills. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Netflix DVD's mailers are now featuring "thanks for 25 great years" artwork, because they're shutting down. Our local video rental store made it through the rise and fall of Netflix DVD-by-mail service. That's pretty impressive.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:For those here with large collections, are you backing up your media? I'm now at about 21TB of media, over two 16tb hard drives. Family photos follow the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies, 2 onsite and 1 offsite. My photos are backed up on two drives at home, and then I occasionally burn a Blu-ray data disc and throw it in my desk drawer at work. If I have a house fire, I have the Blu-ray discs at work to get the photos back. Some stuff is in the cloud on Amazon Photos, but all the raw stuff is backed up offsite completely. My Plex library I don't care about as much. I have a Mac with an external hard drive enclosure where I have two 14TB drives. I use Time Machine to mirror one hard drive to the other and don't think about it that much. If I'm in a situation where I lose both drives at the same time, my Plex library will be the least of my concerns. I do delete old media over time though to keep it to the 14TB drive. At some point you just realize you'll never rewatch some things and they need to go.
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I have over 1300 linux ISOs on plex, my two hard drives are the most valuable thing in my house  I've gotten everything through hard work, over 18 years of private bittorrent trackers.I guess since I feel that way, I should buy a 22tb drive and leave it at my parent's house.
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I back up most things to backblaze nightly, and everything to a portable drive that I store at my friend's house. I'm planning on getting a second portable drive so I can easily swap out the one he keeps at his place. I don't backup my plex content to backblaze, but I do include it on the portable drives.
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