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A VPS provider favored by the Plex for Profit crowd was blacklisted recently. Were you on that? iirc the TOS says that you can’t run the software in the cloud.
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Yeah, Hetzner, but I have a dedicated server not a VPS.
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Sub Rosa posted:A team member mentions "staffing changes" and "We lost a lot of institutional knowledge which is hard to replace in only a few weeks time." Several months ago the company laid off a bunch of staff, including (almost?) all the staff which worked on the play-your-own-media capabilities. It’s not a huge surprise from an economics perspective as the recurring revenue from that part of the service must have been rather small, but it sucks rear end for those of us who use Plex exclusively for that use case. At the time I wanted to dump Plex as a protest move and switched to Jellyfin but I found it to be too immature for my specific uses. I’m back to Plex but I’m trying hard to avoid upgrading the server because it’s working great now and I don’t want to pick up whatever dickery their much-brain-drained employees have put in.
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Sub Rosa posted:Yeah, Hetzner, but I have a dedicated server not a VPS. Doesn’t matter, verboten.
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LRADIKAL posted:What's the best thing to rip YouTube videos? I have Windows, Linux and YouTube premium. I've been using 4kVideoDownloader for a while now, free version gets you 30 DLs a day, you can pick stuff like the resolution you want and if you want the video or just audio etc. Works well enough for my purposes but if you want to do more than grab a few videos here and there the script mentioned above would probably be the way to go. Sub Rosa posted:I'm in the process of buying parts for a new NAS that will also be a Plex server, so I've been looking into Plex hardware transcoding. They've broken transcoding a few times now, most recently for Linux, that's just (in theory) been cleared up with the last few releases. I've been sitting on an older release of the Debian client until I'm sure major stuff like that has been unfucked. As for something being ready as a Plex replacement, my experience and the general thread consensus has been nothing yet. If stuff like Jellyfin continues to develop I'm sure it will get there eventually, but right now it's just not ready. Almost wish it was a paid product so they could afford to poach all the recently available Plex devs to kick things into high gear. csammis posted:Several months ago the company laid off a bunch of staff, including (almost?) all the staff which worked on the play-your-own-media capabilities. Guess this partially explains why something as major as 'HW transcoding broke' took months to fix with almost radio silence on the Plex forums 
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Based on my survey a few months ago, if I had to move away from Plex right now, I would move to Emby. I want JellyFin to be good, but it absolutely crawls on my Raspberry Pi 4, when Plex and Emby are just fine.
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Sub Rosa posted:Are any Plex competitors like Jellyfin actually ready for primetime if Plex is being jerks? I'm running jellyfin on real hardware, in an esx VM with a video card passed through for transcoding. All Roku clients with some windows client usage. It has been largely fine. The initial login from various clients sucks compared to plex, especially "sharing" to other people. I assume this will be the very first thing to go on their march to be a streaming media/advertising app. You will miss skipping intros. You will also miss having little thumbnails are you skip though media. The navigation is weird in ways I find difficult to describe. Probably just because I'm so used to using plex for the last decade. I still think there are some thing I just can't do in Jellyfin like go from a show in the "next up" to the season/show, but this is likely a Roku client issue specifically. I know it's not a problem with the windows client where you can just clicka clicka on anything and it kinda works the way you would expect. But I mean....it works. I can functionally use it and if plex just stopped working tomorrow I'd be fine. I haven't tried emby in a while and that's most likely because I got soured on it a few years back when I was trying it out and it sucked.
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EL BROMANCE posted:My ‘regular rear end’ video line is IIRC avc does not go above 720p (except for really old videos)
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LRADIKAL posted:What's the best thing to rip YouTube videos? I have Windows, Linux and YouTube premium. I like MeTube
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MikusR posted:IIRC avc does not go above 720p (except for really old videos) 1080p seems to be the limit as the videos I downloaded before at max quality came down in 1440p were replaced with 1080p, which works perfect for me.
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I use tubearchivist
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I'm using a docker image for ytube downloads. It has a webui. The image is : marcobaobao/yt-dlp-webui
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Seconding metube in a docker. Works great with enough options for me (namely spitting out an audio file only if I want it)
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Similar question for crunchyroll. Anyone have a good recommendation for that? I tried some of the options google spat out but none seemed to work so far.
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Talorat posted:Similar question for crunchyroll. Anyone have a good recommendation for that? I tried some of the options google spat out but none seemed to work so far. MeTube has crunchyroll support, among many other websites.
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Unfortunately just because it's on a list of 1800+ items that no one has bothered to prune, doesn't mean it will work. Crunchroll now uses the same DRM as netflix / amazon prime video, so solutions to get those - which I can't mention - will also work there. It's also very hard to get access to materials that allow you to dump the data, so most of this would be real-time extraction at best and at worse, screen capture.
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deong posted:I'm using a docker image for ytube downloads. It has a webui. Thanks, tried this one as it seemed like a good mix of low command line and capability. Also thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I'm now ending up with .webm files ( this video, to be exact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkNPejF0LA ) I'm having trouble getting Plex to recognize it. It seems to be in the Plex tv database. (https://watch.plex.tv/show/taskmaster-champion-of-champions) I've tried renaming the .webm to mkv and mp4, have added "S02E02" but I can't get the file to even show up in Plex's TV's unmatched files. Am I missing something obvious? Can I configure the utility to output H264 or something else? Is it down to the name? coded?
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Khablam posted:Unfortunately just because it's on a list of 1800+ items that no one has bothered to prune, doesn't mean it will work. Ahg okay thanks, all I want is to be able to have Italian audio with English subs, but for some dumb reason crunchyroll won’t let you use anything but Italian subs on the streams with Italian audio. Edit: In case anyone is curious, the actual answer to my dilemma seems to be Substitial, which lets you overlay your own subs over streaming media, including crunchyroll. Talorat fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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The answer is almost always youtube-dlp. It’s like ffmpeg, even if you’re not using it you’re using it.
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LRADIKAL posted:Thanks, tried this one as it seemed like a good mix of low command line and capability. Also thanks to everyone for their suggestions. Plex should be able to recognize webm files. If you don't specify what version to use, it will just automatically use the best quality video. Also, make sure to use sponsor block.
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What's sponser block? Also, is there a way to log in with my premium credentials, and is there a benefit to doing so?
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LRADIKAL posted:What's sponser block? If you haven't noticed they add up.  This is from a not-long period of time in just one browser. There are often single videos where ~20% of the timeline is set to auto-skip. It shouldn't affect the authors gain from the segments as the deals are made ahead of time and metrics on this are fuzzy and unreliable either way. e: it works on mobile browsers that support plugins, too.
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LRADIKAL posted:What's sponser block? Also, is there a way to log in with my premium credentials, and is there a benefit to doing so? It shouldn’t matter as most downloaders are just grabbing the “best” versions from YT’s CMS regardless so it doesn’t help a great deal. If you’re trying to pull down from a playlist that you have (my preferred method) then you’d need to pass creds/a cookie to access it.
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Khablam posted:I'm not sure how it relates to your request here, but if you're simply trying to get a better YT experience in general sponsorblock is a pretty incredible tool. Any YT channel of note is going to have sponsors rather than ads, because YT killed ad revenue. yt-dlp also removes the sponsors segments from the video when downloading using YT-DLP.
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LRADIKAL posted:I've tried renaming the .webm to mkv and mp4, have added "S02E02" but I can't get the file to even show up in Plex's TV's unmatched files. Am I missing something obvious? Can I configure the utility to output H264 or something else? Is it down to the name? coded? Can you see other webm files? If the file isn't showing up in Plex at all it's almost always a permissions issue, especially in Linux. Compare this file/folder properties with one you can see and make sure nothing jumps out. Talorat posted:Edit: In case anyone is curious, the actual answer to my dilemma seems to be Substitial, which lets you overlay your own subs over streaming media, including crunchyroll. Would something like this work with a personal Plex server, and if so would it be a way to move the subtitle processing off of the server itself? Last night I had to mess around with my sub settings to get something to stream smoothly. It played fine normally (left side), buffered with subs enabled (right side) :  Under player settings I set Burn Subtitles to 'Only image formats' and it worked fine from then on 
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I got plex set up on my truenas scale box, complete with nvidia transcoding etc. There are some not so sane defaults, but I managed to work around them. Doing outro/intro detection hits 80% cpu util on my E5-2670 v3 
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EL BROMANCE posted:Thirded, it’s an excellent tool. If you are using yt-dlp you can abuse the sponserblock to remove in-video ads so that Manscape/NordVPN/etc ad will not be in your media collection Bolded the categories. i remove all except for channels that do creative things with the sponsor like Internet Historian pre:
--sponsorblock-mark CATS SponsorBlock categories to create chapters
for, separated by commas. Available
categories are sponsor, intro, outro,
selfpromo, preview, filler, interaction,
music_offtopic, poi_highlight, chapter, all
and default (=all). You can prefix the
category with a "-" to exclude it. See [1]
for description of the categories. E.g.
--sponsorblock-mark all,-preview
[1] https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/Segment_Categories
--sponsorblock-remove CATS SponsorBlock categories to be removed from
the video file, separated by commas. If a
category is present in both mark and remove,
remove takes precedence. The syntax and
available categories are the same as for
--sponsorblock-mark except that "default"
refers to "all,-filler" and poi_highlight,
chapter are not available
--sponsorblock-chapter-title TEMPLATE
An output template for the title of the
SponsorBlock chapters created by
--sponsorblock-mark. The only available
fields are start_time, end_time, category,
categories, name, category_names. Defaults
to "[SponsorBlock]: %(category_names)l"
--no-sponsorblock Disable both --sponsorblock-mark and
--sponsorblock-remove
--sponsorblock-api URL SponsorBlock API location, defaults to
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Oh that’s neat. I only really use it for music video and similar content so the sponsorship crap isn’t generally an issue, but in case that comes up in something further down the line I’m definitely going to make a note of that. Alas my regular YT playback is on a non premium account via AppleTV so the ads and sponsorship stuff is a bane.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Oh that’s neat. I only really use it for music video and similar content so the sponsorship crap isn’t generally an issue, but in case that comes up in something further down the line I’m definitely going to make a note of that. Sign up for yt premiuem via a vpn
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Sounds like these days you need to use a card issued from the country you’re pretending to be from.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Sounds like these days you need to use a card issued from the country you’re pretending to be from. Nope, I just signed back up using an Ukraine vpn and a card from privacy.com
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Hm maybe it’s strictly a Turkey thing, as people were reporting that country as being the cheapest but hitting issues. I’ll give that one a whirl, thanks.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Oh that’s neat. I only really use it for music video and similar content so the sponsorship crap isn’t generally an issue, but in case that comes up in something further down the line I’m definitely going to make a note of that. kri kri posted:Sign up for yt premiuem via a vpn Or you can use https://yewtu.be/ to download the 1080p clone of the video that is updated as videos come out. I have not checked if it uploaded 4k/2k as well, but you def get no ads. This site has been around for a long while but people started spreading the word of its existence when YouTube started blocking the ad blockers Edit: the site does work with yt-dlp
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Thirdjng or whatever “VPN to a cheap country and get premium”. You can even still do it in India if you go spin up a VPS there and toss WireGuard or some other VPN on there. Then off to Privacy.com and pick some random address.
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One of my favorite things about r/plex is that any discussion of users on your server quickly devolves into people saying how much they hate their own users and that they ban them if they don't access their account every twenty minutes, or for daring to make requests, or when the admin plays scrabble and gets a triple word score that starts with the same letter as their username.
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Chillmatic posted:One of my favorite things about r/plex is that any discussion of users on your server quickly devolves into people saying how much they hate their own users and that they ban them if they don't access their account every twenty minutes, or for daring to make requests, or when the admin plays scrabble and gets a triple word score that starts with the same letter as their username. lol are you reading https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/17hqi23/tip_for_new_people_consider_setting_up_more/ Are these resellers? They have to be because why else would you invite people who would just piss you off? 
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I also hate my friends and family. If only they could match my brilliance at operating computers! Alas.
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cruft posted:I also hate my friends and family. If only they could match my brilliance at operating computers! Alas. I hate your friends and family too fwiw
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Bonzo posted:lol are you reading https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/17hqi23/tip_for_new_people_consider_setting_up_more/ Yep lmao. And maybe they're resellers? But it happens in every dang discussion about users on there and it just cracks me up how these people think their lovely webdls are in fact ambrosia, reserved only for those who Don't Wake Daddy.
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