Plex Megathread: Your .ASS Is Getting Transcoded

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Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0mgmo/account_deactivated_last_night/

100 of my closest friends and our own discord. All from my home network. Uh-huh.

# ? Feb 27, 2024 00:05

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# ? May 15, 2024 19:30

Matt Zerella: Oct 7, 2002; Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Out on the server having the time of my life watching movies with my friends. They're all just out of frame, watching too.

# ? Feb 27, 2024 04:17

Zero VGS: Aug 16, 2002; ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE; Lipstick Apathy

Bonzo posted:

lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0mgmo/account_deactivated_last_night/

100 of my closest friends and our own discord. All from my home network. Uh-huh.

We don't have a paid Discord but we put like 40 friends on it, should we be worried?

# ? Feb 27, 2024 04:27

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

IUG posted:

What's the best way, short of mkvmerge, to join together multiple episode files in Plex? The output of the Ren and Stimpy DVDs comes out to something like this:
code:
s01e01p01 - Intro.mkv
s01e01p02 - Log.mkv
s01e01p03 - Stimpy's Big Day.mkv
s01e02p01 - Stimpy's Breakfast Tips.mkv
s01e02p02 - The Big Shot.mkv
s01e02p03 - Say Goodbye (Gritty Kitty).mkv
Obviously I did the file names, before they were just title_01.mkv or whatever. I know the pXX isn't standard, but it seems that the way they want it is "s01e01 - Stimpy's Big Day (part1).mkv", but I'd like to indicate which video file is what. I tried a .plexmatch file, but it is showing a random file as the episode when I play it there.

Non-working .plexmatch file:
code:
ep: 01: s01e01p01 - Intro.mkv
ep: 01: s01e01p02 - Log.mkv
ep: 01: s01e01p03 - Stimpy's Big Day.mkv
ep: 01: s01e02p01 - Stimpy's Breakfast Tips.mkv
ep: 02: s01e02p02 - The Big Shot.mkv
ep: 02: s01e02p03 - Say Goodbye (Gritty Kitty).mkv

Recently had to do something similar with one of the Star Wars CGI shows, keep them all the same sXeX and just append - partx to each file:

code:

S03E01 Steps Into Shadow Bluray-720p - part1.mkv
S03E01 Steps Into Shadow Bluray-720p - part2.mkv

So try something like:

code:

s01e01 Intro - part1.mkv
s01e01 Log - part2.mkv
s01e01 Stimpy's Big Day - part3.mkv
s01e02 Stimpy's Breakfast Tips - part1.mkv
s01e02 The Big Shot - part2.mkv
s01e02 Say Goodbye (Gritty Kitty) - part3.mkv

If that doesn't work you may have to keep all the episode titles the same as well.

# ? Feb 27, 2024 05:50

TheDK: Jun 5, 2009

Bonzo posted:

lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0mgmo/account_deactivated_last_night/

100 of my closest friends and our own discord. All from my home network. Uh-huh.

drat, I am still on the fence about sharing my Plex with my wife.

:thejoke:

# ? Feb 27, 2024 06:31

Nettle Soup: Jan 30, 2010; Oh, and Jones was there too.

Bonzo posted:

lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0mgmo/account_deactivated_last_night/

100 of my closest friends and our own discord. All from my home network. Uh-huh.

That sucks, though. Way to make people paranoid about inviting too many friends.

# ? Feb 27, 2024 11:05

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

TheDK posted:

drat, I am still on the fence about sharing my Plex with my wife.

I don't share with my mom, not because I am worried about getting busted, I don't want to play Tier 1 support more than I already have to

# ? Feb 27, 2024 13:55

cruft: Oct 25, 2007

Sir DonkeyPunch posted:

I don't share with my mom, not because I am worried about getting busted, I don't want to play Tier 1 support more than I already have to

# ? Feb 27, 2024 21:33

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Bonzo posted:

lol

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0mgmo/account_deactivated_last_night/

100 of my closest friends and our own discord. All from my home network. Uh-huh.

Looks like at least one data point for getting the account back upon appeal.

I really do wonder what is flagging these reviews in the first place. I'm sure Plex won't say because that'd just make it too easy to stay within their new guardrails.

# ? Feb 28, 2024 00:14

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

IOwnCalculus posted:

Looks like at least one data point for getting the account back upon appeal.

I really do wonder what is flagging these reviews in the first place. I'm sure Plex won't say because that'd just make it too easy to stay within their new guardrails.

It has to be the high sharing count, not sure there is any way for them to see if people are taking payments.

# ? Feb 28, 2024 02:39

tonic: Jan 4, 2003

I�ve been at the friend limit (100) or very close for many years now. Will post my trip report if/when I get banned :angel:

# ? Feb 28, 2024 05:56

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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It might be something like assuming that if a user pays for one server, they might be paying for the other servers that they have access to, and if they see a server almost maxing the limit then that might score enough points to get a ban.

It�s a little lovely they just went straight to a ban, and the email response was pretty crappy too. �You didn�t do anything wrong but watch out because we�ll ban you again if you continue to not do anything wrong.�

# ? Feb 28, 2024 06:09

Chillmatic: Jul 25, 2003; always seeking to survive and flourish

If you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, then just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair.

# ? Feb 28, 2024 12:59

Splinter: Jul 4, 2003; Cowabunga!

kri kri posted:

It has to be the high sharing count, not sure there is any way for them to see if people are taking payments.

They could have employees on discords or whatever where access is being sold and see who is selling access or even buying access to see that information.

Also even if the guy with banned 100 user server isn't lying about not selling access, he probably has no way if guaranteeing none of his users sold access to the server, as I'm sure they aren't all close irl friends/family.

# ? Feb 29, 2024 01:48

Bonzo: Mar 11, 2004; Just like Mama used to make it!

Much in the way that streaming services are cracking down on password sharing, I could see where Plex might see this as a concern. They are getting into the rental market and people sharing out legitimately purchased or pirated material to 100 users is not a good look for them. I'm sure they'd also rather a user view Oppenheimer on VOD or an ad-based service before going to Bonzo's Plex server.

# ? Feb 29, 2024 01:59

Aware: Nov 18, 2003

Well rented items would be tied to specific Plex.tv accounts which every user has to have now. Each user can interact with the free and paid Plex stuff directly with their account, not via the account you share libraries to other users with.

# ? Feb 29, 2024 04:11

csammis: Aug 26, 2003; Mental Institution

Splinter posted:

They could have employees

lmao

# ? Feb 29, 2024 04:31

Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

I've got a weird media question that I don't know where else to ask.

I've got a ~3hr video file that starts off with good audio/video sync, but the video slowly starts to fall behind and is 1-2 seconds off by the end. I tried demux/remux but that didn't fix things, and I found out the video track was improperly marked with edits that I had to remove with ffmpeg for mp4box to set the lengths correctly. Setting it to locked 29.97fps had no effect, and setting it to anything else makes the skew worse. I can NVENC 1080p it in Handbrake with a locked 29.97fps and the audio will still be perceptibly ahead the further along it plays.

What am I missing?

Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Mar 2, 2024

# ? Mar 2, 2024 14:36

Kibner: Oct 21, 2008; Acguy Supremacy

I thought my partner ran into something similar, but she can't remember. She thinks it may be a PAL thing, or the video track was edited in some way without the audio, or it's a sample rate thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/comments/r4w4xd/slowing_down_pal_audio_to_sync_with_bluray_video/

# ? Mar 2, 2024 17:26

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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I�d probably find a few points of the video where you can accurate measure how far off the audio is from the video, then you can see if it�s at least consistent, then speed it up by x% so it stays in sync throughout.

# ? Mar 2, 2024 17:36

Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

Kibner posted:

I thought my partner ran into something similar, but she can't remember. She thinks it may be a PAL thing, or the video track was edited in some way without the audio, or it's a sample rate thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/comments/r4w4xd/slowing_down_pal_audio_to_sync_with_bluray_video/

Thanks for even bothering to ask your partner about this! This is professionally-mastered content so I suspect those edit marks in the video track are a clue.

EL BROMANCE posted:

I�d probably find a few points of the video where you can accurate measure how far off the audio is from the video, then you can see if it�s at least consistent, then speed it up by x% so it stays in sync throughout.

It's definitely a small percentage to have a few seconds delta at three hours. I don't need 100% accuracy, but just basic lip sync by the end would be enough. Can Handbrake do this?

# ? Mar 2, 2024 18:00

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

I don�t think handbrake can change audio speed at all. I�d probably remux, retime in Audacity or similar, then remux it back in.

# ? Mar 3, 2024 01:22

Chillmatic: Jul 25, 2003; always seeking to survive and flourish

Another month, another *arr app whomst's developers I want to stake in the chest like the loving time vampires they are

# ? Mar 3, 2024 18:50

Warbird: May 23, 2012; America's Favorite Dumbass

What happened this time?

# ? Mar 3, 2024 20:14

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Mine are working fine, sounds like a skill issue

# ? Mar 3, 2024 20:17

Wayne Knight: May 11, 2006

I have never used an *arr application. What property does the arr suffix indicate? Same developers? Common interface? Are they related in any way beyond the last syllable of their name?

# ? Mar 3, 2024 20:43

odiv: Jan 12, 2003

Piracy. Because pirates go arrrr.

# ? Mar 3, 2024 20:45

Matt Zerella: Oct 7, 2002; Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Wayne Knight posted:

I have never used an *arr application. What property does the arr suffix indicate? Same developers? Common interface? Are they related in any way beyond the last syllable of their name?

The pirate thing and that most of them use the same framework.

At least for radarr, sonarr, prowlarr, and lidarr.

# ? Mar 3, 2024 20:57

Wayne Knight: May 11, 2006

What does �same framework� mean? Like they work well together because they share conventions that allow different actions to be performed on files in predictable ways without interfering with each other?

# ? Mar 3, 2024 21:04

other people: Jun 27, 2004; Associate Christ

They share the same codebase, same API, same documentation, same UI, etc etc.

It's pretty slick if you are into that kind of thing :rolleyes:

# ? Mar 3, 2024 21:26

Wayne Knight: May 11, 2006

Neat, thanks!

# ? Mar 3, 2024 22:29

EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

Kibner posted:

I thought my partner ran into something similar, but she can't remember. She thinks it may be a PAL thing, or the video track was edited in some way without the audio, or it's a sample rate thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/comments/r4w4xd/slowing_down_pal_audio_to_sync_with_bluray_video/

I know when a variable bit rate is used for audio, it will cause sync issues over time.

To confirm this or possibly find other issues use the following two commands

For extracting audio:
ffmpeg -i PRECIOUS VIDEO\ MOMENTS.mkv -vn -c:a copy PRECIOUS_VIDEO_MOMENTS_audio.ac3

For extracting video:
ffmpeg -i PRECIOUS VIDEO\ MOMENTS.mkv -an -c:v copy PRECIOUS_VIDEO_MOMENTS_video.mkv

Look at the length of the video and audio in whatever you want. If they are the same then what I do is just dump both files into a video editor like Premiere and see what it looks like.

If the audio turns out to be shorter in Premiere, I just rate extend the audio track to meet the end of the video and make sure to choose CBR when encoding out.

If you need PEAK "professionally-mastered content" (read the editor used filters and up selling fake HDR.) then change the above ffmpeg export commands above to use mpeg2 as the video format and flac for the audio for that :discourse:

Criterion collection quality :discourse:

In handbrake drop the glistening glossy files in and make sure to set the audio bitrate ABOVE what it normally was and super double confirm that it isn't using CBR and not VBR. CBR equals "Constant Video Bitrate"

Then bless the hell out of that holy as all hell file that has now been kissed by Baby Jesus in Pampers and see if the sync is gone.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 02:17

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

I love when I peak in at the server and see such glory.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 03:46

Zero VGS: Aug 16, 2002; ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE; Lipstick Apathy

How do you manage to black out something in MS paint and still have people's names be readable.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 04:35

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

Ah I forget the iPhone photo edit thing is a bit poo poo. Tbh there wasn�t any real reason for me to do so anyway, just habit.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 04:41

Shumagorath: Jun 6, 2001

EVIL Gibson posted:

I know when a variable bit rate is used for audio, it will cause sync issues over time.

To confirm this or possibly find other issues use the following two commands

For extracting audio:
ffmpeg -i PRECIOUS VIDEO\ MOMENTS.mkv -vn -c:a copy PRECIOUS_VIDEO_MOMENTS_audio.ac3

For extracting video:
ffmpeg -i PRECIOUS VIDEO\ MOMENTS.mkv -an -c:v copy PRECIOUS_VIDEO_MOMENTS_video.mkv

Look at the length of the video and audio in whatever you want. If they are the same then what I do is just dump both files into a video editor like Premiere and see what it looks like.

If the audio turns out to be shorter in Premiere, I just rate extend the audio track to meet the end of the video and make sure to choose CBR when encoding out.

If you need PEAK "professionally-mastered content" (read the editor used filters and up selling fake HDR.) then change the above ffmpeg export commands above to use mpeg2 as the video format and flac for the audio for that Criterion collection quality

In handbrake drop the glistening glossy files in and make sure to set the audio bitrate ABOVE what it normally was and super double confirm that it isn't using CBR and not VBR. CBR equals "Constant Video Bitrate"

Then bless the hell out of that holy as all hell file that has now been kissed by Baby Jesus in Pampers and see if the sync is gone.

Thanks; I haven�t had to do that amount of rate adjustment since the VirtualDub days.

# ? Mar 4, 2024 05:55

PRADA SLUT: Mar 14, 2006; Inexperienced,
heartless,
but even so

Not sure where to ask, but if I'm using yt-dlp with sponsorblock (yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove X) -- how do I remove multiple elements? Like remove sponsor, intermission, and selfpromo.

I tried reading the API docs but I can't parse how to use it with yt-dlp

# ? Mar 6, 2024 06:14

EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

PRADA SLUT posted:

Not sure where to ask, but if I'm using yt-dlp with sponsorblock (yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove X) -- how do I remove multiple elements? Like remove sponsor, intermission, and selfpromo.

I tried reading the API docs but I can't parse how to use it with yt-dlp

You use commas

--sponsorblock-remove sponsor,intro,outro

You use "all" to remove absolutely everything and "default" to remove everything but filler

Link here for the part it describes sponsorblock

# ? Mar 6, 2024 07:16

Warbird: May 23, 2012; America's Favorite Dumbass

I need to go double check but there is no way for it to have Plex peg those as commercials and offer to skip, right?

# ? Mar 6, 2024 14:15

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# ? May 15, 2024 19:30

EVIL Gibson: Mar 23, 2001; Internet of Things is just someone else's computer that people can't help attaching cameras and door locks to!; Switchblade Switcharoo

Warbird posted:

I need to go double check but there is no way for it to have Plex peg those as commercials and offer to skip, right?

You can mark the sections as chapters instead and hit double right to skip.

You use sponsorblock-mark instead of sponsorblock-remove

You will not get an offer but you'll be able to skip the rest of the 1:30 minute in-video sponsor

# ? Mar 6, 2024 14:59

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