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Motronic posted:Emby Effortpost 1.0 (quoted for new page) Thanks for the effort post. I'm still mostly satisfied with Plex for now, but it's good to see that Emby is in a much better place than last time I tested it out a few years ago.
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forgive my ignorance here, but when you say IPTV, do you mean something like a HDHomerun, that's something I have to account for when thinking about switching. Specifically the family has discovered that Commercial Skip is way better on it than through the actual tv service we pay for.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 19:21 |
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Motronic posted:Emby Effortpost 1.0 Awesome effortpost, very helpful. Didn't emby have an ebook thing in it? I seem to recall that, at least with what they aspired to do, it was a lot more in line with my needs for a thing I run for my family. Like maybe it had a better photos thing than Plex, too?
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:forgive my ignorance here, but when you say IPTV, do you mean something like a HDHomerun, that's something I have to account for when thinking about switching. Specifically the family has discovered that Commercial Skip is way better on it than through the actual tv service we pay for. I'm talking about streaming TV that is presented as an m3u in particular, but yes.....HD Homerun would be configured in the same IPTV system. There are lists of public IPTV streams you can use to try this out, as well as public sources of xmltv style EPG data if you want to play around. Lots of it is "<insert market> <insert network> News" so it's not too exciting. But there are also a lot of free-to-view channels available, including the plex ones (retroplex, etc). There's a good list here: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv If there's any interest this should probably be it's own thread because it's a whole thing and you'll want more than plex or emby as part of this ecosystem. cruft posted:Didn't emby have an ebook thing in it? I seem to recall that, at least with what they aspired to do, it was a lot more in line with my needs for a thing I run for my family. Like maybe it had a better photos thing than Plex, too? I have not tried that, and I don't recall seeing it (so perhaps it's a plugin I haven't installed?) but that sounds interesting. I also have not added my music library to it yet, which is something I occasionally used through plex. I was using Symfonium pointed at jellyfin to access my music libraries for a bit there but ran into the issues noted. I should add it to emby and chenge the back end. I believe that should just work. E: no, it's not a plugin. I just didn't notice it in the add new library content type dropdown. Throwing a folder of a few thousand ebooks at it now. Motronic fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Do emby/Jellyfin have any options for native or near native support for Youtube agents? The plex one mostly works but has enough weird edges that it gets caught on that I'd be open to tying them out if there is a better option. Not a fan of a monthly sub though.
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Warbird posted:Do emby/Jellyfin have any options for native or near native support for Youtube agents? The plex one mostly works but has enough weird edges that it gets caught on that I'd be open to tying them out if there is a better option. Not a fan of a monthly sub though. I was doing some youtube downloading into Jellyfin way back when I first started messing with it and yes - I did get it to work somewhat reliably with an agent that I believe was a plug in. Things got better when I started embedding metadata into the files with the downloader. But it never did work 100% quite right so I nuked it and abandoined the idea for now. I had the same library pointed at plex and it was much worse to the point of not even being usable.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 22:17 |
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Lots of YouTube channels are in tvdb/sonarr might be worth checking out.
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I did notice that but I’m not sure if my tastes would map. Might be worth a try though I’m not sure how that would play with my ad hoc nature of downloading stuff from ytdlp.
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kri kri posted:Lots of YouTube channels are in tvdb/sonarr might be worth checking out. I was amused to see Sonarr/Plex recognize Car Boys as a 'real show' and import it accordingly. Anyone else noticing a new category in their music libraries below Similar Artists called Sonically Similar Artists? Based on the name I'm assuming it's trying to group artists by comparing spectrograms or something, actually a neat idea if it's at all accurate. Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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That’s the best Meshuggah album and I’ll hear no argument otherwise.
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kri kri posted:Lots of YouTube channels are in tvdb/sonarr might be worth checking out. I discovered this by accident and it's really cool. Radarr does the same so if you see a doc or something not in TV, check out to see if it's in the movie DB
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Bonzo posted:I discovered this by accident and it's really cool. Radarr does the same so if you see a doc or something not in TV, check out to see if it's in the movie DB Overseer is nice since it can search both immediately.
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Chillmatic posted:That’s the best Meshuggah album and I’ll hear no argument otherwise. I go through my music library and whenever I find an artist with a default portrait I replace it with the cover of my favorite album of theirs
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Any threads or good resources for IPTV? I stumbled across this GitHub which has a ton of globally free streams. https://iptv-org.github.io/ [mods: I understand these as publicly free, but please edit/delete if I'm mistaken] I'd love to set something up with some of these streams such that I can use them both locally and let family connect to use as well. I currently only have Plex connections public via port translation and would prefer not to open anything more complicated than that until I have time to set up proper security and reverse proxies. E: Basically I'd love to have something as simple as Plex for friends and family to use, but for IPTV. Aredna fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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I’m trying to put something together on YouTube that covers IPTV and Plex (and will most likely use that same IPTV source as demonstration just for legal ease). There’s… a lot to cover really. So, Plex can do this kinda stuff but it is a bit of a chore so it’s not always the best for it. Sharing to other people will need them to be in your household (rather than regular friends, I think this maxes out at 10 people) as they disabled the loophole that allowed sharing of IPTV to anyone else. It doesn’t support channel groups and can be finicky about channel additions. It might be easier to just install an IPTV client on their devices, but also are they going to be willing to deal with streams just not working or buffering/looping while watching something? I do a fair amount of upkeep on my setup to make it usable, as most providers just send you a mess of 10,000 channels that are badly organized and labeled with no EPG. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:So, Plex can do this kinda stuff but it is a bit of a chore so it’s not always the best for it. Sharing to other people will need them to be in your household (rather than regular friends, I think this maxes out at 10 people) as they disabled the loophole that allowed sharing of IPTV to anyone else. It doesn’t support channel groups and can be finicky about channel additions. Where exactly does Plex know it's an IPTV? Is it monitoring processes to find evidence of using these certain sites urls?
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# ? Apr 4, 2024 23:21 |
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Doesn’t matter where the signal comes from, whether the internet or a HD Homerun tuner in your house - the Live TV function isn’t shareable to non-home members. Just a blanket ban. Someone obviously noticed and threatened them with a bad time if they didn’t take the feature out.
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Is there a good way to create stuff that will show up on shared users home screen areas? I have some elderly family members who can't seem to navigate the library and essentially live on the Recently Added and home pages. I want to create a curated section of stuff for them since they often remark that they can't find the show we're discussing or etc. Right now I just have a Movies and TV Shows library filled with stuff but when something disappears from the home/recently added/etc sections its like it ceases to exist for them.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 16:18 |
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Add them to a Collection?
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Bonzo posted:Add them to a Collection? Do those pop up on their home screens or are they in a separate section?
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The Gunslinger posted:Do those pop up on their home screens or are they in a separate section? You have to do it in a specific way. Make the collection as normal, then when you’re in the library view that shows the collection, click the vertical … button on the bottom right and choose Visible On > Frends’ Home. You can then manage this in the general settings screen when you go to the bottom and pick Libraries and then Manage Recommendations. I don’t think you can do it on a per user basis however, everyone either gets it or doesn’t.
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Thanks that's really helpful, I'll give it a shot this weekend.
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EL BROMANCE posted:You have to do it in a specific way. holy poo poo this might be huge for me. never thought to click on the button on the collection itself for this sort of option, i thought i was stuck with only the stuff in Manage Recommendations. thank you!
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 19:46 |
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Smart collections on the home library screen (show most recently added, organized in collections by networks, streaming platform, directors, and genres) are one of the things I miss with Infuse and/or Jellyfin.
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Oh, lovely, Roku is flirting with overlaying ads on your HDMI inputs.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 22:27 |
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Okay then. I guess now that my Emby experiment is largely complete it's time to do set top boxes. You're the Pi guy. Is there a meaningful remote setup and app ecosystem that would me suitable for set top box use to replace rokus or at least core features?
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 22:34 |
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My TCL Roku TV already did something like this until I turned off a setting. It was detecting what I was playing from my shield TV and added some sort of overlay related to what I was watching. I can't remember exactly what but I turned it off immediately. That was a couple years back now.
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# ? Apr 5, 2024 23:24 |
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If you want a reliable remote and overall "just loving work" experience, without dog poo poo ads, then the only game in town is AppleTV. I don't know why people have this goofy allergy to them, but they're great devices and oh also they will not inject poo poo on top of your HDMI input.
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Chillmatic posted:If you want a reliable remote and overall "just loving work" experience, without dog poo poo ads, then the only game in town is AppleTV. I don't know why people have this goofy allergy to them, but they're great devices and oh also they will not inject poo poo on top of your HDMI input. I have no problem with them at all - other than my experience with the firt gen which is all I ever had. I thought it was great but it lacked the ability to HDMI CEC control the TV power and volume and didn't have an app ecosystem that worked. If that's all been solved and the answer to everything is just buy one and put whatever magic app you all talk about on it I'm game. I'll do that on at least one TV for now and see how it goes. I'm totally vendor agnostic. These are tools to me. I choose the one the does the job best at the right price point.
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Chillmatic posted:If you want a reliable remote and overall "just loving work" experience, without dog poo poo ads, then the only game in town is AppleTV. I don't know why people have this goofy allergy to them, but they're great devices and oh also they will not inject poo poo on top of your HDMI input. The ultra nerds get mad about multi channel audio, they haven’t embraced the stereo life.
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Matt Zerella posted:The ultra nerds get mad about multi channel audio, they haven’t embraced the stereo life. Pfft audiophiles. You only have two ears
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Im sorta at my wits end with an issue my friends and now reporting regularly across multiple platforms and multiple file types and encoding. They are getting the "server is not powerful enough" warning and get buffering and lovely video quality. Looking at the logs, I think it is because Plex seems to think the bitrate is absolutely comical:quote:Apr 05, 2024 19:03:46.428 [7496] DEBUG - [Req#35c907/Transcode] Codecs: testing aac_mf (encoder) quote:Apr 05, 2024 19:03:46.482 [7496] DEBUG - [Req#35c907/Transcode] MDE: Dune: Part Two (2024): Audio Direct Streaming is disabled, so video's audio stream will be transcoded My bro, a x264 movie with 128kbps 2 channel AAC track in MKV container does not need 2.1TB/s of bandwidth. Hell the file dont even need the 12MB/s you are estimating the second time for directplay. I reencoded the file with Handbrake to x265/mp4 with the same audio settings and... lo and behold, it immediately started DirectPlaying no problem. Is there something im missing here? Been digging through the plex forums and reddit but nothing of value, the one dude with the same problem i could find just built a whole new server lol. I don't think its the hardware (11700k) or plex settings, and seems to happen with and without subs.
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 05:21 |
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Are you actually trying to stream across a 12Mbps upstream, though? That looks like you have Plex set with a "limit upload bandwidth" of 12Mbps, and I've seen plenty of files where Plex and/or Tautulli just completely whiff on the bitrate and assume it's terabits per second.
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 05:32 |
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I'm pretty sure it is pushing a huge transcoded file out to the clients, yeah. Its a 1gig up connection, so i've got the Settings -> Remote Access -> Limit remote stream bitrate set to "Original (No limit)". Heres the Tatulli for the same playback: e: another example, this time a x265, eac3 file with subs on... the only similar feature I can see between these two files is MKV and the the hardware transcode? Cygni fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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That's really weird if you don't have an upstream limit set, since it's also the wrong value to be Plex Relay loving things up. But that's what I get from that bolded log message, Plex is deciding it has a 12Mbps limit to work in and won't exceed it, thus forcing a transcode. MKV is just a container; nearly my entire collection is MKV and I haven't run into this particular problem. Occasionally there've been lovely rips that just don't play nice and getting a better copy seems to solve everyone's problems.
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Also I love that its transcoding a file from 264 to 264 with no subs, and somehow inflating the video size more than 2x? It sorta feels like a transcoder bug of some kind. e: i think i got the transcode page squared away as not the issue? (Z:\ is an NVME SSD transcodes scratch drive, error was occurring before i bought it too) Cygni fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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Motronic posted:You're the Pi guy. Is there a meaningful remote setup and app ecosystem that would me suitable for set top box use to replace rokus or at least core features? Uhhhhh... all I know of is LibreElec. I'm more of a server guy. I'm still using Chromecasts and Plex, but it sure feels like I'll be going the way of Motronic at some future time. For this particular issue, I've only ever bought hospitality TVs, so unless ads start popping up in the Plex app, I'm good. ... oh no, that's a thing that could totally happen, couldn't it.
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 14:51 |
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Just lol.....went looking at the emby clinet for AppleTV marketing page. Looks awesome, very tight and finished looking. Get to the bottom and in tiny type: * Live TV not yet supported
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# ? Apr 6, 2024 15:22 |
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I have all my IPTV stuff in Plex and working fine, but these days I mainly view stuff in the UHF client on my Apple TV. It’s not free, but it works pretty nicely and syncs across other devices which is neat.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I have all my IPTV stuff in Plex and working fine, but these days I mainly view stuff in the UHF client on my Apple TV. It’s not free, but it works pretty nicely and syncs across other devices which is neat. Huh - that looks like a really nice client. I'm not stuck on the idea that this has to be done in emby, just that it has to be done and there are no good Roku clients that I've found. This looks promising - I guess I'm buying a test device. Thanks for the pointer.
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