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I'd recommend any distro that you are in any way comfortable with. I roll with Debian 11 and docker myself on a small SSD for OS and ZFS for media storage. Plenty of guides around. There's small netinstall images that will just put down a base system from internet sources and start openssh. Everything starts up automatically if the power goes out but you will certainly need to enable power on loss in your BIOS to get the PC to boot automatically when power returns.
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I 100% second unraid if you want something a lot easier than rolling your own. I used it up until last year and it's great for this.
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Plex is now the only app we use on two Android TVs and a couple of GTVcc dongles. All runs fine here. The slowest of the lot is a low end TCL bedroom TV but it's not buggy, just slow. The GTV dongles are on par with the X90H all being very responsive. Have only had a few things refuse to play natively codec wise, not enough to notice.
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May 12, 2022 00:14
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I just keep the very small amount of content I like in 4k in a seperate library that I don't share with remote users. Having an extra 6gb 1080p version for remote users doesn't bother me much.
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May 12, 2022 00:35
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Yeah I don't even notice the ads to be honest nor have I tried to turn it off, I just go straight to the app shortcuts bar.
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May 12, 2022 15:27
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It treats any client that is in the subnet the server is in as local, which is a safe assumption mostly, your VPN may appear to have a different IP to your home network but if it's using NAT to get back into the home network then to plex it's coming from a local subnet. No advice on fixing this since we'd need to know much more about your VPN solution. You can specify what subnets it treats as local, so you could reduce the scope to exclude your VPN address or the routers NAT address but make sure it covers your dhcp range at least. Aware fucked around with this message at 10:51 on May 21, 2022 |
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May 21, 2022 10:21
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Do you have NAT enabled for traffic between the VLANs? That would make the client appear to be coming from the local subnet.
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May 22, 2022 05:09
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Well I'm out of ideas sorry!
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May 22, 2022 05:31
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I think I got mine at 20% off many years ago so from a sample size of 1 I say yes.
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May 24, 2022 08:44
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If you hit the little details icon on the stream under Activity it will tell you if it's being hardware accelerated or not to confirm.
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May 24, 2022 22:24
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Yeah I find audio transcodes way more often than video for my set up devices and it's such a small hit that I've never bothered looking into it.
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May 27, 2022 23:35
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I have a user still playing via a PS3 apparently. He hasn't complained. Always transcodes to 720p.
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Jul 5, 2022 14:10
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Overseerr is excellent and has cut down my time spent tracking down stuff for friends a lot. The views it has for networks is especially nice if you're looking to keep up with what's on Netflix currently etc.
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Jul 17, 2022 00:07
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Same. It's handy when I'm out and someone mentions a movie or show and I can have it down by the time I get home. It's mobile interface is 100x better than sonarr etc.
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Jul 17, 2022 00:41
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I don't give a poo poo about 4k content so I just limit everything to 1080p and avoid bluray remuxes and other such trash with filters where needed. I'm not a videophile at home and my users are mostly sitting on 720p transcodes or the occasional 1080p direct play. Edit: once you get comfortable with containers it's a better way to set things up anyway.
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Jul 17, 2022 01:25
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My opinion is it's far better to simply have a seperate 4k library especially if you're looking at the low end spec wise, with a HD library for your remote users. Most of them will be able to directplay x264 content anyway assuming bandwidth isn't an issue.
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Jul 17, 2022 16:32
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You can definitely just run unraid like that, the free tier would do. It is a nice interface for docker with it's community apps service for sure. You can just run a single ssd disk in your array, or two if you want parity. Nothing else is mandatory, it's just a regular filesystem that goes on the disks. You can just turn the VM manager off in settings if you don't want to see it.
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I've had reasonable success just using plexs subtitle finder for a lot of stuff. I think there's also some rr type software for managing subs that will probably find or convert subs to a better format for you.
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I think you're on the right track. The A2000 is unlocked as opposed to gaming cards which are limited to 3 encodes at a time, though this limit is easily removed. Definitely use Linux. Not sure about using tmpfs but I'm sure it won't hurt if you have the ram to do ao.
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Tempting to go up to pro at that price but I can't see myself ever needing more than 12 storage devices.
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Jul 23, 2022 02:05
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I find volume dips significantly for transcodes.
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Jul 27, 2022 23:13
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I put on my robe and wizard hat...
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other people posted:I bought a computer and connected it to my TV and put Plex HTPC on it. I noticed when watching video the colours looked all weird but in the plex menus everything was fine. I finally figured out that when I watch something the TV changes its 'picture' setting. To explain, the TV is a 4k Samsung (from like 2019?) and it has four colour modes like Vivid, Natural, Dynamic, and Film (or something like that). We leave it on Natural all the time but when playing video in Plex HTPC it was changing to Dynamic. And worse, the option to change it to Natural or Film disappears on the TV when watching something in Plex. My first thought is it's not handling HDR content?
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Oct 10, 2022 21:41
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My first was my ISP back in the dialup days then they dropped binaries so my first commercial one was easynews and I still use them and a couple of block ones today.
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I think it's both. I'm mid 30s and I fully recognise my ability to make out a conversation with background noise IRL has declined significantly the last few years. Tenet was absolutely unwatchable for me combined with the mixing.
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Oct 21, 2022 08:29
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Whatever you do it be wifi that fucks you over.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Without getting too deep into the weeds, I'll say that I got the Celeron replacement machine, and it works ok but I think I want to return it in favor of a more powerful machine. These two machines look pretty similar to me - is there any reason to choose one over the other for a Plex server?: The Intel one supports QuickSync if transcoding to remote users is at all important to you.
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cruft posted:In case anybody ever cares, the best option is looking like an old Android phone with an app called "BubbleUPNP", which provides a DNLA/UPNP server. The Chromecasts/Fire Sticks/Mobile Phones will running something like Nova Video Player or Kodi. The Android phone can be an access point and bridge to the hotel network if needed. Sounds like a great way to spend your holiday computer touching rather than relaxing
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Nov 2, 2022 04:44
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Maybe you could sideload it onto something like a Lenovo Smart Clock or Amazon Echo Show? Not sure if either have 3.5mm out but likely have Bluetooth
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I believe you can set the quality for Downloads on your client device under settings. Not sure what it defaults to. Presumably this will force Plex to transcode it down when you request something.
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I've messed with some of the free alternatives to do the same, with the ultimate goal of being able to add them to the same IPTV playlist my Android TV uses for Australian FTA channels (rather than playing them via Plex which also works). In the end it was a bit of a mess of 2 apps, one that generated the channels and used ffmpeg to re-encode the content into a linear stream and another to merge the FTA playlist and the custom playlists into a single thing for the TV. At this point it 'worked' but then I found we rarely ended up watching the pretend linear channels with self hosted content and I eventually just scrapped it. So my takeaway is if getchannels makes it simple and you really like it then go nuts, DIY is a bit of a pain but possible. E. I was using DizqueTV and xTeVe in docker containers if I remember right.
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What it's doing is basically generating an internal playlist of your content, usually combining a bunch of content to play sequentially but mix (eg show 1 s01e02, show 2 s01e02,show 1 s01e02 etc)… presenting this as a continuous (in time) streaming endpoint and then generating a m3u8 playlist and an EPG XML that can then be used by the IPTV function of Plex, your TV, other things etc. So it looks and feels like pretty much a regular TV channel with EPG info and all. Repeat for as many channels as you like. Eg I made one that had a bunch of Fox cartoons, another that played HBO shows and another that played the last 10 movies I'd gotten based on release date.
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That's basically what xTeVe works around - merging and managing multiple playlists into that single one (which my TV only supports one loaded at a time as well for example). xTeVe is actually really useful and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it if you had that kind of issue again.
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Fwiw the xTeVe Devs are really really helpful to even dumbasses like me via their discord too. For actually making channels and playlists I remember DizqueTV being ok and there was at least one other I tried but can't remember. Both were aimed at Plex IPTV integration and if that's all you want then you don't need xTeVe with them, just load the playlist and EPG XML into Plex IPTV by pointing it at DizqueTV you're running.
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There will always be quality loss, you're rencoding one lossy format into another lossy format. It will hopefully not too noticeable but that's what lossy compression does. Do you give a poo poo about minor quality loss for a long running TV show? Probably not. You may want to tell it to avoid Movies though.
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Kind of related but occasionally I install Kodi because someone talks it up as great at x or y and usually uninstall it within 10 minutes of trying to navigate an interface seemingly stuck in 2006. Am I crazy?
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Feb 3, 2023 22:15
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Ah that makes sense, I never had an OG Xbox so skipped that era of media playback entirely.
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Feb 3, 2023 23:26
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No Japanese cartoon poo poo? C'mon!
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Now that's more like it
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Oh man I totally forgot about the WDTV. I had one and it was great with a USB HDD. I remember fitting out a live aboard dive boat in Bali with about 10 of them in the cabins and a QNAP and set them up to rip dodgy DVDs to it for the poor man's onboard entertainment system haha.
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