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I think you're going to need more than 64gb hard drive space, but that's just me.
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DJ Burette posted:Yeah I've got 6 mechanical disks already in my current plex rig hence needing the case with loads of hdd spaces. 8gb ram seems sensible and shouldn't cost much more, should probably help with sabnzbd I guess even if it doesn't really directly affect plex from my understanding. Have you thought about consolidating hard drives?
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sellouts posted:I think you're going to need more than 64gb hard drive space, but that's just me. Yeah I'd keep your eye on Amazon's lightning deals around Xmas time. I paid £70 I think for a Samsung EVO 250gb this time last year. I've not even heard of the brand in the OP (they may be amazing for all I know, I don't keep up with hardware much).
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Y'all are quoting the post where he says he's carrying over a whole stack of disks and saying he'll need more space 
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Yeah but he's using sabnzbd. Is he going to download to those disks, then extract to those disks, then move folders within those disks? What about concurrent downloads, failed downloads, etc. It's silly. Download to the SSD, repair/extract to the SSD, then move to your NAS array. Get some more space.
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Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I'll go for the Intel processor and I hadn't thought about needing more 64GB for the SSD but having checked how much room my temporary download folders take up you're probably right to say that I should get a bigger one. I think I'll just wait for black friday and see what kind of deal I can get on all the parts to keep my costs down. Also HDD consolidation is on the cards but sadly my student budget can't quite cope with that yet.
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Follow up on my previos post: Plex app on a fire tv stick and plex server on an n54l is working great. Thanks.
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Does Plex for the PS4 still require plexpass?
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Nov 21, 2015 23:08
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My friend yesterday was bitching about it so...
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Might want to just edit that out,  is a forbidden subject here
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Nov 23, 2015 21:47
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ah poo poo really? but isn't plex kinda based around doing just that? or do you mean SA in general? because I can't seem to find anything related to piracy in the rules
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Kmlkmljkl posted:ah poo poo really? http://www.somethingawful.com/forum-rules/forum-rules/2/ quote:No warez. No warez, no cracks, no CD codes, no illegal programs that are used to either crack software or perform any malicious activity. Don't post links, ask for links to download, or otherwise discuss illegal copies of copyrighted works, including movies, books, software, etc. 45-second "sampler" mp3 files are acceptable, within context. ROMs are only allowed if they are out-of-print and unavailable for purchase.
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Plex is to be used to organize your legally recorded TV and public domain movies that are available for download. 
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Medullah posted:Plex is to be used to organize your legally recorded TV and public domain movies that are available for download. that explains the extensive file name system anyway, thanks for the warning, guys
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Nov 23, 2015 22:05
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I use my Plex to store and organise my extensive collection of Linux distros 
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Nov 23, 2015 22:17
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I actually ripped all my DVDs into my Plex library. V V
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Nov 23, 2015 23:41
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Hey cool the app makes me select a user now when it starts up, but when I am not connected to the Internet it won't pull the list of users to select from. Glad I synced all of that offline content that I now can't watch!
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FCKGW posted:I actually ripped all my DVDs into my Plex library. V I actually did do this too. I could've learned a new language in the time it took.
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FCKGW posted:I actually ripped all my DVDs into my Plex library. V Cornjob posted:I actually did do this too. I could've learned a new language in the time it took. Same. Years ago, and it was tedious as poo poo. BluRay even more so. However it can be done.
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The plex app on appletv4 is awesome. Ive kinda forgotten about using kodi. Ita so good that that the minor issues become even more glaring. My biggest grip with the app is : when you are looking st the plot info for one movie, and the recommendations for other movies is shown below, the are never randomized. It always shows them alphabetically. So if you are viewing a horror movie, the other reccomended horror movies will always be alien, aliens, amityville horror... Etc. youll never see anything beyond the first few letters of the alphabet. If they can sort out that, and get plex media server to recognize local cover art instead if using its own scraper, it would be as close to perfect as can be reasonably hoped for. Cornjob fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Cornjob posted:The plex app on appletv4 is awesome. Ive kinda forgotten about using kodi. Can you confirm what happens with 24p footage, and stuff with DTS, TrueHD etc soundtracks. Those are the main killers for me to getting a new Apple TV as my main frontend (especially the 24p element).
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There's a new media optimizer feature in the early preview build for Plex Pass users: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/ar...2015+Newsletter Basically it allows you to pre-transcode items in your library and have a transcoded copy that co-exists with your original copy. If someone outside your network requests content that you "optimized" the server obviously won't need to transcode since there's a copy that's ready to be direct played/streamed. This is a good feature for people who have a NAS (or an older PC like the goon below!) as their PMS who have a lot of people accessing it remotely on various devices. teagone fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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That's really useful for me, my server is a c2d and it struggles if there's more than one conversion running at a time.
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teagone posted:There's a new media optimizer feature in the early preview build for Plex Pass users: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/ar...2015+Newsletter What a great feature. I couldn't find it on the Plex pages, does it allow a convert from 5.1 to 2.0 sound? That's what screws me over for Synology to Chromecast viewing right now.
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teagone posted:There's a new media optimizer feature in the early preview build for Plex Pass users: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/ar...2015+Newsletter Considering how cheap hard drive space is, I'd be tempted to fill some lovely Atom box with drives and have it pre-optimize everything over a painful few weeks, then just have it pre-optimize new items when they appear. That way I could actually turn off my desktop sometimes.
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I really don't like this new update. When watching HD content from the web I'm seeing the orange "spin" show up while my video is playing quite a bit. Never had this happen before I applied to update yesterday.
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I'm wondering with the optimizer would it be worth converting all of my old dvd rips from avi to mp4 and then deleting the old file or just keep everything as is? Or would it be better to use Handbrake or FF-MPEG do the transcoding?
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diremonk posted:I'm wondering with the optimizer would it be worth converting all of my old dvd rips from avi to mp4 and then deleting the old file or just keep everything as is? Or would it be better to use Handbrake or FF-MPEG do the transcoding? I'm not positive why you're asking this. You won't increase the quality by going from avi to mp4.
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Thermopyle posted:I'm not positive why you're asking this. You won't increase the quality by going from avi to mp4. Maybe he's thinking by converting the video to MP4 beforehand the optimizer wouldn't have to do as much work, since client devices generally don't support DVD's original format of MPEG2 but can directplay most forms of h.264 just fine?
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TheScott2K posted:Maybe he's thinking by converting the video to MP4 beforehand the optimizer wouldn't have to do as much work, since client devices generally don't support DVD's original format of MPEG2 but can directplay most forms of h.264 just fine? Well he's already got them as avi's, so they're not MPEG2.
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If anyone needs a spare client device for Plex, the Amazon Fire TV stick is on sale for $24.99 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GDQ0RMG...pf_rd_i=desktop An extra $10 gets you the stick with the newer voice control remote.
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Thermopyle posted:Well he's already got them as avi's, so they're not MPEG2. Sorry I wasn't clear. I'd like to eventually have a majority of my files in a format that doesn't need to be transposed since I share my plex library with my sister and parents. While the system that I have plex installed on is decently gast (old i7 core) I'd like to try and cut down on the comments I get about it taking a long time to actually start the video. I was trying to figure out what would be the best thing to do either use handbrake to convert the videos or let plex optimize them and then delete the originals. I'm not really wanting to do it to save on space, it's more of speeding things up for people.
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Are you sure that is going to solve the problem? How much upload speed do you have / how much down do they? When I remote stream off of my Mac mini it takes less than 10 seconds to start and doesn't buffer beyond that.
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diremonk posted:Sorry I wasn't clear. I'd like to eventually have a majority of my files in a format that doesn't need to be transposed since I share my plex library with my sister and parents. While the system that I have plex installed on is decently gast (old i7 core) I'd like to try and cut down on the comments I get about it taking a long time to actually start the video. Honestly .avi rips of DVDs shouldn't taxing to transcode and are directplay-capable for lots of client devices, so format may not be the problem. My years-old Phenom II 955 has no trouble with bigass 1080p BluRay rips. Your i7 may be old but it's still an i7 and transcoding really doesn't take that much CPU power. If you're getting comments about how long it takes to start an SD video I'd be curious what their downstream is, what your upstream is, and how everyone is connected to their network.
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I'm in favour of transcoding everything to mp4, you'll lose a little quality but it will just work on everything without a transcoding server
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Avi, mkv, and mp4 are all basically the same thing. They are containers for compressed video. The type of container will have little bearing on whether they can be transcoded. The codec the video is compressed with is much more important than the container type when it comes to transcoding and direct playing. If the video was originally encoded with an obscure or inefficient codec that is the issue, not that the video is contained within an avi file.
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well i know that but right now h264/aac in an mp4 container is the most compatible video format airplaying a video through mobile safari to my appletv is very convenient and you need mp4 to do that i still keep mkv for hd video though, for me SD video is for mobile and should work without 3rd party players
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diremonk posted:Sorry I wasn't clear. I'd like to eventually have a majority of my files in a format that doesn't need to be transposed since I share my plex library with my sister and parents. While the system that I have plex installed on is decently gast (old i7 core) I'd like to try and cut down on the comments I get about it taking a long time to actually start the video. Are you sure the video is being transcoded? Even if it is, transcoding a standard definition avi is basically no work for an i7, so it seems odd that would be the cause of it taking a long time to start the video. I guess the best thing to do is try it out rather than all of us sitting around speculating... Personally, I'd just let Plex do its optimize thing (if it turns out it cuts that time to start video) unless you've just got a small number of DVDs, because gently caress spending all that time with Handbrake.
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