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Bloopsy posted:What is the preferred way to grab YT playlists and to tag them for Plex use? I only occasionally pull individual videos with YT-DLP on Unraid, and then manually input metadata, but with recent talk of YT trying to curtail downloading I want to start getting stuff in bulk. I use this: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub and it's worked wonderfully for about a year or so. It puts things into plex into a separate "Youtube" library, and it's formatted just like seasons of a TV show. I have a playlist I can add videos to, and YTDL-Sub runs on a schedule, and will just grab them (in addition to several channels I'm subscribed to.) But heads up--I've recently been hit with youtube's bullshit throttling thing where all YT embeds tell me to "sign in and confirm you're not a bot", and I had to add a cookie file to YTDL-Sub to get everything working again. It comes with some options for throttling etc. which I would definitely recommend.
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Bloopsy posted:What is the preferred way to grab YT playlists and to tag them for Plex use? I only occasionally pull individual videos with YT-DLP on Unraid, and then manually input metadata, but with recent talk of YT trying to curtail downloading I want to start getting stuff in bulk. You can go grab and configure the ZeroQL YouTube agent and rear end and do some legwork via ytdlp output naming to get most of the way there. I’m hoping the upcoming api changes will allow for a better option.
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I recently set up Profilarr, and it seems cool. Had a question: I have a bunch of old TV shows that are remuxes and don't really need the high bitrate. If I set Profilarr to "upgrade" downloaded files to a more balanced HD (targeting x265), will it actually do it despite a much lower bitrate?
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Well Played Mauer posted:I recently set up Profilarr, and it seems cool. Huh, I need to mess around with this, since I'm in the same boat. By default the *arrs don't seem to view anything smaller as an upgrade, which is kind of annoying.
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Mine does download 265s as upgrades, I have the scoring set up to do so. It just seems that stuff doesn't really come out as 265s in 1080p any more that often, or depends on the show.
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Laserface posted:Mine does download 265s as upgrades, I have the scoring set up to do so. It just seems that stuff doesn't really come out as 265s in 1080p any more that often, or depends on the show. Definitely, this is why i like tdarr to slim everything down but still get 264 releases right away. I rarely watch general stuff in 4k and only save that for some movies usually
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Laserface posted:Mine does download 265s as upgrades, I have the scoring set up to do so. It just seems that stuff doesn't really come out as 265s in 1080p any more that often, or depends on the show. Just tried it - I changed the profile setting to my updated one, then kicked off a search, and in came a buncha WEBDLs that replaced old remuxes. I save 4K for stuff that really needs it and don't really need 30GB of Annie Hall. Beats my current side project of doing it via ffmpeg. Just given download speeds, I'm willing to make a probable quality tradeoff on most things to save me like 2 months of encoding.
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I tend to tell Radarr to grab every new film above a certain quality limit as an Amazon WEB-DL, then grab the ones I see more about in UHD. Then down the line I replace them with blu-ray HEVC.
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Warbird posted:The local downloads, on the very occasional times it works is really nice for that and other reasons. Back when I commuted every day brand new TV would be magically on my phone each morning. These days I have to refresh it to update and then do the little dance where it still wants to contact the server before I can watch my downloaded stuff. Is that a plex update? New phone power saving settings? Sucks.
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Incessant Excess posted:For me, Plex is great because it keeps track of playback progress across devices. Even at home, I sometimes switch between my PC and tablet during a film or sporting event. Late on this, but I use https://github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect. It means Plex is acting as the server, but Kodi is the frontend. We used Kodi back when we had an HTPC rather than the Plex server/Nvidia Shield setup we use now, and we vastly prefer that interface. It does mean you need both installed on the client, but for our use case that works just fine.
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 Holy poo poo, do not update the iOS app. They've completely 'revamped' the UI and it's unusable now. Missing options all over the place, casting issues, stuttering and buffering even playing local media.
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The one thing I’ll say is, from my quick messing around it hasn’t crashed on me yet while the previous version would load then crash within a minute, before reopening and working ok. Luckily I rarely use the mobile app, I wonder if it’s not going to update anyway on my aging iPad.
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Oh lord this is terrible. It seems to have completely changed the way it handles downloads.
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My one big quibble is they’ve taken away the options to control quality/resolution in the app. My internet isn’t the fastest, and I’ll often need to downgrade to play things without constant buffering. But now… I can’t. Why would you take basic functionality away?
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The_Doctor posted:My one big quibble is they’ve taken away the options to control quality/resolution in the app. My internet isn’t the fastest, and I’ll often need to downgrade to play things without constant buffering. But now… I can’t. Why would you take basic functionality away? I'm on Android but once I start something if I bring up the controls I click the 3 dots on the right and it has a quality setting you can change.
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Burden posted:I'm on Android but once I start something if I bring up the controls I click the 3 dots on the right and it has a quality setting you can change. This also worked for me in iOS on the new app. I also had no issues playing back a local 4k file that was a direct rip from disc, so 86 mbps. E: I also didn’t notice any missing features when just bopping around for a few minutes. Didn’t try downloading anything, though. Kibner fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Apr 1, 2025 |
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Let the enshittification begin. Plex was bound to hit this point sometime.
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Now we know why they are making the mobile apps free... it will be the conduit for pushing non PMS content. Its gonna be a pain to have to explain to some people that the content they are trying to watch is not on my server... yes, a server... well, its a computer I keep in my closet, if the videos are not downloaded to it you cant always watch them for free.. yes I can download it for you, but you can also use this site to do it called Oversearr. Not working? ok let me check... looks fine to me... ok I'll download it for you... wait you want 9 seasons of an obscure K drama? I don't think I can find it...
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From what I can tell, the app has 5 main navigation tabs at the bottom. 1) Home | mixed PMS and non-PMS content 2) Libraries | PMS content only 3) Live TV | non-PMS content 4) On Demand | non-PMS content 5) Discover | non-PMS content I thought people wanted PMS content to be easily segregated from non-PMS content and this app update seems to have done it pretty cleanly? When on the Libraries tab, they added a dropdown in the top left to let you switch between your favorite libraries and also reorder them in that dropdown.
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The Home section looks pretty much the same, I guess not having the hamburger menu with pinned libraries is a bit of an annoyance but now there's a "Libraries" bottom navbar item so it's just as accessible. I will say, the streaming box version of the new Plex app I've been testing isn't a user-friendly or fluid as the older app.
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cryptoclastic posted:Oh lord this is terrible. It seems to have completely changed the way it handles downloads. Can't have made it worse, right? ....right? It's never worked properly for me.
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Burden posted:I'm on Android but once I start something if I bring up the controls I click the 3 dots on the right and it has a quality setting you can change. The dots don’t appear when connected to chromecast, though. There are virtually no options when casting, and you can’t even minimise this screen or it stops playing. 
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Corb3t posted:The Home section looks pretty much the same, I guess not having the hamburger menu with pinned libraries is a bit of an annoyance but now there's a "Libraries" bottom navbar item so it's just as accessible. And you hold it to get the library list, which isn’t any slower I think.
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The_Doctor posted:The dots don’t appear when connected to chromecast, though. There are virtually no options when casting, and you can’t even minimise this screen or it stops playing.  gently caress that.
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Wibla posted:
I know, right? I prefer the season two banner with the balloon.
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Is jellyfin good yet :/
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other people posted:Is jellyfin good yet :/ as soon as it gets good they’ll pull off this same poo poo
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well it prompted me to check again the status of their samsung tizen app (still not in the tv app store lol) and that led me to https://github.com/Georift/install-jellyfin-tizen . In five minutes I had the app installed on the tv, the hardest bit being inputting the ip/user/password using the remote. The app feels like xbmc from 15 years ago but it plays high bitrate 4k content smoothly and loads a lot faster than plex. Maybe I'll use it but I doubt the wife will.
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other people posted:Is jellyfin good yet :/ It depends on library size and especially on what client you want to use. It's getting there. Emby is grown up jellyfin that just works.
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Slash posted:Can't have made it worse, right? ....right? I am also on team “downloads never work right”. It’s worse. Unless I’m missing something, you have to actually manually download every episode you want to watch. You can’t just queue up unwatched episodes of a series like you could in the past. There are also only three quality options, and it won’t transcode any of the 2160 files I’m throwing at it right now.
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Motronic posted:It depends on library size and especially on what client you want to use. It's getting there. Jellyfin user chiming in: Motronic pretty much nailed it with this comment. I like JF a whole lot, and so do my friends and family. I also have an above average tolerance for working around quirks.
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cruft posted:Jellyfin user chiming in: Motronic pretty much nailed it with this comment. I like JF a whole lot, and so do my friends and family. I also have an above average tolerance for working around quirks. And going down the enshitification schedule, emby will get ruined soon and we'll all have to really hope jellyfin is ready when it happens.
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Motronic posted:And going down the enshitification schedule, emby will get ruined soon and we'll all have to really hope jellyfin is ready when it happens. I've been messing around a bit with Emby after hearing you talk about it, and tbh I think it's pretty good! And I mean, if we can get another solid 10 years or so before it starts to pass the suck-event-horizon, then I feel like I'll call that good.
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The vlc android app got updated recently and became worse, so I dunno...
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Bloopsy posted:What is the preferred way to grab YT playlists and to tag them for Plex use? I only occasionally pull individual videos with YT-DLP on Unraid, and then manually input metadata, but with recent talk of YT trying to curtail downloading I want to start getting stuff in bulk. Pinchflat Also I actually uninstalled the iOS app, straight garbage. Glad I’ve been using infuse for a while now.
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I luckily remembered my iPad also has the plex app on and will not be updating that for some time now.
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I have Plexamp for music which works great. Is there not a video version out there? ‘Cause holy poo poo the Plex app is garbage. I’m better off just transferring files from my NAS to my phone now.
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Try the Infuse app.
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