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me your dad posted:I currently have Plex running on my laptop, with output to our Roku. Currently we just use it to stream channels but I'd like to start ripping DVDs we buy for our daughter. Should work fine. I don't have a Roku, but I do have multiple servers and they just show up as an additional set of libraries.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2014 15:49 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 15:49 |
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TraderStav posted:Amazon and HBO announced today that Prime video is getting HBO shows. I don't know if that includes current runs or just completed seasons. Just completed seasons over 3 years old.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2014 16:42 |
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I'm pondering consolidating things in my living room a bit and going from a dedicated HTPC running Plex HT to a Kindle Fire TV running plex. Anyone else made that jump? How sad am I going to be? I've looked at things like the Roku in the past, and while it will do what I want, from an interface and speed perspective, an HTPC beats the living poo poo out of the Roku, so I'm a bit wary of the set-top box experience (chop chop plex on XBone plz)
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2014 23:22 |
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Stick100 posted:If Plex recognizes everything then you should be fine. From the couple hours I spent with Plex Fire TV it seemed about as good as Plex HT. Where will the media be served from if you're removing the HTPC? From a machine in my office over Ethernet. I moved the Plex server a while ago.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2014 00:04 |
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Malmanous posted:I did this exact thing two weeks ago and I love it. It works perfectly with no stutters on any of my movies. Ordered one, THIS BETTER BE GREAT OR ELSE
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2014 18:30 |
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teagone posted:What are the specs of your Plex server? i7-3770, 8gb ram, ssd for os and mirrored WD red drives for media. Probably the biggest bottleneck is my MoCA run between the living room and office, but that's a pretty reliable 100mbps.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2014 19:58 |
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teagone posted:Yeah, a Fire TV running the Plex App will be pretty great then . Not sure where it is in the settings, but be sure to set the Plex App on your Fire TV to always try and Direct Play with transcode as a fallback. Looks like that is pretty much the default settings. I did get bit by the "lol plex on fire tv doesn't decode dts/dolby digital" bug, so pretty much all audio has to get transcoded, we'll see how annoying that gets.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 23:55 |
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teagone posted:Huh, its just a bug though right? The Fire TV should be more capable of decoding DTS/Dolby D. The Roku 3 is able to, but its Plex app is hot garbage in comparison. It's a known bug, but there's been no talk of a timeframe for a possible fix. Of the non PC devices, Fire TV probably has best plex app, but holy poo poo every other app on that platform is bad (even manages to have a bad Netflix app).
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 00:18 |
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I did notice this weekend that if you use the screen size adjustment settings on the FireTV to scale to your display, Plex is retarded and won't display full screen. So if anyone else has this problem, that's the fix! There's overscan adjustment settings in the FireTV Plex settings menu, but apparently they literally do nothing.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2014 18:04 |
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chemosh6969 posted:Can you not access Plex as a media server on a PS4 as you can on other consoles and devices? Do you really have to use a browser? Nope, PS4 doesn't support DLNA.
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2014 16:26 |
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Wow, Plex coming to both Xbox One and Xbox 360:quote:Plex today announced the release of Plex for both Xbox One and Xbox 360, its first TV app available on both Xbox gaming platforms, with an updated design that makes it easy to browse and enjoy personal media on the big-screen. The new design, which puts media artwork center stage, as well as incorporates new discovery features, will be brought to big-screen Plex apps in the future. Working with Microsoft, Plex for Xbox also supports Xbox native functionality like voice and gesture controls with Kinect. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12191240.htm
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2014 16:09 |
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porkface posted:Not to be a dick, because I realize Plex isn't truly free, but is there a way I can give Plex the money for Xbox Live instead of Microsoft? It's a software that doesn't really require Microsoft to keep the Live network up and running. I guess we'll see tomorrow, but I'm assuming that like the other video apps that Plex doesn't require Xbox Live Gold.
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2014 06:42 |
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Yeah, Plex on xbone has been fine for me, seems like it has better codec support than the firetv (just going on what I'm seeing direct play vs transcoding)
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2014 21:23 |
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Mr.Trifecta posted:So looking to get into Plex and getting a NAS. Having never done streaming or have a setup for it. Can NAS's be used to run the server or is it better with a standard computer? Anyone have any recommendations for a NAS? Was looking at the usual suspects of Drobo, Synology, QNAP etc. Depends on the client set up. If your client needs transcoding a lot of the NAS units don't have the horsepower to pull that off. What were you planning on using? Do you have a receiver?
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2014 05:14 |
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Unacknowledged posted:So this month or next I'm planning on moving to a more permanent solution for plex, downloads, storage, and other stuff that isn't my primary machine. It's a more expensive route, but I'm leaning towards a newer mac mini and a drobo. Anyone have any experiences to talk me out of this? I'm open to hearing other suggestions if anyone cares to share any with me. Mac will have more of a purpose than just a plex server / PHT box, eventually anyway. I went this way for a while, but eventually moved to a more powerful server and a fire tv. It worked fine, I used the apple remote, which plex does a really good job of mapping functions to. It was pretty bulletproof for the wife/kids to use.
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2014 18:50 |
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Medullah posted:Is there any way for Plex to deal with movies that are split into multiple files? I have a bunch of movies that are split into 700mb chunks - Plex sees them but starts playing a random one. I'm assuming there's no setting to make that work without combining the videos? Plex has pretty good documentation about this: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200264966-Naming-Stacked-or-Multi-Part-Movies
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2015 22:08 |
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TheScott2K posted:How's the XBox One app? I've been thinking of getting PlexPass for it since the XBone seems to handle 60hz HDTV streams really well (while the Chromecast tops out at 30 fps), making it a candidate for One True Box status - does it have a greater ability for Direct Play? Being able to let my wife watch something without my main desktop having to transcode it would be a real plus. I think its better than the roku/fire tv apps, although not quite as good as PHT on an actual HTPC.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2015 20:34 |
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savesthedayrocks posted:Can you set an apple time machine backup to a win8 box? I've moved away from windows to an all apple environment Yeah, it's a bit janky: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 00:43 |
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havenwaters posted:Seems like a Plex issue since you can get 5.1 with Kodi/XBMC while using the PleXBMC add on or through Plex setting XBMC as your external player. You may also be able to use the Photo Viewer (which can play video files) as your external player. You lose plex's ability to track what you've watched and there is some setup involved for the kodi stuff (either by itself or as an external player). Photo viewer I'm not 100% sure on with respect to 5.1 audio. No, it's a Fire TV issue from my understanding. Kodi can do decode itself, Plex relies on what the FireTV provides, and it doesn't handle that natively, but requires a receiver to decode. I assume Plex people are waiting for Amazon to support more codecs, which will never happen because amazon lol. There are the workarounds you mentioned with external players. Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 28, 2015 |
# ¿ May 28, 2015 19:54 |
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Sheikh Djibouti posted:Many thanks! Sounds like there's a reasonable chance we can go in the direction I've been thinking about, and I'll definitely check out ffmpeg (my OS is Windows 10) and mkvtoolnix. I did the same thing a while back, but I did do mirroring, just so I never had to redo that process again. I did a pair of Mirrored 3TB and did conversions using Handbrake to mp4 for DVDs and MKV for Blurays. DVD movies averaged around 700mb for what looks like decent quality to me, Blurays ended up around 3-6GB. I usually kept the original audio tracks and also added a stereo version. I've got around 800 gigs free left out of those 3TB, and that also includes me ripping all our TV dvds as well.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2015 17:12 |
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Moey posted:What dicks. Dumping PHT for this and requiring plex pass. What, just need plex pass for the preview "It’ll be free for everyone after the preview period."
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 21:12 |
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Atomizer posted:My Plex server is coming along nicely. I'm at 300 titles and adding a couple dozen every day. It's still going to take a few months to finish ripping all the discs and to transcode them though. Interestingly, I'm running into a small number of unreadable DVDs; there's no correlation between age or brand of disc, and indeed most or all of the oldest (>10 years old) DVDs are fine. Nevertheless there's a failure rate of a few percent, for anyone curious. All the more reason to get rid of thousands of DVDs and have everything accessible on a single server. I ripped about that meant DVDs and I don't think I head any unreadable discs, that's interesting. I've been using storage spaces since the Windows 8 days (upgraded my plex server to Windows 10 as soon as it was available) and its been rock solid for me.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2016 06:33 |
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Kalenden posted:So with this new deal for the plex pass, is it worth it? I bought Plex lifetime back in 2015 and have more than gotten my monies worth. They've been good about moving the platform forward and adding features and I don't see that changing anytime soon for the enthusiast market.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2018 21:48 |
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I'm getting tired of the Tizen apps on my Samsung tv and was going to add either a Roku Ultra or an Apple TV 4k. How much of a pain in the rear end is Plex on Apple TV these days? Is it going to be mostly transcoding? Most of my Plex content is H264 video, with audio being a mix of AAC/AC3/DTS (I generally tried to include both AAC/AC3 or AAC/DTS where possible, but not every file has AAC). Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I have an extremely basic question that I have been finding multiple answers to, and so I thought I would ask here. If it's the wrong place, I apologize. I've been thinking about ripping all my dvds and setting up a home server for plex and was wondering if anyone here had done the same. If I have approximately 1,000 dvds and rip them all, I'm guessing that's around 4tb of data, which I could stick on an external raid drive with 10tb of space and attach to an old mac mini to use as a server. Has anyone done anything like this? My major fears are underestimating how much hard drive space I need and also losing all the files after I spend a year or two of Saturdays ripping them all. Are there any angles I'm not considering, or is it feasible to do it with a single external HD with RAID to mirror everything? I did the same thing years ago but transcoded to MP4 with an AAC audio track and the AC3 audio track, my movies generally landed between 1-2 gigs, with some a bit higher and some a bit lower. That seemed a lot more functional than straight DVD rips. We aren't watching them as much as we used to the past, but it did mean I could get rid of the boxes of DVDs I had in my garage.
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