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Viper_3000 posted:TVDB doesn't allow sports content. I've tried and it's been deleted repeatedly. for sports I just set up another "home videos" section called sports and I can figure out what everything is based on the filename. It's not beautiful, but it works. For F1 specifically I'm having sabnzbd rename the files to 01-01. drivers press conference, 01-02 practice one, 01-03 practice two, etc... to keep them in the right order. 01 for the race then -02 for the event, like practice 1 or 2. I don't keep them after I watch them so my method isn't really geared towards archiving. Elephanthead posted:Has anyone gotten the apple tv trailer hack to work so my plex videos show up there? I don't know if I am just to dumb to run python or it just doesn't work. It seem the python script just doesn't run when it says it is. I have it set up and it works great. What specifically are you having trouble with? GutBomb fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Poopinstein posted:Prisoner of Cell Block H Is that the Australian women's prison soap opera?
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Poopinstein posted:It is! When I used to live in Sweden I would watch that really late at night when I was trying to sleep. What a weird show. It was called kvinnorfangelset there (the women's prison)
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Pinball posted:I could, yes, but I have almost a thousand pieces of media and I need to get subtitles for every single one. I was hoping for a way to me to not need to do it manually, episode by episode. How about just manually downloading the subs you plan on watching at the time you're going to watch it?
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Unacknowledged posted:Are there any news updates in regards to Apple TV opening up as a platform where we'd get a native plex app without requiring a jailbroken apple TV or the plexConnect python script? I prefer to have an app instead of airplay from my phone, but browsing on the TV is a bit of a pain. It's all minor complaints, just wondering if there's a smoother way to browse without another device in the mix. The platform opening would be really nice but they didn't announce anything like that at the WWDC last week so it's not happening anytime soon. That being said, I've been using plexconnect for a couple of months now on an ATV3 and it's working great. If you're having trouble setting it up I can try to walk you through it in an IM or something.
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prom candy posted:Thanks, I tried hitting refresh after adding a new episode to the folder but it didn't do anything. It's possible that it got queued behind another update though. I'm going to try attaching one of my drives directly to my windows machine to see if that's faster, I think samba might be the bottle neck. I really think the network is the issue. Does the linux box have the juice to transcode? If so, why not just install plex media server there and cut the windows machine out altogether.
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Cornjob posted:Ive been using XBMC with local media for years, and I love it. My collection is all neatly organized, and XBMC scrapes it without issue. I tried Plex on my laptop based on a friends suggestion and it was impresssive. I decided to set it up at home. It works perfectly on my laptop. but Im having issues on my PC. In the library setup are you sure you selected the correct metadata agent?
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Jul 16, 2014 18:59
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Cornjob posted:under "edit library > advanced" it has scanner set to "plex movie scanner" and agent is set to "freebase". Try setting it to themoviedb instead and see what happens.
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Cornjob posted:Under settings > server > agents > movies > freebase I mean in the library itself in the drop down that says freebase try themoviedb there. I don't know if that will work, it's just my best guess.
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Cornjob posted:i though thats what i tried earlier. next to "movies" on the left most sidebar, there is pencil icon that brings up "edit library". under "advanced", you can choose "scanner" and "agent". under agent, the choices are "Cine21" "freebase" and "personal Media". there is no direct selection for TheMovieDB. Yeah I must be remembering wrong. I was having trouble with some tv shows matching so I switched from freebase to thetvdb and I got it mixed up with movies. Sorry, I don't know what else to tell you. Could it be your folder structure or file names?
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Kung Fu Jesus posted:I don't know if this is what you want but I made a folder for all my misc video files. When I set it up in Plex, I labeled the library as Home Video. In the advanced settings for this library, I set scanner to Plex Video Files Scanner and agent to Personal Media. It populates the library alphabetically without changing anything. However, it also removes all sub folders and spits everything out onto the main page/dashboard. I haven't looked into if its possible to regain sub folders. You can view by folder in any library so I think that's what you want.
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EL BROMANCE posted:* I'm a bit worried by the 'IOS just use Airplay from the iPhone App' part of the OP. Is there still a stable version of the app that I can install on my jailbroken ATV2? Airplay isn't generally good enough in my room, whereas a direct stream from the HTPC should suffice. I'm looking into PlexConnect at the moment, would that let me unbreak my ATV and hit newest firmware and still be able to browse my library albeit in a limited form? I'm a bit worried that one of my most used elements might be loss - I have an SMB share of my unsorted video folder that I can just idly browse in XBMC's Video menu, I get the feeling I won't be able to do that with Connect. I had a jailbroken ATV 2 that I used XBMC on. I wiped it, restored it, re-jailbroke, and sold it on ebay for $250ish. Went out and bought 2 ATV3s (One for the bedroom, one for the living room) and still had money left over. I switched to plex. I have Plex and PlexConnect running on a PC and I have absolutely no issues. Everything works great after it's set up. I populate my library with sabnzbd using rss feeds from my newznab indexer of choice. I've never understood the need for something like CouchPotato, sickbeard, or nzbdrone myself. Are those only for people who's newznab indexer doesn't have RSS feeds?
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah it sounds like most of my setup will move over, it's just narrowing down the little things I can't see obvious solutions without getting hands on (Can I view SMB shares in Plex Connect? It doesn't appear so by default. Same with moving from SAB -> NZBGet etc, but that's another thread). If you map a drive in windows plex will just treat that as a regular drive on your system and use that in the library. Same if you mount that to a mount point in Linux or Mac OS. The AppleTV doesn't care where the files actually live. The PC (running either mac, windows, or linux, I've tried them all and they all work equally well) that plex sits on just streams (either directly if the ATV supports the codecs or transcoding if it doesn't) the video so the only thing your ATV is communicating with is the machine that Plex sits on. EL BROMANCE posted:Power of control is really good in these apps. For example, if someone mentions anything that's available to view on iMDB , I can just launch the iMDB app on my phone, hit 'Add to Watchlsit' and it gets queued up by Couch. I used to use RSS feeds back years ago, but SB/CP were like new leases of life with regards to control and categorising my library without any real thought. The app I use on my phone searches binsearch and any API enabled newznab server. I search for a movie or a show, it finds the relevant files, I can download them, all from within the app. sabnzbd then puts everything in the right place when it's done downloading them based on the category in which they were downloaded, tv/movie/etc... the app knows what category to put it in based on the group the file was downloaded from, so it's all automated. If I'm on my PC viewing the newznab site in the browser I can add items to my sab queue from right there. I still don't understand what extra I would get with CP or SB. GutBomb fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:Thanks for going over it a bit more. Just so I'm 100% clear, the SMB shares I'm talking about aren't in my XBMC library, they're temporary holding places (or uncategorisable things like indy wrestling shows) that I just connect to as an SMB share over the network and play directly. I grab a ton of stuff I don't intend to archive, and don't really want to change my habits! I'm hoping I can continue that, but I think it's going to be a case of 'yes in Plex full theater client, no in PlexConnect' but I'm gonna just bite the bullet and find out. You can make a library for that folder called "home movies" that just puts raw files in your library and doesn't scrape or categorize them. It's good for porn and sports which don't have metadata databases.
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kri kri posted:Is there a way to remove this type of stuff from ondeck/recently watched? You can hide it from on deck and recently watched but the library will always show up in the library list (problematic if you don't want anyone who sees the list of libraries to see your porn library)
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Rirse posted:Also random question that I am betting isn't possible, but is there a way to make a playlist that plays a random episode from a tv show, but then plays a commercial block video in-between the next random episode?
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feld posted:Good, they're supposed to be blocking port 25 outbound. Nobody is supposed to be hitting port 25 on any server from a residential internet address block. That's inbound. He's saying he can't connect to any server on port 25 from his mom's house, which is way overboard.
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I have a desktop PC acting as a media server for Plex, using an apple TV with plexconnect for viewing. Everything works great but when Plex has to transcode the fan on the computer is really loud and annoying. I know Plex doesn't do GPU transcoding but I'm still unsure of which fan it is that I'm hearing, the CPU or GPU. Is transcoding hearing up the case so much the GPU needs to cool off, or is it the CPU fan? Are there any tools I can run to monitor the fans to see which one is making noise so I know which one to replace?
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I solved my CPU fan problem by buying a new CPU, motherboard, and case. Now it's faster, smaller, more energy efficient, and quieter. And it doesn't light up the living room like a Christmas tree anymore GutBomb fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Christoff posted:Dumb question probably but I have plex on an Amazon fire stick to the TV. Does streaming stuff from my laptop kill my internet speed at all or is strictly going through the router only? Like if I'm playing games online on my ps4 and girlfriend is watching something on plex If you have a lovely router it might show down your whole network, but that's probably unlikely.
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gypsyshred posted:Ok I'm at wits end. I love Plex and I've grown to rely on it for my TV watching so I'd rather fix it than replace it, but I'm not sure what else to do. Since last month, nothing new has populated. It was around the same time I replaced my gpu if that remotely matters. I have removed the dir from my list, and re added the dir, and it just repopulated with the stuff it had already found. I completely uninstalled the media server and reinstalled, same old database, no new items found. What else can I do to fix it? Maybe a dumb question but are you sure you're putting your new stuff in a folder that's scanned? One scenario I'm thinking of is that maybe you're using a library folder that displays files from multiple locations as one single folder so in Windows explorer it looks as if you're putting the files in the right place but really they might be somewhere else? I know "videos" under "this computer" is one of those library folders where it shows content from a bunch of different locations as one cohesive folder. It's a long shot but maybe that can point you in the right direction.
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I broke down and bought Plex pass and installed the Plex app on my Xbox one. It's great! I was using Plex with PlexConnect on my Apple tv 3 but almost every time I wanted to use Netflix I had to reboot the atv or restart PlexConnect services on the pc to wake up the dns server or Netflix couldn't connect. Now I've got all of my video services on one device and I'm happy. I want to get rid of the Apple tv all together but the wife uses it for airplay for music. Is there anything like airplay for the Xbox one (even just for music, we don't care about video)?
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SlayVus posted:The plex server is my desktop. i7 4790k, 8gb ram, media on a 3TB 5400 drive. I don't know what the hub bub is about sharing plex with my friend. Since plex server had the option of inviting people to have access to your servery if you have a pass. The hub bub isn't about sharing with a friend. I think most people do that. I think it's about having a remote service do the serving that people are talking about. The media has to be streamed from the remote service to work, and that would mean that there would be a remote service that you upload copyrighted content to, and the likelihood of any service willing to take on that kind of liability is laughable. You main option is get better internet.
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I never have problems and I just have all of the files for a particular tv show in one folder not divided into seasons. The filename doesn't even matter much as long as it's got s01e01 or 1x01 in the name. Tons of shows are just in a folder with the name of the show, and the files are s01e01.mkv. Still others have episode names, etc.
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I tried out Plex on the Apple tv through airplay from my iPhone and it works really well except one issue. If I start browsing Facebook or the web and I scroll to an area of a page that has a video airplay freaks out and stops playing Plex in preparation to play the video I've scrolled to. Really annoying. Is there a way to disable airplay on an app by app basis? I've disabled autoplay videos in Facebook but just the presence of a playable video seems to screw it up.
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It looks identical to what I've been using for months on the XBox One to play content from the Plex Media Server installed on my PC.
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Here is what I'm using. It's a coolermaster 130 elite case with a mini itx board. https://pcpartpicker.com/b/nDd6Mp It's still bigger than I would like but I needed something big enough so it would get decent airflow and accommodate the video card. I changed a few things about the setup since I posted. I use the ATV4 instead of the xbone for plex and I replaced the short video card with a full size because 2 fans are quieter than 1. I was also having some power supply issues (spontaneous shutdowns) so I replaced it with a corsair 600M. I also went back to the Intel cpu fan instead of the zalman because temps were fine and it's quieter.
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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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The Xbox 360 one is out of preview but the Xbox one version isn't.
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Can he use other streaming services without buffering? Maybe his isp detected a lot of activity from his old ip and put him in a different part of their network that does traffic shaping on certain types of activity like streaming.
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I disagree, it's pretty much all I use it for.
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Fuzz posted:Someone didn't know how to do invites via email is my guess. Game sharing is my guess.
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RAID 0 is super nice for having my two smaller SSDs merge into one volume for my OS and apps drive without really having to gently caress with anything. If one of the drives fails I'll have to reinstall windows and some applications but all of my data I need to keep is backed up. RAID rules.
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It's worth noting that the Ethernet on the Apple TV is only 10/100, not gigabit, so if you don't have signal concerns it might actually be faster to go wireless.
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Are there any channels for plex that let you just insert a URL to a live video stream like you can do with VLC? There's a live event being streamed today that I'd rather watch through my Roku than have to hook my laptop up to the tv. Edit: I found one. It's called IPTV and you just add any m3u8 or m3u playlist to its internal one and it will add the stream to its available list. GutBomb fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Feb 18, 2017 |
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I used to have a nexus 10 which was 16x9 and it was great for plex but that was several years ago and it's a bit old now.
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Craptacular! posted:Problem is there's only one alternative for encrypted cablecard channels, and it doesn't have a traditional guide because SiliconDust is afraid of a lawsuit from the owners of TV Guide (who I believe claim to have a patent on grid based program guides). The patent for the grid based guide is actually owned by a company that used to be known as Macrovision (yes that macrovision) and now known as TiVo since they bought the TiVo corporation last year and assumed their name. Their primary business is being a video related patent troll. They intimidate companies into licensing their patents and when that doesn't work they take them to court. Google licenses a lot of patents from them one of which is "a function allowing users to assign a title to a video they uploaded." Patents are loving bullshit.
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Well megaupload was somewhat different. No one was keeping private collections of pirated poo poo up there. They were using it to widely distribute pirated poo poo. Plex isn't used for wide distribution it's kept for private use among a small circle. Still copyright infringement but not nearly the same scale as megaupload.
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TraderStav posted:Is there a way to change the zoom/resolution through the LiveTv on FTV? I have SD channels that are only filling up about 70% of the screen. On the HDHR app through Kodi I can change the settings to stretch it to fill. Yuck
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I've used harmony remotes for years and upgraded to a harmony one last year. I loving hated that thing. The touch screen on it was super sensitive so it would accidentally switch inputs or just get in the wrong mode every time every time we picked it up confusing anyone that ever used it. Such a piece of poo poo. I returned it and swapped it out for another harmony 650 and now everything is good again. Similar to the Apple TV gen 4 remote as in accidentally doing poo poo with it every time you pick it up because of touch sensitivity. Not everything needs a god drat touch sensitive surface!
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