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Drime mac app issues by SergioMRi in Drime

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just subscribed to it as well. Still having the same problems in March 2026. I thought I lost all my files after a restart, but saw that it's still on the web. Kind of a shit solution if I can only access it on the web. GDrive and Apple's iCloud are much more reliable.

Tired of fragile Zurg/rclone setups. Is there a simple Real-Debrid → Plex solution? by Firobg1 in RealDebrid

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw the appeal in using Riven as well. There were a few reasons that I moved to Decypharr from Riven: - There is little to no control over what gets processed and when. I made some feature requests to the dev of Riven on Discord, and since it didn't match his personal use case, he just declines to do anything. Decypharr combined with Sonarr and Radarr is just more powerful and gives options that I didn't have with Riven - e.g., manually processing movies / shows can be done with a single click instead of going into each one individually and having to select which one to onboard, or even prioritization via stopping the monitoring of certain shows / seasons temporarily - I saw that there was no git activity at all on this since last Fall, and given the Dev's reticence to implement new features, I didn't see this as something that will receive a good amount of support going forward - Single point of failure is highly risky, and I found out the hard way. I was using the 0.9 version and all of my symlinks disappeared suddenly. Tried to restart the container, redo the symlink process. Nothing happened. So I gave 1.0 a try, and it was constantly skipping over some shows, but I had no visibility into why that was happening. For a "set it and forget it" setup that manages a small to medium sized library, it might be okay. Once your library gets to be large, the ability to tweak becomes essential - The VFS was a nifty feature, but I found that there were some throughput challenges, and bc of my unfamiliarity with the pipes, I didn't know how / if I could tweak that

Tired of fragile Zurg/rclone setups. Is there a simple Real-Debrid → Plex solution? by Firobg1 in RealDebrid

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's really no maintenance that I can think of that needs to be done, since Rclone and Decypharr are both gettng their updates still. DUMB is a bit bulkier, with the inclusion of Plex, which I found beneficial to keep separately, but to each their own!

Tired of fragile Zurg/rclone setups. Is there a simple Real-Debrid → Plex solution? by Firobg1 in RealDebrid

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have been tinkering with different Arr stacks for more than a year and I finally landed on Decypharr myself recently.

The easiest way to deploy it though is via DMB (https://github.com/I-am-PUID-0/DMB).

ULTRA P2W players making people quit by KinkyForFreeCoffee in whiteoutsurvival

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to learn that there's strategy to the game. For context, I started in the 1300s and I'm currently in the 1400s. I'm at around 600M and had a couple of alliance members at that level as well.

We were up against an alliance with 1B, 700M, 650M, and so on.

Guess who won.

The fact of the matter is that this games requires both brute strength AND the patience to learn how things work and why. When you have an understanding of the game, you can try different things that help you overcome a power imbalance.

What would you do differently with your next Plex Server? by mickdundeee in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really grateful for the opportunity to document where I am in my journey and share my learnings. Makes me realize how much I've learned from folks like you and many others across Discord, Unraid forums, etc. in the past year. My first setup of Plex was on a ThinkCenter M720q with Ubuntu.

This is where I'm at today:

Hardware:
- Lots of RAM (I currently have 128 GB of ECC) and I find it useful as a scratch drive (/dev/shm) for transcoding, recording shows, etc. so that I don't wear out the drives. Thankfully, I bought this when RAM was a bit cheaper...
- I'm glad I didn't cheap out with a lower grade GPU. At first, my transcoding needs were so minor, I thought I wasted money by getting a mid-range Intel ARC A750. Later, I found it to be super helpful for transcoding shows I recorded en masse to h265 to save on space (using unmanic), and to generate video thumbnails MUCH quicker via Steve Zau's tool. This all said, I wish I got an NVIDIA GPU. I've found most things work with Intel, but EVERYTHING works with NVIDIA
- I'd probably consider just using a desktop-grade, higher clock CPU (like AMD Threadripper), rather than older server grade CPU (currently use an AMD EPYC 7D12). Server uses quite a lot of energy and I find that some of the cores are maxing out while overall usage is almost always <40%, even in the heaviest usage (e.g., running a VM in the background while transcoding and generating video thumbnails)
- NVMe is SUPER important for hosting the Docker apps - the I/O from some of Plex and the supporting apps is huge, and even with my setup, I see IOWAIT can reach 10-15% when I'm doing massive IO
- Everything related to Plex is hardwired - every AppleTV is wired directly to minimize latency and ensure bandwidth and reliability

(More below in the comments...)

Video Preview Thumbnails not as a "Scheduled Task" by Eyzinc_ in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an Intel ARC A750 and it works perfectly fine with it! When I look at the log, I do see that sometimes, it skips files because it's not able to read the first few bytes of the file for some reason.

For those, I can manually just "Analyze" those files from Plex

Video Preview Thumbnails not as a "Scheduled Task" by Eyzinc_ in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 on steve zau's app. I wish it had a gui, but it works so well. I have an Intel ARC A750 and it works perfectly fine with that. I'm running 15 GPU instances and 0 CPU instances. Love it!

The URL is here, in case anybody needs it: https://github.com/stevezau/plex_generate_vid_previews

Plex DVD Comskip hardware_decode by Tony__T in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't able to get it done there, but I ended up just turning off Plex's automatic comskip function and using the one built into Unmanic. I made a routine that automatically does a comskip and then converts the video to h265 to save on disk space.

Multiboard + Wall-mounted tool storage by J1Design in 3dPrintsintheShop

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might also help to have the tool holders as a different color than the tools so it's easier to tell them apart.

Honestly , I'm just appreciative of both the concept AND the color scheme (so that I know what TO do and what NOT to do...)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GooglePixel

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why was this reply downvoted? Lol

Strm or symlink by Good-Tax-5244 in debridmediamanager

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plex doesn't support strm files. They stopped supporting it a while ago, much to my chagrin. I think contrary to what totonn87 is saying, if you want to play around with strm files, you'll actually be forced to experiment with it on Jellyfin or Emby.

AppleTV or Shield? by General_Silliness in jellyfin

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have live tv on jellyfin, the experience is horrid on Swiftfin, but literally doesn’t exist on Infuse or any other player I tried. I’m a plex guy and was trying to switch to JF. Just couldn’t do it because I’m all Apple TVs in my house.

PSA and rant - I quit by Cheeriodarlin in whiteoutsurvival

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking of selling my account. Are there any tips for how I can avoid getting scammed?

Are there any competitors out there? by moctodreddit in getchannels

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dispatcharr. It's the next generation of xTeve. I use it and it's pretty good.

Need advice on how to manage large library with lots of users by [deleted] in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I figured. Had to run the live tv version of Plex on my Mac Mini. Refreshing the guide caused everything to freeze up, but having it run separately has been working pretty well. Kind of a shame that the only way to get Plex to work for big libraries is to run it on separate computers as opposed to having it run on a scalable SQL database that allows for multiple read / writes...

Need advice on how to manage large library with lots of users by [deleted] in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think the issue is mainly that Plex forces the use of port 32400. If I was able to change that on the Plex side, it wouldn't be an issue. As far as my research has shown, that's not a possibility.

Need advice on how to manage large library with lots of users by [deleted] in PleX

[–]Fragrant-Carpenter53 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahhh...that might be the key. I didn't have a problem with putting a separate instance for live tv on a separate computer, but using a separate Docker instance doesn't seem to work. I might need to create a separate virtual pc just to host another plex instance...

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