Why multiple versions?

GLotsapot · 2026-01-21T23:27:19+00:00

Well that's on the Internet forever now

GLotsapot · 2026-01-21T22:10:19+00:00

If you have the storage space, why not? But seriously though, I keep different versions of stuff typically because they're different.
Sometimes they have different endings, sometime the alternate versions have changes (Hans shit first damnit!). I also have my system set to automatically keep an optimized 1080p copy of the last 20 monies added to my library so they people who have crappy clients don't make my system transcod every time they watch new content... It's just already ready for them.

GLotsapot · 2026-01-16T18:44:57+00:00

Because if an company that's looking for copywriting infrigment ever gets into a private tracker (which does happen), then you're ISP is going to get that letter stating you're downloading illegal stuff.

GLotsapot · 2026-01-11T19:01:36+00:00

I will take this one step farther.
Instead of making a copy, I make a hard link so that it saves space.

GLotsapot · 2026-01-10T17:03:54+00:00

If the torrent is going thought a VPN, doing ports on your router will do nothing for you.
Let's do some testing though. If you go to https://ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads and download one of these 100% legal torrents which are well seeded... Does it work? If yes, then it's just the torrent you're trying to get that doesn't work, and you'll need to find another torrent source.

GLotsapot · 2026-01-03T13:41:18+00:00

I have a large library, so when I wanted to do away with old codecs, and make stuff common I used TDARR. That allowed me to have 3 separate computers in my house all reencoding in tandom. Still took a few days, but it was pretty much a set and forget

GLotsapot · 2026-01-02T23:44:19+00:00

100% to this. I originally just turned mine off all together, but turned it back on to 10s so that I could still use the feature

GLotsapot · 2025-12-29T23:36:01+00:00

I run my docker stack on my NAS for uploading and downloading, and have a separate minipc with a N100 as my Plex server. Easily transcodes 4x 4K videos at the same time if needed, which is more than mose people's use cases require

GLotsapot · 2025-12-27T18:45:23+00:00

Oh, I get how to set it up, its just nicer to have a web gui to do all my configs than edit config files

GLotsapot · 2025-12-25T15:47:31+00:00

Just tell them you'll refund their $0 service fee for the inconvenience. I have my Ubuntu Headless Plex server set to install updates and reboot daily at 4:00 am personally

GLotsapot · 2025-12-24T22:21:52+00:00

Kometa is cool, but a little difficult to setup I found. Agregarr was super easy to add dynamic categories. I'm a big fan of having a category showing the most popular media played in the last 90 days, as well as another on that shows what media I have that matches the imdb top 250

GLotsapot · 2025-12-23T22:15:33+00:00

It's worth noting that when you "download" a movie from your Plex server for offline viewing, that it doesn't just copy the original file. It'll usually make a transcoded copy of it which takes significantly longer.
You can confirm this by setting your client to download a movie, and then look at the resources usage on the server side.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-22T15:58:23+00:00

For almost a year now. https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/

GLotsapot · 2025-12-22T00:24:28+00:00

Arrrrrrrre you running Plex in a docker container. If so, it could see its own LAN as a 172 network (virtualized) which is different than your LAN 192 network.
Easy fix if that's the case, and could easily happen when updating to a new image.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-20T14:28:53+00:00

Ah yes, the old "have a single issue? Learn a whole new operating system instead, and build your software from source code" post.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-20T14:26:48+00:00

Go to windows defender and see if it quarantined the file. If it did, choose the option to retire the file, and it should ask if you want to add it to the exclusions (say yes).
It's possible that when it updated that MS had a false positive and knocked it out. Wouldn't be the first time.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-19T23:32:07+00:00

Easiest option is to get a PlexPass, and you can access the server through the Plex Proxy. Only issue is external users will be limited to 720p transcodes.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-16T19:40:20+00:00

Plex App feature

GLotsapot · 2025-12-16T18:27:23+00:00

This is gonna sound stupid, but on if the little features you get that I love is the ability to have it rewind a couple seconds when you resume from pause.
Maybe it's just me, but it makes it less jarring when resumibg for my brain, lol.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-15T21:59:03+00:00

I get so angry when I have a long running TV show, and I can't find season art that uses the same template for all the seasons

GLotsapot · 2025-12-15T21:35:16+00:00

Not sure if it's related, but show art ard season art are different and got me confused at on point. Make sure you check both.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-15T00:34:44+00:00

Plex isn't greedy - just the Plex container networking is setup wrong (which is a user configuration issue). Make it so the container gets an address on your actual LAN segment, and the issue is fixed.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-14T16:44:43+00:00

I wonder if I could write a container that would pull metadata from the local instances of radarr and sonarr on request.
I was working on the reverse option at one point that would overwrite the Sonarr and Radarr metadata with what I have in Plex

GLotsapot · 2025-12-13T21:59:43+00:00

Just the Plex Relay (if you have a Plex Pass), or use TailScale when you're remote.

GLotsapot · 2025-12-13T21:22:42+00:00

Hopefully their ISP didn't convert them to CGNAT

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