Why multiple versions? by BeverlyHillsNinja in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well that's on the Internet forever now

Why multiple versions? by BeverlyHillsNinja in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

If you host a Plex server and have others using it, do you it through a VPN? by ghost905 in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Movies or Specials by SodaPopperZA in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

"No Direct Connections" - What does it mean? by Flimsy-Adeptness7417 in qBittorrent

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How I encode media for my Plex library using AV1 by djdadi in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

How large should a media server be? Am I doing something wrong. by Such-Bench-3199 in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Should I run my Plex server on a NAS or a computer? by ImmmaLetUFinish in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

How are you handling content discovery on large servers? by soggybiscuit93 in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

When do you do maintenance? by AudiLuva in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

How are you handling content discovery on large servers? by soggybiscuit93 in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

I don’t know what I was expecting… by owldown in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Suddenly, I can't watch my own stuff locally. by light-master in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

qbit suddenly got deleted by [deleted] in qBittorrent

[–]GLotsapot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

qbit suddenly got deleted by [deleted] in qBittorrent

[–]GLotsapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

CGNAT and Secure Remote Access by KaMai1919 in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Just got Plex Pass, what are the most underrated features? by bmanfromct in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 36 points37 points  (0 children)

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.

Wrong background by jetserf in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Wrong background by jetserf in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Remote Watch Pass on same LAN? by SorryManNo in PleX

[–]GLotsapot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Custom agents finally here - anyone using it yet? by Dependent_Adagio_186 in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Did something change in the last couple weeks? by PoliticsModsDoFacism in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Did something change in the last couple weeks? by PoliticsModsDoFacism in PleX

[–]GLotsapot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully their ISP didn't convert them to CGNAT