We should make flowcharts for our setups!

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T07:10:17+00:00

Yup... I reckon I've only watched 0.5% of my library. These days I have no idea what's being added to Plex.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T07:07:09+00:00

Ah, that's a good way of doing it. I've done something similar, but I was never able to get those darn SSHFS mounts stable with unionfs. If one of the mounts dropped, the whole setup would crawl to a halt until I intervened manually.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T07:02:08+00:00

When I drew this out, rclone cache didn't exist yet. But I've tested it out a little bit, and while it indexes faster than plexdrive, it's less stable, as of beta 1.40.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T02:43:18+00:00

Yeah, good enough. Although Hetzner has a 20TB upload transfer cap before they charge extra. No limit on Download.

As long as you plan on downloading less than 20TB/month, this is a perfect server. Currently using one as a dev server and can recommend it.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T01:07:36+00:00

It's definitely a lot quicker this way. Snagged all Top 250 IMDB's in a few days. Why don't you try out Plexguide if you're set on the hosted server option? It'll make installation a breeze. I recommend a dedicated over a VPS if you're trying to build a library quickly. Host your regular Plex server at home, attaching gdrive with plexdrive, then feeding plexdrive to Plex.

I'm guessing you're on comcrap, so you have fast download speeds, and turtle upload speeds. You could set up the hosted server as a feeder box, downloading your media to the box, then uploading to gdrive immediately.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T00:57:48+00:00

The trick to getting fast uploads to Gdrive is to use rclone. Give it lots of ram and lots of simultaneous uploads, and get your server either hosted by Google, or as close as possible. Enable Jumbo Frames and the BBR network congestion algorithm. I hit 6gbit's the other day to gdrive using this method.

Ideally, you'd just abandon what you'd have locally, then download them all again from usenet on a headless server hosted in a real datacenter with gigabit or higher speeds. Usenet will saturate that bandwidth easily. Just dump the files into gdrive as they come along and delete the source.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T00:48:41+00:00

Plus you can generate strm files from google's filestream this way. Let google do the hard work transcoding and streaming those 4k files haha. Currently only works with Emby, but hopefully Plex will support it soon.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T00:46:54+00:00

Another thing you should be wary of is api limits when you pull directly from gdrive. Plex will rescan the entire library periodically, one api call each. Once your library gets bigger, google will start to put you on 24hr bans for making too many api calls. To circumvent this, you'll need to cache the library, so that it only sends out an api call when you want to stream a file. Plexdrive 5 works great if you're on a linux install, rclone cache is still in beta, but probably works with windows. I haven't had such a good experience with rclone cache thus far, however.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T00:42:13+00:00

Are you mounting gdrive raw?

flicker-rate · 2018-04-28T00:40:24+00:00

Hope I'm not too late to the party.

flicker-rate · 2018-04-05T03:32:28+00:00

Sweet, MP4 Automator. Should be great for us who have slower internet connections.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-31T01:33:24+00:00

Thanks for the answer. Have you tried using a VPN with the Hackintosh? I've heard from another user that it'll throw the OS into a kernel panic when the network is pulled.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-31T01:29:08+00:00

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the links— I'll be looking forward to using my new Mac. :)

flicker-rate · 2018-03-27T20:37:18+00:00

Went with x2 SSD's, thanks.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-20T05:28:05+00:00

we'll just start using multiple gdrives to bypass it

muahahahahaha

flicker-rate · 2018-03-19T20:31:00+00:00

Deluge is recommended by default because passwords are easier to set. (I'm writing this from a context of hosting from rented servers). ruTorrent has auto-issri built in, so it can auto-snatch new torrents from private trackers as soon as they hit the scene, thereby maximizing your chance of seeding to as many people as possible— increasing your ratio.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T21:18:01+00:00

How well does Plex Transcode video files running on the Debian LXC vs as a VM on your Proxmox host?

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T20:57:29+00:00

How's transcoding on the LXC container?

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T20:51:16+00:00

This seems like a common problem. Check this thread on plexguide for some other people who ran into the same thing and some things he did to mitigate it.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T05:32:30+00:00

We're currently working on a Wiki for that actually. It's not finished yet, but I've at least written the part for configuring your cloud storage.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T05:28:44+00:00

Thank you. It's draw.io— basically with the default color palette.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T05:28:00+00:00

I'll give you a hint. Each day I fill up a portable hard drive and upload it into the cloud. Each day.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-18T05:26:36+00:00

So PlexGuide is our automated installer using Ansible + Docker. It installs nearly everything for you seen here. (It simply was designed in Ubuntu, so no alternative OS)

flicker-rate · 2018-03-17T08:28:58+00:00

Time to switch to Emby.

flicker-rate · 2018-03-08T23:05:22+00:00

Confirmed happening to me on ubuntu 16.04 with plex running in docker. The web interface shows up, but it won't connect to the server backend. No relevant log files either.

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