Greetings all,
My plex media server simply stops running. It shows in the tray but is no longer running, checked task manager for running processes, no joy. Attempted the plex service wrapper by CJMurph, same thing happens after a bit. I can manually stop and start but it's annoying. Any ideas on what's happening? If I need to attache log files, let me know.
TIA for any assistance offered.
Ever since the latest update the screensaver has started coming up every 5 - 10 mins or so while I'm playing videos in Plex. This wasn't happening yesterday. I did see that there was an update when i started Plex this afternoon.
Apple TV 4 latest version
Plex server Version 1.5.5.3634
Guten Tag!
Ich betreibe seit kurzem ein Synology DS216play verbunden im Netzwerk mit Fritzbox.
Nach der Installation von Plex Medien Server auf der Synology, wird auf der Weboberfläche von Plex keine Server angezeigt.
Kann mir bitte jemand helfen? Die Portfreigabe 32400 TCP sowie UDP im Fritzbox ist aktiv.
So,
Running Plex on Synology 715+ and when I run Plex from within the Synology web interface all my media is there. When I run the Plex app via apple TV or iOS some recently added movies are missing. All movies are uploaded same way, MDRP rip to my desktop and import to Synology movie folder. File path is same for all media but some remain missing only when viewed from an app there then Synology Video Station or Plex on Synology.
Any ideas where to start?
FMoviesPlus.bundle - High Quality HD Movies & TV-Series
NOTE: The author of this plugin has no affiliation with FMovies sites nor the owners of the content that they hosts.
Features:
Plex Media Server (Server version is 1.3.3.3148):
Plex Clients Tested:
Known issues:
When reporting issues please include the channel log file com.plexapp.plugins.fmoviesplus.log (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201106148-Channel-Log-Files).
Future development:
ToDo:
Under consideration (feedback required):
Implemented:
Installation:
chown plex:plex -R FMoviesPlus.bundle after moving it into the Plug-ins directory (user:group may differ by platform)
Acknowledgements:
mrknow for work on FMovies movie sources routine for Kodi
lambda81 for HTTP Request routine for SSL/Alternate lambdalib for Kodi
youtube-dl for previous work on OpenLoad scrapper
coryo123 for DumbTools-for-Plex
I have managed to create a TV show library and link it to my NAS box. It listed the various TV shows I have and I have quickly gone through and marked as watched those shows where I have watched every episode.
I now want to just look at those I have outstanding. From a PC web interface every time I change it form All to Unwatched I get an Unexpected Error loading this library. From Plex directly on the Nvidia Shield it sits there for about a minute showing all TV shows, then every show disappears and I am left with a blank screen with just the headers.
The only way to get out of this is to remove the Unwatched flag and then everything reappears again.
Can someone please advise why this is?
Using my PC server the transition from All to unwatched is a second or two tops. Switching movies to unwatched works, but is a lot slower than my pc server.
The whole purpose for buying the Shield was to run it as the server so I didn't need my PC running. Right now I am about to return it as its just not fit for purpose.
I've installed Plex Media Server in my Raspberry Pi 3. It works perfect but it doesn't have enough CPU power to transcode (when it tries the video freezes every two or three seconds). One of my Plex clients is an LG TV and I find Plex Server transcoding files very often when I try to watch it from the TV.
I took one file as an example. It is a .mov file, the video is 1080p—HEVC and the audio AAC 5.1. I copied the file in a pen drive and the TV played it without any problems. I've also played it from Plex's DLNA server and I could watch it perfectly. However when I try to watch it through the Plex App in the TV the server shows: "Trasnscoding // Video Transcoding HEVC to H264 // Audio Direct stream".
In the TV I've enabled the options "Direct Play" and "Direct Stream" and I've all qualities set to Original.
Am I missing some reason that can make Plex transcode the file or is there something wrong?
Hello.
I just enrolled your premium pass service of PLEX.
I set Plex Home on my server, and I set PIN on my account.
but If I login on new computer, it does not ask for a PIN. It just logined as Master account, and got full acceess of my Plex Media Server...
Is it right way to give my account information to my friends? then they can have full access at very first time on new browser...
What do I have to do..?
Thank you.
Hi. I've been using the app for XBOne for quite a while and haven't had any issues I couldn't solve before, but this one really has me.
XBox v 1.8.0, Server Version 1.5.5.3634 (Win 10)
I was watching some movies on my console one evening, then the next night I get the "Server Not Available" issue. This is continuous and the app has been hard broken for over a week. I've done normal troubleshooting:
Quit Plex and restart.
Restart XBox
Restart Computer
Update Plex Server
Uninstall and Reinstall Plex on Xbox
I can ping my Xbox from my computer and the 'Devices' page on my computer's browser tells me that my Xbox tried to connect "a few seconds ago" so I know the connection works. Can anyone help me work through this?
If I reboot my kindle fire hd, the plex app will change my sync location from external storage (micro sd card) to internal storage. I have a 128GB MicroSD on my kindle, so that is a good place to store all of my videos.
When I go to change it to the right location, it warns me of sync content will be deleted and nukes all my synced videos. This has happened on several occasions and I can identify it always happens on the reboot.
I think it has something to do with a system check of the SD card upon reboot that makes it unavailable for use and Plex defaults to internal storage.
This is a bit annoying when I go to board a flight, sit down to watch some content and it doesn't play because it defaulted back to the internal storage and then I have to rush on my mobile hotspot to hopefully get a video or two before we take off.
Hi!
One of the things I really like about the PS4 as a media player is how well HDMI-CEC works. Which means if Im using my PS4 as just that, I dont even need the controller. I just use the remote that came with my TV. This works very well until I want to leave Plex in favour for for example Netflix. Without the PS button on the controller, there is simply now way of exiting the app from my TV remote.
Please make a little "exit" button somewhere on the screen for more remote friendly operations!
Cheers, and thanks for a great app.
Hello,
I am wondering what logic Plex Server uses when there is a duplicate file from multiple sources?
Here is the situation, I index folder /Movies/ and also /MyShare/Movies/ into a single Plex library. MovieX exists locally on the hard drive in /Movies/MovieX.mp4, but the same movie also exists in /MyShare/Movies/MovieX.mp4. When MovieX gets played, which copy does Plex Server use to transcode with? Is it the copy that exist locally or on my shared drive? Is there also a way to control which copy to use?
Thanks!
Howdy !
I am looking for a new HTPC build that will also serve (then solely serve when my new high end PC comes) as a Plex Media Server.
At first it will be connected to my 4K TV and direct play 720/1080/4K through Kodi (and PlexKodiConnect) while sometimes streaming media files to another localy connected device (720/1080p direct play, 4K transcoding), never more than 2 client at a time (one in directplay, one with slight transcoding for exemple).
It may also for times to times stream files over the internet with some transcoding, also never more than 2 client at a time (one local/direcplay, one over the internet for exemple).
Anyway there will never be over two transcode at the same time.
Secondly, when my new High End PC comes, it will then become a simple headless Plex Media Server and nothing else, not even connected to the TV anymore. Then it may handle a maximum of 3 client at a time, but not often (chances are extremely low that 3 devices stream 4K content with heavy transcoding at the same time)
So I am looking for a cheap build with low power consumption as it will stay on all the time.
I've tought about the following:
Case: BitFenix Prodigy M (lots of space for extra HDD ~89.95€)
Power Supply: FSP Hyper M 500 (Semi-Modular ~59.95€)
Processor: AMD FX 8320 Black Edition (3.5 GHz ~137.95€)
Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M LX3 (Micro-ATX ~56.95€)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8 Go DDR3 1600 MHz CL11 (~61,75€)
Craphic Card: MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050 TI AERO ITX 4G OC (~157.96€)
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120 Go (OS and PlexMediaServer ~62.95€)
HDD: Toshiba P300 2 To (For starters ~73.95€)
That makes a total of 638.46€, which is not that cheap... Do you think I could make it less expensive?
Thanks !
I would like to offer in my region where I live streaming services (identical to Netflix) and would like to use the premium Plex for this.
I wonder if this is viable and possible with Plex?
Could anyone tell me how I get the copyright of the series and movies to use on my plex server?
thank you!
ps. I live in Brazil
Hello everybody,
I am not sure, wheter I am in the right forum here, but I think some of you have a similar problem:
I have about 700 mkv files. Each worked fine once. Some of them are about 6 years old and copied from one HDD to another and finally found their way to my qnap where i have a RAID 5.
The problem I have is, that a lot of files have errors in it. I can watch nearly the full movie, but sometimes plex stopps and i have to skip 5, 10 or 20 seconds to continue the move. This is very annoying and I would like to have a little tool, too check all my mkvs for corruption.
I am hopefully, somone could help me here, because I couldn`t find anything with google (mkvverify by alexander Noe and mkv validiator didn't found any result)
Thank you very much
So I made a new tv show library for a folder with a mix of tv shows and movies. (I actually only had one movie in the folder at the time of doing this). I was surprised that plex found just the TV shows in this folder. I thought it would still add the movies as well.
I had to make a whole new movie library with the movie category pointing to this folder and it was finally able to pick up my movie.
Is there any way to merge the two categories into one.
Hi, the 2017 LG UJ7700 comes with WebOS 3.5 installed, but when I look through the LG catalog Plex does not show. I checked out the LG web store online and it says Plex works up to WebOS 3.0. Are there plans to update Plex for WebOS 3.5?
Hello, not so long ago I started working on PlexDash , which eventually became PlexDash v1.7.
Now, I have discontinued the development and rewrote the code.
Features:
Recent Movies(no need for third party software like PlexPY)
Image and Information caching through SQL(to speed up loading process and get rid of server load)
Server Status
Revamped Design
Dynamic content(users can add their own nav items and edit pages)
One config file(unlike the other version)
Requirements:
Plex Media Server
PHP & MySQL
Installation:
-upload the contents of plex_dash to your web folder
-chmod 777 /images
-rename config.php_new to config.php and open it
//your servername
$servername = "YOURSERVER";
//ad content password
$rpassword = "sample"; //used fo add_content.php
$host_s = '192.168.0.18'; //plex server - used for status script
$port = 32400; // port used for status script
$host = "SERVER+PORT"; //host+port - used for grabbing data off plex -
$token = "TOKENHERE"; //Plex Token - no need to explain what this is
$section_movies = "2"; // section id for movies
$section_music = "1";//section id for music
$server = "localhost"; //mysql server
$username = "user"; //mysql user
$password = "pass"; //mysql pass
$dbname = "yourdb"; //mysql db
-open up phpmyadmin or whatever you use for your sql server and run
dash_recently_added.sql
open up add_content.php and use $rpassword,then click proceed
voila, you are done
Screenshots
It is still a work in progress, but let me know what more features would you like.
[UPDATE V1.7]
Changelog: Restyled recent_shows.php - some might like it , some might not.
Restyled get_recently_added.php and added icons for media type.
Added IMDB Rating and Year Support for tv shows 
Installation: No configuration required - just drop all files in the /inc folder and hit REPLACE ALL. That's it!
Screenshots:
[UPDATE V1.6:]
Changelog: Added support for querying the show title.Displaying not only episode information , but show information as well.
THIS IS A SIMPLE UPDATE: JUST DROP the two files - recent_shows.php and show_info.php in the inc folder.No need for reconfiguring anything
SCREENSHOTS:
TV Show Information:
Episode information:
[UPDATE V1.5:]
Changelog:
Added ability to display recent TV Shows and Episodes
Added show_info.php script , to grab episode info and summary.
Rewrote config.php
Rewrote dash_config.php
Added ability to disable sections : Most Recent Content, Latest 5 Movies, Latest TV Shows & Episodes from dash_config.php(Set to TRUE for displaying or FALSE for disabling a specific section)
FOR THIS UPDATE YOU MUST reconfigure config.php and dash_config.php, the rest stays the same
And for the folks who want to use the TV SHOWS feature, grab a TVDB api. If you don't want the feature, you won;t have to.
INSTALLATION UPDATE:
Installation steps are the same , just reconfigure variables in config.php and dash_config.php
If you have this already installed just replace everything but the plex_db folder,otherwise you will have to configure plex_db as well, which I do not see a point in doing , since nothing is changed there.
SCREENSHOTS
[UPDATE V1.4]:
Changelog: Added youtube trailer support for recent_movies
Rewrote dash_config.php file for better handling of the configuration. No more issues with the server status.
If you just want to update, extract the files somewhere, set the variables in inc/dash_config.php and then copy them to plex_dash.
PS: If you didn't grab the previous updates, you gonna have to grab the whole plexdash_v1.4.zip file.
Screenshot: Trailer Support
[UPDATE V1.3]:
Changelog: Fixed Posters not showing if movies haven't been added lately. - recent_movies.php
Changing the count value may have solved the problem .but it creates a lot of load since it was requesting for an array of epic proportions. Now, I only queries the recently added movies by using section_id parameter.
You gonna have to find yours. Simple, go to plex, select a movie, view info, view xml and search for ""librarySectionID".
Open inc/config.php set the $section_id_movies to your library section id value.
example: librarySectionID="2" . this is how it should look like.
PS: If you downloaded the previous version(1.2), nothing is really changed. Simply download update_plexdash1.3.zip and extract it to the plex_dash folder. don't forget to set your plexpy url and api back in the new config.php file.
[UPDATE v1.2]:
Changelog: Revamped the stylesheet. White tables on dark backgrounds can tire the eyes
Rearanged the server status and now it;s on the top of the page, not on the bottom.
Added a small copyright line at the bottom of the page.
For thoes who already installed plex_dash. Just reedit the config.php file from /inc/ and also reedit index.php check_Server() function to match your server
For thoes who are new to this, instructions on how to install are bellow.
GitHub Page:https://github.com/alexanderthegreat96/plexdash
Hello. A while ago I was searching for a perfect plex landing page. I hardly found one ,but it was plain HTML so I decided to improve it. And I added scripts from users and even wrote three of my own and now I have decided to release it to the public.
This work is based on:
PlexRedirect : https://github.com/ITRav4/PlexRedirect
PLPP - Plex Library Presenter https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/218740/beta-release-php-library-presenter-for-plex-plpp-v0-8-beta
PlexPY (mostly the API): https://github.com/drzoidberg33/plexpy
PlexFeed v1.4 forums.plex.tv/discussion/221995/rel-plexfeed-whats-most-recent-php-script-v1-4#latest
Features:
-Beautiful Interface
-Easy Customization
-Easy Installation
Requirements:
-webserver to run php
-plexpy - https://github.com/drzoidberg33/plexpy
-phpgd and curl enabled on your PHP.ini
Installation:
Grab PlexPY and install it(link above)
chmod 777 /inc
chmod 777 /plex_db/config
chmod 777 /plex_db/cache
grab a plexpy api . Go to Settings > Access Control > check "enable API" and click "Generate". Copy The API to clipboard.
grab a tvdb api
open the following :
inc/config.php and provide the info
$apikey = "YOUR_PLEXPY_API_KEY";
$plexpy_url = "YOUR_PLEX_PY_URL"; //you may use ports as well ex: 192.168.1.33:8181 or whatever port you have it running on
$section_id_movies = ""; //section id. open up a movie in plex>get info>view xml find librarySectionID
$section_id_shows = "2"; //plex section id for tv shows may be 1.2.3.4.5.6 tec
$tvdb_api = "TV DB API";
inc/dash_config.php and provide the info
$servername = "[SERVERNAME]"; // server title
$home_www_addr = "http:/SERVER.COM"; //your domain name without "/"
$server_address = "http://plex.SERVERNAME.COM/"; //plex server address
$plex_requests_addr = "http://pr.SERVERNAME.COM"; // plex requests adress , youj may use ports as well
$plex_recently_addr_movies = "$home_www_addr/plex_dash/plex_db/index.php?item=1&type=library&filter=recentlyAdded";
$plex_recently_addr_music = "$home_www_addr/plex_dash/plex_db/index.php?item=3&type=library&filter=recentlyAdded";
$plexpy_addr = "http://plexpy.servername.com"; //plexpy adress , you mayh use ports as well
$plexdb_addr = "$home_www_addr/plex_dash/plex_db/"; //dont change this
$plex_description = "Over 500 movies, 20 TV Shows and plenty of music(147 artists).";
$user_mail = "mail@gmail.com"; //your mail
$server_ip = "'192.168.1.58'"; //example: "'plex.servername.com'" or "'192.168.2.554'"
//if plex is mapped to a specific domain ,user port 80
//if not, just specify your port set up for external access
$server_port = "32400"; //default plex port: 32400
//enable recent movies? - 5 Recent Movies
//SET TO TRUE OR FALSE
$enable_movies = TRUE;
//enable recent tv shows? - 5 Recent TV Shows
//SET TO TRUE OR FALSE
$enable_tvshows = TRUE;
//enable recently added? - Most Recent Content
//SET TO TRUE OR FALSE
$enable_added = TRUE;
plex_db/config/usersettings.json and provide info
"title": "[servername] - Media Library", //replace [servernname] with your servername
"admin_password": "yourpasswordhere", //just pick a password or leave it this way. in case you decide to edit the password,it will be required by plex_db/settings_deny.php. just in case you are too lazy to manually edit settings yourself
plex_db/config/plexserver.json and provide info
"useSSL": 0,
"server": "SERVERIP", //plex server IP
"scheme": "http",
"domain": "SERVERIP",// plex server ip OR domain
"port": 32400, //plex server port
"username": "plexuser", //plex.tv username
"password": "plexpass" //plex.tv password
plex_db/config/general.json and provide the info
"script_name": "[SERVERNAME] - Media Library", //replace [] with your servername
that's it. enjoy!
alexander d.
Big kudos to :
drzoidberg33
mlocher75
ITRay4
Screenshots:
DEMO: alexanderd.tk/plex_dash
DEMO 2.5 : http://alexanderd.ezyro.com/web_dash/
PS: PM FOR ISSUES AND ALSO SEND ME A LINK TO YOUR SITE, FOR I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEE YOU USED IT
HI all
I've installed plex, plexwmc, serverwmc on my windows 7 desktop. When i try to load any video on Channel > PlexWMC it gives the error: "Cannot load M3U8: 404 not found"
i've installed kodi and emby and it seems to work great with the serverwmc on the same machine. i would like to get my plexwmc working because its my preferred video service and i have a full subscription to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.