hi - I'm using a windows 10 desktop computer as my server that is LAN connected. My 3 TV's in the house have Roku Plex app - Everything is working great and have used filebot to name everything and having used Plex for weeks now, I love it but I wanted to ask about something that happened yesterday:

Occasionally, when watching a TV show episode, I will notice something about the file that I want to change. I will rip the episode from DVD again and re-encode it, name it the exact same, replace the file in the folder, but I usually have to do the plex dance, removing the folder from TV shows, clean trash, bundles , add the folder back, plex collects metadata and then everything works.......But with a particular TV show yesterday, when I did this (I removed the Mama's Family) tv show folder completely from the add folder section of TV shows in Plex, but the show remained - I even went to roku and all files/metadata are still there, and the show still plays on every episode as if it's still pointing to the drive , but it's not....I'm not sure how this is possible and I have never seen this behavior until now. I even replaced the episode and put it back in the folder on the drive, and plex recognized the change instantly - so that show continues to play perfectly fine when it shouldn't even be there? (confused) - Normally if I want to remove a TV show folder - I simply open the TV show library, delete the tv show, scan, plex notices and deletes it almost immediately - thenI clean trash/bundles and it's totally gone - Not this time.

As far as folder structure on my 3 TB drive - I have 4 folders One for movies, One for TV Shows, One for Music, and One for Misc. In the TV shows folder, it's structured so that when you open the main TV shows folder, you then see a list of all tv shows, when you open a particular tv show folder, you see all episodes listed (not separated folders by seasons) I realized that each season should have it's own folder AFTER the fact, but since this has always worked flawlessly, I have left it alone so I wouldn't have to do everything ALL over again. When I add a tv show to plex, I originally added them individually, not the entire TV show folder at once.

I also wanted to ask what to do if your internet goes out and you still want to watch plex? Thanks

Just installed Plex on my ATV4 -- looks great except for media with SRT subtitles. The subtitles for the same files work fine from the same PMS streamed to my Mac, Windows laptop, iPhone, and SimpleX -- just not in the new ATV Plex media player. The settings for the files show subtitles as being selected -- they just don't work.

I am hoping someone here can help with my issue. A little background of what I'm trying to accomplish. I am running a sports live streaming broadcast using Vmix streaming software and using the instant replay function within. Once a highlight has been captured, I want to export the file out of Vmix into a folder that Plex is pointing at and the video is automatically added to the server. The coaches on the benches will have iPad's synced with the server and can theoretically access that footage within minutes or even seconds of the play happening. Here is my issue. VMix only outputs instant replay files in MPG file format which turns out to be MPEG-PS Version 2 (file stats below). I can get Plex to see the files, but it will not play them. I receive a "Cannot load M3u8: 404 not found" error when trying to play within the web browser. When I try to optimize, I get an "invalid metadata" error. The iPad sees them as well, but will not play. I am running the latest 1.1.4.2757-24ffd60 server.

Any thoughts or ideas would be helpful. Thank you in advance.

Complete name : C:Replay.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 32.0 MiB
Duration : 10 s 0 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 26.8 Mb/s

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Duration : 10 s 0 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 25.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 60.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.452
Time code of first frame : 00:00:15:51
Time code source : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed : Open
Stream size : 29.5 MiB (92%)

Audio
ID : 189 (0xBD)-160 (0xA0)
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 9 s 980 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.83 MiB (6%)

I have had great success running PLEX on my QNAP. But every once in a while I have to restart my plex server. My clients just stop seeing it. Internal and external to my network. I never had this issue when it was running on my PC. I simply login to my QNAP app manager and restart the PLEX server app. Then i am good for about 2-3 weeks. it is random. I have latest PLEX version and QNAP firmware. tho... I did just take a QNAP firmware upgrade. I will see if it repeats with that change. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this?

Also, the Category dropdown on this forum would not let me pick QNAP and a topic.

Dear WD & Plex Community

My big problem is that I can not connect my WD PR 4100 with Plex!
I have on the WD the latest software drauf 1142757!

If I want to add my media library from the PR 4100 he does not find the WD!
(I have the Plex application installed on my Windows 10 computer and there he finds only the hard disk C unfortunately not the PR 4100
) "
I find the PR 4100 within the network not and also not outside the network!

I urge you for help

My home network consists of
modem
Switch 24 compartments from Netgear
PC Win 10 where the Plex program is installed
And a modem where port 32400 is enabled for Plex

Sorry my English is not so good - I use the Google Translate tool

Plex is not finding a TV series loaded to the appropriate library. However, it did find the series loaded the series in the movie library where it should not belong.

OpenFLIXR 1.5.0

OpenFLIXR Media Server (OpenFLIXR in short) is an all-in-one media server for downloading and serving virtually any kind of media you can think of. On the one side we have incredible useful tools to download media like CouchPotato, SickRage and Headphones, on the other side we have Plex Media Server to bring everything to your screens. Be it tablets, TVs, PCs, you name it. Everything is web based, including monitoring and management tools.

It will auto-update to keep everything running smooth and is preconfigured with sensible defaults. To be able to use OpenFLIXR, you’ll need a hypervisor like VirtualBox (Open Source), VMWare Fusion / Workstation / Player / ESXi, Parallels Desktop, KVM / unRAID or Microsoft Hyper-V.

It’s ready to go in a couple of minutes!

Get more info and download at http://www.openflixr.com

OpenFLIXR Online Update - Changelog 1.5.0

To update from 1.x to 1.5.0

    Login to console or SSH
    Execute sudo updateopenflixr and enter your password
    System will reboot when done

OpenFLIXR is considered stable at this point & landing page is done for now.

I’ve begun work on better Mopidy support and everything related (this is some unexpected complicated stuff :S) and automatic backups.

Focus will also be the web wizard and other (requested) features. (besides bugfixes when discovered)

• New: converted landing page into a Github repo (updates will automatically install)

• New: LazyLibrarian (/librarian, service, auto-updated, monit, will place books in /mnt/books (so add this mount) and will automatically be picked up by uBooquity!) Uses port 5299 if you want to add it to server monitor.

• Updated: perfected the landing page and added a “Now showing” feature. This will pull information from your Plex library via PlexPy and IMDB for the latest added 6 movies. The only requirement is you connect your PMS in Plexpy.
• Fixed: humongous bug where packages wouldn’t be installed and hung update process with updateopenflixr, regression fixes applied
• Fixed: log spamming extraordinaire
• Fixed: Monit wouldn’t start in certain conditions
• Fixed: security hardening
• Fixed: a lot of misc things (packages being hold back, really really fixed interactive prompts, more autoupdated packages, amongst other things)
• Improved: time drifting, for this to be more reliable, you have to disable time sync from your hypervisor. Everything else is done from OpenFLIXR. Let me know how this works out for you.
• Addendum: fixplexrequest works as long as you refresh the API key in Plexrequest but do not submit it

OpenFLIXR Web Wizard Update - Changelog 1.2

Web Wizard updates are automatically installed at boot time.
So when you (re)boot OpenFLIXR you will get the latest version.

• Plexrequest Sickrage/Sonarr fixed where they were both activated resulting in not functioning
  Can’t find another solution than disabling Sonarr in plexrequest where you have to enable it yourself with the correct info.
  When you go for the recommended and default Sickrage, there is nothing changed.

• Fixed 504 ‘Gateway Timed Out’ at finishing setup, now gives you a nice countdown

• Fixed rare condition where someone would enter non IP addresses in ‘static’ and switch back to dhcp, resulting in corrupted network settings
• Some cleanup and visual changes

• A small fix where you can't choose your own DNS server from now on.
  See release notes of OpenFLIXR Online Update 1.1.7

• Fixed: network settings were not always applied

• Fixed: letsencrypt settings were not always applied
• Password validation improved
• Updates to stay in sync with online update version
• Miscellaneous small stuff

So, the first of us already received their MCPs.. How do they perform? Are 4 transcode realistic? How snappy is the server itself?

Hi
I am thinking of upgrading my Win 10 Machine to Windows Server 2012.
I currently have 2 Disks, 1 is for the OS and 1 for the Media

I am thinking of upgrading the OS to Win Server 2012, so it means i will wipe Windows 10 from the machine totally!

What is going to be the best method to keep all my App Data safe?
The Media will stay in the same place, but i will be have a new OS!

Once Windows Server 2012 has been installed, i will setup Hyper V and create a VM for the Plex Server and install Windows 10 on it.
Should i expect any performance impact on streaming or not?

Please advise on what you recommend - Especially on the migration from 10 to server 2012. Please Note this is the one server and not a new server. so install server 2012 over windows 10!

Bonjour à tous,

J'ai découvert depuis très peu l'utilisation de Plex et me réjouissait d'avance de pouvoir lire des vidéos stockées sur mon PC, sur ma TV. Malheureusement, il y a toujours quelques petits soucis qui nous gâchent ce plaisir, et c'est là que j'ai besoin de VOUS, experts de Plex, afin de m'aider à profiter pleinement des joies qu'apportent ce petit bijou :D !

Mon problème est le suivant :
1- J'ai installé Plex sur mon PC, mon smartphone ainsi que sur ma box TV (Miami Box).
2- Lorsque je lis une vidéo sur mon téléphone portable, aucun soucis, j'ai le son et l'image synchronisés.
3- Quand je veux lire une vidéo sur ma TV, par contre, j'ai le son, mais la première image affichée se fige et reste à l'écran. Du coup, j'ai que le son qui évolue :/ ...

Pour info, mon PC, box internet et box tv sont tous reliés en ethernet. Mon téléphone portable lui communique via la WIFI.

Je vous remercie d'avance pour le temps que vous prendrez afin de m'aider à résoudre mon soucis ...
Bonne journée à vous,

Fabien

The title says it all. I have three Roku- Roku 4, Roku 3, Roku 2 (and a Nexus). Everything plays fine on all units, but the scrolling of posters (on deck, newly added, etc) StuTtErS instead of scrolling smoothly. It stutters regardless of whether the posters are scrolling left or right. EVERYTHING else is fine. I'm guessing this is a side effect of the channel/plug-in NOT being optimized to run on the Roku 4. Anyone else experience this?

Sub-Zero - Subtitles done right

Current version: 1.3.49.636

Questions? Have a look at the wiki first

Introduction

Hey there,

Some of you may have followed the recent development on the original Subliminal.bundle by @bramwalet.

I've made some serious changes, improvements and bugfixes to Subliminal.bundle during the last few weeks, with the help of some very nice people such as @PMAdmin, @chopeta, @BlueToxic and others.

As the direction of this project has moved a long way, I thought it was time to evolve from simply being a personal fork of Subliminal.bundle to something more dedicated.

Plugin Description

Sub-Zero aims to solve your subtitle problems by automatically downloading the hopefully best subtitles there are, for your individual video file.

Subtitles are a problem? Yep, they definitely are. I myself use this plugin on a daily basis as my wife has a serious hearing condition where subtitles help us to be able to watch our favourite TV series and movies together. Subtitles pose a generic struggle: matching your media file perfectly. This is as hard as it gets. Thankfully there are a bunch of libraries and services out there, that help with that.

Sub-Zero is far from being perfect, but with recent development and planned features, we're really getting there.

Its core is based on the works of Diaoul, who created the subliminal library, as well as enzyme, to parse MKV metadata. In addition to that Sub-Zero uses the extremely well-made guessit library made by wackou.

Sub-Zero still is under heavy development but has recently reached a stable state. I need you to report bugs and tell me your opinion on new features.

It currently supports the following subtitle providers:

• Addic7ed (TV)

• opensubtitles (TV, movies)

• Podnapisi (TV, movies)
• TVsubtitles.net (TV)
• The SubDB (TV, movies)

Automatic Installation

• Sub-Zero now is listed in the official Plex Channel Directory. You can install it from there.

Downloads

Stable (when in doubt, use this one)

Current version: https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle/releases/latest
Legacy versions: https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle/releases

Develop

Release candidate: https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle/archive/master.zip
Bleeding edge (development): https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle/archive/develop.zip

Repository

https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle

Manual Installation

• go to Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/

• remove old versions (rm -r Sub-Zero.bundle)

• get the current version from here
• unpack it
• restart your plex media server!

Usage

• go to Settings -> Server -> Agents -> Movies/TV Shows

• select the metadata provider you use on your library, e.g.: Freebase (movies) or TheTVDB (series)

• enable Sub-Zero Subtitles (TV/Movies)
• configure them
• refresh your library (or individual movies/TV shows)

Use the following agent order:

1. Sub-Zero Subtitles (TV/Movies)
2. Local Media Assets (TV/Movies)
3. anything else

Documentation:

https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero/blob/master/README.md

Nice new shiny wiki

https://github.com/pannal/Sub-Zero.bundle/wiki

Beer is good on my free time (which is spent on Sub-Zero)

If you like this, why not buy me a beer:

Changelog

1.3.49.636

• core/menu: fix force refreshing (again)

• core/menu: fix redundant route calls

1.3.49.630

This release fixes some encoding issues and backports some features from the work-in-progress 1.4 branch.

• core/menu: make addic7ed boost configurable; lower the default boost value massively (to 10)

• core: fix force refreshing (hopefully)

• core: add (thai) tis-620 subtitle encoding support
• menu: lower letter based menu browsing from 200 to 80 items
• core: support greek encodings (windows-1253, cp1253, cp737, iso8859_7, cp875, cp869, iso2022_jp_2, mac_greek); hopefully fixes badly saved greek subs
• menu: add generic back-to-home button to the top of every container view
• menu: warn the user when SZ isn't enabled for any sections/libraries
• menu: always re-check permissions status and enabled sections when opening the main menu; no server restart necessary anymore

older changes

Hello,

I've got PMS (1.1.4.2757) running on a Synology DS216Play (latest) and it works mostly fine. However, I can't seem to delete playlists. The playlists are imported via an iTunes XML. Somehow, most playlists are doubled, showing both a newer and older version. I figured I just delete them all and redo the import, hoping everything will work out.

Unfortunately I can't seem to delete playlists. I get the message "there was a problem deleting the playlist". I tried restarting PMS, rebooting the Synology, enabling 'Allow media deletion', 'Optimize database', however, to no avail.

Anyone any thoughts on how to fix this. I'd rather not reinstall PMS as reindexing will take quite some time.

Thanks in advance and kind regards, Maarten

I have been spending the last few weeks working on an Amazon Echo app to create a voice interface to Plex.

You can do simple queries, like "what's on deck," but far more interestingly you can actually request a particular show or episode to start playing on your Plex client.

Here's a demonstration video of the first proof of concept:

I've been doing a lot more work since then, and now have support for playing a specific episode, confirming the show if Alexa is unsure that she heard you right, and a random high-rated (top 10%) episode.

I'll be creating a new demo video once I get all of my 1.0 features in, and then it'll be on to multi-user support so that this can actually be published and made available on the Alexa app store.

UPDATE 1/20/2016

Great news for Plex and Amazon Echo fans alike!! I am going to be working directly with Plex to make an official Alexa Plex skill, which will be totally streets ahead.

With this partnership we'll be able to make this much more than I could have alone. Keep your eyes peeled to Plex's official channels for news when it's ready

After clicking on a movie in my library (which should result in playback or showing of the moviesheet), the metadata gets updated.

After the metadata is updated (no visible changes in the data or images) this particular item can be clicked on for a day or so, without being updated.

A day (or a few days) later it starts over again, and the metadata is updated again.

It only seems to happen with movies, not tv shows.

Depending in which player I am using, it results in a long loading time or even a time out.

- Plex Web App; it results in a long loading time (the update has to be finished and processed) but eventually the moviesheet is shown (or the movie plays).

- aTV 3 (plexconnect); this results in a time out, going back with the 'menu' button of the aTV and selecting the item again usually works as a workaround.

Issue/question:

I would really like to know why the metadata gets downloaded/refreshed everytime I click an item, because this results in a time out/server unreachable at the aTV (plexconnect).

When there is no metadata to be downloaded (so when I try again after the update), there are no issues with the aTV and it shows the moviesheet instantly. Therefor I really expect it to be the PMS who is the cause of the time out/unreachable.

Why does PMS do this? I do not need the update everytime I click an item, periodically update or automatic update upon changes would be fine for me?

And if this update is needed for PMS, is there a way around this time out?

Setup:

PMS (0.9.12.3)

Agents: The movie database (and that is the only plugin which I have checked)

Update library automatically is ticked

Partial scan is not ticked

Update library regularly is not ticked

Synology (DS213, DSM 5.2)

I know this is a slow server, but all media has been converted to mp4/m4v, so no transcoding is needed. Playback is good, so no problems with that.

Tried workarounds:

Changing the settings in the library, so not updating automatically or doing a partial scan. I have tried all combinations, not having any effect on my problem.

Changing the metadata agents, this resulted in a complete refresh of the library, but after that was finished it started over again. Also cleaned and optimized the database.

Selecting an item in my library (metadata is already there and it is correct, as are the posters)

[attachment=51096:Step 1 - selecting item.png]

The page starts loading and at the bottom you see it is updating and processing the metadata

[attachment=51097:Step 2 - metadata update.png]

After it is finished it shows the moviesheet, with (at first sight) the same metadata and posters

[attachment=51098:Step 3 - Moviesheet result (same as before the update).png]

1.0.2.1

NEW: Library and Channel groups are aggregated from all known servers, instead of just the active server
NEW: Filter buttons and dialogs can be used with a remote control
NEW: Audio and subtitle stream selection dropdowns can be used with a remote control
NEW: The DEL key acts as a key accelerator for deleting media
NEW: Music transcoding uses new Plex Media Server transcoder
NEW: Ability to Direct Play mpeg/mpeg2video/ac3 video
NEW: Servers Page allows editing and deleting any type of server
NEW: Channel Store icon looks more like a store icon

FIX: Crash pressing stop from remote control or media keys (worked around Player Framework bug)
FIX: Crash when selecting different audio or subtitle streams very quickly
FIX: Crash refreshing Channel Store page
FIX: Library section page progress bars could run indefinitely after refreshing or selecting filters
FIX: Music player progress bar could run indefinitely when double-clicking on track
FIX: Dialogs with text boxes should focus on first text box even if app is in remote control mode
FIX: Reduced OnDeck elements to 6 instead of 8 at 1080p
FIX: OnDeck elements without art should display some image
FIX: Both ChPg Up and Down now do the same thing: toggle the app bar
FIX: F5 now works as expected in Servers page
FIX: Channel Store subpages refresh as expected, have a standard app bar, and display progress bars
FIX: Media Info dialog always displays detailed metadata even if pre-play page hasn't finished loading
FIX: Popup dialogs should close when a page is refreshed
FIX: Stop stealing keypresses when flyouts are open
FIX: Music player no longer displays longer duration when reaching end of track
FIX: Video player should hide the pause button when media fails

Known Issues:
[HTTP Live Streaming] AC-3 and MP3 are not supported
[Video] Video may glitch when alt-tabbing in and out of the app [Microsoft Media Foundation issue]
[Video] Selecting subtitles always triggers a transcode [Microsoft Media Foundation issue]
[Video] MKV containers, DTS audio, FLAC music are not supported for Direct Play [Microsoft Media Foundation issue]
[PlayTo] Using Xbox 360 as a PlayTo target can be very slow [Microsoft Xbox issue]
[Remote Control] Most navigation commands don't work yet [WinRT issue]
[Remote Control] Remote control won't work if the client's active server is on the same machine as the Plex app [Microsoft sandboxing issue]

1.0.2.0
NEW: Support playing multi-part media
NEW: Support playback-related remote control actions from other Plex clients (off by default)
NEW: Faster seeking with HTTP Live Streaming
NEW: Support Direct Play of E-AC-3 audio streams
NEW: Preference to enable Direct Play of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 content (requires Windows Media Center Pack)
NEW: Separate preferences for max local resolution when Direct Playing / Streaming and when transcoding
NEW: Preference to make all Home Page groups optional
NEW: Preference to disable conservative network behavior when on metered or roaming network
NEW: Improved Media Info popup with: remux guesses, transcode reasons, network location, XML text, multi-part fixes, etc.
NEW: Scroll position in grid views is now preserved when going back to a page
NEW: Home page channels group is now sorted by last access
NEW: The active server can now be set inactive on the Servers page
NEW: Hidden option to force video Direct Play (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P from pre-play page)
NEW: Deprecated preferences for transcode protocol, alternate video player seek method
NEW: Update Microsoft Player Framework to v1.1
NEW: Plex Media Server 0.9.7.14 is strongly recommended (0.9.7.12 is required)

FIX: Paused transcode sessions no longer time out
FIX: First few frames no longer play again when stopping video playback
FIX: Various HTTP Live Streaming hangs and crashes
FIX: Playback of channel video requiring an internal web proxy (Comedy Central, Apple Movie Trailers)
FIX: Seeking with Comedy Central channel video content
FIX: Automatic audio stream selection now prefers multi-channel AC-3 over stereo AAC
FIX: Mouse cursor in middle of video screen no longer prevents media controls from disappearing
FIX: Entire UI now updates correctly when video is played, marked watched/unwatched, deleted, etc.
FIX: Video heads-up display now shows duration for various channels
FIX: Music player button glitches in snapped mode
FIX: Music player position resets to zero when loading new content
FIX: Music player wasn't progressing to next track under certain conditions
FIX: Music player play/pause button could be incorrect when music was paused outside the player
FIX: Music player had some unhealthy interactions with TV show theme music
FIX: Channel store pages are now fully accessible using a remote control
FIX: Keyboard shortcuts didn't always work when playing video
FIX: Back mouse button now closes appbar when open, instead of going back directly
FIX: Crash when cancelling a channel search dialog box
FIX: Rare crash starting up when active server is unavailable
FIX: Rare crash when paging channel content
FIX: Inaccessible media is now detected correctly when a video is launched from On Deck
FIX: Display correct media flags in video pre-play pages
FIX: Resuming a video pre-play page no longer loses artwork
FIX: Resuming paged library collections now works correctly
FIX: Incremental loading could display out of order items for a short period of time
FIX: Error messages from pages where the user already navigated away
FIX: Flash/Silverlight content in Queue is now detected reliably
FIX: Correctly detect servers that can't transcode
FIX: Use the active server's transcoder when playing remote content from a server that can't transcode
FIX: Rare error messages when attempting a transcode against a capable local server
FIX: Timeline reports will no longer go out to remote servers not owned by the user
FIX: Video heads-up display no longer changes if preferences change during video playback
FIX: Many other small fixes and improvements

 1.0.1.9
 FIX: Aspect ratio was incorrect when resuming an HLS transcode
 FIX: Don't transcode music when video preference disables Direct Play
 FIX: Playing a second music playlist didn't work
 FIX: Don't display skip back/ahead buttons when loading video
 FIX: App could crash if user alt-tabs at precise moment a message dialog is being displayed

1.0.1.8
NEW: Use HTTP Live Streaming as default transcode format
NEW: App bar and popup dialogs can now be navigated with cursor keys and remote controls
NEW: Preference for Direct Play vs a higher-resolution transcodes
NEW: Advanced preference to display selection caret by default, instead of on first keypress
NEW: Display information about current transcode in application bar during video playback
NEW: Media information popup in video pre-play pages
NEW: Subtitle combo box now displays subtitle format, in addition to language
NEW: Added buttons and keyboard accelerators for video skip/replay
NEW: Plex Media Server version 0.9.7.12 is now required
NEW: Subtitle burning is now much more reliable

FIX: Play the selected audio stream when Direct Playing
FIX: Selecting None as the subtitle option didn't always work
FIX: Mouse cursor now disappears when playing video
FIX: Go back to previous page when video playback ends
FIX: On Deck items now display resume button icon when appropriate
FIX: Music player progress bar now advances  when page is revisited
FIX: Initial server test dialog now re-discovers local servers if necessary
FIX: Initial server test dialog now reconnects to myPlex if necessary
FIX: Pick up server friendly name changes when testing a server
FIX: RTMP videos in queue now play correctly
FIX: Skipping with high bitrate video when Direct Playing
FIX: Media flags now display correctly for content from myPlex
FIX: Season page crash when refreshed
FIX: Disable seeking when playing content that requires Flash/Silverlight
FIX: Updated Microsoft Smooth Streaming Client SDK to 1.0.130111

1.0.1.5
NEW: support Direct Play for non-streaming video files (AVI, unoptimized MP4)
NEW: support Direct Play for Apple Movie Trailers
NEW: skip/seek/resume now works much, much better with Direct Play content
NEW: support for PlayTo contract (works great with WMP, not so great with Xbox 360)
NEW: support Windows Media Center remote controls
NEW: support TV show theme music
NEW: preferences are now broken into nice sub-sections
NEW: preference for online video resolution and quality
NEW: preference for subtitle size
NEW: preference for audio boost
NEW: ability to enqueue channel videos
NEW: ability to mark library videos watched or unwatched
NEW: ability to rate library videos
NEW: ability to delete library videos
NEW: support auto-paging for channels that page
NEW: F5 refreshes all pages, F12 returns to main page

FIX: only pull content from active server (makes main page a bit more deterministic)
FIX: iTunes music will now Direct Play instead of transcoding
FIX: detect and warn about obsolete channel media
FIX: open the appbar automatically when a video ends
FIX: changing search category now scrolls results back to beginning
FIX: search results now show source server
FIX: search items now correctly display images when connected to inactive server
FIX: main page now displays a sad face when no content is available

1.0.1.0
NEW: search function
NEW: channel store
NEW: MPEG-2 TS transcode format, supporting remuxing for most h264 video (experimental)
NEW: audio and subtitle stream selection for video (subtitles only work when transcoding)
NEW: improved keyboard accessibility, with shortcuts for most important functionality
NEW: release requires Plex Media Server 0.9.7.8 or higher

FIX: corrected video buffering when transcoding using Smooth Streaming
FIX: inability to connect to server on same machine as client
FIX: improved reliability of server discovery
FIX: simplified video resolution and quality preferences
FIX: video resolution and quality preferences default to more conservative values
FIX: highest resolution is now chosen when transcoding video with multiple resolutions
FIX: don't attempt to direct-play file types that don't stream correctly (e.g. avi, mp4 sans early moov atom)
FIX: display warning in video pre-play page when file is unavailable
FIX: buttons now have tooltips (displaying keyboard shortcuts, resume times, etc.)
FIX: crashes if client couldn't talk to server during filter application
FIX: music player repeat button glitches
FIX: music player text wrapping
FIX: main page will refresh itself more reliably when the active server changes
FIX: main page will display server name subtitles for library/channel items when connected to remote server
FIX: touch issues on servers page
FIX: added clarifying text to empty servers page when no servers found
FIX: manually added connections can now be deleted
FIX: overwrite discovered connections whose IP addresses change (e.g. due to DHCP)
FIX: display underlying network error when new connection cannot be established
FIX: many small UI bugs and other issues

1.0.0.0
First official release

This metadata agent should be used with the Extended Personal Media Scanner found here. See the instructions on this page for installing the scanner.

This is a Metadata Agent for personal media files. It works in conjunction with the Extended Personal Media Scanner to scan personal media shows. The meta data agent sets the summary details on the episode. The agent expects the files to follow the naming conventions for personal media that are outlined in the Plex documentation.

Date-numbered shows

One major difference between the Extended Media Shows scanner and the Plex Series Scanner is that the Extended Media Shows scanner creates episode numbers for all of the date-based media. This results in it being sorted correctly in all Plex user interfaces. The episode number is the day of the year in which the episode is dated plus the optional index value. If an index value is not specified then a one (1) is automatically appended to the end of the episode number.

Plex date-based naming standard:

/Home Movies
   /Christmas
      /2010
         Christmas - 2010-01-06 - Getting Ready.m4v
         Christmas - 01-07-2010 - Getting Ready.m4v
         Christmas - 2010-12-24 - Stuffing_the_Stockings.m4v
         Christmas.12-25-2010.Christmas.Morning.m4v

Additional supported formats:

If the season title is specified it should go in the season description. Right now this is not working. I'm looking into why this failing.

/Home Movies
   /Christmas
      /2010
         2010-01-06 - Getting Ready.m4v
         12-24 - Stuffing the Stockings.m4v

      /2011 - Season title
         2011-01-06 - Some.title.m4v
         12-24 - Some_other_title.m4v

The above example would result in a show with Christmas as the show title. The season number, episode number and episode title would be parsed from the names.

Unstructured format:

Additionally the scanner and metadata agent also support unstructured content as well. What this means is that you could put all of your files in the same folder as long as the file name format looks like the following:

/Home Movies
   /Holidays
      /Christmas - 2011-12-25 - Getting Ready.m4v
      /Christmas - 2010-12-24 - Santa Claus.m4v
   /Birthdays
      /Grandma - 2010-02-24 - Grandma's 77th birthday party.m4v
      /Grandma - 2008-02-24 - Grandma's 75th birthday party.m4v

The above example would result in shows with Christmas and Grandma as the show titles. The season number, episode number and episode title would be parse from the names.

Multiple episodes/shows on the same day:

With this plug-in it is possible to have multiple shows on the same date. An example of where this might be used in storing multiple NFL games in a directory with the same date. The Plex Series Scanner will see these as the same episode and will give them the same episode title. The Extended Personal Media scanner and agent allow the user to specific an index number after the date to specify that the episode is different. This results in Plex showing the episode with the appropriate title.

/Sports
   /NFL
      /2013
         01-06_1 - Patriots Vs Giants.m4v
         01-06_2 - Houston Vs Minnesota.m4v
         2013-01-06_3 - Oakland Vs St. Lious.m4v

In the example of above three separate episode would be created in Plex and each with their own name.

Episode-number based shows

Plex episode-based naming standard:

/Home Movies
   /Christmas
      /2010
         Christmas - s2010e0106 - Getting Ready.m4v
         Christmas - s2010e0225 - Stuffing the Stockings.m4v
         Christmas - s2010e1225 - Christmas Morning.m4v

Additional supported formats:

If the season title is specified it should go in the season description. Right now this is not working. I'm looking into why this failing.

/Home Movies
   /Christmas
      /2010
         s2010e01 - Getting Ready.m4v
         e02 - Another episode.m4v
      /2011 - Season title
         s2010e01 - Getting Ready.m4v

The above example would result in a show with Christmas as the show title. The season number, episode number and episode title would be parsed from the names.

Episodes that contain episode release dates:

The following shows the different supported directory/file formats that are supported by the plug-in.

/Home Movies
    /NFL - s2015e01 - 2015-12-31 - Minnesota vs Green Bay.mp4
    /NFL - s2015e02 - 12-31-2015 - Detroit vs Tampa Bay.mp4
    /NFL
       /s2015e03 - 2015-12-31 - New England vs New York Jets.mp4
       /s2015e04 - 12-31-2015 - San Francisco vs Seattle.mp4
       /s2015
          /e05 - 2015-12-31 - Arizona vs Dallas.mp4
          /e06 - 12-31-2015 - New York Giants vs Philadelphia.mp4
       /e07 - 2015-12-31 - Cincinnati vs Pittsburgh.mp4
       /e08 - 12-31-2015 - Episode Title.mp4

The above example would result in a show with NFL as the show title. The season number, episode number, episode release date and episode title would be parsed from the names. The example shows 8 episodes specified above each would show up having the release date of 12-31-2015 in Plex.

/Home Movies
   /Holidays
      /Christmas - s2010e01 - Getting Ready.m4v
   /Vacations
      /Italy - s2010e01 - Getting Ready.m4v

The above example would result in shows with Christmas and Italy as the show titles. The season number, episode number and episode title would be parsed from the names.

Using Chapter instead of Season:

Additionally the plugin supports using "Chapter" and "C" instead of "Season" and "S" (case is ignored). Note: the word "Season" would still be used in the Plex user interface and cannot be changed by the metadata agent plugin.

/College Classes
   /Physics 101
      Physics 101 - c1e1 - First chapter.m4v
      Physics 101 - c1e2 - 2nd chapter.m4v
      /C2
         e1 - Some notes.m4v
         e2 - Some more notes.m4v
      /Chapter3
         e1 - Something else.m4v
         e2 - Something more.m4v
         e3 - Something real.m4v

The above example would result in 7 episodes being added under three seasons with a show name of "Physics 101".

Show summaries

Show summaries can be added to media files in Plex by creating a file with the show name and a ".summary" extension somewhere within the directory path of your media file that you want to add the summary to. It is important to note that the show summary file found will be used as the summary information for the show.

There are two formats supported for show summary files:

• [Show title].summary where [Show title] is the name of your show that you want the summary information to be added to
• show.summary

Example media file:

/Media Root/Show title/Show title - 2010-02-02 - Some title.mp4

Summary file:

/Media Root/Show title/Show title.summary

Episode summaries

Episode summaries can be added to media files in Plex by creating a file with the same name and a ".summary" extension in the same directory as the media file you want to add the summary to.

Example media file:

Show title - 2010-02-02 - Some title.mp4

Summary file:

Show title - 2010-02-02 - Some title.summary

Download and source

Download: https://bitbucket.org/mjarends/extendedpersonalmedia-agent.bundle/get/master.zip

Source: https://bitbucket.org/mjarends/extendedpersonalmedia-agent.bundle/src

Installation

• Unzip the downloaded ZIP file, this gives you a file/folder with the name ExtendedPersonalMedia-Agent.bundle-master. Rename the folder to ExtendedPersonalMedia-Agent.bundle
•  
  • Mac
    • Move ExtendedPersonalMedia-Agent.bundle to ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins. The easiest way to find this folder is to use the Go to folder... option in the Go menu of the Finder.
      ~ is your home folder. If you can't find your Library folder, have a look at OS X Lion: Where did my Library go?
  • Windows
    • Move ExtendedPersonalMedia-Agent.bundle to the Plug-ins folder: right-click the Plex Media Server icon in the system tray and open the Plug-ins folder
      
  • Linux (Ubuntu)
    • Move ExtendedPersonalMedia-Agent.bundle to /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins
    • cd "/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins"
    • sudo chown -R plex:plex ExtendedPersonalMedia-Agent.bundle
• Restart Plex Media Server (this is optional)
     - On Mac and Windows: just quit and start again
     - On Linux (Ubuntu): sudo service plexmediaserver restart
• In the Plex/Web application go to Settings > Server > Agents > Shows > Extended Personal Media Shows. Ensure that the Local Media Assets (TV) agent is checked and showing in the list (see the screen capture). The Local Media Assets is needed to add subtitle or metadata attributes from the files to your media.
  

• In Plex/Web (the media manager), create a new "TV Shows" section and select Extended Personal Media Shows  from the Agent dropdown menu (under Advanced Options).

Plug-in Logs Location

This section details the plug-in log file and location on the different operating systems. Please send this log file to me so that I can perform additional analysis.

Plug-in log file name: com.arendshome.plex.agents.personalmedia.log

The following shows where the PMS Plugin Logs directory is on the different operating systems.

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/PMS Plugin Logs
• Windows: C:\Users\<USER NAME>\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Logs\PMS Plugin Logs
• Linux: Open /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins

Change Log:

4/4/2015: Updated plug-in to fix issue with plug-in using the wrong parsed meta data within Plex due to the multi-threading of the metadata agents

5/29/2015: Added support for the following formats:

• \Show Title - s2012e09 - 2015-12-31 - Episode Title.mp4
• \Show Title - s2012e09 - 12-31-2015 - Episode Title.mp4
• Show Title\s2012e09 - 2015-12-31 - Episode Title.mp4
• Show Title\s2012e09 - 12-31-2015 - Episode Title.mp4
• Show Title\s2015\e09 - 2015-12-31 - Episode Title.mp4
• Show Title\s2015\e09 - 12-31-2015 - Episode Title.mp4
• Show Title\e09 - 2015-12-31 - Episode Title.mp4
• Show Title\e09 - 12-31-2015 - Episode Title.mp4

Ciao a tutti,
ho finalmente connesso in rete pc, samsung smart tv e ipad
Pensavo facilmente di poter poi controllare il televisore con l'applicazione dell'ipad e invece non mi trova la televisione come lettore disponibile
Ho configurato il televisore con il plex.tv/pin, dal televisore riesco a navigare sul server però non riesco a controllarlo da remoto

Ho acquistato l'applicazione per ipad però non mi viene inserito tra i lettori disponibili??
Sul televisore è installata la versione 2.005 di plex

Qualcuno riesce ad aiutarmi?
Grazie
Roby

Hi all,
First time poster so please let me know if I am not following the proper procedure.
I have assembled a low powered Freenas mainly to consolidate all my media files (TV shows, Movies and Photos). The hardware is low spec with:
• AMD Athlon 5150 Kabini Quad-Core APU @1.6 GHz
• 8GB of DDR3 ram.
• 2 x 3TB Toshiba HDD (mirror)
My Plex client is a Window 10 HTPC:
• Intel Core i5 3550 + 8GB DDR3 ram
I judged that it would be more than capable of handling streaming my video files.

Most of my movies are in .mkv format. Quickly noticed that I could not fast forward, skip nor rewind the video during playback. After some research I realized that it was not an isolated issue and found many posts online from people with the same struggle. An easy fix built in PMS was often referred to: Optimized Versions.

I started with one file as a test shrinking it from 1080p at 8mbps (approx. 5GB) to 720p at 2mbs (approx. 2GB). Launching the movie on my Plex client, I was delighted at how smoothly it played (didn’t care much about the loss in image quality). Then it just stopped! I was sent back to the Library page before the credits started rolling. I check my network and saw no interruption in bandwidth. Looking again at the files, I then realized that the duration of the latter was 10 min shorter than the former - meaning that the end of the video was actually missing from the optimized version.

I ran another test with a different file for control. I optimized the larger file (8GB) with the same settings leading to an even bigger discrepancy in duration between original and optimized: 2 hours against 44 minutes. After now several attempts on half a dozen files and with several different optimization settings, the result is still the same: the Optimized version is always shorter in length than the original video. I have also tried to restart the plugin, remove and reinstall it with no luck.

It has been impossible for me to figure out what could possibly be going wrong.
1. Has anyone ever encountered this issue before?
2. Could the problem be caused by my hardware? – during optimization the load on the APU reaches close to 100%
3. Is there a known fix someone could help me with?
Thank you

Hi,
Using Plex Media Server version 1.1.4.2757-24ffd60 on Windows 10 x64 (1607), Plex fails to start up: tray icon comes up for a second then disappears, process is not running, and logs show nothing useful (only found in %localappdata%).
This started a week ago, with a previous PMS version (don't know that's version), since then I've updated it to the one mentioned before.

Since then I've tried:
1. Repairing installation from Programs and features
2. Uninstall, reinstall
3. Uninstall, remove Plex %localappdata% folder and HKCU registry entries, Reinstall (after reinstall, registry entries are not there)
4. Tried starting up with normal user and later with elevated rights as well
Nothing seems to work, and as it seems to me as a completely clean install I have no idea what else could I do.

Checked:

• no other program blocks the given ports (32400/32401)

• the logs in %localappdata% shows nothing interesting:

  • The first log shows a db init error with missing tables, columns and indexes, but after the first run, I've checked the db file with an sqlite browser, the given objects now are there.

  • The next (any following startup) logs show nothing useful

• The crashlogs folder is empty

I've attached the install and the first and the next logs.
Could you please take a look at it?
Thanks,
Peter