My files are all named according to my scheme. I'm not renaming them using filebot. All I need to know is, for example: In PLEX there is a metadata field "studio", which corresponding tag from ID3 map to it? And then, of course, I'd like to get a complete mapping of all fields and tags. This way I can rewrite the ID3 tags and not rename my already meticulously curated file system.

I just picked up a second HDHomerun Connect to add to my Plex DVR. The problem is I can only record 2 shows and then Plex will not move onto the next tuner. I have deleted/recreated the DVR, deleted one tuner and readded it, and rebooted everything in different orders but it will only use one tuner. I even rebuilt my Plex server but nothing works

Has anyone been able to record 4 shows at once with Plex DVR? The HDHomerun app works fine so it seems to be a Plex issue, maybe a Shield TV and Plex issue?

I have the settings set to update my library automatically when there is a change in the folder but when I add a movie, I always end up having to manually scan. Im using my SHIELD as a media server, and the external HDD's connected to my PC are being shared over my home network so the SHIELD server grabs the movies from there. Am I doing something wrong?

Just wanted to throw this out there to those who are interested. This plugin allows you to stream live TV from NextPVR - it's based on some of the code psyciknz wrote for NextPVR-Plex but mine only streams live TV. plex-npvr can handle subchannels (4.1,4.2, etc...) and the ability to have broadcaster logos displayed on the channel listing.

See GitHub for more info:

https://github.com/retznutz/plex-npvr

Didn't mean that as a question

Hi.
We have decided to lock the other Debian thread and start a new one so I can edit the first post since Origin is no longer and has not been maintaing this package for a while.

All credits goes to Tobias and the other at Plex for PMS and the init script for Debian were made by Origin. I have just taken all there work and efforts and repacked it for Debian since the ubuntu package is not compatible since the change to upstart.

Down here is the instructions for installing PMS from my repo. This packages is for now compatible with Debian Squeeze , Wheezy and OpenMediaVault 0.3 , 0.4

First Time install

sudo apt-get install curl

If you are running Squeeze,Wheezy or Jessie with SYSVINIT
echo "deb http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list

If you are using Jessie with systemd then use the Ubuntu package from plex and you will get their repo.

sudo curl http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/shell.ninthgate.se.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver

Upgrading

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

The init script Original by Origin with a minor modification by me

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plexmediaserver
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Plex Media Server
# Description:       Plex Media Server for Linux,
#                    More information at http://www.plexapp.com
#                    Many thanks to the great PlexApp team for their wonderfull job !
# Author:            Cedric Quillevere / origin@killy.net
# Rewamped           Christian Svedin / christian.svedin@gmail.com
# Version:           1.2
### END INIT INFO
 
# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/plexmediaserver ] && . /etc/default/plexmediaserver
 
test -f "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/start.sh" || exit 0
 
plex_running=`ps ax | grep "\./Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | wc -l`
 
case "$1" in
    start)
        if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex already running..."
                exit 0
        fi
        echo -n "Starting Plex Media Server: "
        su -l $PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER -c "/usr/sbin/start_pms &" >/dev/null 2>&1
        sleep 1
        echo "done"
        ;;
    stop)
        if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)..."
                exit 0
        fi
        echo -n "Killing Plex Media Server: "
        # Trying to kill the Plex Media Server itself but also the Plug-ins
        ps ax | grep "Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
        ps ax | grep "Plex DLNA Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
        sleep 1
        echo "done"
        ;;
    restart)
        sh $0 stop
        sh $0 start
        ;;
    status)
        if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server process running."
        else
                echo "It seems that Plex Media Server isn't running (no process found)."
        fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
 
exit 0
 

I am sharing Plex with a my dad and my upload speed 3 mps but appears to be too slow for him to watch anything from his house without a lot of buffering or freezing. Is there anything I can do to make it possible? Is there a way for him to download it before viewing or it to download enough before viewing to be ahead enough to keep it from buffering?

TY

Habe seit der neusten Version (also eigentlich alles seit 1.7) das Problem das alle User mit dem Samsung App, das Problem haben das er andauernd die Auflösung ändert. Völlig willkürlich. Das heisst 10 Sekunden sinds die 720p 4000kbps dann 600kbps und dann sogar bis nur 320p Auflösung. Das andauernd im Wechsel. Ich habe nun alle möglichen Einstellungen mit den Leuten durchgespielt und ach beim Server geschaut ob sich da Einstellungsmässig was getan hat aber auch da nichts.

Dachte bisher immer es liegt vielleicht an der Plexpass Version aber als es heute für alle öffentlich wurde probierten wir es nochmals aber weiterhin der selbe Effekt. Alle anderen Player scheinen aktuell zu funktionieren auch wenn nicht viele geschaut haben.

Woran könnte das liegen? Es ist einer der neueren TV´s (2015 Serie) und jeweils die neuste Firmware und die neuste App (2.008) installiert.

Bin für Hilfe sehr Dankbar. Möchte gerne zur neusten Updaten aber aktuell bleibt nur der Rückgang auf 1.61, da läuft alles Problemlos.

Hello All,

Plex is running very well for me apart one TV show.

I cannot play on my apple TV , my Ipad or my Windows !
Plex answers Media Not supported.

Do you have an idea why ?

Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 810 MiB
Duration : 43 min 59 s
Overall bit rate : 2 576 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2016-10-13 14:01:43
Writing application : mkvmerge v9.4.2 ('So High') 64bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.4 + libmatroska v1.4.5

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=25
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 43 min 59 s
Bit rate : 2 475 kb/s
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.107
Stream size : 779 MiB (96%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 43 min 59 s
Bit rate : 98.3 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 spf)
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 9 ms
Stream size : 30.9 MiB (4%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Menu
00:00:00.054 : en:00:00:00.054

Hi all,

I've followed some of the advice I've read about this issue, namely, conducted:
**
$ sudo chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver**

And it took a little while to conduct this task, so assume it's done it's job of changing ownership of all the files.

So, like the OP in this post I have a PMS that after each reboot claim's it's unclaimed.

I am browsing to the server IP address on my LAN (and am logged in) when I'm seeing this warning, and then claiming it each time. I get the same warning when I visit from plex.tv, log in, and launch my server.

The system:

Newly installed CentOS 7. I'm new to this distro, and am just getting things set up.
PMS Version 1.7.5.4035 up to date.

I've found that certain things that work by default in other OS's like Ubuntu require a little fiddling around in CentOS to get them to work. I wonder if this is one of those things?

My PMS log files are attached. (There is another issue that may be visible in the log files, which is that i'm struggling with FSTAB to mount my NAS where the media is kept, but that's a CentOS forum issue).

Many thanks, Scott.

I'm having this consistent error on Windows 10 Pro, with PMP (PMS running on the same NUC machine)

A few minutes after pausing a running video i will get treated by the error message

There was a problem playing this item
The video did not start playing in time

Anyone else getting this error?

PMP screensaver is not turned on
Playing original stream.

Sub-Zero - Subtitles done right

Current version: 2.0.24.1558

Questions? Have a look at the wiki first

Quick-links to the wiki and the score explanation page: http://v.ht/szwiki, http://v.ht/szscores

Support Sub-Zero

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

or join my Patreon starting at 1 $ / month:

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)
• Legendas TV (pt-BR)
• Napi Projekt (pl)
• Shooter (cn)
• SubsCenter (heb)

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-2.1.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

Changelog

2.0.24.1558

• core: fix handling of broken RAR files from legendas

2.0.24.1555

• core: fix rare microdvd issue from OpenSubtitles by generally providing FPS info when encountering a microdvd subtitle

2.0.24.1549

Changes from 1.4

• wiki: new wiki! (thanks @dane22!)
• core: update subliminal to version 2
• core: update all dependencies
• core: add new providers: legendastv (pt-BR), napiprojekt (pl), shooter (cn), subscenter (heb)
• core: rewritten all subliminal patches for version 2
• core: use SSL again for opensubtitles
• core: improved matching due to subliminal 2 (and SZ custom) tvdb/omdb refiners
• core: improved matching by relying on existing metadata provided by the PMS
• core: improved performance due to multithreaded provider-querying
• core: improved performance due to less physical media file access (no more MKV metadata scanning)
• core: VTT subtitle format output supported (for Chromecast)
• core: rewrote and streamlined internal subtitle data storage format
• core: support Cyrillic and Latin variants of Serbian language
• core: simplified (custom) provider registration; add own provider registry
• core: rewrote recently added missing task
• core: automatically fix badly (re-) encoded unicode entities in subtitles
• core: always store subtitles in proper UTF-8 encoding
• core: add periodic internal subtitle data storage cleanup task
• core: on non-windows systems, utilize a file-based cache database for provider media lists and subliminal refiner results
• core: add manual and automatic subtitle modification framework (fix common OCR issues, remove hearing impaired etc.)
• core: relieve some stress on providers by providing better fine-grained retry handling
• menu: add icons for menu items; update main channel icon
• menu: add subtitle modifications (subtitle content fixes, offset-based shifting, framerate conversion)
• menu: add recently played menu
• menu: add "Get my logs" function to the advanced menu, which zips up all necessary logs suitable for posting in the forums
• menu: add generic "back to season" and "back to series" entries to item detail views to make navigation easier
• config: all scores changed (defaults updated)
• config: remove "Force UTF-8 when storing subtitles" (it's now always implied)
• improve almost everything Sub-Zero did in 1.4

Big thanks to the beta testing team! You know who you are!

older changes

This problem started after updating to the latest version of PMS, ver 1.7.2.3878. I found the trouble shooting page for this problem but none of the suggestions have worked. How do I resolve this problem other than switching to another media player?

Long story short, I have two series with special episodes. They're both anime, but IDK that matters. As best I could, I researched how to handle these, and this is what I did. First, I used Filebot to retrieve the names from TVDB. I have each series in its own folder and the Specials are within another folder inside the series folder named Specials.

One of the series doesn't display ANY specials. OK; I'm new to this and maybe they'll simply auto-play? Nope. The other series shows only one of the two Specials-and it's the second of the two. I've attached some pictures of the series that won't display any Specials within Plex, if that helps.

[IMG]http://i63.tinypic.com/ka3bjq.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i63.tinypic.com/vhdx1e.jpg[/IMG]

Anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi

I need some help on how to install the Unsupported Appstore plugin on my QNAP NAS.

Have downloaded the bundle but have NO idea how to get into the plugins folder on the QNAP.

Have read this article but hasn't helped:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201106098

Can someone help a technically challenged brother out?

I'm using Mac OSX 10.10

thanks in advance

I want to set up a RPI3 with Rasplex to play 1080p/24p (direct play/stream) with mostly DD and DTS passthrough. In case the move has DTS-HD or TrueHD I would use software decoding and then output it as PCM stream. Do I need a heatsink therefore (RPI3 mounted in the official case)? Or is nothing going to happen as long as enough air can get in and out?

Had PMS running on Windows 7. Moving to an Ubuntu install. I'm trying to move viewstate over to the new install using this article:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154527-Move-Viewstate-Ratings-from-One-Install-to-Another

However, when I get to the last step for importing the data into the new database, I get this error:
Error: near line 18455: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18456: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18457: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18458: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18459: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18460: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18461: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18462: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18463: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18464: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18465: no such table: metadata_item_settings
Error: near line 18466: no such table: metadata_item_settings

(lots of them)

Any idea why this table doesn't exist in my database?

ok its a year later since i first posted about Dolby / Atmos drop outs with Plex and still no fix or answer so i am posting this again as a Plex pass member. Dolby True HD and atmos tracks drop about 5 times or so during a movie and when streaming these same tracks to the Roku stick or Roku3 from my Plex windows server it crashes the transcoder on both about every 10 to 15 min , I'm guessing this is all related ? when i select a different audio track everything is fine so i ask what is happening and can it be fixed ? in short , direct play of and movie with Dolby True HD / Atmos from my windows machine will cause audio drop outs every 20 min or so and transcoding these same movies on Roku will stop playback every 10 to 15 min.

Hello,

The varioius 1.5.x, or 1.6.x, or 1.7.x really confuses me as there doesn't seem to be any comparison matrix with what features are included in what... I'm mainly interested in hardware/GPU transcode & DVR - which code stream should I chose please?

Cheers, Julian

I just saw this announcement today, but anyone know if these means anything for us Plex users? I believe the Dolby Atmos reference is related to the Blu-ray player, but would adding Dolby Atmos allow direct play rather than transcoding? If I'm not mistaken, the Plex app on Xbox One will currently play Atmos audio, but it requires transcoding. Direct play would be preferable though of course, so hoping this latest announcement will give us direct play.