I upgrade plex server today on my Ubuntu 64 bit server and it asked what to do a modified file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list
I told it to update it with the developer's info and then took a look at the file and discovered there was a plex repo. All this time I had been manually downloading the .deb installation file and upgrading it myself.
My question is how can I tell the repo to use the plex pass channel for downloads instead of the regular public one?
Hi there,
I apologize if this question has already been asked. I attempted to search for an existing forum entry but did not find a similar question, possibly due to an inadequate search configuration.
So, as seen in the "Naming 'Series' & Seasons' Based TV Shows" of the Plex Guides, it instructs to use the following naming convention: "TV Shows/ShowName/Season XX/ShowName - sXXeYY - Optional_Info.ext".
However, when using the Optimize functionality of the Plex Server, the resulting file names of the optimized versions of shows drops the "ShowName" value and capitalizes the Seasons abbreviation and Episode abbreviation. (e.g., changes from "ShowName - sXXeYY" to "SXXEYY")
Is this the intended functionality and why does the Optimize feature of Plex Server not follow the naming convention specified by the User Guide?
Thanks!
I know there are several of these threads already, but I wanted to attempt to bring more attention to this problem. This has now been going on for 4 months. Completely unacceptable at this point. I have 6 Xbox 360s in my home. Not that my measly $5/month will dent your overall profit margin, but if an effort is not made to remedy this, then there is no use for me to have PlexPass or Plex for that matter. I can use Emby or something else. At least respond acknowledging the issue and let us know whether it will be fixed or NOT.
Date: 25th/26 Dec
Main Issue: Remote Access
Version: 1.3.3.3148
Effect: Remote Access not working, crashes once it finds the internet connection
Error: Not available outside your network
things Completed:
I have Tried the Following, and together.
still no Deal.
it seems that the following people are having the same issue
@djscotty14 @furrore @timothygiven,
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/251049/remote-access-keeps-turning-off#latest
@webwebster
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/249594/i-lost-remote-access-with-the-1-3-3-3148-update/p1
Hi,
For some reason Plex isn't syncing movies using the Android app. The movie converts, says it's downloading but stays at 50%.
I've synced a TV show, so I'm not sure what the problem could be? I've tried a few things, such as deleting all synced content and deleting and reinstalling the app but the problem persists. Does anyone know how to get around this please?
Edit: sometimes when I go back in to the sync menu it shows the movie as 'synced' but when I put the phone in to aeroplane mode it doesn't appear, then when I disable aeroplane mode it goes back to syncing and sticks at 50%
Thanks for any help
Hey guys,
simple error: My metadata is loaded successfull. Also my TV Show Poster and Fanart. BUT my episode thumbnails and season posters are not loaded. Any Ideas?
Serien\My Show\Season 01\My Show - S01E01 - title.mkv
Serien\My Show\Season 01\My Show - S01E01 - title.jpg
Serien\My Show\Season 01\season01.jpg
Serien\My Show\poster.jpg
I use XMBCnfoTVImporter via unsupported Appstore.
Credits
This Channel is based on PlexWink by @vanstinator.
This channel detects when a media is playing, paused or stopped on your Plex Clients. Then it checks if it's a video, the client name, and the user who owns the stream. If it matches your criteria it triggers your lights with the actions you have set up.
You can also turn your lights on and off inside the channel.
The config is pretty simple and only needs to be done once. Configure your settings following the details below.
One room is composed of one client, one or multiple users and one or multiple lights, as well as the actions : on play, on stop, on pause, dim value, and only trigger if it's dark outside.
Plex.tv login is your Plex login.
Plex.tv passwords is your Plex password. It is only sent to plex.tv to get an identification token (so you must have a working internet access).
Plex Server Address is the local adress + port to reach your server (example : 127.0.0.1:32400).Philips Hue Bridge Address is the ip address of your Philips Bridge.Nearest city from your location Used to calculate to calculate sunrise/sunset hours at your location.Activate HelloHue in room 1 Tick to activate room 1 (and fill the client, users and lights settings for room 1).Name of plex client able to trigger in room 1 You can find the list of users in PMS -> settings -> devices. Only put ONE client per room. If your have two clients in the same room, activate an other room and fill the settings with the other clients name and the same lights names.Name of the users able to trigger in room 1 You can find the list of users in PMS -> settings -> users -> myhome. You can put multiple users (comma separated values, case sensitive).Name of the lights to trigger in room 1 is the list of lights that will be triggered in room 1. You can put multiple users (comma separated values, case sensitive).When a media is playing in room 1 is the action that will fire when a media is playing in room 1.When a media is paused in room 1 is the action that will fire when a media is paused in room 1.When a media is stopped in room 1 is the action that will fire when a media is stopped in room 1.Choose dim value in room 1 is the value your lights will dim to. (20 is the min brightness and 240 is max)Randomize hue and saturation on Dim/Turn On in room 1 will randomize your light color each time the action turn on or dim is fired.Only trigger lights if it's dark outside in room 1 Tick to only trigger your lights between sunrise and sunset.Activate HelloHue in room 2 Same thing as Activate HelloHue in room 1 ...How to install:
go to Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/
If existing, delete HelloHue.bundle
On first run:
Press button and your bridge and click to connect click on this menu AFTER having pressed the physical button of your bridge.Advanced --> Restart HelloHueMy Lights then you are all good!Use the channel:
My Lights allows you to trigger your lights from the channel
Enable HelloHue disable the channel (stop listening to items being played)
Disable HelloHue resumes the channel (start listening to items being played)Advanced --> ```Restart HelloHue`` takes into account your new Plex.TV login/password if you updated it in the channel settings.If you have a problem with this channel, raise an issue on GitHub or on this topic. Don't forget to add a Log file of this channel : https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250417-Plex-Media-Server-Log-Files
When stopping a media on PHT (for mac), the action will take some time (a few minutes). This is linked to a bug in PHT or PMS. --> use OpenPHT to fix this issue
HelloHue doesn't work with PlexBMC
I've developed HelloHue on my free time, so if you like it please think about buying me a beer!
Bonsoir à tous.
Nouveau sur Plex et dans les media center en général.
J'ai récupéré mon vieux PC il y a peu et décidé de l'utiliser pour Plex, et uniquement pour Plex. J'ai installé Ubuntu dessus, pour plus de légèreté.
Plex fonctionne, le seul problème c'est qu'il a du mal à transcoder le 1080p, ce qui m'étonne car même si le PC est vieux, je le pensais assez costaud pour transcoder (un dual core AMD 3.2 GHz et 4 Go de RAM).
Est-ce qu'il est vraiment difficile de transcoder avec ce CPU où est-ce que ça viendrait de moi qui aurait mal configuré Plex ou la machine ?
Merci d'avance ! :)
Hi all, my server is a Braswell N3150 NUC from Gigabyte, and recently I hooked it up to my TV screen to use it as a client too, using OpenPHT 1.7.1 and Plex Black Edition skin.
What I noticed is that when moving through OpenPHT GUI there is some "flickering" of graphics elements like the rectangle that identifies the focused movie poster. Sometimes there's a flickering effect of the whole screen as if some frame was "left behind" and after refreshing the screen it stops. Has anyone had the same issue? I'll check tonight if even with Kodi it does the same or if it is OpenPHT specific. Maybe there's a way in Ubuntu to check advanced settings of the integrated GPU like triple buffering, 2D and 3D hardware acceleration etc?
When the format of the music background images is not 16:9, the image is shown with wrong aspect ratio in Now Playing View.
Compare with Now Playing View of the default skin.
The image is shown correctly in all other music views of Aeon Nox (playlist, album list, etc.), only the Now Playing View is affected.
If you already have metadata in XBMC, and would like to use that in Plex.
I took the code posted by Harley Hooligan, and changed it to work with my files.
In XBMC, go in Settings > Videos > Library > Export Video Library. Choose Separate files & Export Thumbnails and fanart, and optionally overwrite existing files.
This will create .nfo & .jpg files for your TV Shows and Movies, in the appropriate directories.
The following Plex Plug-ins will then import those into your Plex library.
To use them in Plex, first install them: unzip both files, rename them to end with .bundle, and move both .bundle packages into ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/
Then, create a new section (or edit an existing one), and choose "XBMC .nfo importer" as the Primary metadata agent.
or 
Note: For TV Shows sections, the folder(s) you choose in your section settings should be a folder that contains TV shows folders. i.e. adding a folder that contains media files will NOT work!
Good:
Bad:
What it will import:
- Title, summary, tagline, rating, year, director, actors, genre, etc. from .nfo files.
- Artwork files: posters, banners & fanarts.
XBMC Movies Metadata Agent
XBMC TV Shows Metadata Agent
The source is available on Github, so anyone who would like to make changes can fork my branch, and submit a pull request with their change(s).
Movies agent: https://github.com/gboudreau/XBMCnfoMoviesImporter.bundle
TV Shows agent: https://github.com/gboudreau/XBMCnfoTVImporter.bundle
Getting PMS set up on the SHIELD has been a total nightmare for me. Hours of set-up required and I'm still not quite there. After countless times disabling/re-enabling the server, signing in and out, un-installing/re-installing updates, I have finally been able to find the server on my network long enough to get my library imported and set up. After disconnecting and re-mounting my network storage several times, my video files finally no longer say "unavailable" in my client apps. After manually setting static IP addresses, and setting up port forwarding on my router, I'm finally able to see the server outside of my network. (P.S. I have servers also set up on a WD MyCloud and a Windows 10 PC. They were both plug-and-play and I've never had any issues.) I like the idea of the SHIELD because it's a happy medium. The MyCloud can't transcode, and the PC is very power-hungry so I don't leave it on. I like that the SHIELD should be able to handle transcoding and be always available, which leads to my final issue/question.
The issue that I'm having now is that the server seems to become unavailable when the SHIELD sleeps. Isn't it supposed to run even during sleep? Otherwise, what's the point? Is anyone else running into this?
This seems like a very buggy release. Very uncharacteristic of Plex.
So I've been using Plex.com inside Chrome for a few months to stream from my server to my laptop and several other computers but I don't keep my server at my house.
I installed Rasplex but I didn't ever get a chance to login to my account. Now Rasplex just doesn't see any media.
How do I login?
Thanks!
I changed the letter path and now plex keeps crashing on windows.
even when I changed it back it does not work.
it seems to work fine on my Mac OS
also when I click to add my logs to this post the pop up doesn't open.
can anyone please help
Hi all,
Seems I am late to the party here with the appleTV 4, just got one and don't know why I didn't when they first came out, loving it!
Until now I have been running PMP and more recently the Kodi Plex Addon on a macmini, coming from these UIs I've come to love the Zoom/Crop feature that both these apps offer. In PMP specifically there is an option to Zoom and crop the movie to the horizontal black bars top & bottom... crop to screen making the most of the entire screen.
So my question is... can Plex for apple TV also do this? is this an apple TV limitation? or is it out standing as a feature request?
I have searched and haven't seen it mentioned in the forums other than someone suggesting to use the TV features to zoom the aspect. I've just tried that, I'm running a new 4k Panasonic and its only offering me the 16:9 aspect ratio that is currently displayed. (no other aspects offered)
Any suggestions welcome, thanks
Hi,
I have plenty of space available and allocated to Plex, somehow after 2 or 3 movies, PLex Sync is stuck in "transferring".
Where in the logs can I check this?
I am on Win 10, Surface Pro 4, windows store app, latest update.
I have plex pass.
I'm running PMS in MacOS Sierra on a dedicated Mac mini Server and have formerly been using iTunes to supply media to the whole house. I now think Plex can do a better job and am trying to effect the transition. But some issues.
First of all, iTunes has been (and will be for the foreseeable future) used to tag the media files. Everything I have in iTunes is correctly identified and iTunes of course ensures that the embedded tags are kept in sync with what data has been entered. I have it set to 'Keep Media folder organised' which means it names the files and places them in its predetermined structure which is in fact very sensible folder structure of varying depth, according to the media type being stored. But this cannot be changed. iTunes does what it does and the user just has to live with that. On the whole this is not a problem as it gets it right, but there are glaring holes in this eco system, most especially, no actual server or ability to be run as one. This where Plex comes in.
PMS is all set up and I created a Movies library and pointed it at iTunes' Movies folder (most media type names are the same in both products). It was surprisingly slow, but it did eventually finish and has the exact same number of items as iTunes reports. So without checking further, it looks like everything is good.
I then set up another movies type Library and pointed at a folder of non-commercial videos. None of these would be found on IMDB etc. Not many in total, so didn't take long and then I had a list of all the videos with nice poster artwork showing, presumably frames taken from the videos themselves and not the same as iTunes displays, but no problem, all is good.
After that I created a TV Shows type Library which basically worked. Some issues to sort, but at least it obviously found all the files, even at different levels within the folder to which the Library was pointed.
Then I wanted to add some other videos of TV Show type, but for which I don't expect any metadata to be found on-line, so I created another TV-Show type Library and pointed it at the appropriate folder. One of the items is in a 3 level heirarchy of Show/Season/Episodes, the other 3 of them are simply Show/episode(s). As a matter of interest, iTunes will not bother with the Season level if there is no Season specified. Hence its TV Shows media folder can contain a mix of folder structures with different levels. But once scanning was complete, this library was empty and remains so.
At first, I suspected that varying levels of folder structure cannot exist in the same Library, but the main TV Shows Library does contain such, as created by iTunes due to the existence or not of any seasons and they have been imported ok by Plex. But this other TV Shows type Library fails to find ANYTHING.
So this is the main problem. I don't care a rat's ar** what the folder structure is or is not, nor what the file is called. It WILL be something sensible created by iTunes. The fact is that all the important and correct information is contained within the files' embedded tags. So the first thing I want Plex to do is find ANY suitable files (video in this case and all either MP4 or M4V or MKV) at ANY level in the folder to which it has been pointed, read the embedded tags and 'import' that into its database and then add anything else that it finds on the 'Net and that doesn't conflict with the embedded data (more on that later). Yes I know about Agents etc and 'Personal Media Shows' is the selected Agent and 'Local Media Assets (TV)' is selected and at the top of the list. I've deleted the Library (easy decision as there's nothing in it) and created it again, but whereas when creating the main Movies and TV Shows Libraries, it reported each file as it checked. For this Library I see no such checking the screen just immediately changes to an empty Library display, i.e. largely blank.
So the big question here is why this Library is not being created correctly. As far as I can tell, it should find all the MP4 video files and add them to its database using the embedded metadata (all I actually need), whatever the folder structure and naming. I don't want it to concern itself with folder and file names. All the metadata required is embedded in the actual files and should be used. Isn't that what ' 'Local Media Assets (TV)' is supposed to do. Why is Plex struggling with something so simple. iTunes may have its issues, but any fully tagged media file I throw at it gets perfectly imported with all that data then in its database. Can anyone please explain why Plex seems incapable of doing this.
Currently OpenPHT does not play back HEVC encoded files using the main10 profile. I use Kodi 17.0 with either PlexKodiConnect or the official Plex addon in order to play 10bit and HDR movies. This works fine, but I prefer OpenPHT as a fully integrated player for my HTPC directly connected to my 4K HDR TV. Are there any plans to update OpenPHT to allow 10 bit playback?
I've got my music stored in FLAC format from the old EAC converter; Plex did a mostly-good job importing them into the library and filling in various posters and backgrounds. I'm finally starting to use it to play tunes and since my Plex machine is also my main work desktop I am just using a browser tab at the 127.0.0.0 URL to select and play.
Symptom: it's playing an album just fine, then suddenly (not 10 seconds in, like some of the threads I found similar to this, but usually several minutes into a track, apparently randomly) the audio stops, there's a pretty long pause (more than a gap), and playback resumes on the next track. So far, I can go back to the track which jumped ahead and restart it manually and the same track plays all the way through just fine.
I've noticed it on several albums, but on one particularly egregious one, I remember distinctly that those files came from a CD which EAC did have trouble with the rip. I remember being relieved that EAC was able to resurrect as much as it did from that disc (several tracks do have audible defects - but the Windows media player does keep on playing them). Could Plex be just "giving up" playback here (if so, that's weird - some of the tracks of this album didn't have any audible-to-me defects, only EAC reporting "differences"... and the track plays fine if I try it "standalone" in Plex; plus you'd think the file is just a file and nothing should "struggle" like an optical reader could...).
Or, could this be a resource issue on the server? (it's an 8-core dual CPU Xeon with 24 GB RAM... but it's old and doesn't play videos well at all, but music isn't nearly that intensive). Plex web tab version ways 2.12.5 and server tab says 1.3.3.3148. I don't notice a slowdown in my work tabs or software, nor have I been doing anything too intense when then happens.
Are there logs being kept somewhere that I could check to see what happened, and what would I be looking for? I see that I have "enable debug" checked, but not "verbose" nor "tokens" allowed.
I pretty much only have FLAC files so can't compare to mp3 or other formats. I may have a few hiding around if anyone thinks that might be contributing.
Hello.
I wonder if there is an agent that scan http://www.videosz.com/ for movies?
Tried to search the net for this but I cannot find it.
Thanks
