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iMac OS X vs Windows 7 Bootcamp

May 17, 2018, 8:49 am
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I have a question for those out there that might have been/are in the same boat I am. A while back had a Windows 7 server that was my Plex Server go belly up. To keep things as "smooth" as possible on the move to a new server machine, I moved my Plex server to an iMac I had already running Windows 7 Bootcamp as the default (for testing some software applications), using the backup of my Plex db, drive mappings, external drives applications etc... so I could quickly and more easily move an pretty large and exhaustively tweaked/curated library. After the move and backup like have the stuff didn't transfer and I really ended up just rebuilding the entire freaking thing.

At this point I'm running a Plex Windows server on Windows 7 64-bit iMac - Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06GHz with 4GB of RAM running. I optimized all my TV shows and Movies because it struggles to transcode on the fly with many shows/movies. It seems to be a little less so with 10-bit HEVC movies (those seem to stream w/o pre-optimizing just fine) but others (read: most of my collection) need optimizing before watching.

I've been debating lately if moving the library and Plex server over to the original iMac OS X instead of Windows 7 Bootcamp would give the Plex Server some headroom to breathe and possibly be able to transcode on the fly. Or am I better off just leaving it be as is and not worry with it as rebuilding the library, curating all the shows/movies etc, will be a major pain in the ass. This server really doesn't run anything else besides some uTorrent from time to time, Media Center Master and Chrome. Other than that it's a pretty clean Windows 7 install without bloatware and unnecessary applications.

Has anyone attempted this? And what are your results? Or do you have an opinion on how successful this would be to achieve a goal of allowing the server to transcode most movies on the fly. My entire library is MKV/HEVC.

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Resuming playback causes TLS connection: Too many open files errors and eventual server crash

May 3, 2018, 7:33 pm
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Synology 918+
PMS Version 1.13.0.5003 (64 bit)
Client - doesn't matter. I've reproduced it on everything I have, Roku, XBone, Mac, Chrome, etc.
This is direct play, no transcoding

When playing from the beginning of any media everything works fine. Resuming the same media at any point causes PMS to loop requests on different ports until the server crashes.
There is no other activity on the server, I clean started everything with nothing in the logs. It's 100% reproducible every time.

Here is part of the loop. I can provide the logs if required.

May 03, 2018 21:22:07.598 [0x7f03febaa700] DEBUG - Request: [192.168.1.177:64410 (Subnet)] GET /library/parts/80502/1424622621/file.m4v (667 live) TLS Signed-in Token (myphsto)
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.599 [0x7f03febaa700] DEBUG - Request range: 30760948 to 0
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.604 [0x7f03febaa700] DEBUG - Content-Length of /volume1/share/Movies/480p.x264.AAC.m4v is 1901023677.
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.668 [0x7f0407d11700] DEBUG - Auth: authenticated user 1 as myphsto
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.668 [0x7f03fdff2700] DEBUG - Request: [192.168.1.177:64411 (Subnet)] GET /library/parts/80502/1424622621/file.m4v (668 live) TLS Signed-in Token (myphsto)
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.668 [0x7f03fdff2700] DEBUG - Request range: 29351085 to 0
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.674 [0x7f03fdff2700] DEBUG - Content-Length of /volume1/share/Movies/480p.x264.AAC.m4v is 1901023677.
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.741 [0x7f0407fff700] DEBUG - Auth: authenticated user 1 as myphsto
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.741 [0x7f03fe5ce700] DEBUG - Request: [192.168.1.177:64412 (Subnet)] GET /library/parts/80502/1424622621/file.m4v (669 live) TLS Signed-in Token (myphsto)
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.741 [0x7f03fe5ce700] DEBUG - Request range: 30789711 to 0
May 03, 2018 21:22:07.747 [0x7f03fe5ce700] DEBUG - Content-Length of /volume1/share/Movies/480p.x264.AAC.m4v is 1901023677.
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[REL] YouTube Metadata Agent

October 14, 2013, 8:17 am
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This is a Metadata Agent for downloaded YouTube videos. It works by looking up metadata on YouTube using the YouTube video id. It is important to have this id in the filename, otherwise this agent can't do the lookup. You can change the way the id is found in your filenames (through the Agent's preferences). This value is a regular expression and requires 1 named group called id.

The default value is: \[(?P<id>.{11})\]

This will find the YouTube id in names, like for example:
Person Of Interest Soundtrack - John Reese Themes (Compilation) [OR5EnqdnwK0].mp4

Download and source

Download: https://github.com/sander1/YouTube-Agent.bundle/archive/master.zip
Source: https://github.com/sander1/YouTube-Agent.bundle

Installation

See the How do I manually install a channel? support article.

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Plex for Android TV - DD/DTS Passthrough Broken on Sony Bravia XBR devices

February 17, 2017, 9:56 am
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So after an exhaustive search of forums and tech support, looks like it is the Plex app itself running on Sony Bravia Android TV's that is broken and only passing 2.0 via SPDIF (Optical). Sony has verified they are good on their end (all other apps properly send 5.1). Android confirms it handles 5.1 passthrough. Even Plex app inside another (Kodi) passes through. But the Plex app itself for Android fails to pass through the full audio.

Will Plex work to resolve this?

Thank you, love Plex, just need my 5.1!

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Plex app used to work, now unavailable. Unable to uninstall/reinstall plex app

May 17, 2018, 9:00 am
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I'm running Plex server on a WD-PR4100. Usually works fine. when I have had problems in the past, I've been able to fix with a restart, app update or uninstall/reinstall.

Today I'm seeing the "server unavailable message in both the Plex web interface and the WD admin interface (apps/plex/configure). I tried an app update and a NAS restart with no luck. In attempting to completely remove and reinstall the app, the admin panel times out and the app is not uninstalled.

Any ideas how to proceed?

thank you,
Brian

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Rasplex without internet connection

May 14, 2018, 1:43 am
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Hi guys
Can i use rasplex on my boat, without internet connection.
I have got a synology, a router and severall rasplex.
Thanks

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Shield TV - Playback Stopping and Queuing Next Item

February 17, 2018, 11:55 am
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Over the past few days I have had a serious issue with the Plex app on my Shield TV. (6.13.7.3458).

During playback of some TV shows it will stop after a period of time and acting like playback was complete. It exits to the post playback screen with a countdown to starting the next episode. The episode isn't marked watched and if I go back to it I am able to start from the point playback stopped.

This is only happening on the Shield Plex app. I am trying to collect more details but would like to know if others have seen something similar.

I was testing with "Always Sunny" today and the last two episodes I watched stopped at 14 minutes of the 22 minute episodes. They are direct play, I have audio pass through and refresh rate switching enabled.

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IceFilms... No content showing up in Plex

May 17, 2018, 8:49 am
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OS is Linux Mint 18.3 and I am pretty much a Linux noob.

I managed to get the Unsupported App Store installed with Webtools 3.0. However, IceFilms is no longer listed among the apps I can install through the UAS. So I went the manual route. Downloaded the zip file, extracted it, renamed folder so that it's just "IceFilms.bundle". After some noob struggling with folder permissions, I was able to get the IceFilms.bundle in the plug-ins folder without any "X" indicators next to folders. After restarting Plex, IceFilms now appears in the Plug-ins list.

However, there is no content showing up. Most (though not all) of the other plug-ins are showing content. So I am wondering if something is still amiss with the IceFilms installation. The folder permissions are identical to other apps that are retrieving content. What should I be looking for?

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Local Media Assets Ignored?

March 24, 2018, 12:35 pm
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Has anyone updated to PMS Version 1.12.1.4885 and noticed local media assets are not being used when set as first agent?

Just added this movie to my library:

You can see the local artwork is not being chosen automatically:

Here's how the agent looks (local assets first):

Here's how the files look:

I don't think I'm doing anything different to before? I've recently started grabbing artwork like moviename.jpg moviename-fanart.jpg for my collections but even without that artwork present the same thing happens after metadata refresh.

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Video plays for a second and ends

March 8, 2018, 1:33 pm
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I have had a issue occuring randomly for some time. I select an TV episode or movie(less common) and it plays for 1-5 seconds, then the video ends and Plex recommends I play the next episode or restart the current one. Generally if I restart the episode it plays fine but not always.

It's not all the time but I was able to reproduce it one night and there was no huge CPU or memory spikes. I also validated that the video was being direct played (no transcoding required).

I have had this happen on my Nexus 5x, Amazon fire 7 tablet and Android tv. This leads me to believe the problem is server side, but all the clients are over WiFi (the tv was hard wired and still had this problem, it is on wifi now though). PMS is installed on a 2nd or 3rd gen core i3 running Windows 10 off a SSD with plenty of free memory

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DS718+ Memory Upgrade

May 16, 2018, 7:34 pm
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Is it better to get memory that has a higher MHZ rating or a lower CAS latency value? I am looking at DDR3L-1866 memory that has a CAS value of 11, but I could buy DDR3L-1600 memory that has a CAS value of 9. My gut is telling me the latency number is more important but I would like to hear what others have done.

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Random fast forwarding while watching content

May 17, 2018, 10:00 am
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I have a new Shield I got that randomly fast forwards a show/movie out of nowhere. It is like someone is holding down the fast-forward button. I have removed the battery from the tv remote, but there is nothing to remove from the controller so I can't isolate that until it runs out of battery but the controller is asleep and never really used.

What I notice when trying to stop it, frequently the Plex app will crash at the same time when stopping it and trying to rewind. I thought it might be a hardware issue but I'm starting to think it is software.

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Plex for Chromecast

April 26, 2016, 8:40 am
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Release notes for the Chromecast application.

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[REL] Str2Utf-8

January 14, 2014, 4:47 pm
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Welcome to SRT2UTF-8

This is the official thread for a plug-in (Agent) named srt2utf-8

If you are having the problem, that national characters in your subtitles, that are not embedded in the movie, but either downloaded by yourself and put next to the movie (Sidecar SRT) or a subtitle automatically fetched by the Open-Subtitle Agent, are displayed as garbage, then this Agent might be the answer for you!

In short, it'll make sure, that your subtitle files are encoded in utf-8, so national character-sets doesn't show as garbage in the players

If you are having problems with this plugin, then feel free to post a Question in this thread, but I urge you to at least read the manual first

Find it here, or simply install via the UAS

/Tommy

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MrMC 3.6.0 with Plex for Kodi has been released

March 29, 2018, 11:47 am
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Plex for Kodi fans can now enjoy it on the AppleTV 4/4K in addition to FireOS devices and the NVidia Shield.

Needless to say, python is back and more addons are planned to be included as well as more complex skins that require python based helper scripts.

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Movies showing screenshots instead of posters

May 9, 2016, 12:18 am
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So I'm having an issue which only started recently where movies are having screenshots showing as the artwork instead of the movie poster. With some google-fu this seems to be an issue that other people have had and the cause usually seems to be due to the Movie Database agent being below the Freebase agent in the settings. I have tried moving the agents around but it has had no effect. Here is the library sorted by date added:

You can see that it has only started recently. Here are the library settings where Freebase is set as the agent :

Here are the Freebase agent settings in the main server settings:

Now when I first came to the server settings agent page only Freebase was ticked in the list but I'm sure that this wasn't always the case. Not sure if an update caused this. I have since ticked the Movie Database and moved it too be the first option but this had no effect. I also tried changing the agent in the library settings to the Movie Database but again no change. After changing anything I first tried refreshing the library and when that didn't work I also tried removing and re-adding a movie (by moving the file, refreshing the library, and moving it back).

So I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas? Would appreciate any input!

Many thanks.

Craig

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Unable to change subtitles size

September 13, 2015, 12:19 pm
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Hi there,
I am casting a movie to my chromecast, and I have external subtitle, and they are so small,, I don't find anywhere- how can I change the size

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Repeat video playback

February 3, 2017, 10:31 am
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I would like to use chromecast for a kiosk essentially and loop a playlist.

When casting from the web there are no repeat controls. When I look on the iOS app repeat is greyed out and I can't select.

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Way to avoid choosing user every time app loads

May 17, 2018, 10:43 am
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I've recently started testing Plex for iOS, and it's been pretty handy so far. But the one thing that gets really annoying during my commute is that if I want to change a song, I first have to choose the user I want to access every time I pull up the app. It's incredibly annoying, and it should be staying in the user I choose previously, rather than asking every time.

I've looked in settings to see if there was an option for this, but none exists. Is this just a design flaw, or can is there a setting I'm missing?

Either way, this really should be fixed.

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Embedded subtitles not working working with Roku

April 3, 2018, 12:59 am
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This has been an issue now for the past while, I think since the Plex app for Roku moved to the 5.1.x code stream. From what I remember 5.0.x worked well without any issues.

Anyhow - the issues appears to be if you have multiple embedded subtitles in your video container (mkv in my example) and you want to use one of them. Nothing is disabled.

I'm running the latest plex server and the latest Roku firmware.

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