Plex

So a friend(a) of mine is running a plex server. They gave me and another friend(b) access to it.

I'm working on integrating authentik into my homelab stack to enable SSO and improve my invite processes.

like if I download a video on my phone, can I somehow upload that to my Plex server? or do I have to do it the regular way?

See title. Trailers for my local content all play fine. If I want to play a trailer to see if interested in stuff on plex's own streaming service, I get that error.

I'm curious if any of you have ever used Audials. It has some interesting functionality including Audials Vision which has a video AI upscaler. I wonder if this would be effective at upscaling lower resolution videos like DVD quality 480p videos or 720p videos.

I run plex from Docker on a local linux server. I have sonarr configured but its not configured perfectly so it's downloading but not importing right now. Thats a separate issue I need to figure out.

I know that if I go to my own library on desktop, I can download actual files and move them around and do whatever I want with them, I thought maybe that was why I couldn't find the download to watch later option, so I went to a shared library, and the option isn't there either. you can see where the option exists on mobile

I've had trouble streaming Plex in the bedroom, 4K content only. Lot's of buffering/stutters.

Now that tidal integration is dead, a good option I've used before is livexone (formerly slacker). While i loved having everything in one place, I prefer not having to buy/rip or download the huge catalogs available elsewhere. And now that music seems to be going away in plex clients in the roadmap as well, i decided to find another solution sooner.

*edit - turns out rebooting it five times is what works.*

The error is saying there’s not enough memory. But not enough memory where? Anyone else running into this? Any suggestions for resolution?

Hi All,

looks like tvdb doesn't have anything past season 9 yet. technically it's season 12, right?

I have followed the docs and have the recommended folder structures for my Plex and arrs setup.

I am finding older movies not having translation subtitles when people are speaking a foreign language, like in the beginning of The Hunt for Red October or Stargate. Watching the movie on the the physical copy of Stargate, when they are speaking Egyptian, English subtitles come up translating what they are saying. On my digital copy, I have to have subtitles on all the time in order to see the translation, which sucks because I don’t need subtitles the rest of the movie, just when they are speaking Egyptian. My theory is that there was some sort of trigger on the physical copy that activates the subtitles at that point that is missing from the digital copy. Is there a way to fix or get around this? Or am I just stuck reading subtitles the entirety of the movies if I want to know what people are saying in the foreign language?

I followed the trash guide and have sonaar and sabnzbd working brilliantly together in portainer.

I recently moved from win 11 on my mini PC to ubuntu. Following a tutorial, I have plex set up in portainer.

I'd like to give a family member access to my live TV for the olympics, but I don't want to give someone who doesn't really know what they're doing that sort of control inside my account.

I can't seem to find what tvdb designates them as. are they part of your Family Guy TV series, or are they movies?

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This is something I've been trying to do reliably for years. I can stream anything I want easily with VLC or even just Chrome itself but I can't get subs to work. I was able to make it work for a long time using a Chrome app called "videostream" but it now no longer works correctly on my system. It's a bit confusing to me but it kind of looks from what I have read that Plex can apparently handle this? Most references to the idea seem to be for later chromecast versions but mine's a 1st gen I bought in 2014. Could I use Plex to stream local media with separate or embedded srt files to my chromecast ?

Over night, Plex has decided that it can't see any of my library files for movies and TV shows. They were fine before, they have been for years. Only music is unaffected.

In January and February I had curated some playlists and shared them with friends and we watched them together via Watch Together. There was previously an option to Grant Access to the playlist, and after granting access, you could click Watch Together and start a watch party.

Hello!

I have a few shows like the Daily Show I'll sometimes watch the monologue but not the full episode.

I have a user who has watched Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler 13 times in a month and I am starting to get concerned. I try to mind my own business with what people watch but when the stats say that it is the most watched movie and there is only one user that watched it, you start to get curious.

Hey all, just wondering what others are using for a rack mount server option. I don't want to break the bank, and I have a P2000 I plan to use for transcoding. I had picked up a Hyze Zeus server, but unfortunately, the GPU won't fit in that box. I plan to have this machine dedicated to Plex. All of my data will be stored on my trunas server and server up to plex via NFS shares, so the server doesn't need much storage capacity. I would prefer the server to be a 1u rack mount... but if 2u is going to offer the best option, I will settle for 2u.

Looking for recommendations on a streaming box to connect my TV to plex. I have a lot of 4k blu ray rips averaging 80-100mbps and I'm struggling to find a client that can handle it. First I had a Roku, which had network bandwidth issues. So I moved to the new fire stick 4k max, which still buffers like crazy. I don't think its network related because its pulling 500mbps down, and my laptop (which pulls 300 down) can stream it just fine. So any recommendations on a tv streaming box? I've seen the Nvidia shield, and the Mecool KM2 plus deluxe but want to get some opinions before buying anything. Thanks!

From a given show Plex allows you to search for a subtitles off of OpenSubtitles (the .org I guess?), but many (all?) contain spam messages within the texts.

Bonus points for FOSS

Hey guys, I’ve never used Plex before but am looking to set up a server this week for me and my family as streaming bills are getting out of control. I have a small library of legally acquired media that will work as a good test before I go sailing for the rest.

Lately my episode guide is showing episode titles, but not the show name. This isn't all that useful and I'd prefer the old behavior.

It’s frustrating that the artist list doesn’t have all of the alphabet. Mine only goes A-L for example. This might be a CarPlay side limitation but either way it’s not great.

Sorry, don't mean to beat a dead horse but what's the best currently available Plex client all things considered?

I think I have quite a few items in my library with both a 720p and 1080p version stored on disk. I'd like to find them but can't figure out how to do that through the interface. Is there a way? The closest I found was creating a collection where "Episode Duplicate" is true - but that is still like finding a needle in a haystack. I have to click through seasons, look at each episode's info and see if theres' two files.

I love clicking through the cast of movies but I wish I could do the same the creators of movies/shows.

I run a Plex server on in a Docker container on a Linux machine in my house on a Verizon FiOS internet connection. I've shared my library with many people and no one has a problem. Except one person who uses optimum.net as their service provider. When in their house I can't direct connect to my Plex server, and everything gets sent through at 1mbps, I assume relayed through Plex.

I’ve swipped left/right, I’ve long clicked, and I’ve check menus and I don’t see how to delete.

We both setup servers at about the same time a few years ago and shared with each other. I’m sure once the dust settles someone will pull the he plug on his server and it’ll be offline for good.

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Remote Access status on my Plex server says it's "Not available outside your network." However, the couple of people I currently share my server with have no issues accessing it, I've verified port forwarding settings, I just loaded up the Plex app on my phone (wifi off, on cellular) and everything loads up fine.

So I have a kind of interesting situation going on here. I recently replaced my gaming rig's 2080 with a 4070ti that I picked up at a good price. Then, I put the 2080 into my home server and got it up and running with plex.

I share my server with a few handful of family members and friends and it just feels really nice watching the dashboard when someone streams content from you.

I am looking into updating/upgrading my home media server using some old hardware from my main PC, and I would like some advice on Operating Systems. I have used Windows 10 for the life of this server, and I do not know if that would be the best choice for the future.