I swear I’d watch more of the ad-supported content on Plex if it didn’t stop every ten minutes to show four minutes of commercials. I hope they are making some money from this deal, but I doubt it. Most of this content is available from other ad supported streamers with about 1/4 of the commercials. So why would anyone watch this?

I host a Plex server for our household, which includes a couple of teenagers. All members of the household (myself included) have a PIN protected managed user profile on our Plex server.

The problem is, if I let the teenagers have my Plex account password to login to our Plex server, it automatically logs them in with the Home Admin profile, whereas I'd much rather it force them to select from the list of profiles on our server (eg. just like Netflix does).

This means that, every now and then, I have to manually go to whichever new device they want to run Plex on (such as a Playstation) and handle the login process myself, so I can be certain they're logged in with their own user profile - not the Home Admin profile.

I've set a PIN on the Home Admin profile, but that doesn't help unless you've already logged in first, then go to use fast user switching to select a different profile. On very first login, Plex will always auto-select the Home Admin profile.

I've searched high and low, but can't find any info or settings that help me change this behaviour.

So, my question is simple: is it possible to prevent auto-login as the Home Admin profile, and force selection from the list of managed users instead?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I should have provided more details about what I've tried so far. We have tested out using a separate Plex user account for the oldest kid, as all the reading I did suggested she would "inherit" my server's Plex Pass rights when streaming from it.

But, we found that the iPhone app could still stop playback after a minute. Plus we couldn't log her account onto the shared Chromecast TV, so she could watch her shows on the house TV. So we ended up moving her back to a managed user profile on our server.

EDIT 2: after some more reading, it now seems the mobile app must either be logged in with a Plex Pass account (mine, in our case) or the user has to pay a once-off fee to unlock it.

I could've sworn it was different when I first read about it a year or two back, where the app would "inherit" the server's rights, but I guess that's either faulty memory or they changed the rules. The once off unlock fee isn't a big problem, so that's one hurdle overcome.

The second problem is how to use multiple Plex accounts on the Plex app for Chromecast, so the kids can enjoy their content on the big screen when they want to. Has anyone cracked the code on how to achieve that?

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I'm having a hard time googling this question, so I'm asking here. I have a Plex server with content, and I want my dad and my sister to have access through their account at their homes. Does this require a Plex pass only for me or for all users?

@plex
I'm trying to build some smart playlists:

The Genre selection works but the album / track ratings fails to add tracks to the list.

Rating something 1 star I don't want it to be included

match-all {
match-all{
match-any {
album-rating is-greater-than 1stars
album-rating is 0stars
}
match-any {
track-rating is-greater-than 1stars
track-rating is 0stars
}
}
match-any {
album-genre is soundtracks
...
album-genre is film-scores
}
}

How I do Streaming Music - @plex , @plexamp and Prologue:

https://fastchicken.co.nz/2024/03/10/how-i-do-streaming-music-plex-plexamp-prologue/

Hey everyone, for anyone with SNL collections do you have a place you know of where I could get SNL "Bumper" images?

Some images are the nice host images from TVDB, but a lot are missing. I can go through each episode and take a screencap, but that feels dirty and it'd be a ton of effort.

I'm hoping someone out there has or knows where to find a zip or something of all of them.

Thanks!

Has anyone else noticed a problem with #plex subtitles on ad supported content? I was watching a foreign language film with subtitles and every time it went to an ad break Plex would disable the subtitles and the only way to get them back was to go to playback settings and turn the subtitles off and on each time. This is extremely annoying to have to do this, considering how many ad breaks they insert into the average film on this platform.

#film #movies #cinema #streaming @plex

Let's say I've got 100 episodes of NOVA. I've added one episode to a playlist about a certain subject, and there's a bunch of other videos in that playlist about that subject.

I go into the playlist and click the play button. This is the play button on the playlist, not the individual video in the list.

My expectation is that the next video it plays is the next video in the playlist. However, repeatedly, it plays the next NOVA video instead of the next video in the playlist.

What am I doing wrong here?

Clarifying: it finishes the first video in the playlist, but then continues on to a video that is not in the playlist.

I'm looking to create an easy solution that is child/wife friendly. I'm hoping to get a set up going without internet. I however would like it to run like a Chromecast with plex.

I was thinking of a

Dell Optiplex 3020M Mini PC USFF, running windows 10

An external hard drive with content.

From here is where I have gaps. Could I set up a plex server offline on the device, with plex media player and use an Flirc remote with pre-programmed buttons?

Essentially, I'm trying to create the experience of watching Netflix on a Chromecast but with plex and a pc remote control of some sort (with pre-programmed buttons that load up content so kid and wife only have to press one or two buttons to get to their shows)

Thanks!

In an email to customers who run Plex servers at the large German hosting company Hetzner, Plex said that access will be blocked next month. It’s not clear if Hetzner is the only hosting company this applies to, but several customers confirmed that they received the same email.

Has anyone here on Lemmy got this notice? Self-hosting is still in the green, but with this precedent who knows what Plex could do later.

How do you handle the new #psyche #disorder of feeling compelled to #retweet your twee... X, (shh! i'm twittering a new X!) i'm proliferating something random about #Unicode ? Anyway... here it is:

I usually have #NBC on in the AM. But #PeacockTV won't stream on #Linux. How do you like that, @nbcnews ? I went with @abcnewstalent on @plex this morning.#CBS now which I'm guessing is the @amazonfreevee #broadcast #network #news. I came to mention: I like this better and It's more #Black

I’m looking for some feedback on my Plex system architecture.

All my media is stored on a Synology DS 1621+, six 4 TB drives in RAID 6 with one acting as a hot spare. All four network ports are bonded into a 4G link to an Ubiquiti USW-48-POE.

Previously, I ran Plex in a Docker container on the NAS. This setup was stable; however, the NAS only has 4 GB of memory shared between Plex, several other Docker services, and regular DSM overhead. Plus, the processor is not very powerful (AMD Ryzen V1500B, ~5400 PassMark).

A few months ago I repurposed some old desktop PC parts to build a home lab Proxmox server (Core i7-6700K [~8900 PassMark], 32 GB memory, GTX 970, an old 2.5” SATA SSD for guest OS disks, 1G networking on the motherboard). I’m running Plex on an Ubuntu VM, with the GPU passed through directly to the guest OS. Plex is not containerized in Ubuntu. The VM has 8 CPU cores and 8 GiB memory (different units in Proxmox). My Plex media is accessed via a persistent NFS mount in Ubuntu (had been SMB before a DSM update broke something and the VM could no longer read the directory contents.)

The main purpose of the change from NAS to VM was to utilize the increased CPU/GPU horsepower and memory that I had lying around, but I worry that the added layers of complexity (hypervisor/VM, PCIe pass through, NFS mounts) will introduce more opportunities for performance issues. I have noticed more frequent hiccups/buffering/transcoding since the change but I’m not sure if it’s related to my setup or if those issues lie with client devices and/or the files themselves (e.g. weird file container type that the client can’t play natively).

Any critique or recommendations on system architecture? Should I get a dedicated NIC to pass through to my VM? Dedicated NVMe drive passed through as a guest OS disk? Ditch Proxmox altogether and go back to Synology Docker container?

About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

• Make it do TV, too
• Make a dry-run mode
• Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

The code is now available on github here:

https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collections of seasons" of media, but the reality is, if nobody has watched anything related to a TV show in a while, the whole thing can go! And that's what this does:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.tv.unwatched.py

No more editing python, either. Create yourself a .env file, set up all of your config, and even enable dry run mode, so you can test to your heart's content:

$ docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py
DRY_RUN enabled!
--------------------------------------
2023-08-25T12:40:57.288608
DRY RUN: Chaos Walking | Radarr ID: 1445 | TMDB ID: 412656
DRY RUN: Captain Marvel | Radarr ID: 885 | TMDB ID: 299537
DRY RUN: Captain America: Civil War | Radarr ID: 1768 | TMDB ID: 271110
DRY RUN: Black Widow | Radarr ID: 1517 | TMDB ID: 497698
DRY RUN: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Radarr ID: 1092 | TMDB ID: 495764
DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Radarr ID: 1777 | TMDB ID: 1648
DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Radarr ID: 1778 | TMDB ID: 1649
DRY RUN: Big Hero 6 | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572
DRY RUN: Big | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572
DRY RUN: Batman Begins | Radarr ID: 1745 | TMDB ID: 272
DRY RUN: Assault on Precinct 13 | Radarr ID: 1212 | TMDB ID: 17814
DRY RUN: 21 Jump Street | Radarr ID: 1096 | TMDB ID: 64688
Total space reclaimed: 164.88GB

To use protected mode, just create a text file with one TMDB/TVDB ID per line and volume mount it as /app/protected like so:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

Good luck! Please let me know if you have questions or problems and I'll do my best to help out!

I was wondering if anyone bumped into this. I noticed random jumps (1-3seconds) in playback when playing original quality. Definitely not buffering or performance lag, just an actual playback error. Jump was at the same spot anytime I loaded the media and regardless of what time I loaded it to.

Which is curious because on playing the file with a different media player on the box it was on, zero issue what so ever.

Disabling direct stream option (under debug) resolved it, and there doesn't seem to be much of a performance hit, I'm just curious what's going on here.

Can SnapRaid restore the a lost drive in the case where the other data drives have been written to since the last sync? My understanding of the principles is probably just lacking, but I worry that using parity based on the other drive's data would only work if the data on the other drives had not changed since the parity was last calculated.

So do I invalidate my last sync as soon as I write new data to a drive in my arrray?

Heading to the beach with a portable @plex server, router, and a WireGuard tunnel back home.
cc @caseyliss

I currently have 90Tb of libraries shared via a Windows server. I've been using Mediasonic hard drive enclosures with 8 or 16Tb drives and Windows/Intel storage spaces for 4 drives for the "Movies" library, 8 drives for the "TV" library, and another 4 drives for "Photos" and other random NAS. I literally only share with family, but, that's still about 12 users across the US due to school. I have a stable 1000/1000Mb fiber connection that has been working perfectly for the past few years. So, my issue now is, I want to host my own Lemmy, Matrix, and NextCloud servers, but they all seem to need a Linux-based server. I've read in the past that Linux Plex servers run into a lot of issues since it was designed to run on Windows. I'm not averse to buying yet another computer, but, before I do that I thought I would seek some advice if I should combine everything into one Linux server, or leave Plex as its own Windows server and put everything else on a new device.

I'm very new and I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but is there any way to set folder (and future subfolder) permissions on Ubuntu?

I use the Arrs and new folders are made automatically when something completes, but I constantly have to use Plex to optimize my videos before they'll play. Unfortunately, the new folders get locked when they're made.

I'm not sure what I've done to my setup, but I'd love some help if anyone is willing.

My computer crashed recently, and I had to reinstall everything. Since then, I could not have anything above 720p anywhere besides playing directly on the computer that runs plex.

It looks like the maximum rate is 2 Mbps regardless of the original format.

I my install is pretty much the same as before.

I run plex as a docker container on Kubuntu.

CPU : I5-4590

GPU : GeForce 1030

I installed the Nvidia toolbox for docker as well, and everything should be good

I tried activating, deactivating HW transcoding, playing with the transcoding speed option, disabled the iGPU to use only the 1030, but nothing seems to make any difference.

I first thought it was a certain format, but it seems to affect everything. I tried to optimize a file by encoding it with the plex option, but the issue stays.

I thought about a network limitation, but nothing is supposed to have changed.

I'm kind of clueless now on what to do next

Any idea on where to look?

Edit2:

Solved!

I unchecked the "use relay" option, and that fixed it.

I still have issues with certain clients, but that's another problem.

I found it odd that everything defaulted to relay when it could have direct play with certain clients.

Thank you for the help!

If anyone has received their email I’m curious how you handled it. I’ve looked at colocating my NAS, but it’s incredibly expensive ($250/month for 2U and 1 gig).

I'm in a musical rut for sure, Tidal is the obvious solution because it integrates with Plex. What plan do you use (if you do)? I use PlexAmp all the time, have a lifetime pro subscription for plex. I prefer high quality but not sure about that $19/month pricetag...

In this guide I will explain how to add edition tags to movies or alter already existing ones. This guide assumes you have access to the plex database.

Limitations

While this solution enables anyone to add/remove edition tags that will show up in any app/website that supports them. Some features are still be restricted to PlexPass subscribers such as displaying other editions on the movie details page.

Method

1. Identify your plex database location.

Generally your database should be located here: [Plex data directory]/Plug-in Support/Databases. But depending on your system [Plex data directory] will be different. Here is a list of common directories.

2. Identify your plex binary location.

This might be a little more difficult as there is no nice pre-made list as there is with the data-directory. Try googling a little. In my case the path is /volume3/@appstore/Plex Media Server/Plex Media Server, since I installed plex in Volume 3 on my Synology.

If you are unable to locate your plex binary you may still be able to continue if you have sqlite3 installed on your system. Though I have not tested this solution.

3. Connecting to the database

Open your terminal and make sure you can access the plex binary. If your plex binary is on a server or in a docker container you may have to access it using ssh. In my case I have to use ssh: ssh Quark95@123.69.10.420.

You may have to enable ssh access on your system.

Now we can connect to the database using SQLite. The command will look like this: "[Plex binary path]" --sqlite "[Plex Data directory]/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db".

Alternatively you could try sqlite3 "[Plex Data directory]/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db"

And for reference my command looks like this: "/volume3/@appstore/Plex Media Server/Plex Media Server" --sqlite "/volume3/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db"

Now a prompt should appear that looks like this:

sqlite>

4. Finding IDs

Now you'll need to find the ID of the movie(s) you want to edit. To do this, find the movie in your plex library on desktop, in the ... menu select Get Info and press View XML. In the XML file that opens you'll find the id as a string here: <Video ratingKey="108014". Where in this case 108014 is the id.

5. Editing the database

Before you continue I must warn you that editing the database in this way is not supported and if done incorrectly, can in a worst case scenario corrupt the plex database. However, as we are doing only minor changes, I feel it is relatively safe.

Here are some examples of common commands I've found useful: Remember to change <your movie id>, <old tag> and <new tag> or you may get an error.

• Add/edit edition tag for a single item: UPDATE metadata_items SET edition_title = "<new tag>" WHERE id = <your movie id>;
• Add/edit tag for a list of items: UPDATE metadata_items SET edition_title = "<new tag>" WHERE id in (<your movie id>, <your movie id>, <your movie id>);
• Edit all instances of a tag from <old tag> to <new tag>: UPDATE metadata_items SET edition_title = "<New tag>" WHERE edition_title = "<old tag>";

That's it!

-- Quark95 🖖🏻