Is Plex still a thing?

Yes, updated for remote viewers (family). Everything always tracks for me, not noticed any metadata bugs yet. I watch 3 or 4 shows a day.
 
Is it a simple set up to have friends and family authorised to use the server? Can they just use their own credentials with no need for them to have Plex Pass?
 
I use Plex a lot, have a relatively decent sized library, around 900 films and a couple of hundred TV shows. I bought the lifetime Plex pass in 2019 with one of the many discount deals they were doing. My daughter and my brother both access it remotely across the internet as neither of them have a TV licence so this is effectively their main source of films and shows.

It's running on a Synology that can do hardware transcoding.
 
I've recently spun up a Plex server on a passive mini PC (Ryzen 7 5700G) - hoping this will serve me well. Would I be ok hosting files on an external USB HDD? Not ideal I realise in terms of redundancy etc, but the films aren't exactly critical data, I just need reliable playback without buffering
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
I had the deal of a century recently.

Got 2 16TB brand new unused WD red pros for £150. I'm so chuffed, stuff like that never happens to me. so currently have 2 16TB Red pros, 2 16 TB EXOS and 1 12TB Seagate I think.

Should keep me going for a while. Had 4 family members watching the other night and I just get such a kick from it. 1 in Lincolnshire, 1 in Northamptonshire, 1 in the cotswolds + me. I need to stop watching the graphs when people are watching. :cry:

What's the most you guys have had watching from your server?
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Those drives sound good.

I've 4 internal and 9 friends and family external.


 
robj20 said:
Never thought of splitting off Movies and UHD stuff, does it also keep them separate within Plex or is it just for storage.
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This looks like it's separate in Plex, this picture is showing the libraries. But you can keep UHD movies and non-UHD separate on your disk, and add multiple directories to a Plex library so although physically separate (could even be on different disks/servers etc) Plex will present them all as a logical library.

I have a few movies in both 1080p and in 4K and plex will ask me which one I want to watch or it will pick the best one based on my bandwidth etc
 
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whitecrook said:
This looks like it's separate in Plex, this picture is showing the libraries. But you can keep UHD movies and non-UHD separate on your disk, and add multiple directories to a Plex library so although physically separate (could even be on different disks/servers etc) Plex will present them all as a logical library.

I have a few movies in both 1080p and in 4K and plex will ask me which one I want to watch or it will pick the best one based on my bandwidth etc
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That's what I thought. I was thinking it might be nice to have them separate on the homepage not just as libraries.
I used to keep multiple copies but now with my new server it can transcode all it likes it'll handle it with ease.
 
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robj20 said:
That's what I thought. I was thinking it might be nice to have them separate on the homepage not just as libraries.
I used to keep multiple copies but now with my new server it can transcode all it likes it'll handle it with ease.
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The way I understand it, you can create a separate "HD Movies" library if you so choose, or you can have multiple folders mapped to a single library.
 
Have been using Plex daily for many years as our primary source of TV, movies and music. generally it's just direct play to an NVIDIA Shield Pro but occasionally remotely to phones/tablets, especially when on holiday with internet access. I have shared my libraries with family/friends but their usage of it has dwindled to nothing. Also picked up a lifetime Plex Pass some years ago for peanuts and haven't looked back since. Have a large collection of ripped CD/DVD/BD/UHD's stored in separate folders on the "Server" but just displayed as grouped libraries in Plex for ease of use. I generally favour UHD's or BD's for most things now for maximum audio/video quality.

Honestly can't imagine using anything else at this point as it works so well for us
 
robj20 said:
Never thought of splitting off Movies and UHD stuff, does it also keep them separate within Plex or is it just for storage.
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I split them out as I dont want remote people streaming 100+gig files from me :-)

Plex does a weird thing, for me at least, that it will show 2 icons "on deck" if i'm watching a UHD film. I have minimal UHD content so I don't let it bother me.
 
whitecrook said:
interesting to see the gig-age versus time-age

you have 5.5TB for 4 month 1 wk of TV shows , i have 6TB over 4month 2wks, so very close, and
2.4TB for 1 month 6days of movies and you have 2.7TB for 2 months 2wks. But i don't split my uhd from my divx;)

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I did a massive cull recently. The majority of 1080p films were taking up 20gig. I removed all films > 6gb from the library and "reaquired" them. Most 1080p files in 265 can be found for 2gig.
 
Here's mine, I keep it all together. I need to separate out the kids stuff because doing it via Plex age rating isn't that great - there's stuff he likes watching which is suitable which it cuts off.

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Edit - at some point I'm going to convert a lot of it to AV1, just need to set up my gaming PC (with a 4090) as a tdarr node and get around to it, but meh it's easier chucking in larger HDDs into the NAS. :cry:
 
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ChrisD. said:
Here's mine, I keep it all together. I need to separate out the kids stuff because doing it via Plex age rating isn't that great - there's stuff he likes watching which is suitable which it cuts off.

nqTJRXXo


Edit - at some point I'm going to convert a lot of it to AV1, just need to set up my gaming PC (with a 4090) as a tdarr node and get around to it, but meh it's easier chucking in larger HDDs into the NAS. :cry:
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Never thought of converting stuff to AV1, does Handbrake do that, mines a mix of H.265 and H.264 at the minute.
 
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