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Is Plex still a thing?

I only have 110 Mbps upload and I have a few remote viewers. It's generally fine unless all decide to watch 4k content at the same time. I do however have transcoding enabled.
 
Very late to the Plex game. I've now set up a mini PC acting as a server, hosting Plex and various other bits (as well as starting going down the rabbit hole of Home Assistant), with my NAS acting as the host for all files.

I was previously running Plex on the Synology itself, as it was easy to set up and convenient, but with various other processes running, and the downloads, it chugs along.

Enjoying it so far, like having your own Netflix :)
 
no_1_dave said:
Does anybody have an idea of how Plex handles with slower upload bandwidth? I have transcoding switched off, I never like using it as I find it sometimes transcodes when it doesn't need to and I prefer quality. Currently I have 2.5gb up/down so bandwidth has never been a concern, but I'm moving house in a few weeks and the new house only has Openreach so I'll be stuck with 110mb upload. For me personally it won't be an issue because I'll be at home, but I have a few family members and friends with access and the majority of content is in 4K HDR. Average bitrate can vary anywhere from 10mbs to 40mbs so I'm assuming it will be ok as long as only 2 or 3 people are watching something at the same time. Am I right in this? Some content will likely have spikes a lot higher than the 40mbs average, possibly spikes over 100mb. Will this cause a problem? Is there anybody else on Openreach who has transcoding switched off and if so, have you had issues?
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I've struggled with that myself. I've tried to have a few movie nights with the bros, but with 5 of us watching a 15mbs stream it just buffers. I've gone mad trying to figure it out and tweak settings, on paper it should work, but it just doesn't. It's definitely a connection bottleneck because the hardware is barely stressed and watch together shares the stream so it's not 5x drive reads. As with many of these issues, sometimes it's just you and a bunch of others are fine. I hope that's the case!

117Mbps upload and an Unraid server (Epyc 7302P, 128GB DDR4 RAM, raid1 nvmes).
 
I thought they'd binned watch together because it wasn't reliable tbh.
My friends, if they're watching something together, the host will play it then stream it over discord.
When I've done it, I've used jellyfin in the past.
 
loftie said:
I thought they'd binned watch together because it wasn't reliable tbh.
My friends, if they're watching something together, the host will play it then stream it over discord.
When I've done it, I've used jellyfin in the past.
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Left Plex a while ago and went to Emby with a lifetime pass for £70.. The lack of watch together bothered me, so I created an app that allows you to choose which devices play. Pretty much in sync even with an iphone that is on 4/5G. Maybe 100ms at most out of sync between 5 different devices that I tested at the same time.
 
I seem to have been having some issue with Plex since recently getting a major looking software upgrade on the AppleTV app, several times while watching recorded TV I've had a program stop a few minutes in and spin the buffering circle, exiting and restarting seems to have no effect and even returning some time later just returns to the buffering. I can skip back and watch for a bit but it then freezes again at the same spot. Looking at the files on my PC they appear to be the right sort of size and length, so they're not just failed recordings.

Watching content from my DVD\4K library on there seems to be fine, only seeing it with live TV recordings, anyone else having any issues? It's generally been pretty flawless before now.
 
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Plex still runs on my NAS although I don't use it personally, it's more for family. In fact I don't even know if they use it that much as I haven't checked in on it in years ...
 
Tavis75 said:
I seem to have been having some issue with Plex since recently getting a major looking software upgrade on the AppleTV app, several times while watching recorded TV I've had a program stop a few minutes in and spin the buffering circle, exiting and restarting seems to have no effect and even returning some time later just returns to the buffering. I can skip back and watch for a bit but it then freezes again at the same spot. Looking at the files on my PC they appear to be the right sort of size and length, so they're not just failed recordings.

Watching content from my DVD\4K library on there seems to be fine, only seeing it with live TV recordings, anyone else having any issues? It's generally been pretty flawless before now.
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I had something similar a long time ago with MKVs using the native samsung app for our last (old) tv. Even though the file could be played on the tv without issue, trying to direct play it via Plex would cause it to buffer. In the end I put it down to plex being ****. Solutions for me at the time were to transcode (which I didn't want to do), or simply rename the MKVs to MP4s.
 
Breathe life into your old LG tvs if the native Plex is running like crap :D

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I haven't checked it out as the normal Plex app runs fine on my C4, but might be useful for some.
 
Just watched a film with family on holiday in Portugal, seemed fine most of the time, but with occasional compression artefacts that I dont see watching at home. Local and home connections are 250Mb+, so who knows :).

I keep thinking of moving to Jellyfin, but am too lazy to deal with any issues moving files...c400 films currently. Nearly all with original discs somewhere, the big annoyance being my LOTR disc set with extras disappeared a few years ago..
 
Just run it along side and see how well it works for you. Rome wasn't built in a day, and you don't need to move over everything to JF in one hit. You may find you don't like it before you move it all across.
 
loftie said:
Just run it along side and see how well it works for you. Rome wasn't built in a day, and you don't need to move over everything to JF in one hit. You may find you don't like it before you move it all across.
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Thanks, I suppose I could try it in the current OMV install in docker. Not sure if I have the time/inclination to setup a proxmox environment again for OMV(Plex), Ubuntu/Jellyfin ...

A clear 'me problem' :)
 
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