Is Plex still a thing?

[john_smith]

Yes wait for a sale. Got mine a few years ago on Black Friday.

Mine was on a fathers day deal.

 

[john_smith]

Media converting. Would love to see what people do here please. Any guides etc would be great to see.

 

[robj20]

Media converting. Would love to see what people do here please. Any guides etc would be great to see.

MakeMKV to rip the DVD or Blu-ray then Handbrake to convert it to H.265

 

[CorrectHorseBattery]

Was looking at building something on my server with a VM or similar as you can run MakeMKV in Docker I think.

Just need an external Blu-ray drive.

 

[ChrisD.]

Was looking at building something on my server with a VM or similar as you can run MakeMKV in Docker I think.

Just need an external Blu-ray drive.

Look into tdarr and unmanic.

 

[loftie]

Any way to get a cheap lifetime pass?

TBH, I thought they'd gone the way of the dodo since they removed remote access and increased the price. If I'm honest I'd look to Jellyfin first and see how you get on, unless there's specifically something Plex does that you want. I've got both running side by side, I think my Plex pass purchase was mostly due to FOMO, but if I'm watching something I'll do it via Jellyfin.

 

[CorrectHorseBattery]

TBH, I thought they'd gone the way of the dodo since they removed remote access and increased the price. If I'm honest I'd look to Jellyfin first and see how you get on, unless there's specifically something Plex does that you want. I've got both running side by side, I think my Plex pass purchase was mostly due to FOMO, but if I'm watching something I'll do it via Jellyfin.

Doesn’t seem to be a way to get Jellyfin in Kodi that isn’t using the awful native Kodi UI. There’s a Plex app that you run instead.

 

[loftie]

Doesn’t seem to be a way to get Jellyfin in Kodi that isn’t using the awful native Kodi UI. There’s a Plex app that you run instead.

Yea that's correct about Kodi + JF AFAIK. What are you running it on that doesn't have a JF app? I'd add that my experience on my firestick with the native Plex app is worse than the Plex extension that you can run in Kodi (not the add Plex stuff to Kodi Library extension). I've had multiple files where the Plex app will insist on transcoding when it didn't need to, but going via Kodi it all played without transcoding.

 

[CorrectHorseBattery]

Yea that's correct about Kodi + JF AFAIK. What are you running it on that doesn't have a JF app? I'd add that my experience on my firestick with the native Plex app is worse than the Plex extension that you can run in Kodi (not the add Plex stuff to Kodi Library extension). I've had multiple files where the Plex app will insist on transcoding when it didn't need to, but going via Kodi it all played without transcoding.

Kodi is the only way to get proper uncompressed audio out of most devices it runs on, so you really have to use that.

 

[loftie]

Kodi is the only way to get proper uncompressed audio out of most devices it runs on, so you really have to use that.

TIL. I know nothing, so clueless. However I'd add there are some audio settings on my windows client WRT audio, and while I can't see it on the windows client, the android client has the option to open a video in an external player. It's how I play HEVC files on my tablet as MPV works fine, but JF and Plex won't play them fine. So might be worth investigating.

If you're planning on using the Plex plugin for kodi, IIRC I saw mention that they were planning on discontinuing it. Though that was a while back and the plugin still works. *shrugs*