Is Plex still a thing?

[Kol]

Plex pass user, running on a Dell 3060 micro, watching via infuse on Apple TV. Plex is great at sorting, managing the library but I find infuse is “smoother” than Plex itself. Paired together, it’s great. Has no problems playing the largest of 4K remuxes.

The Dell uses so little electricity, it’s a fantastic device.

 

[blairw]

What model QNAP please? Sounds like a beast!


rp2000

Sorry missed this - it's a TS-h1886XU-RP R2. It's absolutely bonkers overspecced and sounds like a jet engine but it lives in the garage and hasn't skipped a beat in the time I have had it. I could run Plex on a VM / Container on it to be fair but I like the separation between storage and server.
I'm slowly upgrading my networking to 10Gbe throughout the house via some new Unifi Switches, it's awesome using the SSD/nvme Storage as a network attached drive for my main PC and Mac

 

[rp2000]

Sorry missed this - it's a TS-h1886XU-RP R2. It's absolutely bonkers overspecced and sounds like a jet engine but it lives in the garage and hasn't skipped a beat in the time I have had it. I could run Plex on a VM / Container on it to be fair but I like the separation between storage and server.
I'm slowly upgrading my networking to 10Gbe throughout the house via some new Unifi Switches, it's awesome using the SSD/nvme Storage as a network attached drive for my main PC and Mac

Absolutely bonkers overkill, but soooooo impressive at the same time! Enterprise level kit for Plex!

It's so niche I can't even find any in depth reviews (just to read for fun!). The specs alone are mouthwatering for any storage nerd!


rp2000

 

[wigster]

This is not my experience with JF, I've got it installed on a 5,400rpm WD Red, cache and metadata too. How big is your library?

That said I seemto remember it having issues was when it used to transcode and it seemed like it'd try to transcode all of the file in one hit unlike Plex. However I believe they've changed that now - looking at the settings it seems to be set to throttle after building a buffer of 3 minutes. Though I transcode literally nothing on Plex or JF as I use my desktop as the server and don't want the CPU to be transcoding when I'm using it.

@edgedemon IIRC, AFAIK ripping is currently illegal in the UK, if that's the case I'd save yourself some time (and hassle).....

That's interesting I'm still building my library coming close to 500 films. It struggles with tone mapping and metadata is rather slow but lightning fast on a SSD.

 

[blairw]

Absolutely bonkers overkill, but soooooo impressive at the same time! Enterprise level kit for Plex!

It's so niche I can't even find any in depth reviews (just to read for fun!). The specs alone are mouthwatering for any storage nerd!


rp2000

I bought it with the aspiration of doing more with it... but time, responsibilities etc all take over. Longer term I will likely be hosting some other home automation type applications but right now it's doing a rock solid job of storing UHD and Blu Ray Remux, I don't settle for quality for right from disc at 1:1 is the preferred way forward.

 

[loftie]

That's interesting I'm still building my library coming close to 500 films. It struggles with tone mapping and metadata is rather slow but lightning fast on a SSD.

Just having a quick scroll through my films library (similar size to yours), plex displays unloaded art as blank/black before it loads it, whereas JF does what looks like a blurred preview before loading. I'd say Plex has a slight edge, but it is slight, and that's with plex loading 7 films per row vs 9 for JF. I don't do tone mapping so I have no idea on that unfortunately.

 

[edgedemon]

That was a chore!
I'm finally there now - DVD's have been ripped to ISO's and over the next few days I will re-encode one at various sample rates and resolutions and see what looks the best.
I have started adding my music in as well, it is a tortuous process, the albums are quite simple, but I have a massive dance music collection, from a very misspent youth which will require manual tagging by the look of it..
I do have a question over accounts though.
Im running Plex media server with a lifetime pass. What should I do for the rest of the family?
Should I get them to create their own plex logins and send them invites?
Or should I add them as managed users?
Ideally Id like for them to have the whole skip inro thing as well if it is possible

 

[something daft already!!]

With family, I create their own login and mates I set as managed users.

 

[Infidelus]

I have started adding my music in as well, it is a tortuous process, the albums are quite simple, but I have a massive dance music collection, from a very misspent youth which will require manual tagging by the look of it..

I don't know if this will help or not but I use MusicBrainz to tag my music in combination with Puddletag. I'm sure there's plenty of other software for tagging too .