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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by e40 »

nichochar wrote: post #54

Plex is one of my favorite services. One of those companies that makes it easy for me to donate.

I was really annoyed, though, when they released version 1.0 and removed access to all previous downloads. Turns out, 1.0 (on Debian) was broken and I could no longer FF on my Roku. The forums were filled with people complaining, but they would not make the older, good release available. After a week or two someone provided it to me via dropbox.

You might ask why I didn't have the previous download? Because the way I was building my plex docker container would download the latest one, directly. I removed the previous container before I verified all features were working. And, at that point, I wasn't backing up containers (they are stateless, so why bother?), so I was royally screwed for 2 weeks (in terms of FF).

The fact that they are closed source, and behaved this way. It really soured me on them.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by morganvachon »

joshuata wrote: post #9
crooked-v wrote: post #2

This has the big limitation, at least at the moment, that the supported providers all cap out at 1 TB for any kind of reasonably-priced storage.

It's also painfully slow. I've been using it for the past few months, and it rescans my library every time I access it. Half the time it shows my libraries as empty. Overall it feels very unfinished.

I figured it would be too slow for daily use for my own needs, based on my current setup. I have a Nvidia Shield TV as the Plex server and living room Plex client, with a home-built NAS running OpenMediaVault for media storage. The Shield and NAS are both connected to Gigabit Ethernet, and I occasionally run into slowdowns if I'm trying to watch in the living room, my wife is watching in the bedroom via Roku, and my sister-in-law across the city is watching via her Roku. I've narrowed it down to a saturated network, the Shield was barely breaking a sweat transcoding the files.

With that said, using the Shield as the server greatly improved our previous streaming situation. Before using the Shield, we'd struggle to maintain two good quality streams at once, whether both were local or one was local and one remote. The previous server was no slouch: Core2 Quad with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, but it seems the Shield is well qualified to handle server duties.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by matrixagent »

luhn wrote: post #56
planetjones wrote: post #14

I have an lifetime plex pass membership. I think it cost $120. I am not sure how they will be able to continue to offer me plex cloud, as servers which plex are paying for must be doing the transcoding. The bill for CPU must be fairly hefty if people really start to use this.

Perhaps they transcode to multiple formats/bitrates locally before upload?

That's not the case, and it would be utterly unusable for 90% of users.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by sp332 »

Veratyr wrote: post #31
machbio wrote: post #21

this is a failed project - there was a lot of expectation when they initially started with Amazon Cloud Drive..with a technical limitation that they faced with Amazon Cloud Drive - they completely eliminated Amazon Cloud Drive from its storage options..I called it failed, because there is no way, I will pay loads of money to Dropbox or Google for the Terabyte of my Homelab videos.. Amazon Cloud Drive would definitely…

You can get unlimited data from Google Drive and Dropbox for about the price of 1TB, you just need to use a business account. This seems to be the main solution for the people I know who are using this.

Dropbox is $100/year for 1TB but $20/month for unlimited. That's more than double.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by [deleted] »

planetjones wrote: post #14

I have an lifetime plex pass membership. I think it cost $120. I am not sure how they will be able to continue to offer me plex cloud, as servers which plex are paying for must be doing the transcoding. The bill for CPU must be fairly hefty if people really start to use this.

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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by BillinghamJ »

jnagro wrote: post #40
dmerrick wrote: post #15

I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.

encryption is a mute point unless its some sort of end-to-end encrypted thing since they host the computers.

"Moot" point, not "mute" - https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot_point

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by notatoad »

rckrd wrote: post #58

Why didn't they use S3 or GCS as the backing store? Why do we need upload & sync? Seems like you only need just upload and go.

Most people use Plex for pirated content. If Plex uses S3 or GCS as the backing store, then they are hosting and delivering their users' pirated content and opening themselves up to all kinds of legal problems. If they're just providing a way to stream content from some external storage, they have a lot less liability.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by [deleted] »

jnagro wrote: post #40
dmerrick wrote: post #15

I'm a huge Plex fan, but I'm really not comfortable using this until it supports encryption. I would only use this for media where you have the legal rights to copy it.

encryption is a mute point unless its some sort of end-to-end encrypted thing since they host the computers.

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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by bane »

illumin8 wrote: post #48
bane wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why bother? just add more directories of content to each library. Plex just merges them all at the library level. I have crap stashed over 5 drives, just plain vanilla USB drives, and plex handles them just fine.

Data protection. HDFS replicates chunks of files across 3 different drives by default. This is configurable, but it's one of the most simple ways to protect your data from drive failures, without the performance penalty of RAID.

yeah, that's fair.

Might want to see if the HDFS NFS Gateway works for this.

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project-dist/ha...

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by ben174 »

drampelt wrote: post #50

For those wishing to use Amazon Cloud Drive with their own Plex server https://amc.ovh/ has some great instructions. I've been doing this with very little issues for a few months now. EDIT: More up to date instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

Wow. "Unlimited" for $60/yr. Do you think they'd be ok with me uploading my entire 12tb library? I wasn't able to find any limits in the fine print.
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