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Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by lotyrin »

bubblethink wrote: post #53
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.

Maybe transcoding won't be needed eventually for a majority of users ? A lot of media right now exists in h264 which newer devices can anyway play. Since AV1 has broad industry support, it might be also become ubiquitous.

Most of my transcoding usage in Plex isn't for a target codec or target resolution, but for a target bitrate.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by drampelt »

ben174 wrote: post #70
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.

Like others said you should be fine, people have stored much much more without issue. Just make sure it's all encrypted.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by stilist »

throwaway91111 wrote: post #80
Veratyr wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of people on Reddit's /r/DataHoarder have done far more than that, easily into the tens of TBs. The problems come when you upload unencrypted copyrighted content or try to download more than 1TB in a single day.

Wait, what happens if you upload unencrypted copyright content? I legally own quite a bit of that, as I suspect most people do.

Well, you have a license to use the material, but that license probably wasn't written with the intent of you streaming it from someone else's server.

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by transposed »

drampelt wrote: post #51
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 mount ACD as a filesystem in Linux and run your own Plex server, I've been doing it successfully for a few months now. I followed the instructions at https://amc.ovh/ EDIT: More up to date instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

I've been running Plex in a FreeBSD jail (nas4free): http://adamantine.me/index.php/2016/11/20/how-to-install-ple...

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by Veratyr »

throwaway91111 wrote: post #80
Veratyr wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of people on Reddit's /r/DataHoarder have done far more than that, easily into the tens of TBs. The problems come when you upload unencrypted copyrighted content or try to download more than 1TB in a single day.

Wait, what happens if you upload unencrypted copyright content? I legally own quite a bit of that, as I suspect most people do.

Amazon has on some occasions banned users for merely uploading it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by throwaway91111 »

stilist wrote: post #83
throwaway91111 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, what happens if you upload unencrypted copyright content? I legally own quite a bit of that, as I suspect most people do.

Well, you have a license to use the material, but that license probably wasn't written with the intent of you streaming it from someone else's server.

Who's to say how it's being used?

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

#87

Post by izacus »

stilist wrote: post #83
throwaway91111 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, what happens if you upload unencrypted copyright content? I legally own quite a bit of that, as I suspect most people do.

Well, you have a license to use the material, but that license probably wasn't written with the intent of you streaming it from someone else's server.

Hmm... there are laws allowing you to make backups of licensed content. Can you explain more about how license would forbid you from storing those backups on Amazon server?

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by guelo »

throwaway91111 wrote: post #86
stilist wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you have a license to use the material, but that license probably wasn't written with the intent of you streaming it from someone else's server.

Who's to say how it's being used?

you probably didn't study the EULA

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

#89

Post by bryanrasmussen »

izacus wrote: post #87
stilist wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you have a license to use the material, but that license probably wasn't written with the intent of you streaming it from someone else's server.

Hmm... there are laws allowing you to make backups of licensed content. Can you explain more about how license would forbid you from storing those backups on Amazon server?

perhaps streaming would in the law as a form of broadcast, thus storing it would be fine but as the purpose of storing in that situation is to broadcast that would be illegal (not saying that is the case, just making a reasonable scenario)

Re: Plex Media Server on Cloud

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Post by [deleted] »

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...

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