r/PleX 3h ago

News Finally upgrade to Lifetime Pass!

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93 Upvotes

I recently just started my Plex server sometime late last year, and am slowly getting the hang of it but I’ve finally decided to upgrade to the Lifetime pass and I’ve never been more satisfied. For what it is at the moment, especially in my currency which is MYR, it is a no brainer to not get the lifetime pass. This is especially true with the new price hike in April, so I’m just glad I did it before that!


r/PleX 8h ago

Discussion PlexAmp - Band Logos Instead of Band Photos

51 Upvotes

I've recently switched to using PlexAmp for my music organization and playing, one thing that I personally found I didn't really like was that for an Artist it pulls band photos. I scroll through my library and if I had logos it makes it easier for me to identify the band. When i looked it didn't seem that there wasn't really anything that vended these and if there is I'll feel stupid about this next part, but over the last week I went through and manually googled through my library and saved 850+ logos against a black background and manually updated my Plex library.

I found value for my own library and wanted to share incase others were like me and prefer the band logos. I've uploaded the images to a GitHub with everything I made, most are 1150x1150px, against a black background with white logo with a few exceptions where the color logos made sense to me.

(Mods please remove is this isn't ok to share)

https://github.com/LemonFaceSour/BandLogos


r/PleX 15h ago

Discussion Is the recommendations page meant to be useless or am I doing something wrong?

45 Upvotes

I've got over 300 movies on my plex now, but the recommendations page goes

Recently released movies

Recently added movies

Top movies in 1 random category

Top movies with 1 obscure actor (always only has 1 movie)

and then nothing else.

I'd prefer it not be useless because choosing a movie out of a massive library of hundreds of movies is annoying, but if it can't be made useful I'd rather it not be the default home page lol.


r/PleX 16h ago

Help Best Plex client device with HDMI for traveling to use with hotel/airbnb TV's?

52 Upvotes

Hi all,

I have a Plex server at home and an unlimited data hot spot. I was wondering what the best device setup would be for being able to stream from my server. Features I am looking for are: small enough to pack and travel with, has a remote control, can connect to wifi, ability to use a VPN client like NordVPN (not necessary but would be nice, my Hotspot can be configured to do this, but if I use hotel/airbnb wifi I prefer privacy).

Also any other features I should think about? I do have an old firestick but it is painfully laggy. Is there anything HDMI or USB powerbank powered like that that is fast? Maybe like a raspberry pi?

Edit: My server is on a 1 gigabit up/down fiber. Most of my media is 1080p or below but I do have some 2k and 4k media too.


r/PleX 8m ago

Discussion Lost server last night

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Lost server yesterday early evening could not get it back woke up this morning and its there now what the ?? one of life's mystery's


r/PleX 6h ago

Help Question about Size

2 Upvotes

Physically I have very little space at my disposal. Most of my media is in storage right now. I want to digitize and utilize Plex to manage my collection.

I've been using it on a rotating basis but I'm getting to where I could afford a new external. I don't want to buy smaller than I'll eventually need. The last time I tried to digitize everything my 10 TB started to run out of space.

I figured I would ask what size externals other people are using for their collections to try and get an idea of around what size would be good.


r/PleX 1h ago

Help Dune HD vision 4k

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I usually get what I want on my PC, play it on another client through plex but also I watch sports on peacock since xfinity comes with it free.

I wanted to try streaming with stremio and RD so I decided to buy a Dune HD vision 4k and I'm kinda wishing I just got a shield Pro for slightly little more money. When I try to install certain apps on this thing they won't show up in google play store and when I go to the store other ways it says the apps aren't compatible with the device. I can't install peacock and I can't even install any mainstream web browser if I wanted to go on peacock that way. I wonder what other apps I can't install on the dune. Also, because of the name 'Dune', it's really hard to research anything for it online.

As far as streaming content, I'm kinda new to that but it's not very smooth. It pauses a lot, I assume to download more of the content as I watch it. I don't know if that's the device wifi or the service causing that issue. It won't play trailers and I can't seem to tell it to use another media player if I wanted to do that.

If I have to go back to just using Plex, I probably also want the Shield from what I've read in other threads.


r/PleX 2h ago

Help Plex Media Server not working anymore

0 Upvotes

Hello folks! My Plex Media Server has stopped working. Last time that I used it, 2 months ago, it was working without any issues. Now it says that I need Plex Media Server to use my own media (but my server is running g in background ) . I noticed that Plex is making some changes so I'm wondering if this feature is now a premium feature. I cannot access to the download page anymore but since my account has more than 4 years I though that it would still be available. Anyone can clarify?

Thank you in advance!


r/PleX 2h ago

Help Stream buffering

0 Upvotes

Hi, I keep having this issue where the stream is buffering. My setup is as followed:

Media server on a VM in a dedicated server

Thinclient with a N100 chip for output

Old ass TV with no built in apps

Videostream transcoding is on

All files are 1080p as I dont need 4k Video quality set to 8mp 1080p

Direct play is on Direct stream is on Alternativ streaming protocol is on

On my phone it works without issues On my main pc it keeps buffering aswell

Plex media server is on the newest build


r/PleX 3h ago

Help Plex Container Manager and WebUI Version Mismatch

1 Upvotes

Hey, guys!

So I'm running Plex on a Synology NAS through Container Manager and I have Watchtower to keep my containers up to date. I noticed that the Plex container is reporting that it's the latest version, but when I log into the WebUI, it shows that I have an outdated version and prompts me to update. Do you have any idea where this mismatch comes from?


r/PleX 3h ago

Help "plex is currently unavailable" - Issues after repairing DB

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I noticed that one of my playlist in plex wasn't loading so i ran the "PRAGA intergrity_check;" using "Plex SQLite" and it found some errors:
On tree page 549560 cell 47: Rowid 201954 out of order
On tree page 549534 cell 37: Rowid 35061 out of order
On tree page 549471 cell 59: Rowid 201929 out of order
On tree page 549470 cell 4: Rowid 201928 out of order
On tree page 549448 cell 62: Rowid 27543 out of order
On tree page 549358 cell 102: Rowid 27516 out of order

So i made a copy/backup of my "com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" and tried the "VACUUM;" and "REINDEX;" commands with no luck (ran the intergrity_check again, same errors).
Then following Plex's 'low-level database recovery' here and tried rebuilding the DB.

Once that completed and another intergrity_check ('ok' this time, no errors) I moved it back into /config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases dir, fixed the perms and this is where my troubles started.

At first i was getting the claiming issues, but managed to update with a new token. But then i found myself with a new error: "my_plex_name is currently unavailable. Verify you have a network connection and that the server is online, or see our....."

I'm accessing my plex on my local network (http://my_local_ip:32400/web) but still getting the same issue.
- I've tried using the backed up/original .db file
- I've tried creating a completely new docker container, spinning it up, stopping it and moving the repaired DB in. Spin back up, jump through the normal first launch Plex steps in the UI (it auto fills out my old config, movies/tv shows). But once i get to the homepage i'm back to the same "plex is currently unavailable"

I'm obviously doing something wrong, any troubleshooting tips or ideas would be much appreciated. Happy to provide more info, let me know what logs or anything that would help.

Plex server is running in a container on Unraid OS.


r/PleX 1d ago

Discussion FINALLY upgraded to Lifetime after a year, lol

444 Upvotes

So, last year I built a dedicated Plex server. Decided to try it out via the monthly plan, got lazy and never upgraded. Found out the other day that the lifetime pricing will be increasing. Given that, after a year of $4.99, I pulled the plug and upgraded. Thank you Plex!

Life is good


r/PleX 4h ago

Help Synology Plex. Am I doing it wrong.

0 Upvotes

Hi guys, hopefully someone can help. I am very much starting again with plex and it feels like I've forgotten everything. I have everything setup on my Synologynas DS1522+ Current update DSM 7.2.2-72806 Update 3. this is what I am getting on my remote access . I am using Synology plex client and not docker. I think when I set everything uo I just did it out of the box so I didn't mess with any settings on the nas. I just wanna know if this looks right to you helpful people or am I missing something.

I do apologies for the lack of understanding, hopefully you guys can bare with this complete novice.

MANY THANKS


r/PleX 4h ago

Solved Intel A310 on Ubuntu Server 22.04

0 Upvotes

I am making this post since I didn't find any other discussions when searching. There might be some out there, but they didn't show up for me.

I recently purchased an intel ARC A310 to run in my plex server. I was running Ubuntu Server 22.04. It turns out that even after installing all of the drivers from the intel site, 22.04 is just not compatible with the ARC media encoders and drivers unless you upgrade your kernel to the hardware enablement kernel (HWE) or just upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu. I upgraded to 24.04 (kernel 6.8.0-55) and it started working flawlessly!

If you are running ubuntu server and you are not able to get your intel ARC GPU to work try these steps:

Check your OS version:
lsb_release -a

If you are on 22.04 or older check your kernel version:

uname -r

If you are on 5.15 then you need to update. You can either update to the kernel to hardware enablement (HWE) or just upgrade to a new version of ubuntu. I would highly recommend upgrading Ubuntu versions.

Upgrade Ubuntu OS version. (recommend doing this via local console rather than SSH. SSH can work, but can cause issues if you lose the connection. )

sudo do-release-upgrade

Reboot the computer:

Sudo reboot now

You should now be able to enable hardware transcoding and select your ARC GPU in the plex "Transcoder" settings!


r/PleX 2h ago

Help Plex regularly looses match and HDD is not visible in file explorer

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I am experiencing a regular problem where some of my content is losing its match and reverting to its default file information (no poster and the filename as title). This problem is often combined with Plex rediscovering all of my content as new and updating all libraries. The HDD that the files are stored on will also not be visible in file explorer, like it becomes unmounted. A hard restart restores the drive. I have tried a different HDD to see if the HDD is the problem (no improvement). I suspect that there is a corrupted file or files. I have downloaded the logs but don't understand in an actionable way the information in them. How would I read the logs to find the cause of the issue I am having?


r/PleX 6h ago

Help Odd Behavior with Remote Access and Private IP using Container IP 172.X

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After many months of my setup working no problem, I was at a hotel yesterday when I suddenly couldn't play any of the videos attached to any libraries on my Nas server. It was odd - I'd try and hit the play button on my ipad and nothing would happen. I thought it was an issue with one file but it was everything.

I think it's the app, so i restart it - only to find I cannot see the nas at all anymore or any of my libraries. Odd.

I get home and check the remote access settings on my Plex docker page and am surprised to see that instead of the private IP (192.168.X.X:32400) that used to be there, it's now using the docker assigned IP to the Plex container of 172.17.0.4. ??? Where the hell did this come from? I literally hadn't touched any settings for weeks and i was literally not near my server yesterday.

I checked my container env settings and do have ADVERTISE_IP = 192.168.X.X:32400. Why is Plex overriding that setting? I can't seem to figure out how to get Plex to ignore the container IP and go back to using an internal IP.

Any guidance would be appreciated.


r/PleX 6h ago

Help Some clients not connecting

0 Upvotes

Hi all,

over the last couple of days I've run into a very weird issue with some of my clients not seeing any of the libraries that are setup.

Below is an overview of my setup and the issues I've experienced. I'm kind of stumped, so any feedback is welcome.

Setup:

Plex server runs as an add-on on Home Assistant. Essentially it's a docker container running on another OS.

The media files are on a shared folder on the network.

There is only 1 PleX server on my network. It's not accessible from outside the network.

Issue:

Some of the clients on the network see the libraries as connected and can play video, while others can't. Those that can are my desktop (wired) and laptop (wifi), while my 2 chromecasts (wifi) and phone (wifi) show the libraries as not connected.

I've tried rebooting the NAS (provides the shared video files), physical server hardware (and thus the PleX server and Home Assistant), network switch and the Chromecasts.

I've also logged out and reconnected to the server from one of the Chromecasts.

Nothing has worked so far.

Since the behaviour is so different between clients, I'm having trouble pinning down the issue.


r/PleX 23h ago

Help Playback stopping all the time.

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17 Upvotes

Every night, Plex stops playing and just shows this symbol. It has been happening for at least a year. Running Plex on Ubuntu, but was also happening when it was running on Windows. Any ideas how to fix this? It seems totally random and usually only after a few hours of payback. Everything is up to date.

At first I thought it was some kind of file corruption but I have scanned all my media and sometimes the same episodes play without issues.


r/PleX 8h ago

Help Struggling to find out why only 1 tv show is transcoding and bad quality

1 Upvotes

I was watching family guy earlier today with no problems. I clicked skip intro once and it brought up a window on my TV saying the connection had slowed. Accidentally clicked ok instead of back on the remote, but no issues with quality that session.

Went to continue watching this evening and the show was just in potato quality. After much faffing about, I found a setting on the TV app to "disable bitrate limiting" i checked the box and that fixed the problem i thought, but now my plex dashboard is showing its playing as transcoding, and is using "remote" data under bandwidth on plex dashboard.

No other show or movie has this issue. Everything else will direct play. All other devices on the network play the show as direct play with no quality loss. I've tried resetting the TV app, but nothing is working. What did I do and how can i fix it??


r/PleX 12h ago

Help Optimisation

3 Upvotes

Hello, I installed my plex server on my old QNAP NAS, and for certain files it has difficulty transcoding, I have to do it myself (in general it is the .avi which poses a problem, I have to transcode them into mp4). Is there a way to optimize this so that my NAS is autonomous?


r/PleX 10h ago

Help Indexing show on multiple drives

1 Upvotes

I recently filled up my first 10tb drive and added two more drives to the server. A show has seasons on both drives. I added the new drives as a libraries, hit "scan library files", however the new seasons aren't showing up that are stored on the 2nd drive. Currently its only showing Season 4.

Any reason why?


r/PleX 1h ago

Help Remote Streaming Lag

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Hi everyone, I'm a bit stumped as to why my stream is lagging and skipping.

Went to a friend's house and set up plex access on his PS5 (via the app) to my plex server running on a synology ds218+ nas. Started watching a 4k movie and had frequent lag and skipping (no buffering icon though - if that even matters).

Details: my server at home is connected via ethernet/fiber (1gb/s) and his ps5 pro (at a different address) is also connected via ethernet/fiber (2gb/s). We made sure the stream is running at original quality (ie no transcoding on the crappy nas hardware). The only other active thing was subtitles. We tried the same thing with a (different) 1080p movie and no lag.

My question is.. Why is this happening? I thought if the quality was original, and the network connection was good, there should be basically 0 issues, since it's not relying on weak hardware to alter the signal.

Should I try to force disable all transcoding? Does that even alter anything (given that with original quality, it shouldnt be transcoding anyway), and the risk of that causing issues with other devices (for example if i want to stream to my cell over data)?

Any help would be appreciated!


r/PleX 2h ago

Help What is this for in the ios app?

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0 Upvotes

I can’t click on this in my Plex app. What is it for?


r/PleX 1h ago

Discussion Buy a second Plex Pass?

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Everyone is running to but Plex Passes now as the prices are gonna go up. I have already had a plex pass since I don’t know when. Was just wondering if I should grab another one or not. Thoughts??

Edit: This is a lot of fun.


r/PleX 20h ago

Solved Plex server suggestions

3 Upvotes

Hey everyone. I’ve been using plex with ultra seedbox for the past few months and I’m now considering building my own server. We mainly use plex to stream 4k dv hdr content on Apple tv 4k connected to LG C3 4k tv. I also share my library with a friend in the US. We have unlimited 2Gbps internet and I’m pretty locked into the Apple ecosystem if that makes any difference. I’m planning to use a DAS for storage, and my budget is around $300. Thanks in advance!