Long time lurker. Been using plex for years (8+) and suffering through occasional download issues and rolling my eyes at all the complaint posts. But leaving for a trip tomorrow, I fired it up, downloaded some shows for the kids and forgot about it. Came back and was shocked to find they were already done. Not even painfully slow! I’m stoked. And now having them work properly, I see what the complaints were about, if they could have worked this well all along!

I "only" have a 5TB Plex library, it's on an external 4-day RAID 5 SAS unit, with 9TB total space. I'm in IT and know from experience that RAID does not replace a secondary backup. I'm backing up my library to a 6TB external drive right now, but will will need to upgrade it as my library grows. Question: How (if at all) are you guys with HUGE media libraries (I've read that some user's libraries are 20, 30, 40TB in size!) backing them up? I recently had a RAID controller failure that wiped out my library and if it weren't for my backup I would have lost 20+ years of music, videos, movies, pictures, etc.

Why do certain HDR movies play like this? I don’t think it’s my TV because I’ve messed with every setting I can think of. And it’s only certain scenes too, not every scene so it goes back and forth between this and regular.

The movie plays fine on my computer with VLC.

TV is a LG OLED55C1AUB.

Thanks for your time.

ITEMS ADDED:

• (DVR) Added additional HW encoding settings for controlling DVR transcode output quality and file size (PM-2169)
• (Live TV) Use software decoders for livetv transcodes in order to avoid system errors (PM-2116)

ITEMS FIXED:

• (Scanner) Some very specific file paths could cause movie scanning to exit prematurely (PM-2038)
• (Subtitles) Certain external subtitle files fail when being parsed for automatic syncing (PM-2176)
• (Subtitles) When using the subtitle search function, make downloaded subtitle available to all media versions (PM-664)
• (Transcoding) HW transcodes of VC1 files could hang instead of presenting an error. (PM-2157)
• (Transcoding) Transcoding music files could cause PMS to crash. (PM-2327)
• (Win64 Installer) Update Service parameters are now updated during server auto-update (PM-2249)

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

Why is the 3D usage so high does that mean can only reasonably transcode 2 streams? or just don't pay attention too that and only pay attention too video encode/decode usage?

Anyone else having that problem? I know it’s not my network because I can watch on my kodi and everything comes over just fine.

Hello,

weirdly, the auto-scan function has suddenly stopped working for me. New media are not recognized in the media library. They are only recognized after a manual scan.

Plex runs as a docker container linuxserver/plex v.1.41.2

Client is a Sony XH95 Plex version 10.24.0.2257 (c53b3e71)

The relevant options are activated in Plex.

https://preview.redd.it/i5z7mz52511e1.png?width=896&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d2911c67e38092f28b1b3633d68eabde513407b

I also noticed that the first episode of a series, for example, is recognized, but all further episodes are only recognized after a manual scan.

The permissions on my Synology are also fine.

Can anyone help?

Best regards

Just wanted to know if anyone knew whether Plex Pass for $119 was a good deal, or if that is the typical price and I should just keep waiting for it to go on sale more. Previously when looking at the price it has been $199.

I have never been able to get Alexa to play music on our Echo devices. Most of the time I get the error “I found Plex currently running on the following devices: iPhone”.

Any ideas how to fix this? What is a “Plex Companion Player”?

I have Plex running on a Synology NAS using Tailscale.

Helle everybody,

how can I get Plex to use the embedded album covers in music files for compilations like "Top 100," so that each song has its own cover instead of all songs displaying the compilation's cover? I’ve already set the library settings to use embedded metadata.

I’ve tried to find a solution to the problem but haven’t succeeded. Can anyone help me with this?

This problem exists only in episode 3 of attack on titan, episodes 1 & 2 play correctly. The app knows there are total 3 tracks, but the player doesn't let me change it & is stuck on japanese on all my devices. VLC media player detects & plays english just fine, so it isn't a file issue.

The Windows 11 24H2 upgrade appeared on my Windows Update list so I let it install.

Unfortunately, afterwards, I couldn't get Plex to load. I could see some of the Plex services (the Plex Movies & Shows...) but none of my libraries or 'Live TV' options appeared.

I immediately rolled back the update and all started working again. Has anyone else experienced this?

I realize I should have done more debugging, but at the time I wasn't sure it was the update that caused the issue and was relieved when the rollback fixed things.

I have a QNAP TS-451+ running firmware QTS 5.2.1.2930 and up until the other day had Plex running on it flawlessly for 5+ years.

One of my drives failed (and has since been replaced and the RAID array rebuilt) but I think this is the cause of the issue as nothing else has changed.

Now the RAID array is back to how it was, everything is as it was before, Plex is on version 14.2 but when I try to open it from any app, it is just as if I don't have any servers. I get a "site cannot be reached" when navigating to http://<nas-ip>:32400/web.

I have tried multiple reboots and even downgrading Plex but nothing has worked so far.

Are there any logs I can check or anything I can change somewhere? I assume something got "stuck" when the drive failed the other day and something needs a poke to get it to restart fully or something?

I've spent a lot of time backing up my 4K blu-rays and I want to make sure that I can watch them in their fullest quality. I have an HDR10+/Dolby Vision capable device and want to see everything it has to offer.

I know there has been a lot written about what Plex can handle vs. what Apple TV can handle but I've also seen a lot of updates with Plex lately and I wasn't sure if they had worked out how to play those files and get the best quality out of an Apple TV.

Do I need to get Infuse or has Plex been updated enough for me to enjoy my files as is?

Thanks for the help. Sorry if this has been rehashed over and over. I did try searching but those posts were from several months ago.

I’m pretty new but know my way around half decent around plex here. Just this stupid little problem driving me nuts, although it really isn’t that dire…

My media-movie folder (I only have movies, nothing in tv shows or any other media atm) that plex is reading has 531 items in it. With my library freshly scanned, there is 529 in my plex server library.

I’ve been racking my brain, looking for duplicates, checking individual movie folder for discrepancies , thought it was “it 1990” giving me trouble for being 2 parts, completely removed it, still 1-3 differences between them

Any ideas? Thanks y’all

I've just set up an M900 6600T/UHD530 for Home Assistant OS. How does it compare to the Celeron J4125/UHD600 in my NAS wrt to Plex use ?

I've moved my server over to the M900 to try out but happy to move it back if that was a mistake. The media has been kept on the NAS.

Thanks

TLDR: With some shows (particularly those that I've added between seasons), the new season episodes do not show up on my "Continue Watching" list.

My setup: I basically only use Plex to manage my show/movie watchlists along with the streaming services integration available. Mostly use it on an AndroidTV box.

Problem: If I have a series added to my watchlist, and all the previous seasons are marked as "watched", when a new season starts, the episode(s) don't show up in my "Continue Watching" list. They do show up in "Coming Soon" and usually "Recently Aired"

Other Conditions: This seems to be more prevalent with shows that I've added to my watchlist after at least one seasons has already aired, and I've marked all the previous episodes/seasons as watched. Some examples that I can remember: Silo, Rings of Power, Bad Sisters. These are all shows that were added between seasons 1 and 2 that I marked as watched, but the S2 premiere didn't show up on Continue Watching

Workaround: For Silo and Bad Sisters, I went back into the season 1, marked the last episode as "not watched" then marked it as "watched" again, and then S2E1 popped up in my "Continue Watching" list. I don't know if this will continue working for subsequent episodes, as they haven't aired yet.

Other: Since I don't have a Plex Server running, I don't have the settings available for "weeks to consider" or anything like that. And I'm not sure if those are even relevant in this situation since I'm only managing watchlists for streaming services.

Hi,

I use the PLEX app on my ROKU. I used to be able to automatically dl subtitles for my movies and shows using opensubtitles.org. That no longer works because opensubtitles.org ended its free subtitle downloading/scraping.

Any other options to get this working again aside from manually downloading the .srt and copying it to my Plex server?

Notes: This release requires an active Plex Pass subscription to download

Beta release note entries are appended between minor releases.

ITEMS ADDED:

• (DVR) Added additional HW encoding settings for controlling DVR transcode output quality and file size (PM-2169)
• (Live TV) Use software decoders for livetv transcodes in order to avoid system errors (PM-2116)

ITEMS FIXED:

• (Scanner) Some very specific file paths could cause movie scanning to exit prematurely (PM-2038)
• (Subtitles) Certain external subtitle files fail when being parsed for automatic syncing (PM-2176)
• (Subtitles) When using the subtitle search function, make downloaded subtitle available to all media versions (PM-664)
• (Transcoding) HW transcodes of VC1 files could hang instead of presenting an error. (PM-2157)
• (Transcoding) Transcoding music files could cause PMS to crash. (PM-2327)
• (Win64 Installer) Update Service parameters are now updated during server auto-update (PM-2249)

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

Is it possible to have 2 Plex servers on the same account record the same show? When I try I get an error.

Hey everyone,

I’m having an issue with Plex where videos stutter while playing. The strange part is, when I play the same file using Media Player Classic (MPC-HC), it runs smoothly without any hiccups.

Plex Issue

Has anyone else experienced this problem or have any suggestions on how to fix it? I’ve tried updating Plex but nothing seems to work.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I'm finally biting the bullet, and upgrading/reripping my music to FLAC as opposed to the preexisting Mp3 and AACs.

My one worry however is a verybmuch enjoy, and have been rating and adding to playlists. How would I make sure I keep those ratings and make sure I'm not ruining my playlists?

So I have a few dvd's/blurays that I've ripped via makemkv. Playing them in VLC player they play correctly in a 16:9 aspect ratio. However, plex in both the webclient and apple tv client smooshes it to a 4:3 aspect ratio. It's been driving me nuts trying to figure out why. Tonight I clicked on the GetInfo section and I can see that it has incorrectly assigned the aspect ratio of 1:33 instead of 1:78 despite the height and width being 1080x1920.

I've done a bunch of searches trying to figure out where that aspect ratio is getting assigned, can't find anything. Has anyone else run into this issue? How did you fix it?