If I have a regular version of a movie and a remux does it prioritize a certain version? Is it just whatever one was there first that's default?

Tried lot of things, enabling and disabling automatic scan, periodic scan, partial files..... nothing helps. Ubuntu 22.04 server

Is there a way to make a smart playlist with music files contained in 2 different playlists?

Maybe my question is unclear so please let me give an example: let's say I have a playlist with ALL the boyband tracks in my music library, and another playlist of broken heart ballads. Can I have a smart playlist that searches for songs included in both playlists, so I can have a "boy band broken heart ballads" smart playlist that updates itself when I add a track in both original playlist?

Thanks to anyone that can help.

Hi,

I’d like to share a situation I’m experiencing.

I have this DirecTV stick running Android and a PC with a Ryzen 5 4600G acting as a server with the latest linuxserver.io version of Plex.

When I try to play certain files (TV show remuxes; this hasn’t happened with movies yet), it keeps loading but never starts playback, which I can understand might be because the stick is quite basic. What surprises me, however, is that the server doesn’t attempt to transcode to adapt the content to the player—it simply stays idle in usage, as if waiting for playback to start and, if I play it on Firefox or from the Flatpak player version I have on my PC, it plays without any issues.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Here are the options in the server transcoder section (1, 2), as well as the MediaInfo for one of the files that’s giving me trouble.

Thanks!

Recently, a friend of mine and I did a “watch together” using XBOX as our app (so that we could chat together while watching). We do this 3-5 times a week. A few days ago while watching my friend would say “hey, mine’s buffering…”, then within a few seconds, mine would too. I had him go through all the usual settings and with a fiber connection on my end, speed has NEVER been the issue.

My question is, which log do I need to pull to find out what happened and from which direction/source? I know where to find Plex logs in Windows, just don’t know which log for an issue like this…

Hi, I have a plex server on a Mac mini M1 silicon. It seems to me that it cannot stream to my local plex client unless I prevent the display from sleeping on the mini. It would be nice if the mini display could be off while streaming locally to the plex firestick client. Is this possible in some setting? I have looked through things and everything seems correct yet this problem persists … I have to use an app like caffeine to keep the mini from sleeping and then my library (external HDD) is fine for access.

Hello all. So my Plex server stopped noticing new items and I couldn't figure that out. Then I started noticing some other things, which I'm assuming are somehow related. I went online and did a bunch of things recommended, even though some of them didn't really apply. Now I'm lost.

1. no detection of new files
2. no detection of files removed
3. nothing loads when you go to Posters in Edit
4. "changes could not be saved" when I try to remove a location from Edit Library

That said, the stuff that's on there plays without issue (minus the stuff I removed from the locations as a test).

Windows 11 (fuck windows 11) was having some problems updating to its newest version - that's been sorted now, but did not resolve the issue.

Any help would be appreciated. Also ask for any clarifications and I will do my best to provide it.

I currently have 3 external hard drives connected to my gaming PC for my Plex server. I’d like to start using a NAS server for my Plex instead. I was looking at purchasing a Synology drive - but I’m a little confused how the process will look. I currently have roughly 25 TB worth of files - will I need to transfer all 25TB onto drives on the Synology? Or does it somehow also connect to my external drives?

Any help would be appreciated

I’m mid-move right now, and yesterday was my first night in the new place. No internet yet, but I have this whole Plex server I can use until I’m settled right?

Apparently….wrong. Even though it’s all local, apparently Plex still needs to phone home to authenticate or whatever.

Honestly I’m pretty chaffed about it. I know there are ways to specify IP’s that can bypass authentication but that does me no good without internet.

So my zombie apocalypse home entertainment plan clearly won’t work. I’m just complaining but for anyone reading this, do yourself a favor and double check that you have a way to use it offline!

And in the meantime, maybe it’s time to think about Jellyfin…

Heya, guys, im starting to run out of room on my plex storage solution, and im looking for a good budget option to start to run the server from somwhere that isnt my personal computer (which it competes for steam games for as well etc)

Is there any brand recommendations for NAS systems? i would have around ~$500 (AUD) to spend, not including the drive, and most of my media is stored in 1080p blu ray format.

Thank you for your help!

I frequently use the iOS app on my iPhone to see what is or is not on my server. I just checked on a Mission Impossible movie and—instead of allowing me to play it from my server—it just says “Available to rent.” Obviously, I have no intention of renting it because I already have the movie.

This problem doesn’t exist in my Plex for LG app. It shows that the film is in my library and is also available for rental from Plex Streaming.

Hi All, So I’m beginning my Plex journey, and I’m realizing just how much I’m going to have to re-organize my local media library. I was browsing through the plex support articles on movie and TV show naming, and I have a few questions: Let’s start with movies. The recommended Folder/Movie naming scheme looks something like “Batman Begins (2005)/Batman Begins (2005).ext”, but does the separator character really matter all that much? I prefer dot-based separation in my file names, so a lot of my media is already named that way. So could I just do “Batman.Begins.(2005)/Batman.Begins.(2005).ext”? Also, on a sidenote, why does the year have to be in the movie file name as well if it’s already in the containing folder name?

Hi,

I want to filter my library and create a collection of my watched and rated movies. So I created a collection of:

plex_search:
all:
unplayed: false
filters:
user_rating.gte: 1
plays.gte: 1
sort_by: user_rating.desc

I want to use the user rating from a specific user. how can I modify the filter?

Thx

Title. Has anyone had any luck with these? I've tried naming them tons of different ways, including how the TVDB has them listed, and it still won't pick up the names. I don't want to manually rename 167 episodes. Any advice is welcome.

I tried ordering them by Season, based on the studio that origonally produced the episodes (so folder structure and episode naming was Tom and Jerry (1940) > Season 01 > Tom and Jerry - S01E001 - Puss Gets the Boot [1940].avi

But Plex just lists the episode name as "Episode 1". Then I tried Season 1940 > Tom and Jerry - S1940E01 - Puss Gets the Boot [1940], which is how the TVDB organizes them. But still no luck.

Hey Plex enthusiasts!

I’m gearing up to build a new NAS for my Plex setup because I’ve officially outgrown my current 27 TB solution. While I understand the basics of transferring files to the new NAS, I want to make sure I’m not overlooking anything during the migration or setup process.

A few specific questions:

1. Are there any best practices for migrating my existing Plex library (to avoid losing metadata, watch history, etc.)?
2. Any key settings or configurations I should tweak when setting up the new server?
3. Are there any potential pitfalls or "I wish I knew that" moments you’ve encountered when building or migrating your Plex server?

For context, I already use the *ARR apps and Usenet with a VPN on a separate server (an old Dell PowerEdge), so this new NAS will solely be for Plex.

I’d love to hear any advice, lessons learned, or things to watch out for! Thanks in advance for your insights.

Just won a samsung 65" 4k tv at my christmas party. I hoped to get all my apps on the tv but only a few are available and the plex app is terrible cant even stream my 4k content. So im looking into buying an 4k streaming device. There's the amazon fire stick 4k max and the google streamer but each seems to have down sides. Any good recomendations ?

Ok... this is more of a puzzle than a problem, given I know I can optimize or use Handbrake to convert, but I want to know what aspect of this video makes it impossible to play on the Kindle Fire 10. My Roku and iPhone have no problems with the video as-is.

If it's the HEVC codec, then Plex's transcoding should make it work, right?

https://preview.redd.it/6cpg7ry5mlae1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfa596b111dff3d81b82971a99e3a77644ee7c68

Server Version#: 1.41.3.9314-a0bfb8370
Player Version#: Various Versions
OS: Windows 10 Pro
OS Version: 22H2
OS build: 19045.5247
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i3-10100 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz
RAM: 8.00 GB (7.67 GB usable)

For years I have had problems with the Plex Media Server Application ‘Randomly’ crashing/closing. It can happen a dozen times in an hour, or once per week. I have never been able to correlate it to anything specific. Sometimes I have a couple remote users, sometimes it is just 1 user on the local LAN. Transcode/ no transcode it looks to happen either way. I am really not sure where to look.

The crash happened and I grabbed the server logs right after. Can anyone help point me in the right direction? What specific log should I upload here to assist in the troubleshooting effort? Thanks.

Let me clarify by saying, for the most part, it's not actually a pain. I just wanted to share this really odd and frustrating story of mine.

So I bought Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on Blu-Ray (one of my favorite movies, but no 4k resolution for me. I am not full of money to invest in twice my current storage LOL), and I did my usual process of ripping and encoding using MakeMKV and Handbrake. So far, so good. Then, I go through the process of finding subtitles using opensubtitles. I did find subtitles that were, for the most part, correct, but there were some lines of dialogue that were just not matching the original Blu-Ray. Maybe something to do with translation or something since this is a Chinese Wuxia film for the western audiences? Idk. All I knew was that it bothered me that the subtitles didn't match what was on the disc.

I knew I had multiple options to go about this problem, but of my requirements was wanting subtitles to be toggleable. So no burning in subtitles would not work for me. Long story short, I learned through hours of mindless googling and research and filtering my questions through ChatGPT that I needed to download two separate programs, MKVToolNix and MKVCleaver to extract them and convert into something like srt.

I'm still annoyed that you need two separate programs just to extract the subtitles. I tried toggling the subtitles as embedded passthru tracks, but unfortunately, for whatever reason when playing them on plex, the transcoder fails and quits playing the movie. I don't know exactly why it failed, but I know for sure it's something to do with the way handbrake encodes the subtitles. I'm glad my solution ended up working, but my gosh... it would have been easier if I found subtitles that were matching to begin with. I hate this convoluted process. Anyone else have a similar story of trying to extract subtitles from original discs?

TL;DR: Bought a movie, did the normal process of MakeMKV and Handbrake only to find that finding subtitles for this movie in particular is a pain. Convoluted solution of MKVToolNix and MKVCleaver ended up working for me.

Hi
I want to play a video (i can send the link via DM if u want the original file torrent information). This file is a x265. Any file that uses the x265 always wants buffer I do not understanding why.

I use a Ryzen 1600AF and a 1660ti GPU. With 32 GB of ram. I am using Plex pass, I have also enabled hardware acceleration.

Just curious if anyone has this issue. When I have my radio playing in the car and open carplay and tap plexamp is automatically pauses the radio even without playing anything. Is there a way to stop this from happening or is this a bug.

I.e. other apps like iHeart or YTM do not do this.

How are the pms docker users handling resource management?

I thought my plex container had been killing itself and wasn’t sure why. Plex container logs showed a “kill signal from plex container” which is where my assumption was coming from. After much more troubleshooting, it now seems it was overheating or a memory limit. In my compose file, using “cpus” set to 6 on a 12core cpu and mem_limit set to 30GB of 64GB RAM has resolved the issue it seems and my plex container runs reliably without shutting down.

I’m still furious how others are managing their plex server resources when running through docker. Docker plex really has been so fun and I’m enjoying learning more about best ways to run it. I appreciate any help!

I don't think my needs are complicated or anything non-standard, but I'm still confused. I just updated from MANY versions ago and am getting prompted to update my libraries

My goal:

TV Shows - Use TVDB, but use local assets first (posters, banners, etc)

Movies - Use TheMovieDB, but use local assets first.

That's it. But when I try to select TheMovieDB as my Agent, it flips to Plex Movie Scanner, which according to Plex is deprecated and legacy.

Hi all - Happy New Year!

I am having an issue, which I am 99% sure is my fault! I believe that my TV episodes are named using TVDB. I have one episode that is named incorrectly.

TVDB - S07E4 - Darts

https://preview.redd.it/h5p1dhtbfkae1.png?width=947&format=png&auto=webp&s=4bfb11353a7269d25e9c28cd9d2edbcc468cb1ab

My Plex:

https://preview.redd.it/y2ltjawdfkae1.png?width=1605&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ece92a79f8b0de8d853823ca13b63da0ab9824b

https://preview.redd.it/osnt846kfkae1.png?width=352&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbad33175cd712997813f4bcf7efd71782f66b07

As you can see my plex is seeing it as 'Wildlife' when it should be 'Darts'. Can anyone point to what I have done wrong here please?

Hi,
I'm using autobrr to download content from a specific show.
The show isn't particularly popular, so there's no up-to-date metadata.
When I added the show, it did an automatch to a different season of the same show, which caused the summaries of episodes and thumbnails to be incorrect.
So, I performed an unmatch.
Additionally, I manually went into the settings and clicked the orange lock to lock the option (so Plex knows not to auto-match again).
The problem is that the show is ongoing, and I'm using autobrr to download new episodes as they come out.
Every time a new episode is released, Plex goes back and does an auto match (to the wrong season, of course).
How can I disable this option?

Has anyone had an issue of not being able to select subtitles on their Plex app, specifically on WebOS devices (LG tv)?

Within the last month or two I noticed this issue and thought it would be fixed, but so far nothing. It’s the same issue mentioned here on their forum: https://forums.plex.tv/t/unable-to-select-subtitle-in-webos-app/680981