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Plex Media Server is the back-end media server component of Plex, which is closed source as proprietary software. Introduced in 2009, Plex Media Server is used to host the content and plugins that are then streamed to Plex big screen apps (including Plex Home Theater) and Plex mobile apps, either on the same machine, the same local area network, or over the Internet.

Plex Media Server is the back-end media server component of Plex, which is closed source as proprietary software. Introduced in 2009, Plex Media Server is used to host the content and plugins that are then streamed to Plex big screen apps (including Plex Home Theater) and Plex mobile apps, either on the same machine, the same local area network, or over the Internet.

In addition to the platforms supported by the front end, the server is also available for Linux.Plex Media Server can be configured to index content in any directory on the machine it is run on, as well as automatically acquiring iTunes, iPhoto, and Aperture content.

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Meteor throwing error on fresh install "Unexpected mongo exit code null. Restarting."

I'm setting up a plex requests server (https://github.com/lokenx/plexrequests-meteor/blob/master/README.md) on a completely fresh ubuntu installation. I started by downloading meteor curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh which seemed to work without…
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SQLite: How to update using 3 joined tables?

My Plex server's metadata has incorrect dates. I'm trying to set metadata_items.added_at to its associated media_parts.created_at, but you can only find the association through a 3rd table (media_items). Here's the relevant table schemas: |…
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How to I properly prevent systemd suspend using a script in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/

I'm fairly new to Linux and trying to learn. I'm using Plex Media Server and I'm trying to prevent the system from sleeping while streaming a file. I've searched the internet over the last few days and none of the solutions seem to work. One…
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Unable to connect internal apps using tailscale server name with specified port

As the title suggest, I want to basically disable the public TCP port and allow plex or other apps to only connect using Tailscale. Like, I don't want to allow server-public-ip:32400, but instead I wanna do tailscale-server-name:32400. If I have the…
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unable to append unwatched EPs to list

The idea of the code is to add to existent playlist unwatched EPs by index order, ep 1 Show X, ep 1 Show Z, regardless of air date: from plexapi.server import PlexServer baseurl = 'http://0.0.0.0:0000/' token = '0000000000000' plex =…
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Plex DVR File Rename on FFMPEG Encoding

I'm currently using a bash shell script to encode all of my Plex DVR recordings to H.264 using FFMPEG. I'm using this little for loop I found online to encode all of the files in a single directory: for i in *.ts; do echo "$i" && ffmpeg -i "$i"…
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How to mount large volume in Docker Desktop (WSL2)?

I am new to Docker and tried to set up Plex Media Server (https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-plex) on Windows, using Docker Desktop and WSL2. I used docker-compose using the yml file shown below. I need to mount my media folders (on Windows…
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How to Move from Google Play Music to Plex Music

This is for anyone else who, like me, is mourning the sad, soon-coming death of Google Play (Music) and annoyed w/the forced moved to YouTube Music. The question/goal I had was simply "how do I move from Google Play (Music) to Plex Music?" so I…
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Synology Plex docker YouTube-dl

I have a Plex MM server running on a Synology DSM, and its working great for all me music, movies and tv shows. Yesterday I use YouTube-dl from GitHub on my Mac and download a few videos from a YouTube chanel, then copy to my multimedia folder on…
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Unable to set Plex posters metadata

I'm working with the AvalonRestAgent.bundle and trying to modify it to set the poster of a media item. However, my attempts have been stalled. What I've done In my utils.py I created a method called set_metadata_posters which basically looks for the…
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How do I set up an rc.d script to start Plex Media Server in FreeBSD?

My LG TV stop working with my older version of Plex 1.3 so I was forced to update to Plex 1.13 I'm running my version of Plex on Nas4Free 0.9 in a jail. I was able to download and it runs but will not auto start. For some reason the plexmediaserver…
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Android URL Encoding for colon %3A in GET command

I am new to java and I am trying to do some URL encoding to retrieve plex livetv directories with GET command. The issue I am having is with the colon ":" if I use the colon, I get this error, but if I use URL encoding…
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nginx.conf file for windows not working for plex

I have the following nginx.conf file on my windows server #user nobody; worker_processes 1; #error_log logs/error.log; #error_log logs/error.log notice; #error_log logs/error.log info; #pid logs/nginx.pid; events { …
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What to transcode my media library?

I've got a bunch of movies in a folder that's on a laptop running a Plex server. Some movies play fine, and others don't buffer at all. Is there an FFMPEG conversion command that will convert them all to a format that Plex will just play natively?
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Plex and OwnCloud: permission and multi-user

I have installed Owncloud on my server and Plex to manage audio and video files. I have successfully added owncloud folder data to plex (add plex user to www-data group), but in this way I can access to ALL users folder, not only my folder. There…
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