yes sir. Check here.
Registered from day one. I’ve had ACD since it came out years ago and I already have over 7 TB of movies and TV shows. I have been a Lifetime Plex Pass member for a while now.
But… still waiting for the invitation… 
I currently have my own implementation of Plex Cloud using a VPS in the US. It works Ok.
I’m getting really frustrated. In my opinion they should have limited it to a forum post looking for volunteers to test something. This huge public announcement that made it to TechCrunch and Engadget, The Verge, etc was jumping the gun by A LOT. Too much hype and now I’m ticked that I cant try it. Since I dont visit the forums that often I probably would never even have known about it until it was officially released.
@Kraevin said:
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Plex Cloud is not ready for normal use, not even for Plex pass members. The beta was opened so at least some could get a taste. The other option was not releasing it and keep it secret even longer. We thought this would be better.As stated, it’s not ready for normal use yet. There are still a lot of bugs which are being worked on.
Just to give you guys a heads up on whats been happening.
- Server’s shutting down randomly and not coming back online - partially fixed as of today.
- Scanning issues with adding items, trailers and extras being auto added into the library and unable to be deleted.
- Trancoding issues with playback - seems mostly fixed now.
- Casting not currently working.
- No plugin support
- No subtitle support
- Heavy rate limiting on Amazon, which is leading to errors and long library prescans.
- Issues with music library - long library scans
To my knowledge they have been adding people to test, but have to be careful not to overload the system, Amazon apparently has been putting on some hard rate limits and Plex has been working with them to correct it.
The way the server is now, is it NOT a replacement for your current media server. In time it will be but at the moment, its like a early alpha compared to a beta.
The dev’s and the testers have done a great job so far with support and helping to get these things fixed. Keep up the great work!
Seems to me that Amazon can’t or won’t handle the succes of a shitload of new customers thanks to Plex. I hope this won’t remain an issue because it can kill the whole cloud server idea imo.
@mcrommert noticed you use syncovery to mirror your libraries to your amazon drive account. Do you encrypt your videos, and if so, does this hinder playback in plex?
Any help / guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
buckeyesfan
@Robbruy said:
@Kraevin said:
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Plex Cloud is not ready for normal use, not even for Plex pass members. The beta was opened so at least some could get a taste. The other option was not releasing it and keep it secret even longer. We thought this would be better.As stated, it’s not ready for normal use yet. There are still a lot of bugs which are being worked on.
Just to give you guys a heads up on whats been happening.
- Server’s shutting down randomly and not coming back online - partially fixed as of today.
- Scanning issues with adding items, trailers and extras being auto added into the library and unable to be deleted.
- Trancoding issues with playback - seems mostly fixed now.
- Casting not currently working.
- No plugin support
- No subtitle support
- Heavy rate limiting on Amazon, which is leading to errors and long library prescans.
- Issues with music library - long library scans
To my knowledge they have been adding people to test, but have to be careful not to overload the system, Amazon apparently has been putting on some hard rate limits and Plex has been working with them to correct it.
The way the server is now, is it NOT a replacement for your current media server. In time it will be but at the moment, its like a early alpha compared to a beta.
The dev’s and the testers have done a great job so far with support and helping to get these things fixed. Keep up the great work!
Seems to me that Amazon can’t or won’t handle the succes of a shitload of new customers thanks to Plex. I hope this won’t remain an issue because it can kill the whole cloud server idea imo.
Actually,at this point, I do not think that the problem is the number of new customers or customers in general. The beta pool is pretty small, judging by the posts in the beta forum, and that number should not impact Amazon’s infrastructure.
Amazon has rate-limiting implemented in some ways and that is probably what is impacting a lot of testers.
It is quite clear that the system is not even close to ready and bugs and deficiencies are being exposed daily and there is for many of us the nearly insurmountable problem of slow upload speed, ISP related not Amazon, that prevents even getting much content up onto Amazon.
I strongly doubt that the beta will expand much over the next month and I think it will be several months, maybe longer, before the Plex Cloud is released for general use.
One more thing about those of us with poor ISP upload we have problems testing if we are also uploading as Plex needs some upload space for streaming verification I think. That also impacts testing.
I am virtually unable to stream anything much of the time if I have anything uploading and even if there is nothing uploading most files take over a minute to start.
I do have to say that Plex has fixed, for me at least, the problems with rebuffering I had. Now if a stream starts it generally plays smoothly unless it stops completely with the error “We are unable to play this video…”
This system is far from ready for general use and its lacks would prevent me from using it in any but a testing environment. I would not want to have to depend on Plex Cloud for my daily media use.
I would add to this that had I known then what I know now about my upload situation I would not have applied for the beta. Since I am in it I try to give good input but much of the problems I run into are not really fixable by Plex but are related to my upload. I regret my decision to join the beta but that is not Plex’s fault. Rather it is the fault of my ISP. I am supposed to get 3mbs up but I rarely get even one. My download is fine at 60+mbs.
@buckeyesfan said:
@mcrommert noticed you use syncovery to mirror your libraries to your amazon drive account. Do you encrypt your videos, and if so, does this hinder playback in plex?
Any help / guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
buckeyesfan
Just to answer a bit of your question: Plex Cloud will NOT play encrypted files at all. It has no way to decrypt them.
If you set up your cloud as a regular drive then you can use regular Plex locally and the software that makes it a drive can handle decryption so a regular Plex server can play it but Plex Cloud has no way. The files for Plex Cloud use cannot be encrypted in any way.
I have about 8TBs in Amazon, ready to go with this, which is over 1000 movies yet no invite. It’s been in Amazon for a year, just encrypted. I took a server @ OVH and used it to read the encrypted and output the unencrypted for this. I have the same mirrored over the Google Drive.
So in general, are people encrypting their movies when put into their amazon drive then using a third party software to decryypt the files ala Gladinet Cloud Desktop?
@buckeyesfan said:
So in general, are people encrypting their movies when put into their amazon drive then using a third party software to decryypt the files ala Gladinet Cloud Desktop?
For use with Plex Cloud, no. Plex Cloud cannot use encrypted files at all. People using Plex Cloud are putting their files on Amazon unencrypted as that is required for Plex Cloud.
For people using Cloud storage with a local Plex server they can use whatever encrypt/decrypt pair they want as long as it appears locally as a drive and is fast enough for Plex to use. I have tested StableBit’s Cloud Drive and NetDrive and they both work OK with local Plex servers but I have such a slow upload that getting anything in the cloud is a tedious process and therefor I do not really use either of those regularly.
@Elijah_Baley So those using FUSE and acd_cli with encrypted files on their Amazon drive can only play with plex on their own local drive, not share with other users?
Sorry for the questions, trying to see what works best. My sister in law is headed to Turkey with the Airforce, and trying to figure out how to get her fix of American tv over there for her use.
@buckeyesfan said:
@Elijah_Baley So those using FUSE and acd_cli with encrypted files on their Amazon drive can only play with plex on their own local drive, not share with other users?
Sorry for the questions, trying to see what works best. My sister in law is headed to Turkey with the Airforce, and trying to figure out how to get her fix of American tv over there for her use.
There is no reason why they could not share using standard Plex sharing methods as long as your upload and server are fast enough. It is the Plex Cloud system that cannot use encrypted files. Plex Cloud is a new system that is in beta and has nothing to do with Plex’s standard usage.
Still waiting for Plex Cloud invite already purchased plex pass and Amazon Drive
@Elijah_Baley I am in the same boat as you. My upload speed is limited, and usually get around 2-3Mbps which limits playback. Hoping Plex cloud can solve this issue with the transcoding being done in the cloud and not reliant on my pc. So all files shared through the plex cloud need to be unencrypted to be shared with other users. Just wondering how Amazon feels about these files being hosted by them, and any ramifications down the road.
@buckeyesfan said:
@Elijah_Baley I am in the same boat as you. My upload speed is limited, and usually get around 2-3Mbps which limits playback. Hoping Plex cloud can solve this issue with the transcoding being done in the cloud and not reliant on my pc. So all files shared through the plex cloud need to be unencrypted to be shared with other users. Just wondering how Amazon feels about these files being hosted by them, and any ramifications down the road.
There are several threads already discussing Amazon’s policies on this but the bottom line is that Amazon’s TOS gives them the right to close your account if it is found that you are violating copyright with your files BUT there is NO evidence that they scan your files for that.
I would not put files I do not have the rights to on Amazon but that is just me. Amazon, I think, would only take action if they received a complaint.
My Plex Cloud isn’t working at the moment? Anyone with the same problem? It’s trying to connect but nothin
@Fluffernuttr said:
My Plex Cloud isn’t working at the moment? Anyone with the same problem? It’s trying to connect but nothin
Did you checkout the troubleshooting link Issue Reporting 101 [v3] link in the Plex Cloud forum?
@ChuckPa said:
I can only tell you, inclusive of the time to just get my stuff there, it’s been trying to finish scanning / matching / metadata loading for over 10 days now.If I told you how big it really is, you’d call me “evil”, “insane”, “not right in the head” or any of a bunch of other colorful terms
Man, I must be the devil himself then! :))
How is streaming media from there compared to local?
I still could never use them exclusively, but it could work as a backup instead of running two identical servers.
Because of my download speeds (sneaker-net compared to multi-strand gigabit at home), there is no way I can put my best videos there. I would need a 50+ Mbit download to get the required 35 Mb/s for the stream for the average single stream. >:)
@Jusedawg said:
How is streaming media from there compared to local?
It’s very buggy still, we recently upgraded to a 150Mbps up and down stream and I frequently get errors that our connection is not fast enough to play a 720p format file. Mind you I’m still uploading my stuff too, but that shouldn’t really make a difference.
I’m still very happy with Plex Cloud, if for no other reason than that I finally found a place - and excuse - to have an external backup for all my files and videos. From the looks of it, Plex Cloud will probably be in closed beta for a bit longer than they originally anticipated (though I could be wrong entirely, I hope so) but if like me you need a reason to host your files externally, don’t let this stop you from signing up for Amazon - if your upstream is fast enough to get your devilish collection up there before doomsday, that is 
