I have reasonable success with acd_cli and encfs. That’s with PMS running on a linux vps. sometimes takes a short while for the video to start playing, but generally works quite well.
@blim5001 said:
I have reasonable success with acd_cli and encfs. That’s with PMS running on a linux vps. sometimes takes a short while for the video to start playing, but generally works quite well.
That’s what I was looking at the other day, after months of giving up. But then I found out about rclone shortly after and that it has everything in one app but it has limitations. I’m still getting it configured but from what I understand rclone can only read files sequentially, or write files sequentially. It can’t read and write or seek in files.
Have you had any similar issues with your acd_cli/encfs setup?
acd_cli has the same limits in that it can only write sequentially, so you can not edit the mounted files, for example to edit mp4 metadata. but renaming and moving files within the mount seems to be ok
I can resume playback and seek through files when playing them back using Plex with only short delays
I think the sequential issue is possibly the result or a limit of not having a local cached copy.
I tried rclone, but was not too happy with the stability of the fuse mount, but I did only try it briefly and I think the mount functionality is/was quite new.
Thanks, that’s helpful. I’m not too worried about the sequential write. It’s the reading I’m concerned about.
@jerseydevil62 said:
Using ExpanDrive I was able to mount both Google Drive and Amazon Drive as local drives on my Mac, and use them with my local Plex server without issue. Had that running that way for about 6 months. It was mostly music, photos, and some home videos with the rest of my content on my local drives. Plex didn’t care as long as I mapped it to what it could see as a drive and directory.
Question…
If a remote user wants to watch a movie that your local PMS has mapped and stored (using Expandrive) on your Amazon Cloud service, what exactly happens?
He clicks PLAY on the movie when viewing the title info on your local PMS server, so it goes to the Amazon Cloud where it’s stored and begins streaming it to him? In other words, does that movie come all the way to your local PMS server, then get re-transmitted all the way back out to the remote user, or does the remote user simply get the streamed movie going DIRECTLY from the Amazon Cloud to his client remote client machine, skipping the middle step?
Thanks for any feedback… 
Regards,
Doug
@Badgerdog I am pretty sure it would get re transmitted, as the local PMS would see it as a ‘local’ file and would then need to decide if the video need transcoding or how best to serve it. using something like expandrive PMS has no knowledge that the file is actually on Amazon
So the bottom line is that the local PMS would need to pull the file from Amazon and then serve it out to the remote user.
@blim5001 you are completely correct on that.
Rclone mount is experimental.
It does work well once configured.
down to rclone mounting as plex I am surprised at how well it has worked ,
I only make change’s on Server A
current remote set up Setup
Server A sync’s to ACD encrypted data
Server B mount’s and Decrypt’s ACD Plex remote A (LA)
Server C mount’s and Decrypt’s ACD Plex remote B (Dallas)
