Hi :-)
I have a question about the "Cloud Sync" feature in Plex...
I wanna use the Plex App on my iPad and add video files from my Dropbbox-Account (with Cloud Sync)!
I have one further question about this:
Will the Videos directly streamed over the Internet, or will it FIRST downloaded to the iPad and then appears in the library?
I wanna directly stream the Videos from Dropbox!
Is this possible?
Cloud Sync allows you to sync content from your library to a cloud storage provider so that it is available for you to stream even if your Plex Media Server is not accessible.
Here more info about it: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201889756-Cloud-Sync-Overview
So with Plex Cloud Sync is it not possible to add my Files (located at Dropbox) to my Library... :-(
Is that correct?
Is there another App oder possibility to do what I'm searching for?
=> Directly stream Videos from Dropbox and add it to a nice looking "Library-App"...
What exactly are you trying to do?
In your first post you say
I wanna use the Plex App on my iPad and add video files from my Dropbbox-Account (with Cloud Sync)!
Then in your second post you say
So with Plex Cloud Sync is it not possible to add my Files (located at Dropbox) to my Library... :-(
Where are your files now? What are you trying to do?
(Oh, and you do realize that you would need a PlexPass to use Cloud Sync, right?)
You need Plex Pass to use Cloud Sync. After that you choosing Dropbox and you sync some of your files to cloud. After sync is done you can watch it from cloud even if you Plex server isn't online.
No, you can't just copy files to Dropbox, you need to sync them. Cloud sync isn't replacement for you PMS, you should still use your local drives/nas/etc to store media.
I wanna store my native video files to a cloud service (like Dropbox etc.) and directly stream the videos to my AppleTV over Airplay!
So i don't need to download first the files, and don't need a always running Server/Computer to access my "Library"...
In other words:
I need a iOS App to access my (in the cloud located) Files and directly airplay it to my TV
Then Plex is not for you.
Plex keeps all files locally, not on the iPad itself but on your local network. You have to have a Plex server running. You can then sync some (all??) files to the cloud and play them from there but your files still need to be kept locally.
If you setup Plex and keep your files locally you can Airplay them from Plex to your aTV through your iPad from your local network.
I guess if you uploaded all your files from Plex to Dropbox you could turn off your server and just stream from Dropbox but you would first need to upload everything from Plex. Plex cannot access the files on Dropbox directly.
yes I know...
And that is the Problem...
I need a way to Airplay files directly online, because I don't want to run a Server/Computer the whole day...
Well, rather than posting more here you should probably go to
www.google.com
and start searching for something.
You obviously understand that Plex is not for you.
(BTW, that is not "the problem". Plex does what it does very well. You don't want what Plex does. The problem is you want Plex users to tell you what to use other than Plex.)
Have a great day and good luck in your search on Google.
(And I guess you did not see this from me:
I guess if you uploaded all your files from Plex to Dropbox you could turn off your server and just stream from Dropbox but you would first need to upload everything from Plex. Plex cannot access the files on Dropbox directly.
Of course you still need a PlexPass to do that and you would need to setup Plex initially.)
This is very disappointing. It would seem to me that Plex should be able to accomplish this rather easily. If it’s able to store files from Plex into Dropbox that means you have an API to communicate with Dropbox; and if you have that, then it would seem that the next step would be the ability to stream directly from a cloud provider.
I guess my point is, why don’t you all offer this service, since it’s not that far from what you’re already doing?
@markus27 said:
yes I know…And that is the Problem…
I need a way to Airplay files directly online, because I don’t want to run a Server/Computer the whole day…
Why you “Cloud sync” your files to Dropbox, you need to keep the files, but you can turn it off and still stream from Dropbox through Plex.
@CinemaFanPrime said:
This is very disappointing. It would seem to me that Plex should be able to accomplish this rather easily. If it’s able to store files from Plex into Dropbox that means you have an API to communicate with Dropbox; and if you have that, then it would seem that the next step would be the ability to stream directly from a cloud provider.I guess my point is, why don’t you all offer this service, since it’s not that far from what you’re already doing?
The reason is file compatibility. Most clients, like apple tv and ios devices, have a very limited set of codecs they can playback, so before uploading Plex transcodes the file to a widely accepted format (h264 and aac 2.0 sound I believe).
Plex Cloud, currently in beta, is what you’re asking for… But its not good enough to be actually usable at this point.
