That’s alarming. I keep meaning to fire up Danes report tool to see progress with mine.
The Plex folder amounts to around 120GB on whatever has been generated of my 145TB of media.
If you’re at 350GB already I fear I have a long way to go.
On the plus side I know my 450…ish HDR remuxes are all done.
I really don’t know - that takes so long I can really only say it was about 200 when I moved the database to a drive that has 3TB of free space and stopped worrying about it. LONG ago.
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Haha!
On a related note I saw a server fix was just released as apparently they weren’t kicking in on schedule tasks. I can’t say I had noticed until I saw the release notes.
It’s cool that they definitely don’t generate as a Scheduled Task since the fix.
Is that in error?
I generate as soon as they show up AND during tasks, but by that time there’s none left to do. It only takes ‘seconds’ now - over and done with that quick.
Yeah Im not sure. They work fine when media is added.
But like I said the scheduled task was broken apparently according some recent release notes.
It may have been broken before without me noticing. It’s definitely broken for me since they “fixed” it.
I couldn’t agree more about the speed. Amazingly fast nowadays and all without hammering the CPU.
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Is that currently working for you?
They broke (unbeknown to me) until there was a fix in a recent server release notes.
Since that fix they definitely aren’t working for me.
Seems so at least. I see the server doing that from time to time.
My VPS is not the beefiest one, but I am patient 
The only thing I witness is, that sometimes it seem process a file over and over again. But it is finished at some point (or I since I stopped the server :D)
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The preplay screen on the Shield (no idea about other android devices) is still an unholy mess.
The UNO front page and playback controls look pretty much the same as every UNO UI I have seen.
On every other device I have (7 of them) the preplay screen is pretty much UNO-FIED.
On the Shield… it’s awful and unchanged for many years.
But like I said, I have no idea if it’s unique to the Shield or if all Android TV & Android TV based devices look as bad.
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If they (Plex) don’t get the Various UIs to be ‘Roku Compliant’ - they can keep 'em.
Tired of Plex UI Suck.
Roku is the one - do it, or forget your grand plan of a unified UI - it’s currently a joke.
I use VPTs too. They’re great, makes the experience way better.
And I’m sorta shocked that you have such old/weak devices, Juice. HEVC capable devices are so cheap these days (and generally have better interfaces than old stuff, though I’ll fully admit I’ve not used anything outside of the Apple ecosystem) I just don’t see why maintaining a large group of legacy stuff makes sense. Hell pretty much any decent 2-3 year old TV has the ability to run Plex and likely Direct Play HEVC. Just get your family a truckload of TCL Roku TVs for Christmas, haha!
But yea I’m happy with my current workflow, it works for me, I have no complaints. Even with the 0.2FPS encoding rate with my HEVC workflow.
Yea, I’m always shocked when it seems totally reasonable to someone that isn’t me, for me to spend money I don’t have, upgrading to devices I don’t want, to play media in a format I don’t need.
I’m just waiting for the CEO to show up again and try to sell me a Shield. I realize that would be much more efficient than fixing the bugs to make Plex work without one.
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Truly, why through money at a Plex system that works. I watch Juice’s high powered array from Australia with Quality set at Original. Not too shabby for a land way down under. Yah the ocean bottom Internet optic fibre cables are rattling Hawaii, they think it Volcanic activity. Ha…
Thank you Juice, for a well thought out Plex media server, with one of best Library setups I have seen.
Hardware is hardware as long as it does the job to your satisfaction. I say, keep your carbon footprint low and leave some money in your wallet for a well deserved Whiskey.
I guess I missed most of the earlier convo on this re fire/android vs roku.
it is mostly the player/ui in roku that beats android/fire hands down.
my plex data with chapter/video thumbs was nearly 600 gig.
in fact I just a few days ago migrated from my raid 10 array that was holding plexdata, to a dedicated 1tb SSD and still rebuilding the thumbs.
large plex data is simply ‘the cost of doing business’ if u want thumbs.
see also related thread @ Video Preview Thumbnails on Apple TV: Why can Infuse 6 do it on the fly, yet Plex still not at all (after 4+ years in the making)!?
Yea that came off more dickish than I intended.
I’m just a geek at heart and like to stay pretty current with tech (and play with new stuff) so continuing to make old tech “work” to me is often not worth the payoff, when newer “better” tech is cheaply available.
I also realize that you have lots of devices outside of your control, and thats totally understandable. I don’t (or at least the ones I do, I don’t particularly care about) so its a non issue for me to bloat my encodes to cater to older stuff.
That happens to me all the time… none taken…
rip quality comes down to whether you are
a) a librarian and want to collect/store media in the highest most original quality available
or
b) a consumer and just want to collect/store the most quantity of whatever you want, in a ‘good enough’ quality, that uses the least amount of money/storage/effort.
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b) makes more sense to me
of course, every person is unique in their desires and their devotion to media.
for b) there is always netflix/amazon/etc
which, depending on how much you spend on plex+hardware+storage, could save some people a lot of money.
I do have 4K titles but only for the most desired Movies.
Example: Zombieland 4K, Never. Terminator, definitely.
I will ask you if you’ve actually tried to watch anything through those two enterprises lately?
What with the:
Blaring Audio during the constant bombardment of every conceivable annoyance trying to make you watch something - while you’re trying to find something else…
The Shrinking Credits while they pummel you with ads for ‘the next thing you need to watch RIGHT NOW DAMMIT!’
AND the general feeling that their brain-washing efforts aren’t working
You go out and download it from somewhere else so you can play it without a lot of drama on your Plex server.
I’m a B, definitely - with caveats.
BTW:
My 480p looks way better than Netflix’s 480p
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