[How To] Installing Plex Media Server on Ubuntu Linux

[ChuckPa]

This is great first cut at it.

I have some suggestions for you to consider

Adding media drives or drives on a NAS to Plex

SSH access to the server

• PuTTY is a well known app. Might want to consider adding that too/instead ?

Installing support modules (HW transcoding & Tone mapping)

10th Gen and above CPUs.

1. This is getting resolved.
2. The Debian installer is being updated to reference 21.49.21786 (per Engineering)

9th Gen and below

Follow the instructions given by the installer.

Recommend adding these existing How-To’s to avoid duplication of effort.

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Ramdisk

Not necessary to use a ramdisk unless you have way more than enough.

Transcoding at HDD speed (200 MB/sec — aka 2000 Mbps of video) will suffice for all home use.

If you have a SSD system, Ramdisk saves wear and tear on the SSD so use it for this.

Watch music libraries.

After setting up all the watch directories, keep DEBUG logging on (VERBOSE OFF),
restart the server and let it run for 2-3 minutes.

Now download the logs ZIP file and examine “Plex Media Server.log”

Make certain there are no “No space left on device” errors.
This is indicative of too many directories for the kernel to monitor

Resolve using:

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