So I haven’t used Plex in some years and decided to give it a go again. Currently i have a HP Z600 workstation with dual x5675, an array of (8)900gb sas 10k hdd’s, a nvidia gtx 1060 6gb, and 64gb of ram running on Win10 64bit Pro.
I used to use win7 and media center, so all my files are in .vob . Is Plex still unable to play these ?
If I need to convert them, what would be the best format ? Ive read mkv would be the way to go. Id like to cut file sizes down alot, and still have as close to lossless as possible.
Heres my problem, I have about 1000+ movies in .vob format. Can pms do a conversion on the fly? What would be the best solution to conversion if its a last resort ?
Great info and what I was afraid of. I had hoped that PMS by now was able to handle .vob files and i wouldn’t have to transcode, guess not. I did use makemkv in the past and i think the file sizes where even bigger than source, and handbreak just took forever even on my render farm of 3 of these z600’s. How close could mp4 get to lossless if I decided to go that route? And any good batch transcoding software out there better than handbreak ? I dont care if its a paid software. Id rather pay $$ then waste weeks of my time converting movies.
You won’t have to transcode…
Just re-mux – which basically means you’ll put the media content in a new envelope/container.
That being said. If it’s actual VOB files with MPEG2 content… you actually might want to transcode that to h264 encoded video (this will indeed require transcoding).
