I know Plex Cloud is brand new and hasn’t rolled out to many people yet. I requested an invite because I’d love to start testing it out.
My question is about bandwidth. I currently have a dedicated plex server with a 150/150mbit connection. This allows me to serve up media to around 11 users simultaneously. How will Amazon deal with that many users at a time? Is there a bandwidth limit?
Would be interested in knowing this as well.
Just be patient, infos will come out soon 
While I haven’t yet had a chance to test simultaneous transcodes with Plex Cloud.
When playback is DIRECTPLAY media streams to your client directly from Amazon by-passing the transcode server (Similar to CloudSync in that regard).
With DIRECTPLAY I’ve had up 10 simultaneous streams at once. Stop at 10 as I ran out of clients to try it with.
Beyond that, I have no info on any stated maximums
Can it stream high bitrate files for direct play, granted my internet connection is fast enough. For example a high bitrate BD Rip to MKV?
I also applied for an invite and am curious about what restrictions the files in the file will have, as if I have to wait a while for the invite to go through anyway I can use that time to prep media if required, like can a full movie file with Blu-ray bitrate and DTS HD-MA work, or will I have to stick with direct play x264 encodes and AAC or AC3 audio? Hopefully more info will be available soon, I’m already stoked about Amazon’s unlimited storage plan I didn’t know about before.
@JMGNYC said:
Can it stream high bitrate files for direct play, granted my internet connection is fast enough. For example a high bitrate BD Rip to MKV?
yes, assuming your download is fast enough.
In the usage I’ve seen 38GB mkv BD rips played fine
@hthighway said:
@JMGNYC said:
Can it stream high bitrate files for direct play, granted my internet connection is fast enough. For example a high bitrate BD Rip to MKV?yes, assuming your download is fast enough.
In the usage I’ve seen 38GB mkv BD rips played fine
But if it isn’t fast enough, then does it transcode appropriately?
In the usage I’ve seen 38GB mkv BD rips played fine
Wow, impressive! Any word on if it works with video codecs like x265 and sound formats like DTS HD-MA/Dolby Digital Lossless? Would this depend on what the playback device supported, or can the Amazon Cloud do a certain degree of transcoding if needed?
@reddwarfcrew said:
@hthighway said:
@JMGNYC said:
Can it stream high bitrate files for direct play, granted my internet connection is fast enough. For example a high bitrate BD Rip to MKV?yes, assuming your download is fast enough.
In the usage I’ve seen 38GB mkv BD rips played fineBut if it isn’t fast enough, then does it transcode appropriately?
Yes, Plex Cloud will transcode where needed
@univbee said:
In the usage I’ve seen 38GB mkv BD rips played fine
Wow, impressive! Any word on if it works with video codecs like x265 and sound formats like DTS HD-MA/Dolby Digital Lossless? Would this depend on what the playback device supported, or can the Amazon Cloud do a certain degree of transcoding if needed?
as long as it will DIRECTPLAY it will support everything a normal plex server would play.
I will have to check on the transcoding of h265, as I haven’t seen mention of that.
Edit: It will also transcode h265 as well, basically anything a normal PMS would transcode the Plex Cloud can transcode.
@hthighway said:
@JMGNYC said:
Can it stream high bitrate files for direct play, granted my internet connection is fast enough. For example a high bitrate BD Rip to MKV?yes, assuming your download is fast enough.
In the usage I’ve seen 38GB mkv BD rips played fine
Perfect!
This is excellent news. I hope that I get the invite soon. I’ve been a Plexpass subscriber for a long time. Don’t know if that plays into it or not.
What about the 2gb file size cap?
THIS IS AWESOME! i applied for the beta! have multiple user to test! my huge library is already on Amazon Cloud
Yeah I’m up for this, big time. Haven’t signed up for Amazon unlimited yet but will be to get my media on there ready for beta if poss or main roll out.
Works out to be £1 a week. Not sure how much it costs to run my server with 4 external drives + internals ect but I think it’s possibly more and then there’s the price and time on upgrades…no brainer for me.
Have to say that the timing is good for Plex with regards to my subscription because I’ve been considering cancelling due to my grievance with the trailers that get served up before each movie I watch. I can live without them for now and look forward to Plex cloud
Has anyone figured out a good method to get all of your content into Amazon drive? I figure I am still going need to keep a server running for downloads and the like but it can be much smaller low power solution then my current plex rig.
So right now I need to figure out how to get everything I have into the cloud and then as new things get released how to get them up there as well.
Just wondering if anyone had a plan for that.
@veritas2884 said:
Has anyone figured out a good method to get all of your content into Amazon drive? I figure I am still going need to keep a server running for downloads and the like but it can be much smaller low power solution then my current plex rig.So right now I need to figure out how to get everything I have into the cloud and then as new things get released how to get them up there as well.
Just wondering if anyone had a plan for that.
use rclone, its what alot of us are using todo exactly this.
@Admin76542 said:
What about the 2gb file size cap?
There isn’t one.
The 2Gb file size cap is only on files uploaded through ACD’s web interface. It does not apply to any other uploads (using rclone etc or the desktop application
@veritas2884 said:
Has anyone figured out a good method to get all of your content into Amazon drive? I figure I am still going need to keep a server running for downloads and the like but it can be much smaller low power solution then my current plex rig.So right now I need to figure out how to get everything I have into the cloud and then as new things get released how to get them up there as well.
Just wondering if anyone had a plan for that.
I’m in the process of doing exactly this right now, as it happens, in advance of hopefully receiving a beta invite soon.
