Having issues getting rclone working on OS-X Sierra. It says “Failed to load config file.” Since I am extremely ignorant on this program, what do I need to do?
@PutinShark said:
@skubiszm said:
@z06gal said:
I am on a 350/30 internet connection and am attempting to upload my movies from my WDMycloud. The upload speed is laughable for ACD. I reach 1.5mbps when I get really lucky.Don’t use the ACD upload client. It is very slow. Try rclone. A guy who did an AMA on reddit maxed out his gigabit connection uploading to ACD.
+1 to this. I use it to sync my data across multiple servers located around the world. rclone is a blessing on its own. And it lets me use plex to stream my acd contents without it being stored locally
I’m getting 2kb/sec transfer times using rclone. Is there some config setting I can make to open up the transfer speed?
I am WAY into this and I signed up for the beta (and Plex Pass & Amazon Drive) just for this. You did it Plex! You got me to start paying! Now let me in to your beta!! 
This may had been brought up already. Admittedly I didn’t read through every page of this thread. I can’t see myself going away from my local pms. For me I am techy and have access to computers through my line of work. So having a machine that can handle decient transcoding isn’t an issue. And I primarily use plex to stream my movies locally within my house to any TV. So I don’t think I’d want to go from streaming local content to a cloud based stream that requires transcoding even when in my home? Not to mention the fact that Comcast just slapped a 1tb a month cap on my data so I would definitely be adding to my hit on that cap per month! I like the idea and for many it may be a nice service but not sure it’s for me just yet.
@z06gal said:
Having issues getting rclone working on OS-X Sierra. It says “Failed to load config file.” Since I am extremely ignorant on this program, what do I need to do?
Did you follow the instructions?
@ecd1973 said:
@PutinShark said:
@skubiszm said:
@z06gal said:
I am on a 350/30 internet connection and am attempting to upload my movies from my WDMycloud. The upload speed is laughable for ACD. I reach 1.5mbps when I get really lucky.Don’t use the ACD upload client. It is very slow. Try rclone. A guy who did an AMA on reddit maxed out his gigabit connection uploading to ACD.
+1 to this. I use it to sync my data across multiple servers located around the world. rclone is a blessing on its own. And it lets me use plex to stream my acd contents without it being stored locally
I’m getting 2kb/sec transfer times using rclone. Is there some config setting I can make to open up the transfer speed?
I’m not aware of any “go faster” setting. If you are doing any other uploading…like torrenting, for example, this will clobber rclone rates.
@PutinShark said:
My only question is, instead of the server being in the cloud, why not let us also use it from our home similar to our setup right now? If we could point our libraries to Amazon Drive from our current home plex server it would be great. I see plex charging a monthly fee for this. Keeping up with servers on those with lifetime passes might not be sustainable.
What would be the point of that exactly? Might as well just keep operating without plex cloud if you are hosting the files locally.
@z06gal said:
Having issues getting rclone working on OS-X Sierra. It says “Failed to load config file.” Since I am extremely ignorant on this program, what do I need to do?
You need to configure rclone. Use the command rclone config (i think) thats where you setup remotes drives etc.
@Quasar said:
@PutinShark said:
My only question is, instead of the server being in the cloud, why not let us also use it from our home similar to our setup right now? If we could point our libraries to Amazon Drive from our current home plex server it would be great. I see plex charging a monthly fee for this. Keeping up with servers on those with lifetime passes might not be sustainable.What would be the point of that exactly? Might as well just keep operating without plex cloud if you are hosting the files locally.
The point is to store the files in the cloud instead of your own file server. It would be very attractive - $60 per year instead of investing in a $2000 file server. Hence the separate thread on the subject - still lacking an answer, so don’t hold your breath here either.
There are plenty of folks who are storing encrypted cloud data and running it on a local Plex server. There are entire reddit threads on the subject. It’s a non-supported deployment so Plex forums are not where you’re going to find a lot of information.
@PutinShark said:
My only question is, instead of the server being in the cloud, why not let us also use it from our home similar to our setup right now? If we could point our libraries to Amazon Drive from our current home plex server it would be great.
You can already do that with the free Plex version. I personally tried NetDrive and it worked just fine. Starting and seeking a transcode stream is suprisingly fast.
Okay, so a few updates on my end, as I got the invite, and started the process of setting up the Cloud Drive and populating it.
I also signed up for the Unlimited plan with Amazon and actually had a chat with one of the Amazon helper, so here are a few bits of info you might find useful:
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According to the Amazon Cloud Customer chatline, Amazon does mean Unlimited. I asked if I was okay to start uploading 5TB of data, and he said that was no problem.
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I asked about using it for Plex, and he said that, again, there was some sort of partnership going on (which is no new info really) and that it was acceptable within their T&C to upload large amount of data and stream said data.
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I therefore started uploading a small(ish) number of files to the ACD, and created a new Cloud library in Plex.
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In terms of Upload bandwidth, I only get 1 Mb/s and the Amazon servers seem to be able to handle that happily.
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PMS started updating itself in the background, and sure enough, the uploaded files were analysed and appeared in the Plex Cloud Server as expected.
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It is worth noting that, in terms of Library update, as far as I can tell, this is pretty slow.
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I am also noticing that the Cloud Server is not always available, and can sometimes take a few minutes to become reachable.
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I am now attempting to upload my entire library from a NAS, and things are ticking along nicely. I calculated that, at an average of 750 kb/s, it would take about 67 days to upload everything.
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In terms of playback, I get mixed results. Starting streaming can be very slow, but then tends to be pretty stable, and encoding seems to be working rather well (including from a 1080p resolution to 720p).
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On iPhone, I found that the ap crashes if I attemp to modify the video quality.
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The Plex app on my Samsung Smart TV will see the Cloud Server, but show it as Unavailable.
Because I am uploading a large amount of data, I am not sure what impact this is having on the Amazin server, and whether this is why the library can be slow to load/refresh. I would expectan industrial server farm to be able to handle this but hey, what do I know …
@shnex said:
Okay, so a few updates on my end, as I got the invite, and started the process of setting up the Cloud Drive and populating it.I also signed up for the Unlimited plan with Amazon and actually had a chat with one of the Amazon helper, so here are a few bits of info you might find useful:
According to the Amazon Cloud Customer chatline, Amazon does mean Unlimited. I asked if I was okay to start uploading 5TB of data, and he said that was no problem.
I asked about using it for Plex, and he said that, again, there was some sort of partnership going on (which is no new info really) and that it was acceptable within their T&C to upload large amount of data and stream said data.
I therefore started uploading a small(ish) number of files to the ACD, and created a new Cloud library in Plex.
In terms of Upload bandwidth, I only get 1 Mb/s and the Amazon servers seem to be able to handle that happily.
PMS started updating itself in the background, and sure enough, the uploaded files were analysed and appeared in the Plex Cloud Server as expected.
It is worth noting that, in terms of Library update, as far as I can tell, this is pretty slow.
I am also noticing that the Cloud Server is not always available, and can sometimes take a few minutes to become reachable.
I am now attempting to upload my entire library from a NAS, and things are ticking along nicely. I calculated that, at an average of 750 kb/s, it would take about 67 days to upload everything.
In terms of playback, I get mixed results. Starting streaming can be very slow, but then tends to be pretty stable, and encoding seems to be working rather well (including from a 1080p resolution to 720p).
On iPhone, I found that the ap crashes if I attemp to modify the video quality.
The Plex app on my Samsung Smart TV will see the Cloud Server, but show it as Unavailable.
Because I am uploading a large amount of data, I am not sure what impact this is having on the Amazin server, and whether this is why the library can be slow to load/refresh. I would expectan industrial server farm to be able to handle this but hey, what do I know
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Question is, what they do customers who upload pirated stuff ?!?
Question is, what they do customers who upload pirated stuff ?!?
Well, this is the million dollar question (literally) and I must admit I didn’t ask.
Even in the case of un-pirated content, there is an inherent copyright question.
In many countries, consumers are not authorised to create a digital copy of their media. so even if you do own a specific DVD/BlueRay, you might not be allowed to have a digital copy.
Distribution is an even more contentious issue, as if you read the copyright agreement on DVD’s, you have to ask authorisation if you are planning to screen content to a certain number of people.
Finally, a number of people have commented that Amazon is a VOD provider itself, and indeed this could easily become a strong point of contention, especially when Amazon produced content starts appearing on their own Cloud Drives.
At the moment, I am hoping that Amazon will remain lenient as long as the number of concurrent users on a single account remains within what could be considered as “consumer levels” (5 or 10 users max), as opposed to “distributor levels” (100+ users).
In any case, we are entering what I think is essentially a “grey area of progress”…
Just a little questions to be sure; If i upload my stuff now (without having an invite) to a random folder on my amazon drive, can i move it later (when i get an invite) to the plex folders without a problem (and without a long waiting time)?
@Wunderwally
Yes, but there are no Plex folders.
Plex Cloud will unfortunately scan your whole Amazon Drive Account (which can take a long time if you have multiple small files on it), you can’t specify a specific folder for media content.
After everything is scanned you just create libraries like on a normal Plex Media Server (simply choose one or multiple Amazon Drive folder paths for each library).
@Wiidesire said:
Plex Cloud will unfortunately scan your whole Amazon Drive Account (which can take a long time if you have multiple small files on it), you can’t specify a specific folder for media content.
Actually, I am not so sure about this. When I created my Plex Cloud server, Plex asked me to specify folders for each type of media (TV/Movies/Musis/etc.)
Now it just scans those for new material.
@Wiidesire said:
@Wunderwally
Yes, but there are no Plex folders.
Plex Cloud will unfortunately scan your whole Amazon Drive Account (which can take a long time if you have multiple small files on it), you can’t specify a specific folder for media content.
After everything is scanned you just create libraries like on a normal Plex Media Server (simply choose one or multiple Amazon Drive folder paths for each library).
Oh okay thanks for the fast response. So let’s say i create two folders (f.e. Movies and TV Shows), upload all my stuff, after everything is scanned i’ll point the PMS to the Amazon Drive folders “Movies” for movies and so on?
Oh okay thanks for the fast response. So let’s say i create two folders (f.e. Movies and TV Shows), upload all my stuff, after everything is scanned i’ll point the PMS to the Amazon Drive folders “Movies” for movies and so on?
Yup (at least that’s what I’m doing)
Thanks!
