+1
I like this idea a lot since I use ComicRack for all of my comics organization. If I could then tie that into my Plex Storage I could get my new comics while out and about. I travel a lot for work.
- 1 Comics !
Plex Reader would be the next logical step - since not all media is just movies and music - even comics / pdfs / epubs are important media types that can use the great Plex interface advantage. Would make life a lot easier for book lovers !!! +1 for this.
+1 for this again!
Iāve tried pretty much all I can think of to get these tracked within the current Plex eco system. ffmpeg was going all out trying to convert them to videos only to have them fail to play on the android platform. If anyones got any knowledge of working with ffmpeg and that platform Iād be interested to know if youāve managed it.
for i in *.mp3; do
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i sott.jpg -i "$i" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -shortest "${i%.*}.mp4"
done
Thatās the batch command I was using anyway mostly pulled from the documentation apart from the looping bit. My guess is itās the Picture format, so maybe something to do with the libx264 codec Iām using?
The file, plays the soundā¦ then Plex thinks it canāt play it because the video doesnāt come through.
Give ubooquity a try, Iāve been using it for a few months now hereās the link: http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/ . The setup is pretty simple and you can setup a skin similar to plex. The program has a lot of potential, but I donāt think the developer is thinking beyond home use.
Hereās an example of how my comics look when browsing from my iphone. If you want remote access, I do recommend yah follow the setup for a reverse proxy and https setup
Things I like
- Opds links directly to the ipad. I use conky to load up entire series with just a few clicks
- Built in viewer, so when I have my iphone or web browers I can still read comics
Things I dislike
- No Metadata ( Youāll need to already include the metadata in your cbr, cbz, or pdf )
- Navigation is based on file structure and metadata will be a future feature
I.E I like to organize things by Publisher for Comics and then series - Share permission are manual
Example of Ubooquity with a plex like Skin
Got a working ffmpeg command for mp3ās to mp4ās that have succefully worked in PlexWeb, Plex for Android and Plex for iOS. Havenāt got any other devices but a Roku or Chromecast to try on and will attempt them at some point.
The batch command is:
for i in *.mp3; do
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i sott.jpg -i "$i" -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -r 15 -s 640x480 -strict experimental -crf 18 -tune stillimage -preset medium -shortest "${i%.*}.mp4"
done
The single file command would be:
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i sott.jpg -i audiobook/podcasts.mp3 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -r 15 -s 640x480 -strict experimental -crf 18 -tune stillimage -preset medium -shortest audiobook/podcasts-output.mp4
+1 for Ebooks and Comics on plex. I already click on like on the first post 
It would me awesome to read them anywhere from my tablet or smartphone.
Audiobooks would be great, but books and comics are pretty well taken care of, at least for me
Calibre is far superior to anything Plex could implementā¦
And it works well for downloading books for reading when there is no data access available.
While I wouldnāt mind seeing books added at some point in the future I really would prefer they focus on perfecting the video serving first.
Iād love for this to be added becuase I really dont want my media sprtead all over the damn place. This would make my media experience complete
@AsphyxNYC said:
Calibre is far superior to anything Plex could implementā¦
And it works well for downloading books for reading when there is no data access available.
While I wouldnāt mind seeing books added at some point in the future I really would prefer they focus on perfecting the video serving first.
Why do you think that? Iāve always found the calibre content server to be clunky, and the ironclad lock on the library is annoying. Unless something has changed in the past few weeks it doesnāt handle audiobooks or comics very well either.
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Separate Audio books from the discussion here since they are well within the spectrum of what Plex does, Resuming audio is something that could be done rather easily and effectivelyā¦
But the concept of Plex is to stream for various devices and make the files compatibleā¦The idea of Comics and Books are not media you would want to stream or transcodeā¦
It works best as a download and read locallyā¦Books take up so little space that it hardly makes sense to keep the books off device. And itās not like you are going to read a book twice anyway! You download it, Read it then delete it off the device.
Even a simple file server would be better suited in that regard.
Calibre works well if you have the right apps for it (Companion and good reader).
It is trickier to set up than Plex for sure but once done pretty much any device can connect, search for and download the book they want It will even convert to the format you want to read it in.
Unless you are going in the direction of making Plex a full blown home cloud system I really donāt see where books fit in.
I do understand why some would want this and I sure wouldnāt complain if the Plex Devs decided thatās the way they want to head inā¦
But right now I would rather they perfect the Video and Music playback (and that can include audio books) before they go off on a text and comic only tangent.
Once the video is feature perfect, and have nothing else to do other than codec and transcode updatesā¦Then they can decide to expand their goals to being a cloud service/File Server.
@AsphyxNYC said:
Separate Audio books from the discussion here since they are well within the spectrum of what Plex does, Resuming audio is something that could be done rather easily and effectivelyā¦But the concept of Plex is to stream for various devices and make the files compatibleā¦The idea of Comics and Books are not media you would want to stream or transcodeā¦
It works best as a download and read locallyā¦Books take up so little space that it hardly makes sense to keep the books off device. And itās not like you are going to read a book twice anyway! You download it, Read it then delete it off the device.Even a simple file server would be better suited in that regard.
Calibre works well if you have the right apps for it (Companion and good reader).
It is trickier to set up than Plex for sure but once done pretty much any device can connect, search for and download the book they want It will even convert to the format you want to read it in.Unless you are going in the direction of making Plex a full blown home cloud system I really donāt see where books fit in.
I do understand why some would want this and I sure wouldnāt complain if the Plex Devs decided thatās the way they want to head inā¦But right now I would rather they perfect the Video and Music playback (and that can include audio books) before they go off on a text and comic only tangent.
Once the video is feature perfect, and have nothing else to do other than codec and transcode updatesā¦Then they can decide to expand their goals to being a cloud service/File Server.
While I agree with much of what you state, Plex already has nearly everything it needs to be a simple eComic viewer. An integrated eBook viewer would be much more difficult to develop, as Plex has no existing systems for viewing the various types of eBooks that are widely used by different kinds of eReaders. But Plex already supports Picture Libraries, and various picture formats, and all eComics are is a bunch of jpg files archived in page order into a Zip or Rar file. And technology to view the insides of an archived Zip or Rar file has been widely available for well over a decade now. So I can see Plex being able to add support for eComics to what they already have in place with a little bit of effort on their part, if they chose to do that. The same is true for Audio books, which they also have many of the needs of that kind of system in place already as well.
Iāve been using Calibre to manage my ever growing eBook library for several years now. But I gave up on their Server portion, as itās just too clunky to use. I now use Ubooquity as my eBook and eComic server. It uses a simple html interface I can reach using any browser, and is also supported via OPDS in a number of eComic Reader apps. I simply point Ubooquity to my Calibre eBook Library for the book portion of the server, and continue to manage my eBooks using Calibre. My eBooks I currently manage just with Ubooquity, as Calibre kind of sucks with eComics, in my opinion, and Iād rather just manage the eComics myself using Ubooquity, at least until I can locate something better.
First of all: the server program is called Plex Media Server, books and
comics are media, so itās alright for Plex to support them both as well.
Second: I have read several books several times, for example the books of
Dan Brown
Third: the āwatchedā status of video could be used to have a āreadā status
for books and comics, especially for comics this would be helpful
considering that you need to remember from each series which issues you
have already read
Op zondag 18 oktober 2015 heeft pruitt62 forums+d56331@plex.tv het
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@AsphyxNYC said:
Separate Audio books from the discussion here since they are well
within the spectrum of what Plex does, Resuming audio is something that
could be done rather easily and effectivelyā¦But the concept of Plex is to stream for various devices and makethe files compatibleā¦The idea of Comics and Books are not media you
would want to stream or transcodeā¦
It works best as a download and read locallyā¦Books take up so little
space that it hardly makes sense to keep the books off device. And itās not
like you are going to read a book twice anyway! You download it, Read it
then delete it off the device.Even a simple file server would be better suited in that regard.Calibre works well if you have the right apps for it (Companion and
good reader).
It is trickier to set up than Plex for sure but once done pretty much
any device can connect, search for and download the book they want It will
even convert to the format you want to read it in.Unless you are going in the direction of making Plex a full blownhome cloud system I really donāt see where books fit in.
I do understand why some would want this and I sure wouldnāt complain
if the Plex Devs decided thatās the way they want to head inā¦But right now I would rather they perfect the Video and Musicplayback (and that can include audio books) before they go off on a text
and comic only tangent.Once the video is feature perfect, and have nothing else to do otherthan codec and transcode updatesā¦Then they can decide to expand their
goals to being a cloud service/File Server.While I agree with much of what you state, Plex already has nearly
everything it needs to be a simple eComic viewer. An integrated eBook
viewer would be much more difficult to develop, as Plex has no existing
systems for viewing the various types of eBooks that are widely used by
different kinds of eReaders. But Plex already supports Picture Libraries,
and various picture formats, and all eComics are is a bunch of jpg files
archived in page order into a Zip or Rar file. And technology to view the
insides of an archived Zip or Rar file has been widely available for well
over a decade now. So I can see Plex being able to add support for eComics
to what they already have in place with a little bit of effort on their
part, if they chose to do that. The same is true for Audio books, which
they also have many of the needs of that kind of system in place already as
well.Iāve been using Calibre to manage
my ever growing eBook library for several years now. But I gave up on their
Server portion, as itās just too clunky to use. I now use Ubooquity as my eBook and eComic
server. It uses a simple html interface I can reach using any browser, and
is also supported via OPDS in a number of eComic Reader apps. I simply
point Ubooquity to my Calibre eBook Library for the book portion of the
server, and continue to manage my eBooks using Calibre. My eBooks I
currently manage just with Ubooquity, as Calibre kind of sucks with
eComics, in my opinion, and Iād rather just manage the eComics myself using
Ubooquity, at least until I can locate something better.ā
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Just wanting to bump.
Any news on audiobook support?
Yes Bart it is a media serverā¦a STREAMING MEDIA serverā¦
Not a file server which requires little to zero server resources other than sharing a folder.
Pruit no it really doesnāt have what it needs to do things such as read books (there is no book reader in Plex Apps.) and it has no database that can log what was the last page you read and be able to do that for MULTIPLE users which Plex is meant to serve.
To both - There is a HUGE difference between what a media server does and what a personal cloud is meant to do.
Plex is not a personal cloud serverā¦Cloud servers are nothing more than simple file servers that allow you to download files locally and use them.
Plex is meant to never have to send the entire file (Sync allows this) but to send you a stream of the file you want as to not take up local storageā¦
Big Big difference IMOā¦
Both audiobooks and comics are absolutely streamable.
@johnson.patrickw said:
Both audiobooks and comics are absolutely streamable.
I couldnāt agree more. if comics werenāt streamable, then photos wouldnāt be streamable as well and then they wouldnāt belong in Plex either
@AsphyxNYC said:
Pruit no it really doesnāt have what it needs to do things such as read books (there is no book reader in Plex Apps.) and it has no database that can log what was the last page you read and be able to do that for MULTIPLE users which Plex is meant to serve.
I never said Plex was setup now for books. In fact, I said it was not.
@pruitt62 said:
An integrated eBook
viewer would be much more difficult to develop, as Plex has no existing
systems for viewing the various types of eBooks that are widely used by
different kinds of eReaders.
Reading comprehension does not appear to be your strong suit I take it?
@Bart274 said
I couldnāt agree more. if comics werenāt streamable, then photos wouldnāt be streamable as well and then
they wouldnāt belong in Plex either
Exactly.
