I successfully installed the beta 2 version on my DS411+. Only one gripe: it appears Plex server is preventing my diskstation from hibernating the hard drives.
That may be due to the auto-refresh of the library.
Check the Preferences in the Media Manager, and only check "scan if something has changed", not the hourly one.
Any news on the new synology package? I’m so excited 
Hi! Is there a way of editing the genres / genre names? I have almost one genre for each movie by now… 
About 10 genres should be more than enough…
I haven’t installed that much packages on my DS1511+ so far. I just try uploading the Beta Package that nudgenudge pasted through the package manager in the web panel. It loads forever and ever but nothing happens. Anything i could do wrong here? Better not upload it there but put it somewhere on the machine for installation?
Thanks for your help!
EDIT: works after switching from chrome to safari. strange. probably a chrome extension is breaking things.
I am trying to add collections. After two collections have been created every new one is deleting the last one created so only two collections are displayed.
I just upgraded my DSM and when I rebooted neither Plex won’t start up. Pressing ‘Run’ in the Package Center returns a success message straight away, but there is no Plex process running. Trying to manually start via SSH yields:
DiskStation> ./Plex\ Media\ Server.sh start
Starting Plex …
ln: /usr/syno/synoman/webman/3rdparty/plex: File exists
DiskStation> Error: Unable to set up server: basic_string::_S_create
I did some digging, and it seems it may have been unrelated. I think something screwed with the permission and it was the reboot that caused the issue.
That being said, I had a source whose directory contained spaces, and Plex wouldn’t boot up. The source was “Podcasts and Screencasts” but the following error was output when starting up:
DiskStation> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/Plex\ Media\ Server.sh start
Starting Plex …
ln: /usr/syno/synoman/webman/3rdparty/plex: File exists
DiskStation> Error: Unable to set up server: boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct: No such file or directory: “/volume1/video/Podcasts”
I created /volume1/video/Podcasts and then the PMS booted up correctly, and I could rename the source to not use spaces. I am not sure if this is the new DSM or was always a problem or if it is just a red herring.
Hope it helps somebody…
- Bo
New build here: http://plex-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/PlexMediaServer-0.9.5.2-641fa29.spk
This should be the “final” 0.9.5.2 build.
Fantastic! Will check this out right away...
This one, I did test, and no issues whatsoever.
So everyone, give Tobias a cheer, because it was not easy to set up! :)
For bjeanes: woah, that's... wait, you upgraded the DSM, but what version of Plex was it?
If it was 0.9.2.8/0.9.3.5, yeah, my extra-bad, the Plex libraries were in /usr/local and got removed during DSM upgrade.
In any case, 0.9.5.x fixes this issue, and maybe the space one (it did fix UTF-8...)
Seems to work fine on my DS1511+ Love it! Thank you guys!
Still seeing HIGH CPU usage when transcoding 1080p movies on my 1511+. ffmpeg eats up a LOT of CPU, and makes my iOS devices buffer.
That's "normal", as:
- ffmpeg will transcode the whole movie, and use all the resources to do so (explains the high CPU),
- NAS CPUs are weak (explains the buffering).
1080p transcoding is very heavy on a NAS, except maybe with the Bromolows (any Bromolow users who can vouch for this? I'm curious).
That's why I always recommand using a computer as PMS if you need transcoding; NASes just don't cut it.
Or lower the stream to your device to for example 480p or 720p, works most of the times for me (also having a DS1511+).
Thank you Tobias and Nudge!
I set my preference to "scan if something has changed", and this appears to also not allow the hard drives to hibernate either.
The scanner doesn’t seem to like archived video files (r01, r02, etc). Does anyone have a solution to this (except for unpacking all the archives)?
Hmm, maybe this one is just a cron job on Linux (as EventsFS are Mac-only). Which means that it's just a hourly refresh after all.
Not sure about the specifics. Try with manual or no refresh to be sure it's the cause of the non-hibernation.
Or add a longer refresh time; mine is off, with SickBeard launching a refresh, or me manually.
No, RAR files are not supported by Plex (it was a huge debate on these forums when it was announced, which ended in "never gonna happen").
There is unpacking (I'm surprised your software didn't do it by default) and if you feel hackingly, there is rar2fs: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/27584-rar2fs-howto/
Not sure how well this works on a Synology (those things are pretty tough dependency-wise :D ) and there is of course performance issues (i.e. unRARing on-the-fly uses memory, CPU, etc).
I'd go with unpacking; if you search "RAR support" or just "unRAR lots of files", you may find a script that does it in one swoosh.
Thanks for getting back to me. I did some searching myself and found some of those debates. I'm afraid rar support is a deal-breaker for me, so unfortunately I will have to go back to either Boxee or XBMC. It's really too bad since Plex was starting to look like the perfect solution with splitting up the server and client. Well, nothing to do about that I guess. Was fun the couple of hours it lasted.
*(Kicking myself for to finding this out before checking the download page for the 0.9.5 update for Synology every day since the end of October...)*
