Since the removal of Plex Cloud, I’m finding it hard to replicate the service. I use rclone cache, but videos start slow and halt if you try and rewind. Could there be a way that Plex could list the movies and shows on GDrive by pointing to Google’s own encodes, rather than the original file, playing them direct without going through the transcoder. I know people don’t like Google’s encodes that you can view on the site, but for me it would be a better alternative than the unfriendly way rclone caches work.
I don’t get what you’re suggesting. Are you trying to ask that if a user has the file listed in their Plex library, Plex allows you to stream directly from the same title in Google Play Movies?
Never going to happen. There are so many reasons why.
Plex is meant for you to stream your own content from your own hardware. Plex Cloud was a misguided tangential ideal and was canceled in part due to the infeasibility of trying to stream from cloud/third-party hosting services and basically make Plex something it isn’t. If you continue to try to make Plex something it isn’t, you too will continue to have an unsatisfactory experience.
Time to invest in some local storage.
if you can mount your google drive to your computer so plex sees it at a regular drive i guess. but I may be misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish
Nope, that’s not what I meant at all. When you upload a video to Google drive, Google makes streamable versions and stores them as separate files, so when you request to play it on the web or in the Google Drive app, it plays a streaming version in whichever resolution you choose. So those files are in your Google Drive, linked to the original file, one for each resolution. It doesn’t transcode on the fly, it always has those extra files. If Plex could point to them, they would stream no problem, though they may not be Plex quality.
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