Sharing Plex Media Servers in Trinidad

uberchic · Postby **uberchic** » July 19th, 2016, 7:24 pm

Hi Nemo, still no access and no help from Digicel either.

nemo · Postby **nemo** » July 22nd, 2016, 2:03 pm

Are you trying to run a Plex server?
When you check your IP Address, are you receiving an IPv4 or IPv6 Address?
What OS are you running your server on by the way?
How is your network setup? Are you plugging the Huawei ONT into an Ethernet Switch and then to all your other network devices?

mantis · Postby **mantis** » October 8th, 2016, 7:55 pm

Is all the plex servers down

ninjabilly · Postby **ninjabilly** » October 8th, 2016, 8:29 pm

Streaming from one as we speak, if you want to share pm me I'll add you.

S_2NR · Postby **S_2NR** » November 29th, 2016, 7:20 pm

Whoever wants to share. I have plex premium on a 100down, 10up connection.
PM me your username.
I sent you a pm nemo and karbonfiber

AD Solutions · Postby **AD Solutions** » May 13th, 2017, 1:56 pm

Send ting

nemo · Postby **nemo** » March 28th, 2020, 8:15 pm

Starting my server back! Send me your usernames so I can add you.

Postby **Duane 3NE 2NR** » March 28th, 2020, 8:21 pm

haven't used PLEX in a probably over a year
will go do an update and see what's new

Ted_v2 · Postby **Ted_v2** » April 10th, 2020, 6:53 am

met a friend and he told me about this, seems like this is what i needed in my system for the longest while, already have a pretty decent enough network.

what servers you all recommend? off the shelf nas? servers servers?

i have a dell r310 (quad core xeon, 8gb ram) i bought on a deal. 4 driver server that i planned to do something with, or you all think its wiser to get into something like a small fanless cpu board combo and throw some drives in it as a low power option?

adnj · Postby **adnj** » April 10th, 2020, 8:40 am

Ted_v2 wrote:met a friend and he told me about this, seems like this is what i needed in my system for the longest while, already have a pretty decent enough network.

what servers you all recommend? off the shelf nas? servers servers?

i have a dell r310 (quad core xeon, 8gb ram) i bought on a deal. 4 driver server that i planned to do something with, or you all think its wiser to get into something like a small fanless cpu board combo and throw some drives in it as a low power option?

How your media is encoded and how it is consumed can create differences.

You will need to curate media files in a manner that PLEX prefers and use media players or web apps that communicate with the server.

You can use a standalone media player to communicate with PLEX servers also but lose the advantages of ratings and statistics.

If you go full-PLEX, set up the media files, install your players and run the server from anything that you currently have. In time, you will likely notice noise, transcoding, auto-start, and bandwidth issues that you will want to change with something different.

I personally prefer a NAS for media files that are backed-up to a separate unit. The NAS is then the file source for a separate PLEX server.

You can run multiple PLEX servers from the same file source so that you can update hardware as needed, relieve transcoding headroom issues, segregate file source media libraries, and run software updates at anytime. The cost is managing multiple metadata databases for improperly formatted media file directories or mismatches.

daxt0r · Postby **daxt0r** » April 10th, 2020, 8:45 am

Ted_v2 wrote:met a friend and he told me about this, seems like this is what i needed in my system for the longest while, already have a pretty decent enough network.

what servers you all recommend? off the shelf nas? servers servers?

i have a dell r310 (quad core xeon, 8gb ram) i bought on a deal. 4 driver server that i planned to do something with, or you all think its wiser to get into something like a small fanless cpu board combo and throw some drives in it as a low power option?

off shelf NAS with capability built in, much overkill with server dey but if you really wa give it a go, put FreeNAS on it and see how far that takes you.

adnj · Postby **adnj** » April 10th, 2020, 9:44 am

daxt0r wrote:
Ted_v2 wrote:met a friend and he told me about this, seems like this is what i needed in my system for the longest while, already have a pretty decent enough network.

what servers you all recommend? off the shelf nas? servers servers?

i have a dell r310 (quad core xeon, 8gb ram) i bought on a deal. 4 driver server that i planned to do something with, or you all think its wiser to get into something like a small fanless cpu board combo and throw some drives in it as a low power option?

off shelf NAS with capability built in, much overkill with server dey but if you really wa give it a go, put FreeNAS on it and see how far that takes you.

That seems like a relatively over-arching statement.

For media consumption, any NAS will serve the files. Nearly any NAS will work if you can use the direct play option in PLEX for your media devices. But for PLEX H.264 and especially H.265 transcoding, the best Xeon-powered NAS will likely be close to the processing limit when playing one stream to a media device.

Ted_v2 · Postby **Ted_v2** » April 10th, 2020, 2:11 pm

clearly i need to do some more research on this oui.

adnj · Postby **adnj** » April 10th, 2020, 3:24 pm

Ted_v2 wrote:clearly i need to do some more research on this oui.

Simply put, I believe that you should start with what hardware you already you have. PLEX has some features that you may or may not want to use and you probably won't know until you try it.

My best advice is to be able to move you media files easily to whatever you run PLEX on and then move them again if you change your mind.

Good luck.

death365 · Postby **death365** » April 11th, 2020, 6:08 pm

Nas works better it's also faster cause its more or less a Ip address and login. And a Nas can hold anything file iso files to vid pics docs. You can even have sections for different users.

Except when stupid seagate update kills the server and can't even boot up now... Rant done.

AD Solutions · Postby **AD Solutions** » April 19th, 2020, 6:49 pm

nemo wrote:Starting my server back! Send me your usernames so I can add you.

Link me an invite to try it out, thx.

Ted_v2 · Postby **Ted_v2** » April 19th, 2020, 10:54 pm

Worked on building something small so far, have a g4400, 8gb ddr4 ram and a board with 4 sata ports, have some drives from older machines i had, 2 500gb and a 250gb, i have a SSD 240gb. did some testing on the drives today and all checked out as fine, Drives got crazy hot during the test tho, i modded the front cpu case and got a 120mm to throw some airflow on it, works real nice now.

gonna give this a go soon, i have about 1tb of stuff in my main machine, so its just a trial.

adnj · Postby **adnj** » April 20th, 2020, 3:42 am

Ted_v2 wrote:Worked on building something small so far, have a g4400, 8gb ddr4 ram and a board with 4 sata ports, have some drives from older machines i had, 2 500gb and a 250gb, i have a SSD 240gb. did some testing on the drives today and all checked out as fine, Drives got crazy hot during the test tho, i modded the front cpu case and got a 120mm to throw some airflow on it, works real nice now.

gonna give this a go soon, i have about 1tb of stuff in my main machine, so its just a trial.

The memory and SSD will help with typical WIN10 performance issues but the processor is key to Plex Server performance. What you are using should handle 1080p with few problems.

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CPU Requirements

The most basic thing to remember is that the more Plex apps you have playing content at the same time, the more CPU power you’ll need. Generally speaking, if you have two Plex apps requiring transcoded content at the same time, that will require about twice the CPU processing power compared to if there was only one app playing content.

If you want very basic minimum suggestions:

No transcoding: Intel “Atom” 1.2GHz (NAS devices based on ARM processors should also be capable of at least one stream with no transcoding)

Single 720p transcode: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz

Single 1080p transcode: Intel Core i5 3.0GHz

Single 4K transcode: Intel Core i7 3.2GHz

If you’ll need to support more than one simultaneous transcode, you’ll need a more powerful processor.

The Guideline

Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark score requirements are a good guideline for the following average source file:

4K HDR (50Mbps, 10-bit HEVC) file: 17000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)

4K SDR (40Mbps, 8-bit HEVC) file: 12000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)

1080p (10Mbps, H.264) file: 2000 PassMark score

720p (4Mbps, H.264) file: 1500 PassMark score

The CPU Benchmark website is a good resource to see what sort of PassMark score a particular processor received.

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Slartibartfast · Postby **Slartibartfast** » April 20th, 2020, 8:39 am

So, just trying to wrap my head around this. You build your own server and then use Plex to connect it to all your devices through the apps?

Does this mean that if you are watching something from my server (if i gave you access) that it would be tying up my upload bandwidth?

This looks interesting but I can't sacrifice my upload speeds

FrankChag · Postby **FrankChag** » April 22nd, 2020, 9:40 am

Sometimes techy ppl go a bit overboard.. I have a simple win10 machine with an old but fast-ish amd, with about 2TB right now.. runs plex on my local network at home, and streams to all the devices home and to a few android/windows outside.. ezpz.. no NAS, no hassel. Granted my flow upload speed is 20mb, but it degrades gracefully if needed. I don't see what all the fuss is about if you're just using it for you and the family. [We use it to control what the kids watch].