My time with Plex..

[drewg]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

If you're using a Roku, why not just use the Roku Hulu+ app/channel?

(I don't use any Flash based content/plugins via Plex myself)

Because what I really want is ESPN3, but Hulu has the same problem so I thought I'd mention it. Also, AFAIK, the Hulu+ Roku requires you subscribe to Hulu+, but what I want is the basic Hulu stuff.

Drew

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

I should think that could be resolved

As of today, yes (though I'm having problems reaching the site just now...)

Yep, I didn't notice that the newer version has the "publish server" option. Now it works.

[MattHelm]

Someone just brought this up. Can you sync multiple clients?

[darcilicious]

What do you mean by "sync"? Do you mean being able to download content to clients (e.g. PlexSync) or something else? If PlexSync, I don't think there's a limit to the number of clients but you do have to subscribe to PlexPass.

[MattHelm]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

What do you mean by "sync"? Do you mean being able to download content to clients (e.g. PlexSync) or something else? If PlexSync, I don't think there's a limit to the number of clients but you do have to subscribe to PlexPass.

By sync, I mean all clients playing back the same video at the same time, from a single source.

[darcilicious]

Originally Posted by MattHelm

By sync, I mean all clients playing back the same video at the same time, from a single source.

No, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. (In fact,I'm not aware of any in-home, consumer PVR/video playback solution that does this? But that could be pure ignorance on my part )

[PiX64]

I've been using plex since I stumbled upon it and decided to reach out to Brian and build the sage scanners and bmt agents for it.

Love plex and everything it can do.

Afa the syncing no u can't do that with a file... But u couldn't do that in sage afaik...

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I have an OTA tuner hooked directly to tv in rare cases that I need live.



Why do u miss it?? No need Just use Babg's tools to grab the file when done recording mark commercials and output new file with commercials gone



Why can't she now not available in australia? I love the web streaming and being able to share collections is truly great!

Which babgvant plugin or tool are you referring to?

[BobbyDing]

I've just installed Plex Media Server on my SageTV Server tonight and pointed it to my Sage import directories for TV shows. Had it streaming to a client PC and my Kindle HD in no time at all. It also appears to see the server using the IP for the house, but I won't get to test that till tomorrow when I'll try to stream from a relatives house. I have to say I'm quite impressed so far.

I do have questions about the scanner for SageTV though. From what I read in the plugin thread it seems to me that the plex scanner is mostly for use with the recorded tv directory to help plex interpret and display the proper metadata for the media created (recorded) by SageTV...... Is that correct?


Also....

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Just use Babg's tools to grab the file when done recording mark commercials and output new file with commercials gone

PLUCKYHD, Can you provide a link to these tools?

Bobby

[calypsocowboy]

I'd love to make Plex work, but my movies are all .vob and .iso which Plex doesn't play nicely with and I don't feel like converting them to another format.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by calypsocowboy

I'd love to make Plex work, but my movies are all .vob and .iso which Plex doesn't play nicely with and I don't feel like converting them to another format.

Right there with you. MakeMKV seems to work well for this though. I haven't tried to get it to work in batch mode yet, but if it does then this process could get much easier.

[pjpjpjpj]

Is there a streaming solution out there for ripped DVDs in native .TS/.VOB format?

One time, years ago, I was showing a friend how I could access Sage remotely on his laptop via the old webserver by nielm (in the v6 days). I managed to get one of my DVDs streaming onto his laptop at like 1/3 resolution (if you recall, that old webserver was very reliant on the client having the right codecs and video drivers). But of course, the new v7 mobile webserver doesn't offer streaming of anything other than TV recordings, and Plex doesn't do native DVDs... any solutions out there?

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

Is there a streaming solution out there for ripped DVDs in native .TS/.VOB format?

One time, years ago, I was showing a friend how I could access Sage remotely on his laptop via the old webserver by nielm (in the v6 days). I managed to get one of my DVDs streaming onto his laptop at like 1/3 resolution (if you recall, that old webserver was very reliant on the client having the right codecs and video drivers). But of course, the new v7 mobile webserver doesn't offer streaming of anything other than TV recordings, and Plex doesn't do native DVDs... any solutions out there?

Since they are separate files with an .ifo that tells you what order to play, I think that is the issue. I know that subsonic will work, but you will have to play each vob after the other. Not that great of a solution.

[MattHelm]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

No, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. (In fact,I'm not aware of any in-home, consumer PVR/video playback solution that does this? But that could be pure ignorance on my part )

Thanks. I didn't need this, but was asking for someone else for another reason. Just wanted to know if it could to help him out.

(He has a LARGE room with 2 (future 5-6) monitors he'd like to display the same data. They are smart and have WiFi, so he was hoping to use that. They are far enough apart that he'd like to not run wires, and even if he did, he'd need to extend the HDMI ... $$$ )

[Dargason]

Originally Posted by MattHelm

Thanks. I didn't need this, but was asking for someone else for another reason. Just wanted to know if it could to help him out.

(He has a LARGE room with 2 (future 5-6) monitors he'd like to display the same data. They are smart and have WiFi, so he was hoping to use that. They are far enough apart that he'd like to not run wires, and even if he did, he'd need to extend the HDMI ... $$$ )

Disclaimer: I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

But when I was digging through some VLC docs a week or two ago I thought I saw some references to broadcast streaming. I'm not sure what that is, but it sounds to me like it allows you to set up a server with a broadcast stream that could be received by any number of receivers. Maybe that would work for this application? There might be latency differences between receivers but on a dedicated LAN that probably would be negligible.

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by MattHelm

Thanks. I didn't need this, but was asking for someone else for another reason. Just wanted to know if it could to help him out.

(He has a LARGE room with 2 (future 5-6) monitors he'd like to display the same data. They are smart and have WiFi, so he was hoping to use that. They are far enough apart that he'd like to not run wires, and even if he did, he'd need to extend the HDMI ... $$$ )

For the extending part, check out HDMI over CAT5e/6. That'll be MUCH cheaper than HDMI extenders. I have one of these going 50 feet (CAT6) under the carpet, with no issues at all.

For the whole setup, he might be interested in something like these. Note that I have no experience with these units, however.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Which babgvant plugin or tool are you referring to?

LINK

DVRMS toolbox very powerful too to auto watch strip commercials and convert.

Originally Posted by panteragstk

Right there with you. MakeMKV seems to work well for this though. I haven't tried to get it to work in batch mode yet, but if it does then this process could get much easier.

I have a great powershell script written for batch converting one whole drive to another whole drive. It works really well on DVD's. Still working on getting solid results with Bluray rips. Happy to share if u PM me. Note it doesn't delete anything after converting.

1.Take original Video_TS and converts to new location with same folder name as original and filename is foldername.mkv

example:
d:\Blood Simple\video_ts---Original
e:\Blood Simple\blood simple.mkv---new

Happy to share I converted almost 1k native dvd rips so far without any issues. You will have to configure the script a bit to match your directories...I guess I could stop being lazy and automate that part. It only rips on movie at a time. Average DVD for me takes around 3 to 4 minutes. Doesn't use much processor since it's only doing one at a time.

[Fuzzy]

For watching ISO's, blurays, pretty much anything remotely, I've had great results using SplashTop HD connected to my Bedroom client PC. Yes, it requires that no one is using that client, but it's performance is actually pretty good with my 4Mbps upload speed.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

For watching ISO's, blurays, pretty much anything remotely, I've had great results using SplashTop HD connected to my Bedroom client PC. Yes, it requires that no one is using that client, but it's performance is actually pretty good with my 4Mbps upload speed.

I've used that in the past use to have custom STV that was more touch friendly. IT was always slow and laggy though could be better thats been a couple of years I am sure it's improved greatly.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

I've used that in the past use to have custom STV that was more touch friendly. IT was always slow and laggy though could be better thats been a couple of years I am sure it's improved greatly.

It's really heavily dependent on your ISP's upstream bandwidth (like any other stream from home service as well) - they have made codec improvements it seems over the years, and it is much better than it was a few years ago. We don't use it much, but my kids have used it streaming to their nexus7's in the back seat on road trips pretty successfully. Good enough for kids shows, but I'm not watching an action flick on it...