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Topic: Does anyone use Plex?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM started this discussion 8 years ago #73,260

Do you have to be within the same facility in order to watch all of your media across different devices or could you perhaps watch content from your home PC (if it's on) at school?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later[^] [v] #873,748

yes

16bitch !BMhSp1fpyA joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 7 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #873,750

I'm able to watch stuff on our Plex account from any device, even my school laptop.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #873,751

I'm able to watch stuff on the Internet from any device I have. It's called the Internet. I don't have to pay anyone.

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 8 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #873,753

@873,750 (16bitch !BMhSp1fpyA)
I have some shows that I noticed that Plex didn't detected all of the episodes in season one. Why is this?

@previous (D)
You have to pay the ISP to access this Internet.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 46 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #873,760

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
There is free WiFi everywhere..

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #873,761

@previous (E)
Don't the owners of that WiFi have time restrictions?

Catherine !TGirlYJKXM (OP) double-posted this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,768

@873,750 (16bitch !BMhSp1fpyA)
Does your computer have to be on in order to do that other places?

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 43 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,769

@previous (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)

You can't access a server if the server is offline

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 5 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,791

You know you can just install and try it right?

Anonymous G double-posted this 8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,792

oh also you need to get their paid thing to do decent quality streams

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 4 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,827

@OP
you can stream remotely from one computer to another if you have a decent connection at home.

@873,753 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
Plex detects episodes based on filenames and references an online database. It has trouble with a lot of fansubbed anime because the database mostly uses western titles and concepts of seasons, where fansubbers tend to use Romanized Japanese titles for shows and second "season's" tend to have a an addition to the original name.
For easy identification, you want to use the
[series name][season #]x[episode #](episode title).[extension]
or
[series name]S[season #]E[episode #](episode title).[extension]
format.
ie: "South Park s14e06 201 - Uncensored.mp4" "Robot.Chicken.5x18.Fool's.Goldfinger.avi"
The episode title isn't parsed from the filename by the Plex media identifier, it's retrieved from the online db based on the season and episode number. This would cause the original filename for the South Park episode to be misidentified as season 2 episode 1 as the original filename is "South Park 201 - Uncensored.mp4" when 201 is actually the name of the episode.

@873,768 (Catherine !TGirlYJKXM)
yes

@previous (G)
With regards to in-network streaming, this is utterly false. When I tried remote streaming I had no issues with the quality, aside from an episode with snowfall with caused severe buffer lag, but that's a problem of the server computer (a laptop) not being able to process fast enough. However, this was a year ago and I haven't done any out-of-network streaming since then.

Anonymous G replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,893

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
I was talking about the remote streaming. I could not select high bandwith options. I guess maybe it was my network.

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 8 years ago, 58 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,941

@previous (G)
Yeah you're obviously going to be limited by whatever your max upload rate is on the serving side.

Anonymous G replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #873,960

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
my upload speed should be fine i think. anyway i didnt really look further into this because i dont really do remote streaming anyway
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