Advice on improving Plex experience? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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I have a Plex server running on Mac OSX. Whenever I want to add media, I remotely connect into the Mac, login to my private tracker, download the torrent, wait for it to finish, then update my Plex library.

I'm hopeful that there's an easier way. I'm imagining a way I can remotely tell the Plex server what I want to watch and it takes it from there. Does such a thing exist?

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[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org -1 points 6 days ago

It's a hammer in search of nails. If you don't want transcoding it simply doesn't work. It's nice that it exists and works for some people, but I despise 'solutions' that have no reason to exist except the devs needing an excuse to do thins they like. If jellyfin had a normal, regular, honest and simple option to just turn off transcoding I'd probably switch to it (even if the library scan process takes days instead of seconds). I don't want to transcode anything ever, I use things in my lan, my devices can play all of the formats in my librabry - this is like archiving and unpacking every single file I move around on my pc.

Now plex is not opensource freeware nice things - it does what I tell it to do. That's about it

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

If your client device supports the format the media is in, Jellyfin doesn’t transcode it. You can also disable transcoding entirely, if the user doesn’t want it.

Library scans also take just a couple seconds, and that’s on the old 2016 quad core desktop I nabbed out of the trash at my workplace. If yours was taking longer, it indicates an issue with your PC.

What other bits of misinformation do you have to share?

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

I see what you're saying. I don't really mind doing the transcoding but I'd never looked to turn it off. Maybe it'll be a feature added at some point.

You may disagree but I'm of the opinion that making an open source version of an app is enough of a reason to warrant it's creation but to each their own of course. Thanks for sharing your input.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

You can already disable transcoding, and it doesn’t transcode at all anyway if your device can handle the format. The person you responded to is just an idiot.

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I know I was having issues trying to transcode media the server wasn't able to transcode. I didn't know it wouldn't transcode period if device could handle it. I feel like I was always transcoding no matter what but maybe not the case. I certainly would not consider myself an authority on the inner workings of Jellyfin