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  • stonedemoman@lemmy.worldtoPlex@lemmy.cahow do playlists work?
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    10 months ago

    You’re not doing anything wrong, the playlist function is just half-baked. My guess is they put just enough work into it to intend for it to be used in small chunks, such as a single evening.

    Edit: I’ve just seen your clarifying statement, and although Plex playlist is relatively non functional I’ve never seen that specific behavior. Try hitting play on an item in the playlist instead, that works for me.


  • Instead of minutia, I’m just going to mention the few reasons that really sold me on containers.

    • Security: Being able to host external services that only have access to the folders I map to it.

    • Compartmentalization: I can specify exactly what resources I want to limit/control for each individual service. I.E. stacking a VPN on top of services for a 100% guaranteed Killswitch.

    • Automation: Docker is an incredible tool for automatically restarting services whenever they hit a snag and keeping your services up to date with the latest version.







  • Other people have kind of touched on this already, but clients prioritize connections based on stability and speed so things like seedboxes often get utilized more than your average home client to saturate a downloading connection.

    I also noticed that my max upload speed is much less (e.g. 2MB/s) than what I get with speedtest (e.g. 7MB/s)

    Again, other people have touched on some bottlenecks that can cause this (y’all are good lol), but clients also have a bit of connection overhead that will ultimately affect your maximum upload speed to peers at a varying degree. Here’s some details, if it helps:

    Overhead- Additional data used and required for communication and coordination between sender and receiver that is not part of the payload data actually being transferred.



  • learn to comprehend the whole conversation, don’t reply to individual comments like they exist in a vacuum

    Again, would you like me to show you exactly where you’re guilty of this in another thread?

    The fact you keep repeating this is hilarious, as is your attitude that you’re so infallible that there’s never any need to correct anything you say.

    Your argument falls apart when you look at how you misinterpreted my first reply, too. It happens. If your ego is so hurt that somebody can’t clarify something you said without you launching into a full-blown narcissistic meltdown, that’s not my problem. Especially when it’s misleading at best or unfathomably misconceived at worst.

    I’m done coddling your arrogant assertion that I need your permission for elucidating truth and your deeply neurotic misconception that people can’t be mislead to form the wrong conclusions no matter the context, as you’ve literally done yourself twice now.


  • I’ll do whatever the fuck I want. Thanks.

    Start choosing your words more carefully and it wouldn’t be an issue. Your original comment says nothing about streaming and your follow up comment doesn’t clarify anything:

    blu-rays are often as cheap or cheaper than “digital copies”, and ripping them to my NAS is pretty trivial these days thanks to makemkv. the best part is, uncle jeff cannot legally break into your house and take back the disc just because of some petty rights issue.

    4k streaming is also way lower quality than a 4k blu-ray

    I know how a NAS works, but other people might not or possibly even mistake you to mean you transfer media to another machine for viewing. Additionally, I didn’t have any evidence to speculate that you knew there was a tangential reason for the quality disparity despite your comment being easily misconstrued.

    My very first comment in this thread laid out the correct details you missed and you still debated it as if I said something incorrect. So much for 20 years of experience.

    Some people…


  • i’m saying “you don’t get the same quality from streaming services as a blu ray”. does that make you happier?

    Yup, words matter. I’m not saying this to be snarky or pedantic, I just don’t want anyone to think that they’re getting something inherently inferior if they want to go digital.

    however, my context should have been made clear by the fact that i was talking about ripping blu-rays to my fucking NAS, where they get streamed from

    It’s also really ironic you’d say this, because I’ve seen you completely ignore the original context in my thread on another post and could provide it as an example.


  • i am more than well aware of all of this. nothing i said is misinformation

    Your entire presupposition that Blu-ray quality is better than streaming quality by default is misinformation, and I’ve already explained why.

    no commercial streaming service is offering video at the same quality level as a 4k blu-ray.

    What does that have to do with digital media?

    This is also demonstrably untrue if you take 5 seconds to research self-hosted streaming services.

    few streaming boxes even support dolby vision profile 7, and no commercial streaming service offers it

    Plex on Nvidia Shield. EZPZ.

    there is no magical way to cut your bitrate by 75% using the same compression algorithm without sacrificing quality

    I never said anything in contradiction to this. I don’t know who you’re shadow-boxing.





  • Is there someone who solves my subtitle issue?

    Yes! Bazarr is specifically made to make this task completely automated. Other people have mentioned Radarr and Sonarr, there’s also prowlarr/jackett for adding uploaders to grab from. I’m using this setup, along with overseerr to handle grab requests, and as soon as I click a button to request media it usually shows up in 10-20 minutes on the server with subtitles. If you’re interested in setting any of this up feel free to DM me!

    Alternatively some great folks have been working on something potentially even better that uses Debrid to speed up the time it takes for the media to be on your server: https://lemmy.world/post/6196363

    I have barely looked into this and I really couldn’t say anything for sure, but you might be able to use that+Bazarr to accomplish the same thing.