Plex questions?

[ponder]

Ok I've got some hevc x265 content which some devices are simply not powerful enough to decode, video lags the audio with cpu pegged at 100%.

So I though let me install Plex on my Win10 desktop so it can do the decoding & them stream it to the local lan.

I setup plex, added folders to the movie & tv show libraries, it populates it & adds pretty thumb nails etc I disabled direct streaming as I'm assuming that just streams without decoding first.

From a linux laptop using vlc I can see the plex server and a playlist but clicking on it does nothing. Do I need to add anything to the server like adding codecs etc to do the decoding? The content plays fine on the win10 box using vlc.

 

[diabolus]

Have tried connecting via browser? I.e http;//yourserver:32400/web . I have found issues with non plex clients sometimes, but browser works great

 

[backstreetboy]

You already have Plex and vlc yet you are still looking for more codecs?! How many codecs do you want?

 

[ponder]

Have tried connecting via browser? I.e http;//yourserver:32400/web . I have found issues with non plex clients sometimes, but browser works great

Using the browser yields nothing if I go to http://10.0.0.10:32400/web

 

[backstreetboy]

Using the browser yields nothing if I go to http://10.0.0.10:32400/web

Go to https://plex.tv/users/

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Using the browser yields nothing if I go to http://10.0.0.10:32400/web

Check the firewall on your server machine, you must be able to reach this for things to work properly.

 

[diabolus]

Using the browser yields nothing if I go to http://10.0.0.10:32400/web

Make sure you don't have any funny proxies set up also. First test should be above link,open it up on the server pc and confirm port and that it works.



Turn off firewalls on server too,just to check if it is blocking.



I assume you can ping the server..

 

[AchmatK]

Go to your Plex server in settings and check what the local IP and external ip is. There should also be a green tick indicating that they are accessible.

 

[ponder]

Check the firewall on your server machine, you must be able to reach this for things to work properly.

Nope even with the firewall turned off it's a no go.

 

[ponder]

Duh, just figured out I'm no longer on a static ip after the last win10 update, now on dhcp 10.0.0.3 address.

Will test and see how it goes.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.