DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Lol, ye. Takealot. And used a R50 off voucher so wasn't too expensive.
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Lol, ye. Takealot. And used a R50 off voucher so wasn't too expensive.
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
Is there a benefit to having a Chromecast/Roku/Whatever if you have a Smart TV that can run Plex?
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
After some fiddling and Googling I found that the Chromecast could be a great device for Plex but, your media must be in a certain format. Transcoding works well at the moment but it will transcode 1080p down to 720p if you don't have your media encoded just right.
The best settings for your media should be:
Container: mp4
Video Codec: h264
Audio Codec: AAC (You can also just create a separate AAC stereo track in addition to multichannel track like AC3)
Must be optimised for streaming
h264 level: Keep at 4.1 and below.
These settings will probably ensure your media plays back on almost all devices without transcoding and will allow you to stream 1080p to the Chromecast.
The best settings for your media should be:
Container: mp4
Video Codec: h264
Audio Codec: AAC (You can also just create a separate AAC stereo track in addition to multichannel track like AC3)
Must be optimised for streaming
h264 level: Keep at 4.1 and below.
These settings will probably ensure your media plays back on almost all devices without transcoding and will allow you to stream 1080p to the Chromecast.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Sometimes, depends what TV you have. The Roku is nice because it really is very quick and responsive, sometimes the smart TV apps can be a bit slow. Also the Roku probably has a bigger variety of apps than most smart TVs.
The Chromecast is a different story, it's designed specifically to be a device to push content from your PC/Smart Phone/Tablet to the TV. It's trying to compete with Airplay and while it's not really as easy to use as Airplay it doesn't require the device you're casting from to actually send any data except the first command to get the stream, once it has the stream URL it does everything onboard the Chromecast (unlike Airplay which requires the device to actually send all the data).
I think it will take some getting used to as I am very used to operating a remote, so I don't think it will replace my Roku just yet.
OrbitalDawn
Ulysses Everett McGill
Checked the settings around auto update etc.?
Yeah - even updating manually won't pull down the metadata.
Mortymoose
Honorary Master
Love plex, just want it for the 360, have it running on my ipads and even phone....my LG dvd player also picks it up, but not in the same format as the other devices.
Done that so many times not I've lost count.
After a bit of digging I see the metadata has been downloaded - for some reason Plex isnt displaying it though.
Pho3nix
The Legend
Did you delete it from the app or from the folder in /AppData/
It's possible but I've repaired them as well.
As per plex's website I deleted the following folders:
~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/
~/Library/Caches/PlexMediaServer/
~/Library/Preferences/com.plexapp.plexmediaserver.plist
As well as the app.
On an external drive.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Metadata not stored stored locally though, so if Plex installed it should be able to write metadata.
Bwana is the internet connection working okay on your Plex machine?
SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
Yeah I know in theory that's the case but I've had a nightmare of a time with permissions where I also made the assumption that the folder itself doesnt need to be writable.