Plex makes media manageable and does an excellent job of curating content from multiple sources, organizing it, streaming it to a range of devices, making it available for you to enjoy at home. At TechJunkie, we write a lot about Plex as it continues to be an outstanding system for organizing your media library. Plex is notable as a platform with an intuitive User Interface (UI), delivering nearly seamless performance and streaming. That said, Plex isn’t without its quirks and one of them is Plex’s naming conventions for TV shows and movies. Plex uses the thetvdb.com as the bases for naming shows. And if the media doesn’t appear there, or is formatted differently, it won’t appear properly in Plex. Luckily, there’s a workaround.
When uploading media to your Plex Media Server, you need to use a specific naming convention to enable the system to categorize and identify the media correctly. TV shows, movies, and music should always have their own folders and none should appear in the other’s folder to avoid confusion. When you’ve had your Plex for a while the mislabeling and filing really starts to add up to some confusion and more time than you’d likely want to spend searching for shows and movies.
Media should be uploaded with the correct folder and filename otherwise Plex may have trouble identifying it. If the filename doesn’t follow the convention, rename it using the appropriate method for your platform. For example, right-click the file and select Rename in Windows or select the file and hit Return in MacOS and type in the new name.
Plex media naming conventions
There is a specific format that you must use to arrange your media in order to have Plex identify it. This format is recommended by Plex itself to ensure the link to TVDB and their metadata crawling app can correctly identify and label media.
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If you’re running more than one Plex Media Center client in your house, then it can sometimes be hard to identify which one is which. Let’s take a look at the not-so-obvious setting you need to tweak to give each of your Plex clients a unique name.
In a lot of cases, the name of any given Plex machine may not matter. But if you have multiple Plex clients on your home network and you want to take advantage of Plex’s built-in support for sending media from control applications, like Plex for iOS or the Plex Media Server web dashboard, you’ll run into a problem really quickly.
For example, recently outfitted our whole house with Raspberry Pi units running Rasplex attached to every TV. But when we want to cast a video from our Plex Media Server dashboard, this is what we see:
Should we watch the movie on RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex, or Rasplex?
With every client sporting an identical label, we have no idea if we’ll be sending our selected video to the bedroom, the guest room, the living room, or the movie theater in the basement. If you’re in a similar situation then this tutorial is for you. Rather than play the video casting lottery, let’s take a moment to rename all the clients so they’re easier to identify.
Surprisingly, renaming a Plex client is not particularly intuitive. You can’t rename them from the server dashboard; instead, you must rename it from each individual client.
While the client software is slightly different on each platform (so you’ll need to poke around in the settings menus), we can show you how to change in on RasPlex to give you a general idea. To do so, simply open open the “Preferences” menu, accessible when using the default RasPlex skin by simply pressing the arrow key to the left while at the main menu.
Within the preferences menu, select the gear icon on the side for “Change Preferences For System”.
There, you can select “Services” and you’ll see an entry for “Device name”. Change that entry from the generic “RasPlex” entry to a clear one which indicates where (or to what) the Plex client is connected like “Living Room” or “Projector”. It’s worth noting that this name change will only affect how the Plex server sees the client software, and doesn’t change the network host name or any other identifying information about the hardware.
Restart the device and the change should appear immediately in the casting menu for your Plex software. By the time rebooted and opened up our dashboard “Living Room” was already listed as one of the destinations, seen below. The listing in the actual Settings > Devices menu takes a little bit longer to update, but don’t worry—it’ll refresh in 10-20 minutes without a server restart and has no impact on the casting function.
Once you’ve changed one entry, power through the rest of them and you’ll have a unique name for each of your Plex clients—no more guessing required when trying to cast a movie to different screens around your home.
Jei jūsų namuose veikia daugiau nei vienas “Plex Media Center” klientas, kartais gali būti sunku nustatyti, kuris iš jų yra . Pažiūrėkime į ne taip akivaizdų nustatymą, kurį turėtumėte pritaikyti, kad kiekvienas jūsų “Plex” klientas suteiktų unikalų vardą.
Daugeliu atvejų bet kurio konkretaus “Plex” įrenginio pavadinimas gali būti nesvarbus. Bet jei jūsų namų tinkle turite kelis “Plex” klientus ir norite pasinaudoti “Plex” integruotu palaikymu, skirtu žiniasklaidos siuntimui iš valdymo programų, pvz., “Plex for iOS” arba “Plex Media Server” žiniatinklio informacijos suvestinėje, jūs tikrai susidursite su problema Greitai.
Pvz., neseniai įrengta visa mūsų namas su “Raspberry Pi” įrenginiais, kuriuose yra “Rasplex”, prie kiekvieno televizoriaus. Tačiau kai mes norime perduoti vaizdo įrašą iš mūsų Plex Media Server prietaisų skydelio, tai mes matome:
Ar mes turėtume žiūrėti filmą “RasPlex”, “RasPlex”, “RasPlex” ar “Rasplex”?
Kiekvienam klientui, turinčiam identišką etiketę, mes neturime idėjos, jei atsiųsime pasirinktą vaizdo įrašą į miegamąjį, svečių kambarį, svetainę ar kino teatrą rūsyje. Jei esate panašiose situacijose, tai ši instrukcija jums tinka. Užuot groję vaizdo žaidimų loterijos, paimkime laiko, kad pervadinsime visus klientus, kad juos būtų lengviau atpažinti.
Nenuostabu, kad Plex kliento pervadinimas nėra ypač intuityvus. Negalite pervadinti jų iš serverio informacijos suvestinės; vietoj to turite jį pervardyti iš kiekvieno kliento.
Nors kliento programinė įranga yra šiek tiek kitokia kiekvienoje platformoje (todėl turėsite apsvarstyti nustatymų meniu), mes galime parodyti, kaip pakeisti RasPlex į duoti jums bendrą idėją. Norėdami tai padaryti, tiesiog atidarykite meniu “Nuostatos”, pasiekiamą naudojant numatytąją “RasPlex” odą, paprasčiausiai paspaudus rodyklės klavišą į kairę, esant pagrindiniam meniu.
Parinkčių meniu pasirinkite žiedo piktogramą šone “Keisti sistemos nuostatas”.
Čia galite pasirinkti “Paslaugos” ir pamatysite įrašą “Įrenginio pavadinimas”. Pakeiskite šį įrašą iš bendrosios “RasPlex” įrašo į aiškų, kuris nurodo, kur (ar prie ko) “Plex” klientas prijungtas kaip “Living Room” arba “Projector”. Verta paminėti, kad šis pavadinimo pakeitimas paveiks tik , kaip Plex serveris mato kliento programinę įrangą ir nekeičia tinklo vardo ar kitos identifikavimo informacijos apie aparatūrą.
Iš naujo paleiskite įrenginį ir pakeitimas turėtų pasirodyti nedelsiant jūsų “Plex” programinės įrangos liejimo meniu. Tuo metu, kai buvo perkraunama ir atidaryta, mūsų prietaisų skydelis “Gyvenamasis kambarys” jau buvo išvardytas kaip viena iš paskirties vietų, kuri pateikta žemiau. Funkcijos “Nustatymai> Įrenginių meniu” įrašas trunka šiek tiek ilgiau, kad būtų atnaujinta, bet nesijaudinkite – jis bus atnaujintas per 10-20 minučių be serverio paleidimo iš naujo ir neturės įtakos liejimo funkcijai.
Kai būsite Pakeitę vieną įrašą galia per likusius iš jų, ir jūs turėsite unikalų vardą kiekvienam savo Plex klientui – daugiau nereikia pamiršti, kai bandote filmuoti į skirtingus ekranus aplink namus.
Kompiuterinės pelės buvo vienos ar kitos formos 50 metų ar ilgesnės, atsižvelgiant į jūsų išradimo apibrėžimą, ir daugeliui to laiko jie buvo suporuoti su pelės kilimėliais. Tačiau šiuolaikinės optinės ir lazerinės pelės gali stebėti beveik bet kokį paviršių, nebent kai kur nors naudojate savo kompiuterį smėlio lovoje.
Windows vartotojai gali spustelėti užduočių juostos laikrodį, kad pamatytumėte kalendorių, kuris yra puikus, jei reikia žinoti, kokia diena savaitės birželio 17 d. “Mac” nesiūlo šios funkcijos, bent jau ne “out-of-the box”. Bet yra programų, kurias galite pridėti. Mūsų mėgstamiausia nemokama parinktis yra programa, pavadinta Itycal.
For eksempel har vi for nylig udrustet hele vores hus med Raspberry Pi-enheder, der kører Rasplex knyttet til hvert tv. Men når vi vil kaste en video fra vores Plex Media Server dashboard, så ser vi det:
Skal vi se filmen på RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex eller Rasplex?
Med hver klient, der har en identisk label, vi har ingen anelse om, at vi sender vores valgte video til soveværelset, værelset, stuen eller biografen i kælderen. Hvis du er i en lignende situation, er denne vejledning for dig. I stedet for at spille video casting lotteriet, lad os tage et øjeblik at omdøbe alle klienterne, så de er nemmere at identificere.
Overraskende er omdøbning af en Plex-klient ikke særlig intuitiv. Du kan ikke omdøbe dem fra serverens dashboard; I stedet skal du omdøbe det fra hver enkelt klient.
Mens klientsoftwaren er lidt anderledes på hver platform (så du bliver nødt til at poke rundt i indstillingsmenuerne), kan vi vise dig, hvordan du ændrer ind på RasPlex til give dig en generel ide. For at gøre det skal du blot åbne menuen “Indstillinger”, der er tilgængelig, når du bruger standard RasPlex-hud ved blot at trykke på piletasten til venstre i hovedmenuen.
Vælg indstillingsmenuen på siden i præferencemenuen for “Skift indstillinger for system”.
Der kan du vælge “Services”, og du vil se en post for “Enhedsnavn”. Skift denne post fra den generiske “RasPlex” -indtastning til en klar, der angiver, hvor (eller til hvilken) Plex-klienten er forbundet som “Living Room” eller “Projector”. Det er værd at bemærke, at denne navneændring
påvirker, hvordan Plex-serveren ser klientsoftwaren og ændrer ikke værtsnavnet på netværket eller andre identificerende oplysninger om hardwareen. Genstart enheden og Ændringen skal vises straks i støbningsmenuen til din Plex-software. På det tidspunkt, der blev genstartet og åbnet, var vores dashboard “Living Room” allerede opført som en af destinationerne, set nedenfor. Listingen i menuen Indstillinger> Enheder tager lidt længere tid at opdatere, men rolig. Den opdateres om 10-20 minutter uden en server genstart og har ingen indvirkning på casting-funktionen. Når du først har Jeg har ændret en post, strøm gennem resten af dem, og du vil have et unikt navn til hver af dine Plex-klienter – det er ikke nødvendigt at gætte, når du prøver at kaste en film til forskellige skærmbilleder rundt om dit hjem.
Har du nogensinde lagt mærke til, hvordan dine gamle gadgets har vendt en grim gul farve siden du købte dem? Gamle Macs, Commodores, Nintendo-systemer og andre maskiner ser frygtelige 30 år senere, men der er en måde at lyse dem op igen. Hvorfor Gammel plast bliver gul (og hvordan du kan gøre den hvid igen) Dette gulning sker takket være et flammehæmmende middel kaldet brom i de gamle ABS plastik.
Pokud používáte více než jednoho klienta Plex Media Center ve svém domě, může být někdy těžké určit, který z nich je . Podívejme se na to, co je ne tak samozřejmé nastavení, které potřebujete vyladit, aby každý z vašich klientů Plex měl jedinečné jméno.
V mnoha případech nemusí být jméno libovolného stroje Plex na tom záležitostí. Pokud však máte v domácí síti více klientů Plex a chcete využít výhod vestavěné podpory společnosti Plex pro odesílání médií z řídicích aplikací, jako je Plex pro iOS nebo webový panel Plex Media Server, narazíte na problém skutečně rychle.
Například nedávno vybavil celý náš dům s jednotkami Raspberry Pi se systémem Rasplex připojeným ke každé televizi. Ale když chceme nahrát video z palubní desky Plex Media Server, vidíme tohle:
Měli bychom sledovat film na RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex nebo Rasplex?
S každým klientem, nemáme tušení, zda budeme posílat své vybrané video do ložnice, pokoje pro hosty, obývací pokoj nebo kina v suterénu. Pokud se nacházíte v podobné situaci, je tento tutoriál pro vás. Spíše než hrát loterijní video casting, pojďme chvíli, abychom přejmenovali všechny klienty, abychom je lépe identifikovali.
Překvapením je, že přejmenování klienta Plex není příliš intuitivní. Nelze je přejmenovat z panelu serveru; místo toho je nutné je přejmenovat z každého jednotlivého klienta.
Zatímco se klientský software na každé platformě trochu liší (takže budete muset v nabídkách nastavení pokleknout), můžeme vám ukázat, jak změnit na RasPlexu dáváte obecný nápad. Chcete-li tak učinit, jednoduše otevřete nabídku “Předvolby”, která je přístupná při použití výchozí kůže RasPlex jednoduchým stisknutím tlačítka se šipkou doleva v hlavní nabídce.
V nabídce předvoleb vyberte ikonu ozubeného kola na straně pro “Změna předvoleb pro systém”.
Zde můžete vybrat položku “Služby” a uvidíte položku “Název zařízení”. Změňte tento zápis z obecného vstupu “RasPlex” na jasnou položku, která označuje, kde (nebo k čemu) je klient Plex připojen jako “Obývací pokoj” nebo “Projektor”. Je třeba poznamenat, že tato změna názvu bude pouze ovlivňovat, jak server Plex vidí klientský software a nezmění název hostitelské sítě nebo jiné identifikační informace o hardwaru.
Restartujte zařízení a změna by se měla objevit ihned v nabídce odlévání softwaru Plex. V době restartu a otevření naší palubní desky “Obývací pokoj” byl již uveden jako jeden z cílů, vidět níže. Záznam v aktuálním nastavení> Nastavení zařízení trvá déle než k aktualizaci, ale nebojte se – bude obnoven během 10-20 minut bez restartu serveru a nebude mít vliv na funkci castingu. Změnili jste jeden záznam, napájeli jste zbytek a budete mít jedinečný název pro každého z vašich klientů Plex – žádné další hádaní, které se vyžadují při pokusu o natáčení filmu na různé obrazovky kolem vašeho domova.
Snapchat je chatovací aplikace a sociální síť, která je velmi oblíbená u tisíciletí a dospívajících. Hlavním rysem je, že každá “Snap” (aka fotografie nebo video) se po určitém čase automaticky odstraní. Mohou být odstraněny z telefonu, ale jsou také smazány ze serverů Snapchat? To je otázka mnoha lidí.
Fraps je nejlépe známý jako snadný a lehký způsob, jak vidět aktivní čtení rámců počítačových her za sekundu – to je místo, kde jméno pochází. Ale je to také překvapivě flexibilní způsob, jak nahrávat herní záběry pro posílání na YouTube, Twitch a další webové video služby. Poměrně nízké využití zdrojů a snadná aktivace jsou ideální pro rychlé spuštění a zastavení funkce záznamu.
如果您在家中运行多个Plex Media Center客户端，则有时可能很难确定哪个是哪个客户端。 让我们来看看不太明显的设置，你需要调整，以给每个Plex客户端一个唯一的名称。
在很多情况下，任何给定的Plex机器的名称可能不重要。 但是，如果你有你的家庭网络上的多个Plex的客户，要充分利用Plex的内置的支持， 从控制应用发送媒体，像Plex的适用于iOS或Plex的媒体服务器网络信息中心，你会碰到一个问题，真的很快。
比如，最近我们配备全屋与运行Rasplex树莓派台连接到每一个电视。 但是当我们想从我们的Plex Media Server仪表板投射视频时，我们可以看到：
每个客户都有相同的标签，我们不知道我们是否会将我们选择的视频发送到卧室，客房，客厅或地下室的电影院。 如果你处在类似的情况，那么本教程是为你。 而不是播放视频投射彩票，让我们花一点时间重命名所有的客户端，使他们更容易识别。
令人惊讶的是，重命名Plex客户端不是特别直观。 您不能从服务器仪表板重命名它们; 而是必须从每个客户端重命名它。
在那里，您可以选择“服务”，您会看到一个条目“设备名称”。 将该条目从通用“RasPlex”条目更改为清晰的条目，指示Plex客户端连接到哪里（或到什么），如“客厅”或“投影仪”。 值得注意的是，这一名称变更只会影响Plex的服务器如何看待客户端软件，并且不改变网络主机名或对硬件的任何其他身份信息。
重新启动设备，更改应立即显示在Plex软件的投射菜单中。 在重新启动和打开我们的仪表板“客厅”已被列为目的地之一，见下文。 在实际的设置>设备菜单中的列表需要更长一点的更新，但不要担心，它会刷新10-20分钟没有服务器重新启动，并没有影响投射功能。
Learning to properly use Plex movie naming conventions is important to have the Plex scanners download the correct metadata. Most movie metadata or duplicate content issues happen because the movie files aren’t organized properly.
How should your organize your movie files? Let’s look at how this is done.
Plex movie naming conventions
Movie file naming convention is important and is used to identify the movie for the metadata.
The standard naming convention is as follows:
For our example in this article, I will use “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” as the movie. Using the standard naming convention, my movie file name would be:
Alternative naming conventions for Plex version 1.20.1 and newer allows for the inclusion of either the IMDB or The MovieDB ID number. This reduces the chances of not finding the correct metadata for the movie.
For the movie I selected, I could also use the following names:
IMDB:
TMDB:
I don’t have too many metadata issues, so I don’t include the ID values in my movie file name. Of course, the choice is yours.
Movie folder structure
With the different content that can be played by Plex, it is best if each type of content is in a separate folder. This means your movie files would be in a separate folder from your TV shows.
You can keep it simple, and simply create a folder called “movies.” This folder can be located anywhere, but in this example, let’s assume it is off the root of a hard drive.
Within this folder, you have two options on how to organize your movie files for Plex. The first is to simply place the files in the “movies” folder. The second option is to create a subfolder for each movie and then place the movie file in the subfolder.
I recommend the second option. The reason is that you may end up with multiple files associated with the move, such as posters or additional versions of the move. By using movie subfolders, all files for that movie are now organized in a subfolder for that movie.
The folder name follows a similar structure to the file name:
In our example, we will create a folder for our movie:
With the folder now created, we can copy the movie file, and any associated files into the folder. Our movie file structure will now look like:
Multiple part movie
Movies that are over three hours are usually divided into multiple parts. This allows many of the Plex clients to play multiple part movies as a single movie.
A few notes regarding multiple part moves:
- Not all Plex clients support this feature.
- All parts must be in the same format, such as mkv or mp4.
- All parts need to have the same audio and subtitle streams, and in the same order.
- Up to 8 parts are supported.
I haven’t had too many issues with multi-part movies, so it is a valid option for me.
To organize a single movie over multiple files, you would use the following naming convention:
The “SplitName” value can be one of (replace “X” with the part number):
- cdX
- discX
- dvdX
- partX
- ptX
In my example, the “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” is a long movie. So long in that it is split into two parts. This means the folder and file structure of this movie would be:
In this case I used the “ptX” split name option for the movie.
Different movie versions
If you have many clients and are looking to avoid transcoding your movie files, one option is to store multiple versions of a movie. This means you may have a 1080p, 720p and 480p version of your movie.
When a client requests a movie, the movie file that will play best on that client is chosen from the multiple movie versions.
This option is not intended for movies that have a “theatrical” or “director’s cut” version. Those types of versions are better stored as separated movies in Plex.
When multiple versions of a movie are available, Plex will display a single item for that movie. Some apps will allow you to select one of the versions to play.
The naming convention for a movie with multiple versions is:
The “some text” is any text you wish to include that helps identify the movie version.
If I were to include 720p and 480p versions of “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King”, it would look like:
The additional text I added doesn’t make a difference when Plex is identifying the movie. For my movie library, I also include the audio streams included in my movie file as an easy reference.
Trailers and behind the scenes content
You can add additional movie file content to your movies, such as trailers and behind the scenes content.
There are two options when organizing such content. The first is to name the added content with this naming convention:
The “ExtraType” value can be one of the following:
- -behindthescenes
- -deleted
- -featurette
- -interview
- -scene
- -short
- -trailer
- -other
For example, the following shows four extra content files:
The second option is to create a subfolder for each of the extra content type. Then place the content file into the correct content subfolder.
I prefer the second option, as it keeps things clean and organized, but the choice is yours.
Learning to use proper Plex movie naming conventions is probably the most important aspect when managing a Plex Media Server. The naming convention is key to having the correct metadata displayed for the movie.
The examples above show how to properly organize and name your movie files. Simply follow the above conventions and you should have little issues with your movies and metadata.
This may be the age of streaming video, but we still like to keep an eye on the Plex Media Server and its various apps for people who prefer to have local copies of their content. Plex makes it easy to organize any (non-DRM) movies and TV shows saved to your hard drive, and stream them across your devices. Plex works even better when your files are named properly. That’s where a handy little utility called FileBot comes in.
FileBot is a very reliable utility that can figure out what content you have and automatically rename it for you to something that makes it easier for Plex to recognize.
Now don’t get me wrong, Plex does a great job on its own of figuring out what your poorly named files actually are, but it’s not perfect. Sometimes whole TV shows or movies won’t show up in Plex due to a poor naming scheme. FileBot helps fix that.
Getting started
Once you’ve downloaded and installed FileBot (link above) go to Start > FileBot. Once there, you’ll be confronted with several options. Select Filebot or Filebot (platform).
FileBot’s default interface.
FileBot’s interface is pretty basic but might be intimidating to some. For our purposes, make sure the Rename option is selected in the left-hand navigation bar, which it should be by default.
The Rename interface has two panels labeled Original Files and New Names. First, select a folder of content you want to rename. In this example, I want to rename season 1 of Game of Thrones.
FileBot brings order to your file-naming chaos.
Drag-and-drop the folder containing the video files into the Original Files panel. FileBot will automatically display the names of the files contained in the folder. As you can see in the image here, the file names are all over the place. Some of the files use the season/episode format while others just have the episode name. Chaos.
Next, under the New Names panel click the Fetch Data button. A drop-down menu appears with all the various content databases that FileBot can draw data from. For this example, I chose The TVDB.
Once you’ve selected your database, FileBot will automatically start matching your files to episode names. When it’s done matching, each file will be tentatively renamed in the New Names panel. You’ll want to scan these results to make sure everything is accurate. If you find a file that shouldn’t be renamed you can remove it by highlighting the file in the Original Files panel and then clicking the red “X” below that.
Once everything’s in order, click the Rename button between the two panels, and that’s it. Your files have been renamed.
The one thing to keep in mind with FileBot is that it works best to rename files in small groups such as a single season for TV shows. Not only will FileBot respond faster, but it’s easier for you to verify that each change is accurate.
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FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming and organizing your movies, TV shows and Anime. Match and rename media files against online databases, download artwork and cover images, fetch subtitles, write metadata, and more, all at once in matter of seconds. It’s smart and just works.
Getting Started
FileBot makes renaming and organizing media files a breeze. FileBot will automatically match your files with information from your preferred online database, and then rename and organize everything perfectly for you. You can customize your naming scheme to your specific needs and preferences, or keep things simple and stick to the naming standard.
- Drag movie or episode files into the Original Files list area
- Right-click New Names list area and select your preferred datasource
- Hit Rename
Fetching subtitles is just as easy, just drop it in. Besides automatic lookup you’ll also be able to manually search and download subtitles, preview subtitles and fix encoding problems.
- Drag your movie or episode files onto the drop area
- Hit Download
Run FileBot remotely and setup unattended automated workflows. FileBot offers a simple CLI for common use cases, and a built-in scripting engine for more complex tasks.
filebot -rename *.mkv
Your automated media center is one filebot command away – extract archives, identify and organize media files, fetch additional artwork and metadata, update Plex, and more – the amc script does it all.
Some Features
- A simple user-interface
- Native installers and packages for all operating systems
- A powerful command-line interface for any kind of automation
Download
- Windows Installer: FileBot_4.9.6_x64.msi
- macOS installer: FileBot_4.9.6_x64.pkg or FileBot_4.9.6_arm64.pkg
- Ubuntu / Debian package: FileBot_4.9.6_amd64.deb
- Ubuntu / Debian package is available via APT
- Fedora / openSUSE / CentOS package: FileBot_4.9.6_amd64.rpm
- Fedora / openSUSE / CentOS package is available via DNF and YUM
- POSIX portable tarball: FileBot_4.9.6-portable.tar.xz for other Linux and FreeBSD devices
- Windows packages are available via winget and via scoop
- macOS package is available via brew cask
- Synology NAS package is available via Package Center
- QNAP NAS package is available via App Center
- Arch Linux package is available via AUR
- Universal Linux package is available via Snapcraft
- Docker images are available on Docker Hub
- All packages are available on our Release Index
Buy a License
- Please type your email address correctly when purchasing a license.
- Please download and evaluate FileBot before purchasing a license.
- Please read the refund policy carefully before purchasing a life-time license.
- A single per-user license is valid on all platforms and can be used on multiple machines.
- Microsoft Store and Mac App Store purchases neither include nor require a universal license.
Contact
The project is continuously seeking for improvements, so any kind of feedback is more than welcome and if there’s any questions or problems just start posting in the forums or check the FAQ. We’re social as well. Follow us on Twitter or join our Discord channel.
Si vous utilisez plus d’un client Plex Media Center chez vous, il peut parfois être difficile d’identifier lequel est . Jetons un coup d’œil au paramètre pas si évident que vous devez modifier pour donner un nom unique à chacun de vos clients Plex.
Dans de nombreux cas, le nom d’une machine Plex donnée peut ne pas avoir d’importance. Mais si vous avez plusieurs clients Plex sur votre réseau domestique et que vous voulez profiter de la prise en charge intégrée de Plex pour envoyer des médias à partir d’applications de contrôle, comme Plex pour iOS ou le tableau de bord Web Plex Media Server, vous rencontrerez vraiment un problème. rapidement.
Par exemple, récemment équipé toute notre maison avec des unités Raspberry Pi exécutant Rasplex attaché à chaque téléviseur. Mais quand nous voulons diffuser une vidéo à partir de notre tableau de bord Plex Media Server, voici ce que nous voyons:
Devons-nous regarder le film sur RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex ou Rasplex?
Chaque client arborant une étiquette identique, Nous ne savons pas si nous enverrons notre vidéo sélectionnée à la chambre à coucher, à la chambre d’amis, au salon ou au cinéma au sous-sol. Si vous êtes dans une situation similaire alors ce tutoriel est pour vous. Plutôt que de jouer à la loterie vidéo, prenons un moment pour renommer tous les clients afin qu’ils soient plus faciles à identifier.
Étonnamment, renommer un client Plex n’est pas particulièrement intuitif. Vous ne pouvez pas les renommer à partir du tableau de bord du serveur. Au lieu de cela, vous devez le renommer de chaque client.
Bien que le logiciel client soit légèrement différent sur chaque plate-forme (vous devrez donc fouiller dans les menus des paramètres), nous pouvons vous montrer comment changer sur RasPlex pour vous donner une idée générale. Pour ce faire, il suffit d’ouvrir le menu “Préférences”, accessible en utilisant l’habillage RasPlex par défaut en appuyant simplement sur la touche fléchée vers la gauche dans le menu principal.
Dans le menu Préférences, sélectionnez l’icône d’engrenage pour “Modifier les préférences pour le système”.
Vous pouvez sélectionner “Services” et vous verrez une entrée pour “Nom du périphérique”. Changez cette entrée de l’entrée générique “RasPlex” en une entrée claire qui indique où (ou à quoi) le client Plex est connecté comme “Living Room” ou “Projector”. Il convient de noter que ce changement de nom affectera seulement la façon dont le serveur Plex voit le logiciel client, et ne modifie pas le nom d’hôte du réseau ni aucune autre information d’identification du matériel.
Redémarrez l’appareil et le changement devrait apparaître immédiatement dans le menu de casting pour votre logiciel Plex. Au moment du redémarrage et de l’ouverture de notre tableau de bord “Salon” était déjà répertorié comme l’une des destinations, voir ci-dessous. La liste dans le menu Paramètres> Périphériques prend un peu plus de temps à mettre à jour, mais ne vous inquiétez pas: elle se rafraîchira dans 10 à 20 minutes sans redémarrage du serveur et n’aura aucun impact sur la fonction de conversion.
‘ai changé une entrée, la puissance à travers le reste d’entre eux et vous aurez un nom unique pour chacun de vos clients Plex-plus besoin de deviner lorsque vous essayez de diffuser un film sur différents écrans autour de votre maison.
Ce n’est pas un secret que Bluetooth 5.0 est vraiment génial, et en conséquence, le Galaxy S8 peut être très joli choses que d’autres téléphones ne peuvent tout simplement pas faire. La lecture de l’audio Bluetooth sur deux appareils connectés en même temps est l’une de ces caractéristiques – elle s’appelle Dual Audio.
Profitez des verts horribles de Hue Si vous avez des ampoules Hue de première ou de deuxième génération, alors vous connaissez peut-être ils produisent une vraie couleur verte – c’est plutôt un vert jaunâtre dégoûtant, mais celui-ci est une bonne chose pendant Halloween. En changeant vos lumières en un vert jaune terne, vous pouvez faire de votre maison ressembler à une scène tout droit sortie d’un film Saw.
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Fnaf ar release date. I previously wrote a blog about setting up Plex Media Server as a service in Windows. However, since then I have come across a new 3rd party service manager that is, in my opinion, easier to setup and use. Plex is the key to personal media bliss. Once you download our free and easy-to-use software where you store your files (usually a computer or external hard drive), it takes care of the rest. Plex magically scans and organizes your files, automatically sorting your media beautifully and intuitively in your Plex library.
About
- Plex homescreen All of your own media. Plex is actually two things: It’s free media server software that you run on a PC, Mac, or NAS drive in your home, and it’s also a vast set of free client apps, that let you access the media server’s contents from devices like smart TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, gaming consoles, phones, tablets, and way more.
- Plex is among the most popular and user-friendly solutions for creating a media server in your home network. In contrast to many other applications, which are often Windows-only, the Plex server is compatible with Linux, Mac, and even single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi.
FileBot is the ultimate tool for organizing and renaming your Movies, TV Shows and Anime as well as fetching subtitles and artwork. It’s smart and just works.
Getting Started
FileBot makes organizing your movies and TV shows a breeze! We’ll automatically match your files with informationfrom various online databases. How you want your media files to be named and organized is completely up to you. Ourgroovy format engine supports pretty much anything!
- Drag movie or episode files into the ‘Original Files’ list area
- Right-click ‘New Names’ list area and select your preferred datasource
- Hit ‘Rename’!
Fetching subtitles is just as easy, just drop it in! Besides automatic lookup you’ll also be able tomanually search and download subtitles, preview subtitles and fix encoding problems (e.g. force UTF-8).
- Drag your movie or episode files onto the top-right drop area
- Hit ‘Download’!
Use FileBot on the command-line! There is a simple CLI for core tasks like renaming media files and fetching subtitlesas well as checking or creating SFV files. On top of that you can use our scripting engine to define more complexautomated processing. There’s already shared scripts forvarious tasks that you can just run right away or further customize to your needs.
- Watch media folders and organize new files automatically
- Extract files from multi-volume rar archives
- Fetch artwork and create nfo files for TV shows or movies
- Export your media files including media info as CSV text file
- Update your Kodi or Plex library .. and more!
Setting up a fully automated media center – extract archives, organize tv shows and movies, download subtitles, fetch artwork and metadata, update Kodi – with FileBot it’s that easy!
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TV Rename is open source and free to use. You may freely modify it for non-commercial use. All we ask is that you feed improvements back into the project so others may benefit.
So what is TV Rename?
TV Rename is a media management tool that runs on Windows 7 and later and looks after all your TV show files; making them presentable for Kodi (XBMC), Mede8er, PyTivo and other media hubs.
On the surface TV Rename will “fix” the names of TV shows…
You have a few show episodes saved as video files, they have names like:The.Shannara.Chronicles.S02E03.XviD-AFG.avi
Let’s clean this up, including the season, show and episode details like:
The Shannara Chronicles – S02E03 – Graymark.avi
But wait, there’s more!
Rename files using data from The TVDB and rules you can configure
Monitor specified folders for new TV show filesMedia Library – a folder (or folders) somewhere on your PC or NAS or whatever, with a bunch of TV show files in it (them).
Once TV Rename knows about your Media Library it can: –
Copy (or move) files from monitored folders to your Media Library
Download TV show posters and images and create meta-data automatically
List any missing TV show episodes/seasons in your Media Library
Create web searches to help you find missing TV show files
Tell you how long you’ll have to wait until the next episode of your current favourite TV show airsSe usi più di un client Plex Media Center in casa, a volte può essere difficile identificare quale sia . Diamo un’occhiata all’impostazione non così ovvia che è necessario modificare per assegnare a ciascuno dei client Plex un nome univoco.
In molti casi, il nome di una determinata macchina Plex potrebbe non avere importanza. Ma se hai più client Plex sulla tua rete domestica e vuoi sfruttare il supporto integrato di Plex per l’invio di contenuti multimediali da applicazioni di controllo, come Plex per iOS o il dashboard Web di Plex Media Server, ti imbatterai in un problema davvero
Ad esempio, recentemente abbiamo dotato la nostra intera casa di unità Raspberry Pi che eseguono Rasplex collegato a ogni TV. Ma quando vogliamo trasmettere un video dal nostro dashboard di Plex Media Server, questo è ciò che vediamo:
Dovremmo guardare il film su RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex o Rasplex?
Con ogni cliente con un’etichetta identica, non abbiamo idea se invieremo il nostro video selezionato alla camera da letto, alla stanza degli ospiti, al soggiorno o al cinema nel seminterrato. Se ti trovi in una situazione simile, questo tutorial è per te. Piuttosto che giocare alla lotteria di video casting, prendiamoci un momento per rinominare tutti i client in modo che siano più facili da identificare.
Sorprendentemente, la ridenominazione di un client Plex non è particolarmente intuitiva. Non è possibile rinominarli dal dashboard del server; invece, è necessario rinominarlo da ogni singolo client.
Mentre il software client è leggermente diverso su ciascuna piattaforma (quindi è necessario spostarsi nei menu delle impostazioni), è possibile mostrare come modificare RasPlex in darti un’idea generale Per farlo, apri semplicemente il menu “Preferenze”, accessibile quando usi la skin RasPlex predefinita semplicemente premendo il tasto freccia a sinistra mentre si è nel menu principale.
Nel menu delle preferenze, seleziona l’icona a forma di ingranaggio sul lato per “Cambia preferenze per sistema”.
Qui puoi selezionare “Servizi” e vedrai una voce per “Nome dispositivo”. Modificare quella voce dalla voce generica “RasPlex” a una chiara che indica dove (o cosa) il client Plex è collegato come “Soggiorno” o “Proiettore”. Vale la pena notare che questa modifica del nome sarà solo che influenza il modo in cui il server Plex vede il software client e non modifica il nome host di rete o altre informazioni identificative sull’hardware.
Riavvia il dispositivo e la modifica dovrebbe apparire immediatamente nel menu di fusione per il software Plex. Quando è stato riavviato e aperto il nostro cruscotto “Living Room” era già elencato come una delle destinazioni, visto sotto. L’elenco nel menu Impostazioni> Dispositivi richiede un po ‘più di tempo per l’aggiornamento, ma non preoccuparti: si aggiornerà tra 10-20 minuti senza riavvio del server e non ha alcun impatto sulla funzione di fusione.
Una volta Abbiamo cambiato una voce, il potere attraverso il resto di loro e avrai un nome univoco per ciascuno dei tuoi client Plex: non è più necessario indovinare quando provi a trasmettere un film su schermi diversi intorno alla tua casa.
Sono costosi. Vuoi giocare l’ultima voce di prima categoria da EA o Activision? Preparatevi a sborsare $ 60 . o $ 100 per la versione reale con un nome come “Ultimate Edition”. Forse è per questo che così tanti sviluppatori stanno estendendo i loro orizzonti nell’arena free-to-play. Ecco dieci sparatutto multiplayer online che puoi giocare senza spendere un centesimo.
Le app possono consumare molto spazio su un iPhone o iPad. In iOS 11, una nuova funzione ti consente di rimuovere un’app dal dispositivo senza rimuovere i dati dell’app. In altre parole, è possibile rimuovere l’app e liberare spazio senza perdere nulla: quando si scarica nuovamente l’app in futuro, è possibile riprendere immediatamente da dove si era interrotto.
Si está ejecutando más de un cliente de Plex Media Center en su casa, a veces puede ser difícil identificar cuál es cuál . Echemos un vistazo a la configuración no tan obvia que necesita ajustar para darle a cada uno de sus clientes de Plex un nombre único.
En muchos casos, el nombre de una máquina Plex dada puede no importar. Pero si tiene múltiples clientes Plex en su red doméstica y desea aprovechar el soporte integrado de Plex para enviar medios desde aplicaciones de control, como Plex para iOS o el panel de control web de Plex Media Server, se encontrará con un problema realmente rápidamente.
Por ejemplo, recientemente equipó toda nuestra casa con unidades Raspberry Pi con Rasplex conectadas a cada televisor. Pero cuando queremos transmitir un video desde nuestro panel de Plex Media Server, esto es lo que vemos:
¿Deberíamos ver la película en RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex o Rasplex?
Con cada cliente luciendo una etiqueta idéntica, no tenemos idea de si enviaremos nuestro video seleccionado al dormitorio, a la habitación de invitados, a la sala de estar o al cine en el sótano. Si estás en una situación similar, este tutorial es para ti. En lugar de jugar la lotería de video casting, dediquemos un momento a cambiar el nombre de todos los clientes para que sean más fáciles de identificar.
Sorprendentemente, cambiar el nombre de un cliente Plex no es particularmente intuitivo. No puede cambiarles el nombre desde el panel del servidor; en su lugar, debe cambiar el nombre de cada cliente individual.
Si bien el software del cliente es ligeramente diferente en cada plataforma (por lo que tendrá que buscar en los menús de configuración), podemos mostrarle cómo cambiar en RasPlex a darte una idea general. Para hacerlo, simplemente abra y abra el menú “Preferencias”, al que puede acceder cuando usa la máscara RasPlex predeterminada simplemente presionando la tecla de flecha hacia la izquierda mientras está en el menú principal.
En el menú de preferencias, seleccione el ícono de ajustes en el costado para “Cambiar preferencias para el sistema”.
Allí, puede seleccionar “Servicios” y verá una entrada para “Nombre del dispositivo”. Cambie esa entrada de la entrada genérica “RasPlex” a una clara que indique dónde (o a qué) está conectado el cliente Plex como “Sala de estar” o “Proyector”. Vale la pena señalar que este cambio de nombre solo afectará la forma en que el servidor Plex ve el software del cliente, y no cambia el nombre de host de la red ni ninguna otra información de identificación sobre el hardware.
Reinicie el dispositivo y el cambio debería aparecer inmediatamente en el menú de transmisión para su software Plex. En el momento en que se reinició y se abrió nuestro panel “Living Room” ya figuraba como uno de los destinos, que se muestra a continuación. La lista en el menú Configuración> Dispositivos real tarda un poco más en actualizarse, pero no se preocupe: se actualizará en 10-20 minutos sin reiniciar el servidor y no tendrá ningún efecto en la función de conversión.
Una vez Cambió una entrada, la potencia a través del resto de ellas y tendrá un nombre único para cada uno de sus clientes de Plex: ya no es necesario adivinar al intentar transmitir una película a diferentes pantallas de su hogar.
Su Mac viene con una cantidad fija de memoria física que las aplicaciones pueden usar. Sus programas en ejecución, archivos abiertos y otros datos con los que su Mac está trabajando activamente se almacenan en esta memoria física. Pero eso es una simplificación: las aplicaciones también pueden usar “memoria virtual”, que su Mac puede comprimir y almacenar temporalmente en el disco.
La mayoría de las veces, es bastante sencillo averiguar qué significan los distintos puertos y los símbolos impresos junto a ellos en nuestras computadoras son para, pero de vez en cuando, aparece un símbolo nuevo o diferente. Con esto en mente, la publicación SuperUser Q & A de hoy tiene la respuesta a una pregunta curiosa del lector.
Se você estiver executando mais de um cliente Plex Media Center em sua casa, às vezes pode ser difícil identificar qual é qual . Vamos dar uma olhada na configuração não tão óbvia que você precisa ajustar para dar a cada um de seus clientes Plex um nome único.
Em muitos casos, o nome de qualquer máquina Plex pode não importar. Mas se você tiver vários clientes Plex em sua rede doméstica e quiser aproveitar o suporte integrado do Plex para enviar mídia de aplicativos de controle, como o Plex para iOS ou o painel da Web do Plex Media Server, você terá um problema realmente rapidamente.
Por exemplo, recentemente equipamos toda a nossa casa com unidades Raspberry Pi rodando com a Rasplex conectada a cada TV. Mas quando queremos lançar um vídeo do nosso painel do Plex Media Server, isso é o que vemos:
Devemos assistir ao filme em RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex ou Rasplex?
Com cada cliente ostentando uma etiqueta idêntica, não temos idéia se enviaremos nosso vídeo selecionado para o quarto, o quarto de hóspedes, a sala de estar ou o cinema no porão. Se você estiver em uma situação semelhante, este tutorial é para você. Em vez de jogar a loteria de lançamento de vídeo, vamos dar um tempo para renomear todos os clientes para que eles sejam mais fáceis de identificar.
Surpreendentemente, renomear um cliente Plex não é particularmente intuitivo. Você não pode renomeá-los no painel do servidor; em vez disso, você deve renomeá-lo de cada cliente individual.
Embora o software cliente seja um pouco diferente em cada plataforma (para que você precise pesquisar nos menus de configurações), podemos mostrar como alterar o RasPlex para dar uma ideia geral. Para fazer isso, basta abrir o menu “Preferências”, acessível ao usar a capa RasPlex padrão, basta pressionar a tecla de seta para a esquerda enquanto estiver no menu principal.
No menu de preferências, selecione o ícone de roda dentada ao lado para “Alterar preferências para o sistema”.
Lá, você pode selecionar “Serviços” e você verá uma entrada para “Nome do dispositivo”. Altere essa entrada da entrada “RasPlex” genérica para uma entrada clara que indique onde (ou a que) o cliente Plex está conectado, como “Sala de estar” ou “Projetor”. É importante notar que essa alteração de nome afetará apenascomo o servidor Plex vê o software cliente e não altera o nome do host da rede ou qualquer outra informação de identificação sobre o hardware.
Reinicie o dispositivo e a mudança deve aparecer imediatamente no menu de seleção do seu software Plex. Quando reiniciámos e abrimos o painel, o “Living Room” já estava listado como um dos destinos, visto abaixo. A listagem no menu Configurações> Dispositivos atual demora um pouco mais para ser atualizada, mas não se preocupe, ela será atualizada em 10 a 20 minutos sem uma reinicialização do servidor e não terá impacto na função de transmissão.
Depois que você Mudei uma entrada, passei pelo restante deles e você terá um nome exclusivo para cada um dos seus clientes Plex – não é necessário adivinhar quando tentar transmitir um filme para telas diferentes em sua casa.
Deseja atualizar os drivers de hardware do seu computador? Obtenha as atualizações do seu driver no Windows Update ou no site do fabricante do seu dispositivo. Veja como: RELATED: Nunca baixe um utilitário de atualização de driver; Eles são piores do que inúteis Os drivers de hardware são os bits de software que o Windows usa para se comunicar com o hardware do seu PC.
O Twitter tem um modo escuro na Web e em seus aplicativos, onde os brancos brilhantes são substituídos por azuis profundos. Ostensivamente, isso torna o Twitter mais fácil de usar em ambientes de pouca luz, já que é menos agressivo aos seus olhos. Pessoalmente, eu só acho que faz o Twitter parecer muito legal.
Plex is your home for free TV and movies, giving you access to 80+ live channels and thousands of on-demand titles from around the world. Stream music, podcasts, news, and more, all wrapped in a beautiful interface. No other free streaming service delivers more content to more countries, all without a subscription. • Thousands of FREE movies and TV shows from Oscar™ award-winning movies to cult classics, anime, documentaries, family-friendly shows, and much more from around the world. • Live TV: Enjoy 80+ channels of free live programming—instantly. From food to news to sports to kids to international content, there’s something for the whole family. • All your personal media: Stream your own photos, music, movies, shows, even DVR-ed TV to any device in a beautiful, simple interface. Plex adds rich descriptions, artwork, and other related information. • Web series, news, and podcasts on demand: Watch unlimited, on-demand streaming of the best-curated web channels and get personalized news and trusted video from over 190 global publishing partners.
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Plex is your home for free TV and movies, giving you access to 80+ live channels and thousands of on-demand titles from around the world. Stream music, podcasts, news, and more, all wrapped in a beautiful interface. No other free streaming service delivers more content to more countries, all without a subscription. • Thousands of FREE movies and TV shows from Oscar™ award-winning movies to cult classics, anime, documentaries, family-friendly shows, and much more from around the world. • Live TV: Enjoy 80+ channels of free live programming—instantly. From food to news to sports to kids to international content, there’s something for the whole family. • All your personal media: Stream your own photos, music, movies, shows, even DVR-ed TV to any device in a beautiful, simple interface. Plex adds rich descriptions, artwork, and other related information. • Web series, news, and podcasts on demand: Watch unlimited, on-demand streaming of the best-curated web channels and get personalized news and trusted video from over 190 global publishing partners.
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Between the Blu-Ray player, cable box, laptop, and everything else hooked up to your TV, your home theater situation is a mess. Here’s how I rolled all those devices into one awesome media center—the media center of my dreams—for under $500.
Update: A lot of you have been asking for an update to this build, so we did a bit of research and found some currently in-production parts that should be very similar to the original build in this guide! We haven’t tested this exact build ourselves, but it should work much the same as the original, and we’ve updated the rest of the guide with a few new suggestions.
What This Media Center Can Do
You can put together a home theater PC using just about anything : an old computer, a cheap nettop, an Apple TV, or even a $35 Raspberry Pi . However, if you really want to get the most out of your HTPC, building it yourself is the way to go.
What Should I Use for My Home Theater PC: Apple TV, Nettop, Old Computer, or Something Else?
Dear Lifehacker, I’m finally in the market to get a home theater PC, and I’m not sure which…
We’ve tried a lot of different builds over the years, but not every build can handle everything you throw at it. This build will allow us to play virtually anything, including:
- All of your ripped or downloaded movies, TV shows, and music
- All of your DVD and Blu-Ray discs
Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime streaming, plus nearly any other streaming channel you can imagine like CBS, NBC, Bravo, MTV, Comedy Central, SyFy, USA, Revision3, TWiT, and many more (Unfortunately Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime are much more difficult than they used to be. See this article for more information.)- Video games from nearly any classic system, as well as some PC games
Part One: Choose Your Hardware
In order for my media center to accomplish everything I wanted, I’ve found that I needed a very specific set of hardware, since a lot of HTPC builds are too low-powered to handle things like video games or even Netflix. This build is powerful enough to handle nearly anything you throw at it, and at a very reasonable price. It won’t necessarily play the latest games on ultra high settings, but you should be able to play them on lower settings pretty easily, and all your streaming video should run like a dream.
I’m looking to find an OS for my NAS and saw this. I installed it to a VM so I can have a look at it. I have successfully installed Plex Media Server, however, I don’t know how to put the movies to where Plex Media Server can scan.
Can anyone help me.
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Hmm. The setgid trick only works on the folders and not files. The files still have transmission:transmission but with umask = 2, have 0664 access rights.
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Having the share set with 3rd party = RO, would only stop an app writing to the share if it was running as an unprivileged user. Many apps run as root. WHich app are you going to have writing to the shares?
If you are cute, just pick up the GID and UID for plex (“id plex”). Then you can probably delete the user and group from the command line and add him as a regular LDAP user. Once added, you can then use the “find” command on the UID and GID to set all the folder and file ownerships correctly. There is no guarantee this would work, but it is how I used to run “transmission” before the app was created, with an LDAP user rather than a Unix user.
Nick
makes sense re apps running with root user that RO will work fine. I was actually going to test this using transmission as I’ve got an identical ‘flexshare’ permission problem with that app also.
I’ll test the deletion of the app created user then creating an identical username with LDAP and report back here soonAccepted Answer
Having the share set with 3rd party = RO, would only stop an app writing to the share if it was running as an unprivileged user. Many apps run as root. WHich app are you going to have writing to the shares?
If you are cute, just pick up the GID and UID for plex (“id plex”). Then you can probably delete the user and group from the command line and add him as a regular LDAP user. Once added, you can then use the “find” command on the UID and GID to set all the folder and file ownerships correctly. There is no guarantee this would work, but it is how I used to run “transmission” before the app was created, with an LDAP user rather than a Unix user.
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When I set up a plex share I set up a groups first called fs-movies, fs-extras, fs-videos, fs-photos, fs-music, and fs-audiobooks. Then I set up shares in flexshares with the corresponding groups: movies, extras, videos, photos, music, and audiobooks. On all of these shares I enable ‘Third-party access’ so that flexshare (a 3rd party app) can access the shares. I also share these out with the File Server permissions so that I can access them as a mapped network drive through CIFS. Then, in the flex web interface on my I manage may Plex server and browse for these folders under /var/flexshare/shares/*.
is it possible to add the application user ‘plex’ to a ClearOS create account group? Being able to do this would allow the application(s) to access their respective flexshares. I’ve tried below command without any luck. As Nick mentioned, the allusers must be an LDAP group and not a native server group.
Also, I’ve noticed the “Third Party App Access” option is either Disabled or Read Only. Is RO sufficient for an application to write too?
In this video/blog post we’ll look at how to install Plex on OpenMediaVault 5 using Docker and Portainer. We’ll also include the noexec fix while we’re at it to make sure that everything works without issue.
We’re going into this with the understanding that you’ve already setup OpenMediaVault 5 on a device. If you haven’t, go check out my other tutorials on how to do that and come back to this tutorial.
Getting Started
First thing, make sure you have your system up to date with all the latest updates.
Next, head over to omv-extras.org and click on the link for OMV version 5. Then look for the link called “openmediavault-omvextrasorg” and click it. Click the newest version. In my case, it is “5.2.1”. Then click the “Files” tab at the top of the page. Then click “pool”, “main”, and “o”. Next click “openmediavault-omvextrasorg”. On this page, you should see a couple of options. Click the file that ends in “.deb” to download the file.
Go back to your OpenMediaVault installation and click on “Plugins” and then click the “Upload” button on that page. Upload the .deb file you just downloaded. Once that is complete, search for “extras” in the search field at the top of the page.
Check the box next to “openmediavault-omvextrasorg 5.2.1” and click the “Install” button at the top of the page.
Now reboot the system.
Once the system has rebooted, you can log back in. Click the new “OMV-Extras” link in the left sidebar. Click on “Docker” in the blue bar. Then click the dropdown that says “Docker” and click “Install”. Once that has completed, click the “Portainer” dropdown and click “Install”.
Fixing noexec
Now open an SSH program like Putty and login to your server using root.
Then do a search for “mntent”
You should be brought to a section that is a different color because it is commented out. Use your arrow keys to press down until you get to the next section and look for the “ ” line and remove the “noexec” option from that line. Then press CTRL+X and then press Y to confirm.
That will bring you back to the main screen of your Putty program. While you’re there, type this:
omv-salt deploy run fstab
Press Enter on your keyboard. It will look like nothing happened and that’s fine. Now type in:
And then press Enter on your keyboard.
Once the system has rebooted, you can log in to the server via Putty again using root and type in:
Then look for your hard drives (sda1 or sdb1) and make sure there is no “noexec” in any of the lines associated with your hard drives.
Create Shares
You’ll need to go your OpenMediaVault user interface and click “Shared Folders”
Create each of the following:
- Config
- Movies
- TV
- Music
The “Config” folder is the only required folder. You can adjust your media folder names to fit your needs, but these are the defaults.
Make sure the permissions for each of the folders is set to “Everyone: read/write”.
Hover over any of the header titles (Name, Device, Relative Path, etc) and click the dropdown arrow. Then hover over “Columns” and check the box that says “Absolute Path” as we’ll need that later.
Then go to “SMB/CIFS”. Make sure this is set to “Enable” and then go to “Shares” in the blue bar.
Click “Add” for add each of the folders you created a moment ago and make sure the “Public” setting is set to “Only guests”.
Click “Save” after each one and once you have all your folders saved, you can click the “Apply” button in the yellow bar at the top of the page.
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Install Plex
Now go back to your OpenMediaVault server and login to the user interface.
Click on “OMV-Extras” and then click “Docker” in the blue bar. Then click the “Portainer” dropdown and click “Open web”.
Tell it that you want to control a local server. Then click on the section that says local.
Click “Containers”. Then click “Add container”
In a separate browser window, open this link:
In the “Create Container” window, fill in each of the fields based on the “docker-compose” information in the linuxserver/plex page.
You’ll need to open Putty again to get your UID and GID.
Under “Volumes” click “map additional volume” 1 time for each of the folders you created. Click the blue “bind” button for each one as well.
For the “Config” folder, you’ll type:
in the “container” field. Then you’ll type the absolute path of that from the “Shared Folders” page on your OpenMediaVault page and append it with /Plex. Mine looks like this with all the folders added:
Next, click the “Network” tab and change the setting from “Bridged” to “Host”.
You’ll move to the “Env” tab next and enter the PUID, PGID, VERSION, and UMASK_SET options. Mine looks like this:
Next, go to the “Restart policy” tab and change it to “Unless stopped”.
That’s it. Now you can click the “Deploy the container” button right above the “Advanced container settings”
Sign Into Plex
Now you will be asked to sign into Plex and claim your server. Do that.
Next you will add your media folders and give each a name for Plex. Once you have done that, you can add users and assign permissions for each user to be able to access whatever folders you want them to be able to access and then you’re done.
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Below are steps on how you can rename a file, shortcut, or directory. Click one of the following links to automatically navigate to the correct operating system.
You must have write or modify permissions to a file, folder, or directory to rename it. In some cases, you may need administrator privileges in the operating system to rename.
- Microsoft Windows
- MS-DOS and Windows command line.
- Rename in a batch file.
- macOS
- Linux and Unix.
- Google Chrome OS.
- How to rename a document in Word or Excel.
How to rename in Microsoft Windows
Windows users can rename their files and directories using one of the following methods. We’ve listed the following recommendations in what we believe to be the easiest methods of renaming a file. These methods work for most types of files, including text, photos, documents, and others.
This also works for removing spaces in a file name.
Renaming a folder containing files may cause problems if that folder contains files that are required by a program. For example, if the program is looking for a folder named “data” and you rename it to “other” the program would no longer know where data files are located.
Method one
- Highlight the file or folder.
- Right-click the file with your mouse and select Rename from the menu that appears.
In Windows 11, select Show more options in the right-click menu to see the Rename option.
Method two
- Highlight the file or folder.
- Press the F2 key on the keyboard.
Method three
- Highlight the file or folder.
- Click File at the top of the window and select Rename from the list of available options.
File Explorer in Windows 11 does not have a file menu like previous versions of Windows. Instead, click the Rename icon in the menu bar at the top.
Method four
- Highlight the file or folder.
- Once highlighted, wait a few seconds and click the file name again. A box should appear surrounding the file or folder name, and you can rename the file.
If you don’t wait long enough and click the file or folder too fast, it can open it rather than allowing you to rename it.
Renaming multiple files or folders at once
- Open Explorer.
- In Explorer, select all the files you want to rename.
- How to select or highlight multiple files and folders.
- Once the files are selected, press F2 to edit the file name and type the new name for the files. For example, typing “test” renames the files to test, test(1), test(2), test(3), etc. If you have file extensions displayed, make sure to also type the name of the file extension.
Microsoft Windows users can also rename any file using the Windows command line.
How to rename in MS-DOS and the Windows command line
MS-DOS and Windows command (CMD) line users can change the name of a file or directory using the ren or rename command. Below are examples of how this command can be used. Additional information about each of these commands is found by clicking the command links above.
Renaming a file
The following example renames the file test.txt to hope.txt.
If the test.txt file is not located in your current directory, you must specify the file’s path as a prefix to the file name. For example, if the file is in the “computer” directory, type a command similar to the following example.
Renaming a file with a space
If a file or directory has a space, it must be surrounded with quotes. Otherwise, you get the “The syntax of the command is incorrect” error. To rename the file “computer hope.txt” to “example file.txt“, your command would resemble the following example.
Renaming multiple files with one command
To rename multiple files at once, you must utilize some form of wild character. Below are examples of how this could be done.
The following example renames all the files in the current directory that end with .rtf to .txt files.
In this next example, the command renames a file with an unknown character in the file name to something that can be read. The “?” used in the following example is the wild character for an unknown character.
Renaming a directory
Renaming a directory in MS-DOS is much like renaming a file. Use the ren or rename command to rename the directory. Because you cannot have a file and directory of the same name, you don’t need to worry about mistakenly renaming a file instead of a directory. The only exception is if you’re using wild characters.
Renaming a directory containing files may cause problems if that directory contains files required by a program. For example, if the program is looking for a directory named “data” and you rename it to “other,” the program would no longer know where data files are located.
The following example renames the computer directory to hope.
Rename the directory “computer hope” to “example directory”. Whenever dealing with a file or directory with a space, it must be surrounded with quotes. Otherwise, you get the “The syntax of the command is incorrect” error.
Rename in a batch file
To rename files in a batch file, you can use any of the rename commands or examples shown in the MS-DOS and Windows command line section.
How to rename in macOS
Apple macOS users can rename their files and directories using one of the following methods. We’ve listed the following recommendations in what we believe to be the easiest methods of renaming a file.
First recommendation
In the macOS Finder, select the file by clicking the file once and then press the return key on the keyboard. After pressing return, type the new name of the file.
Second recommendation
Select the file or icon you want to rename. Click and then hover over the file name until it is highlighted. Once highlighted, this indicates the file can be renamed.
Third recommendation
Using the Terminal, you can also rename any file. See our Linux and Unix users section for steps on renaming a file using the mv command.
How to rename in the Linux and Unix command line
For detailed information about renaming files in Linux, see the Linux mv command.
How to rename in Google Chrome OS
With the Google Chrome OS on a Chromebook, you can rename your files and directories using one of the following methods. We’ve listed the following recommendations in what we believe to be the easiest methods of renaming a file.
First recommendation
Highlight the file by clicking the file once. Press Ctrl + Enter on the keyboard and then type the new name of the file.
Second recommendation
Right-click the file by pressing two fingers on the touchpad at the same time. In the right-click menu, click Rename and then type the new file name.
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The low cost and full HD video playing capabilities of the Raspberry Pi make it ideal for building your own media center. This will allow you to play music and videos through your Raspberry Pi onto a TV.
The advantage of using a Raspberry Pi, is that all the software can be configured and modified in whatever way you want.
In this tutorial we will show you how to set your Raspberry Pi up as a media centre and in the next tutorial you will find out how you can use the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO connector to add a IR remote facility.
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While you’re enjoying the new features after upgrading your system to Windows 10, some people are bemoaning the malfunction of some features. For instance, the Windows Media Center error gets the attention of the public. Here, I’ll show you some useful ways to fix it.
Microsoft removes Windows Media Center from its latest Windows 10 updates; it has left a lot of Windows users angry and disappointed. Because of this, people choose to install a custom version of Windows Media Center and it can be compatible with the new Windows 10.
Media Center Error Appears on Windows 10
Yet, Media Center error appears now and then, bothering the users a lot. As far as I know, there are mainly three types of Media Center errors; they are respectively:
- Windows Media Center decoder error: the video decoder is not working, is not installed, or is not supported. Try installing the codec or restating your computer. Besides, you may try to update the drivers to fix the problem.
- WindowsMedia Center won’t open error: when you click on it, the system prompts that this program cannot open and says it is searching for solutions. Since the system gives no suggestion on how to fix this, you may try the solutions below.
- Windows Media Center not working(stopped working) error: a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. This happens mainly due to third-party applications interfering with Media Center. To remove the problematic applications after a clean boot may fix the problem.
How to Fix Windows Media Center Error on Win10
In this part, I’ll introduce mainly 3 solutions to help you solve the Media Center problems mentioned above.
Solution 1: Perform a Clean Boot
Clean boot means the minimal set of drivers and startup programs. If you start your computer in a clean boot, you are able to find out if there is a background program interfering with your program/game.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows 10:
- Click on the search box located in the taskbar.
- Type msconfig into the textbox.
- Right click on System Configuration (Desktop app).
- Choose Run as administrator from the menu.
- Select the Services
- Check the Hide all Microsoft services option at bottom left.
- Click on the Disable all
- Shift to the Startup
- Click on the Open Task Manager
- Select the first item in Startup tab and click on the Disable
- Repeat step 10 to disable all the items listed.
- Close Task Manager.
- Go back to the Startup tab of the System Configuration dialog box. Now, click on the OK button to confirm changes.
- Restart your computer.
Solution 2: Run CHKDSK Scan
This is able to fix the Media Center error caused by a damaged hard drive.
- Click on the search box located in the taskbar.
- Type command prompt.
- Right click on Command Prompt (Desktop app).
- Choose Run as administrator from the menu.
- Type chkdsk /f *: (* stands for the system drive letter) and press Enter.
- Press Y to schedule a restart at next reboot.
- Restart your computer.
Solution 3: Rename the EpgListings directory
Here are the steps to rename the EpgListings directory:
- Open File Explorer.
- Navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome\Packages one by one.
- Locate EpgListings
- Click to rename it.
In addition to those solutions, you could also try updating your drivers to the latest version and removing the problematic applications as I have mentioned in the beginning.
If all those methods failed, please don’t worry, you still have a trump card – upgrading your system to the latest version.
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Centering things is one of the most difficult aspects of CSS.
The methods themselves usually aren’t difficult to understand. Instead, it’s more due to the fact that there are so many ways to center things.
The method you use can vary depending on the HTML element you’re trying to center, or whether you’re centering it horizontally or vertically.
In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to center different elements horizontally, vertically, and both vertically and horizontally.
How to Center Horizontally
Centering elements horizontally is generally easier than centering them vertically. Here are some common elements you may want to center horizontally and different ways to do it.
How to Center Text with the CSS Text-Align Center Property
To center text or links horizontally, just use the text-align property with the value center :
How to Center a Div with CSS Margin Auto
Use the shorthand margin property with the value 0 auto to center block-level elements like a div horizontally:
How to Center a Div Horizontally with Flexbox
Flexbox is the most modern way to center things on the page, and makes designing responsive layouts much easier than it used to be. However, it’s not fully supported in some legacy browsers like Internet Explorer.
To center an element horizontally with Flexbox, just apply display: flex and justify-content: center to the parent element:
How to Center Vertically
Centering elements vertically without modern methods like Flexbox can be a real chore. Here we’ll go over some of the older methods to center things vertically first, then show you how to do it with Flexbox.
How to Center a Div Vertically with CSS Absolute Positioning and Negative Margins
For a long time this was the go-to way to center things vertically. For this method you must know the height of the element you want to center.
First, set the position property of the parent element to relative .
Then for the child element, set the position property to absolute and top to 50% :
But that really just vertically centers the top edge of the child element.
To truly center the child element, set the margin-top property to -(half the child element’s height) :
How to Center a Div Vertically with Transform and Translate
If you don’t know the height of the element you want to center (or even if you do), this method is a nifty trick.
This method is very similar to the negative margins method above. Set the position property of the parent element to relative .
For the child element, set the position property to absolute and set top to 50% . Now instead of using a negative margin to truly center the child element, just use transform: translate(0, -50%) :
Note that translate(0, -50%) is shorthand for translateX(0) and translateY(-50%) . You could also write transform: translateY(-50%) to center the child element vertically.
How to Center a Div Vertically with Flexbox
Like centering things horizontally, Flexbox makes it super easy to center things vertically.
To center an element vertically, apply display: flex and align-items: center to the parent element:
How to Center Both Vertically and Horizontally
How to Center a Div Vertically and Horizontally with CSS Absolute Positioning and Negative Margins
This is very similar to the method above to center an element vertically. Like last time, you must know the width and height of the element you want to center.
Set the position property of the parent element to relative .
Then set the child’s position property to absolute , top to 50% , and left to 50% . This just centers the top left corner of the child element vertically and horizontally.
To truly center the child element, apply a negative top margin set to half the child element’s height, and a negative left margin set to half the child element’s width:
How to Center a Div Vertically and Horizontally with Transform and Translate
Use this method to center an element vertically and horizontally if you don’t know its exact dimensions and can’t use Flexbox.
First, set the position property of the parent element to relative .
Next, set the child element’s position property to absolute , top to 50% , and left to 50% .
Finally, use transform: translate(-50%, -50%) to truly center the child element:
How to Center a Div Vertically and Horizontally with Flexbox
Flexbox is the easiest way to center an element both vertically and horizontally.
This is really just a combination of the two previous Flexbox methods. To center the child element(s) horizontally and vertically, apply justify-content: center and align-items: center to the parent element:
That’s everything you need to know to center with the best of ’em. Now go forth and center all the things.
You can move your iTunes library to a different folder, computer, or drive. Here’s how to do it, even in macOS Catalina, which ditches iTunes for the Music app.
Moving your iTunes library sounds complicated, especially if you have a vast collection of music, TV shows, movies, and podcasts. But it’s possible—if you follow the right steps.
Below we’ll cover how to move your library to a NAS device or network drive as well as a PC. Since iTunes has been replaced in macOS Catalina, we’ll also look at how to do it with Apple’s new Music app.
Locate iTunes Media
When you install and set up iTunes for the first time, the software automatically chooses a location to house your library. By default, that location is C:\users\[username]\ Music\iTunes. That folder stores the iTunes library file, which is a database of all your iTunes content, along with other files.
Your content itself is saved in the folder iTunes Media, which contains subfolders for your music, movies, TV shows, books, and other items. Confirm the location for your iTunes content by opening iTunes and navigating to Edit > Preferences > Advanced in Windows and iTunes > Preferences > Advanced on a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier. The location of your iTunes Media folder is displayed.
Move Your iTunes Library to a Network Drive
Why go through the trouble of moving your library to a network drive or NAS device? Well, a computer that houses your iTunes library needs to be turned on any time you want to access the content from a different device.
By moving your library to a network drive that’s always available, you or anyone else in your household can access the content from any computer or mobile device in your home at any time.
If you have a network drive or NAS set up, use the software for your router or NAS to create a specific network share to store your iTunes library. Name it something like iTunesContent, then open File Explorer in Windows or Finder in macOS.
Map a drive to this new network share, maybe assigning the letter “I” to iTunesContent. Finally, create a folder on your new network share called iTunes. Then, open your new iTunes folder and create a subfolder called iTunes Media.
Transfer the Folders
iTunes Media Folder
Open iTunes, then click the Edit Menu (or the iTunes menu on a Mac) and select Preferences > Advanced. Click the Change button for your iTunes Media folder location, then navigate to and select the iTunes Media folder on your network share.
The location should say: I:\iTunes\iTunes Media (assuming you used “I” as the drive letter for mapping). Then check the two options for “Keep iTunes Media folder organized” and “Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library.” Click OK to close the Preferences window.
Move and Rename
Add Folder to Library
Select Subfolders
Hurry Up and Wait
Did the Files Transfer?
Rename iTunes Folder
Rename the iTunes folder on your computer to something like iTunes-old. Hold down the Shift key and reopen iTunes from its shortcut. A message pops up asking you to choose the iTunes library.
Click the “Choose Library” button. In the Open iTunes Library window, navigate to and select the iTunes Library.itl file in the iTunes folder on your network and then click the Open button.
Test Your Handiwork
iTunes opens and should display the content from your music folder or whatever folder you last accessed. Select the other types of content from the menu, such as movies, TV shows, and books, to make sure the thumbnail images for those items display in iTunes. You should also try playing some music, movies, or TV shows to ensure that they play properly.
When you’re satisfied that all your content files now reside on the network and that iTunes is pointing to them, you can delete the old iTunes folder on your computer. From now on, any time you open iTunes, the software will access your files from the network.
Move Your iTunes Library to Another Computer
Copy Your Files Via a HomeGroup
If you’re a Windows 7 or 8.1 holdout, you can transfer files from one computer to another through HomeGroup. Once both computers are linked, open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Users\[username]\Music folder. Select and copy the iTunes folder, then click the entry for HomeGroup, the entry for your username, and the entry for the target computer.
You should see all the shared folders of the target computer, including the Music folder. Open the Music folder and paste the iTunes folder from the source to the target PC. Take a nice, long break as the copy is likely to take awhile.
Copy Files With External Devices
HomeGroup is not available in Windows 10, so those with that OS (and Mac users) will have to find an alternative method to copy files between two different machines. You can copy them from the source PC to an external device, then copy them over to the target computer. Another option is to use a USB cable to connect both computers and copy the files over. If your library isn’t too large, you can always copy it to and from an online file storage site such as Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, or Box.
Authorize This Computer
Test Your Handiwork
Move Your Library in Catalina
Moving your library on a Mac that’s running macOS Catalina is a different process, mainly because iTunes has been retired as the default application for storing and organizing media. As such, your content is stored in different locations. The default locations are as follows:
- Music:C:/users/[username]/music
- TV Shows and Movies:C:/users/[username]/movies
- Podcasts:C:/Library/Group Containers/243LU875E5.groups.com.apple.podcasts
- eBooks and Audiobooks:C:/Library/Containers/ Data/Documents/iBooks/Books.
You can move your music, TV shows, and movies from their default folders to a new location on a network drive or to another Mac. To do this, follow the same steps above as described for iTunes.
Accessing Podcasts on macOS Catalina
Accessing Books on macOS Catalina
For books, open the Books app on your new Mac; it should display any books you’ve purchased through iTunes. You can then download individual books to your computer.
To add other books you’ve obtained elsewhere, copy your entire Books folder (and Audiobooks folder if it’s separate) from your old Mac to an accessible location for your new Mac.
Open the Books app and click File > Add to Library, then select your Books and Audiobooks folders. Click Add and your books should be imported into your new library.
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Als u meer dan één Plex Media Center-client in uw huis gebruikt, kan het soms moeilijk zijn om te identificeren welke welke is . Laten we eens kijken naar de niet-zo voor de hand liggende instelling die u moet aanpassen om elk van uw Plex-clients een unieke naam te geven.
In veel gevallen kan de naam van een bepaalde Plex-machine er niet toe doen. Maar als u meerdere Plex-clients in uw thuisnetwerk hebt en u wilt profiteren van de ingebouwde ondersteuning van Plex voor het verzenden van media vanuit besturingsprogramma’s, zoals Plex voor iOS of het Plex Media Server-webdashboard, zult u echt een probleem tegenkomen snel.
Onlangs bijvoorbeeld heeft ons hele huis uitgerust met Raspberry Pi-units waarop Rasplex is aangesloten op elke tv. Maar wanneer we een video van ons Plex Media Server-dashboard willen casten, zien we dit:
Moeten we de film bekijken op RasPlex, RasPlex, RasPlex of Rasplex?
Met elke klant een identiek label, we hebben geen idee of we onze geselecteerde video naar de slaapkamer, de logeerkamer, de woonkamer of de bioscoop in de kelder zullen sturen. Als u zich in een vergelijkbare situatie bevindt, is deze zelfstudie iets voor u. In plaats van de video-castingloterij te spelen, nemen we even de tijd om alle clients te hernoemen, zodat ze gemakkelijker te identificeren zijn. Verrassend genoeg is het hernoemen van een Plex-client niet bijzonder intuïtief. U kunt ze niet hernoemen vanaf het serverdashboard; in plaats daarvan moet u de naam van elke afzonderlijke client wijzigen.
Hoewel de clientsoftware op elk platform enigszins verschilt (u moet dus rondneuzen in de instellingenmenu’s), kunnen we u laten zien hoe u kunt overschakelen op RasPlex naar geef je een algemeen idee. Open hiervoor het menu “Voorkeuren”, dat u kunt openen als u de standaard RasPlex-skin gebruikt door eenvoudig op de pijltoets naar links te drukken terwijl u zich in het hoofdmenu bevindt.
Selecteer in de voorkeuren het tandwielpictogram aan de zijkant. voor “Wijzig voorkeuren voor systeem”.
Daar kunt u “Services” selecteren en ziet u een vermelding voor “Apparaatnaam”. Wijzig die invoer van het algemene “RasPlex” -item in een duidelijk invoerveld dat aangeeft waar (of waarop) de Plex-client is aangesloten, zoals “Woonkamer” of “Projector”. Het is vermeldenswaard dat deze naamswijziging
alleen van invloed is op hoe de Plex-server de clientsoftware ziet en de netwerkhostnaam of andere identificerende informatie over de hardware niet verandert. Start het apparaat opnieuw en de verandering moet onmiddellijk verschijnen in het casting-menu voor uw Plex-software. Tegen de tijd dat we opnieuw opstartten en ons dashboard openden, was “Living Room” al vermeld als een van de bestemmingen, hieronder te zien. De vermelding in het eigenlijke menu Instellingen> Apparaten duurt iets langer om bij te werken, maar maakt u zich geen zorgen. De update wordt binnen 10-20 minuten vernieuwd zonder een herstart van de server en heeft geen invloed op de castingfunctie.
Zodra u heb één item gewijzigd, power door de rest van hen en je hebt een unieke naam voor elk van je Plex-clients – je hoeft niet meer te gissen wanneer je een film probeert te casten naar verschillende schermen in je huis
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If you want digital photos to have names that are more descriptive than something that looks like a license plate, you don’t have to type them one at a time.
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Q. Is there an app that lets me change the file names on a bunch of digital photos at once so I can upload them to an online album with more informative names than DSC01970.jpg., DSC01971.jpg and so on?
A. Photo programs often include commands to rename files when you export them for uploading or sharing. For example, the Photos app that Apple includes with the Mac operating system gives you the opportunity to save a batch of pictures with a keyword and a number (like Graduation – 1.jpg, Graduation – 2.jpg and onward) in the Export dialogue box when you choose Sequential in the File Name menu.
The free Adobe Bridge photo-organizer program for Windows and Mac can also rename photos in batches. Third-party utilities for renaming images in bulk can be found online as well with a quick search, but you may not need extra software for simple batch jobs.
To rename a folder of loose photos all at once on a Windows computer, open that folder and select all the images inside it. Right-click the selected group, choose Rename from the menu and enter a descriptive keyword for one of the selected files. Press the Enter key to change all the pictures at once to that name followed by a sequential number.
The process works much the same way on a Mac. Open a folder of photos, select the ones you want to rename, right-click (or hold down the Control key and click) the group and choose Rename [Number] Items from the contextual menu. Supply a keyword, and the Mac will rename the files and tack on a number in sequence.
Not to knock Plex itself. The server/encoding/play-on-any-device pipeline is amazing.
Just saying that their UIs need developers who actually care about what their users want.
I suppose their server software isn’t … I’m not sure.
Just now i browsed through a thread where a user was complaining about about the UI being atrociously lacking of options and how it slows down people.
A plex employee said:
this has kind of always been the Plex way, hasn’t it? If you want powerful customization and configuration you use XBMC/kodi, and if you want a pre-configured player that just works with as little config as possible you use Plex. It’s never been a very customizable player.
They did what now? I’ve been using Plex on my home server and all of my mobile and TV devices and I haven’t had it “forced” on me at all. Everything works great. Typically. Until I have to restart FireTV every few days because it stops playing audio from Plex for some odd reason.
I gave up and now running kodi on raspberrypi
we removed the plex pass requirement for smart TVs a few days ago, they are all free to all users. But as someone that works with smart TVs many hours a day, I would stay with rpi, it’s a much much better platform, can direct play more formats without need for transcoding and in general more stable.
Just running some Amazon Fire TVs with XBMC/Kody at home, all hooked into my NAS. Next step is going to be building a shared SQL database so all the media positions are lined up.
Although I also enjoy the ability to share my server with family and keep a separate kid-friendly profile for my daughter.
Anyways, I could do with a simple soup to nuts spec sheet and less marketing fluff.
Not trying to be a dick, just always interested in how other people handle media and what works best for them. I am VERY familiar with software not interested in dealing with the particular way that I store things.
You can subsequently choose to view files by “folder”, which doesn’t actually browse the filesystem directly but instead looks at the database to see where the file came from originally. My experience trying several times since Plex came out (most recently last year) is that this is extremely unreliable and wonky. It’d always mis-recognize files or they’d be completely missing even though they were on disk. They outright do not support directly browsing files AFAIK.
So in other words, if your files are reasonably well organized and named following one of the conventions recognized by Plex then it does a pretty amazing job organizing and scraping. On the other hand, if you just have random files that are scattered about or organized by folder or perhaps named differently then Kodi works a whole lot better because it just lets you drill through files on disk (it has a library too, which is functionally about the same as Plex and suffers from similar drawbacks). On the other hand, Plex has way better device support and while you can get transcoding to/from devices in Kodi, Plex is a lot better at it most of the time.
It looks like the Movies screen will automatically offer up unwatched movies with recent release dates, as well as groups of unwatched movies from the same director (“Top movies by . “). If you actually go into a movie and open the Extras menu, along with trailers/features (if you have a Plex Pass), it’ll show you other movies by the same director and with the same lead actors.
Similarly, the TV screen has groups for recently aired TV episodes, and even has shows grouped by the channel they’re currently airing on (!).
It’s a neat use of metadata, and it would be interesting to see it go further. It would be really neat if I could, say, choose Star Trek TNG and get an automatically generated list of the best 10 episodes (with data pulled from thetvdb, IMDB, etc), or if I could go into Movies and choose an option to group movies by randomized Netflix-like specialized genres.
I got fed up yesterday and realized I could use a raspberry pi w/ instead, and it’s been working great. I use my phone as the remote – and so far so good.
Edit: I should of noted that using Prime Video from the Fire Stick works perfectly (and it’s faster to fast-forward etc than the roku).
If all you want to do is watch videos from Plex then no, there’s no point changing hardware. But you’d be surprised how much you end up doing through the TV when you can.
It’s a bit of the feeling of having a second (big) monitor hooked up to your computer (or using Apple’s AirPlay “extend display to this monitor” mode in OSX) but having the two be separate computers is actually a good thing, frequently:
• I don’t have to worry about having something CPU-demanding (like a streaming Flash player in Chrome) running on the TV while trying to compile on my work laptop; neither one will cause choppiness in the other.
• I run all my torrents on the HTPC (because that’s where I want to play the videos from anyway) and have QoS enabled on my router, so my laptop’s network connection is never clogged.
There’s also the benefit of the pixels of a TV being far-enough away that you can get away with a lot of scaling. Presuming a 60″ 1080p LCD at an 8′ distance, turning on Windows’ “Extra Large” DPI Scaling, or force-enabling OSX’s HiDPI mode, looks really good (e.g. ).
You only get 960×540 effective pixels from a 200%-DPI-scaled 1080p TV, so some things might not fit on the screen and will necessitate temporarily toggling back to “regular” 1080p. Also, you’ll probably want to full-screen most apps, to get something like this (). It’s a lot like using a netbook.
It’s pretty great for reading long articles in particular; I find there’s less eye-strain than looking at my laptop—maybe because the glyphs are so clear, and maybe also because I’m focusing on something farther than 2′ away.
It’s not fancy, but it does the job well – barring some signal issues that I think must be specific to my apartment, as I haven’t seen anyone else complain of them.
