5 Mistakes I Made When Hosting My First Plex Media Server
If you plan to run a plex library, let me save a few headaches. I have executed my own multimedia server for a better part of the decade and, over the years, I have learned a lot that you should not do.
From the organization of the library to the real quality of the tears of the film, here are five errors that I made with my first Plex library and how you can avoid them yourself.
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I did not have an appropriate library organization
When I started with plex for the first time, I didn’t really have a library organization. The movies and television shows were in the same file, the episodes of television shows were named at random and without rhyme or reason, and things were generally very disorganized.
Although Plex will work mainly in this way, it is not optimal for sure. Having file names and appropriate folder structures guarantees that Plex knows both what type of content it looks at and how to properly name the content. All metadata is taken from the file name and sought after, not from the file content itself.
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These days, I have software that runs in the background and helps keep everything organized and named correctly without my finger for the most part.
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4K was my default resolution for movies
Let’s face it, if you are like me, then you want to watch each film in the highest quality possible. I recently learned that the standard 65 mm IMAX film is the equivalent of 18K!
So when I started my plex server, I immediately started with my 4K Blu-ray. It’s great, and the quality was impeccable – except that my television was an old LCD panel of non -dormant vision and that I really do not benefit a lot from the 4K ultra -high quality copies.
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Of course, high -quality OLED panels with appropriate surround sound benefit from 4K 4K flow films. However, on your traditional television watched about 10 feet distance, a 1080p film of decent quality will be (almost) so good. There are quality differences, without a doubt, but not enough to justify an 80 to 90 GB file on a five to 10 GB file.
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I didn’t know how much the storage I finally needed
Along the same track as 4K films, when I started my plex server, I lacked space – fast. When each film was almost 100 GB, and all my NAS was only 12 TB, I could only hold a few hundred films at 4K, and that does not include the dozens of seasons of Monk,, Psyche,, Full houseOr Home improvement.
It may seem a lot, but a few hundred films go fairly quickly. If you plan to scan all your physical media so that you no longer have to insert a disc, you will need a lot of storage.
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The other thing that took all my space was transcoded versions of the films. I generally kept a 1080p and 4k copy of each film I had, which adopted an additional space that he really didn’t need.
This helped that my system could not transcode on the fly (more about it in a moment), but it took a little additional space on the NAS.
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My system was not powerful enough to transcode
My original plex library was stored on a Synology DS416J NAS. This NAS was powered by Arm and had enough punch to manage its storage, and even less a multimedia server in its own right.
Alas, with the Arnim Arm processor and 1 GB of RAM, I was able to operate the plex, and it was actually good – until it had to transcode. Transcoding would put the server on his knees and became something that I just disabled completely.
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This is why I had two copies of all my 4K films, because Plex would simply choose to play the 1080p version or the 4K version, canceling the need for transcoding on the fly.
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I gave everyone in my house access to the 4K library
It was something that took me a while to learn: all televisions do not need to access the 4K library.
For what? Well, 4K streaming with zero transcoding was actually quite difficult. The spectator should have a specific type of multimedia streaming player, connected to a compatible TV and needs a sufficiently fast internet connection. A LAN connection is really fast, but the other two qualifications were certainly not true for each home television when I started.
For this reason, my server was constantly transcoded (or, at least, trying to do so) until I deactivate it. Deactivation of transcoding meant that if someone was trying to broadcast a 4K film without having material or aforementioned networking, he would have terrible streaming experience.
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All of this was added to my plex server just doesn’t work well. With the 4K and 1080p libraries separated now, it is fortunately a problem that I no longer encounter.
Now that you’ve learned what you don’t have to do, here is exactly how you can configure plex to look at your content on any device (at home and on the go).
