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Plex Maintenance – Futurama
Plex is awesome, except when their database is horked. But, with some ingenuity, and some hard work, I can overcome those limitations
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Plex Server Migration
After putting off dealing with some minor annoyances of my workstation install of Plex, I finally bit the bullet and moved to a server linux install. Bliss at last!
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To Convert or Not to Convert
To convert or not to Convert, that is the question. When processing Bluray discs for adding to my Plex media server, I have a workflow. First, use MakeMKV to rip the media to an .mkv file, then it can be uploaded to the Plex directory and made available. However, these files are large. Scratch that,…
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Plex Media Server – Workflow
In the learning path for the population of my media collection as it transitions from disc based media to a disk drive, I have discovered a few truths that I will share. There are some useful tools to “rip” your media. These are the essential first step in the process, to get your media from…
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More on Linux – the new media server
As I am assembling my Plex media server, I have been semi-seriously using Linux for this purpose for about 3 weeks now, and here are some more observations. First, I have been running it on two systems, an old desktop system with an Intel Core i7-920 CPU, 6 gigs of ram, and several disks (1…
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Linux Observations – 2017
A follow-on to my last post. Having last fiddled with linux (on the desktop, not as a hosting solution) was a VM running under vmware workstation probably 7 years ago. Back then it was just a fancy, enough to get my feet wet. Last weekend, I resurrected an old PC (the one that I ran…