Replacement for CloudatCost
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Plex transcodes the original media on the fly if you don't have them in the format for the device you are watching from: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250377-Transcoding-Media. Direct Play uses almost no resource, DirectStream uses a bit. Transcoding uses a lot of resources.
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@IRJ said:
Host your own boxes if you need that kind of hardware. Still better uptime than CloudatCost
True dat...
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Plex transcodes the original media on the fly if you don't have them in the format for the device you are watching from: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250377-Transcoding-Media. Direct Play uses almost no resource, DirectStream uses a bit. Transcoding uses a lot of resources.
My movies are mostly .avi and my TV shows are mostly .mkv and .mp4. The majority are .mkv.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
My movies are mostly .avi and my TV shows are mostly .mkv and .mp4. The majority are .mkv.
Those are containers, not codec formats. Doesn't really mean much.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
My movies are mostly .avi and my TV shows are mostly .mkv and .mp4. The majority are .mkv.
Do you legally own any of them?
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
My movies are mostly .avi and my TV shows are mostly .mkv and .mp4. The majority are .mkv.
Do you legally own any of them?
Yes.
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Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
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@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
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@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
Most of my collection isn't movies though. It's mostly TV shows.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
What's the point of that? Just put the server locally.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
What's the point of that? Just put the server locally.
I have one locally. The problem is I don't have the resources to provision the local Plex server the way I want.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I have one locally. The problem is I don't have the resources to provision the local Plex server the way I want.
You are just making the connection between the VPS/cloud server and your file shares the limitation with that setup. I mean you could get a free desktop of craigslist to do plex. It doesn't need to be very powerful.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I have one locally. The problem is I don't have the resources to provision the local Plex server the way I want.
You are just making the connection between the VPS/cloud server and your file shares the limitation with that setup. I mean you could get a free desktop of craigslist to do plex. It doesn't need to be very powerful.
I've got another server already. It's a Dell Poweredge I got from @PSX_Defector. I just need to get it setup...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
Most of my collection isn't movies though. It's mostly TV shows.
Does that mean that you watch them regularly rather than rarely?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
What's the purpose of the remote piece? Just to expose to non-home locations?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I have one locally. The problem is I don't have the resources to provision the local Plex server the way I want.
But, presumably, doing so would be cheap compared to other options.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I've got another server already. It's a Dell Poweredge I got from @PSX_Defector. I just need to get it setup...
Can't take that much longer than building something on a cloud, right? Just take the time to do it locally. Worth the effort now.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
Most of my collection isn't movies though. It's mostly TV shows.
Does that mean that you watch them regularly rather than rarely?
I usually watch them once and then move on. However, many people have access to this server.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@g.jacobse said:
Better Understanding....
AJ - Just for my own understanding - why upload movies to a remote site / server? I watch a movie once,.. and put it away.. Even with my Netflix account, I watch, and move on.
What is the benefit of taking a movie you own on DVD / Blue Ray, ripping it,.. uploading it to a hosted server, so you can watch it later.
You can build / buy your own wireless cloud device, rip local, and seemingly would be faster and more reliable. Hosting it on a server 3,000 miles away (and with CloudatCost; in another country most likely) seems resource intensive.
I host the files locally and connect the shares to the remote server.
What's the purpose of the remote piece? Just to expose to non-home locations?
Load-balancing. I divvy up the load between multiple servers for multiple people using them.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I've got another server already. It's a Dell Poweredge I got from @PSX_Defector. I just need to get it setup...
Can't take that much longer than building something on a cloud, right? Just take the time to do it locally. Worth the effort now.
Yeah, but as it stands right now, if I bring that into my current dwelling, my landlord would freak...
