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Can Anyone Recommend Some Paid Plex Servers
Posted on 11/6/18 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 11/6/18 at 1:13 pm
What are the good ones? Need new movies and kids/disney stuff
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Posted on 11/6/18 at 2:50 pm to NYCAuburn
Is this really a thing? Apart from having a friend?
Posted on 11/6/18 at 3:22 pm to colorchangintiger
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Is this really a thing? Apart from having a friend?
Yeah, there are a bunch, some are bush league compared to others. Good ones will have 5-10k movies and 2-4k TV shows
Posted on 11/6/18 at 3:37 pm to NYCAuburn
is it a one time cost? what do these cost?
Posted on 11/6/18 at 4:14 pm to LSUSoulja08
monthly or yearly subscriptions the higher ones are about 5-7 a month
Posted on 11/6/18 at 8:42 pm to NYCAuburn
Never heard of this
Posted on 11/7/18 at 7:52 am to djangochained
Just an update on this for the few who have never heard of this.
I was able to preview ... library this morning and they has just about any new movie or TV series. Even stuff from Amazon and netflix. The guy's account I was looking at said if its not on there, you just message the guy running it and they will usually have it uploaded in a few hours. Only bad so far from this library is I dont really see any documentaries. Some movies have subtitles as well, but I gloss over those anyways. This one is 7.99 a month or $65 a year(5.42 a month)
I was able to preview ... library this morning and they has just about any new movie or TV series. Even stuff from Amazon and netflix. The guy's account I was looking at said if its not on there, you just message the guy running it and they will usually have it uploaded in a few hours. Only bad so far from this library is I dont really see any documentaries. Some movies have subtitles as well, but I gloss over those anyways. This one is 7.99 a month or $65 a year(5.42 a month)
This post was edited on 2/18/19 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 11/7/18 at 8:52 am to NYCAuburn
quote:and sooner or later it will be shut down.
I was able to preview GoPlex's library this morning and they has just about any new movie or TV series. Even stuff from Amazon and netflix. The guy's account I was looking at said if its not on there, you just message the guy running it and they will usually have it uploaded in a few hours. Only bad so far from this library is I dont really see any documentaries. Some movies have subtitles as well, but I gloss over those anyways. This one is 7.99 a month or $65 a year(5.42 a month)
I want to see the hardware that is running this.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 9:38 am to CarRamrod
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and sooner or later it will be shut down.
Yeah, this ain't even close to being legal. I wonder how long these typically last...probably about as long as all the Kodi apps and such.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 9:50 am to CarRamrod
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and sooner or later it will be shut down.
Quick search shows this one in particular has been up for at least 3-4 years. I dont know the legalities, but I think they operate in other countries usually from what I have heard
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I want to see the hardware that is running this.
Not sure if on Reddit , but here is the guy. ask him LINK
There are a lot of these. This just happens to be the one my coworker just signed up for. He has fiber at his house and said no lag issues on his end for the few movies he has watched so far. I random sampled a few this morning and no issues here at my office on a Comcast line.
ETA, I found specs on another recommended share
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TitanMedia** | 300+ TB | 10Gbps | Movies 7000+ TV 1600+ | 4K | Anime | North America, EU | Automated Requests
* 6500+ HD movies
* 400+ 4K movies (covers everything available)
* 1660+ HD TV Shows | 113k+ episodes
* 65+ 4K TV Shows
* Sorted into various categories (Anime, Kids, Foreign, Documentaries, Netflix, Reality, Talk Shows, etc)
* New/ top Movies automatically added from watchlists
* New episodes downloaded instantly after airing
* Automated request system with unlimited requests
* Integrated with a CDN so routing shouldn't be an issue to most countries
* Many Foreign movies - China, India, France, Japan etc. Plan to expand into foreign media a lot.
**Server specs:**
* 300+ TB of media
* Dual Intel Xeon E5 - 40 threads
* 128GB ECC RAM
* 10 Gbps Connection
Plex: $12/month | $120/year | Limited Slots
Emby: $12/month | $120/year | Huge referral discounts available
This post was edited on 11/7/18 at 10:05 am
Posted on 11/7/18 at 10:11 am to NYCAuburn
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I dont know the legalities
oh it is illegal. they are selling a netflix services without paying for the right to these movies. Only thing that makes it somewhat interesting is that most of these servers are small potatoes. so no reason to go after them. Until they do get big enough. but with him only running a single dual xeon E5 setup he cant get too too big. I would like to see how cataloging as well. I wonder how many optimized copies of the videos he has.
and BTW i run my own server with about 30 people on it. I dont chagre to use it but i have had people donate when i have had Hardware issues. and i think some time son ill request my users to donate 10-20 bucks each for me to upgrade my storage. and when i have brought this up to my users everyone was happy about it.
This post was edited on 11/7/18 at 10:26 am
Posted on 11/7/18 at 10:42 am to CarRamrod
I can't believe this is a thing
Posted on 11/7/18 at 10:46 am to CarRamrod
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I would like to see how cataloging as well. I wonder how many optimized copies of the videos he has.
I am fairly new to all of this, but have been researching a decent amount. Are you talking about the content categories off to the left? are multiple copies needed if people are watching the same movie?
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and BTW i run my own server with about 30 people on it. I dont chagre to use it but i have had people donate when i have had Hardware issues. and i think some time son ill request my users to donate 10-20 bucks each for me to upgrade my storage. and when i have brought this up to my users everyone was happy about it.
I am just sharing off a friends right now and I get about 4-5 buffering episodes per movie right now, but he said he is transferring everything from the plex cloud to a server so its touchy right now. I have the Shield pro and a 10tb NAS server in my network, so I plan on building up a personal collection here once I get the rest of my cord cutting done around the house
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:04 am to NYCAuburn
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I am fairly new to all of this, but have been researching a decent amount. Are you talking about the content categories off to the left? are multiple copies needed if people are watching the same movie?
netflix = enterprise ready, designed to serve millions of users at the same time.
plex = consumer product, designed for a single user on their personal computer to play movies for a couple of people at the same time or shared with a friend or 2.
asking people to pay to access an app installed on a dusty computer in someone's basement in connecticut that is already serving 100 other people = LULz
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:13 am to CAD703X
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asking people to pay to access an app installed on a dusty computer in someone's basement in connecticut that is already serving 100 other people = LULz
As opposed to the alternatives? whatever. People are paying for the convenience of having the content ready to go and actual content that you want to watch, not mostly netflix originals. Ill admit there a few good originals, but overall streaming netflix sucks, content wise.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:22 am to NYCAuburn
quote:no
Are you talking about the content categories off to the left?
quote:to run smoothly, absolutely. to get by, no.
are multiple copies needed if people are watching the same movie?
say you have a REMUX copy of the movie. that is the uncompressed version of the movie. and you have a client running on your network that is capable of viewing that. NBD right? Correct, it will just stream the content.
Now, you have someone off network running a 10mbps internet speed that is shotty, plex wont send the full content to that person because of the buffering. So it will transcode it to a lower quality by compressing that 1080p movie to 420i with AAC audio. This takes CPU power. My unit can transcode somewhere around 8+ concurrent streams. Thats the max i have seen running at once. These dual Xeon servers can do like 30. I CANNOT transcode 4k down to 1080p.
so to get around this, you could creat optimized versions of movies. so youhave a 1080p version then a 480i version for the 2 players that will veiw the movie direct play. you can do this but it would take a ton of space. and be morecomplicaded than that. Because there isnt a standard compresion/container format.
video- mkv, m4p, avi, etc.
audio- aac, ac3, wav, alac
and each player supports different ones.
So you see it is more complicated once you start allowing people on your server.
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:24 am to NYCAuburn
quote:you are breaking the law just as if you were to rob someone. so yea.
As opposed to the alternatives? whatever.
quote:just like people who pay for heroin. it is illegal.
People are paying for the convenience
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:31 am to CarRamrod
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you are breaking the law just as if you were to rob someone. so yea.
So your plex server is 100% legal?
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:34 am to CarRamrod
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So you see it is more complicated once you start allowing people on your server.
from what I have seen, most of these people are fairly forthcoming as far as what they have and will tell you, so if truly interested, just ask them, as its over my head
If there is something I can see on my end through my co workers account I can check it out for you
Posted on 11/7/18 at 11:34 am to CAD703X
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asking people to pay to access an app installed on a dusty computer in someone's basement in connecticut that is already serving 100 other people = LULz
300+ TB of media
* Dual Intel Xeon E5 - 40 threads
* 128GB ECC RAM
* 10 Gbps Connection
I want that dusty computer and I don't have a basement.
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