Using Plex Media Server to create 'NickFlix'

My personal digital media management journey has been going for two decades or more at this point, going all the way back to mp3's and ripping CDs in the 90s. But for TV shows and movies, the level of effort required is orders of magnitude more difficult and taxing than making a mixtape CD.

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[datacntrdude]

Do you manage your own digital entertainment media at home?

[albiss]

First time I've ever Liked and Sub'ed, within a few secs. There's something about you that just 'clicked' with me.
Thanks for this channel! :)

[RichardKenyan]

“Fun and Spicy” should be your caption for future videos 😂👌

[dannypoo]

I'm not really a mediaphile. I don't watch a ton of television or movies, but it can be frustrating when certain shows that I do like, that I watch frequently, are spread over 12 streaming services. The ability to buy the DVD's, Blu rays, or screen record where neither are available (Granite Flats) and put them on my own in-house streaming service has become too enticing to ignore. The ability to load in all my wife's old movies and our kids shows that we own is just icing on the cake. I'm currently buying, ripping, and converting as we speak.

[LizandraSilva_maopequena]

Dude, seriously, I have watched hundreds of videos about Plex and the best way to install it. HUNDREDS! But this is BY FAR the most upbeat and fun one to watch! You got yourself a subscriber! 😉
I'm just sorry there's nothing more about it in your channel. 😥

[rdsii]

I get where you are coming from, but I worship at the alter of Emby.

[glassman]

For me, docker inside an lxc … hosted on proxmox has been the way to go. No permissions issues to speak of, and in Linux, I feel like permissions issues are generally easy to solve. What’s been nice is that even on older hardware, I’m using barely any resources, and I’m still able to do cpu transcoding from within the Plex container. It all just works, and in fact, Plex gave me the least amount of issues when compared to some of my other containers. Pihole with unbound as a recursive dns server, as well as qbittorrent with OpenVPN built into the container are some of the ones that come to mind.

[ikkuranus]

My own media center journey started back on the og Xbox with yamp and xbox media player before they merged and eventually became Kodi. (Yes I'm aware there was several name changes in between that)

[kidsythe]

This title is exactly what I was looking for.

[lyingcorrectly]

I just got a used ultra-small form factor PC with a recent-ish Intel CPU for < 200 bucks on ebay, and use its QuickSync for HW transcoding. It works just fine, even with 4k as long as it's not more than 2 4k streams. Idle power consumption is < 10w so the monthly power bill is just ~5€. OS is Ubuntu server, storage for the ~10TB library is on a NAS but I use a dedicated local NVMe drive just for Plex metadata, so combined with 32GB of RAM all the thumbnails, etc. just load practically instantly.

[chrisumali]

thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[dylan_bishop]

This has been over a year, when are you likely to release a part 2 to this series?

[brianhecimovich]

Great video, have been (legally) building my movie collection slowly too 😅

[GeorgeDBates]

Just found your channel... many similarities. look forward to tuning in !

[JRJohnson]

Is there a way to 'rotate' or automatically change movie posters as you browse? Something similar to how Zune did on the Now Playing screen with album art rotating in the background.

[gabrielsanches]

I would recommend Unraid! Very friendly to manage drives, dockers and VMs

[donglobal]

my Plex setup now comprises two machines, a storage server running Truenas Core, and an application server running Ubuntu desktop with docker where Plex and other apps run.

[Mikey]

Bro... found your channell last night while going down the rabbit hole of using Plex with Windows, i really enjoyed this video. I liked and sub'd... We need a series on Plex man. I know ya have heard it before lol. I tuned my old gamer PC w/ AMD FX 8350 Asrock Killer 99fx killer mobo with 32 gigs of ram. ssd for boot drive & 4-6TB HDs managed with MS storage spaces with parity mode... and it works well. but i am ready to build a new PC for Plex only. Thinking later Gen Intel I7with Quicksync, not sure what mobo... I really want to use Windows because thats what i know. Anyways was hoping to see a series on this topic... Thansk for the video. Hope to see more...

[pboyer]

Great video!!! We have a very similar background in regards to you media library.

[glassman]

Curiously, how does the native transcoding on Plex compare to Emby/Jellyfin, etc.