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The Plex
2008 · Film · 95 min
AJ lives an unsatisfactory life as an usher at the local Multiplex Cinema working along side his best friend Zeke and his sexy, but power hungry girlfriend Katie. After AJ is unfairly fired he decides to get even with his old boss.
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there's 2 (or 3) broad groups of people who 'might' use plex. and it seems that neither group can understand the use case of the others which leads to massive confusion.
group 1: somebody just wants to watch a movie they've downloaded. They either double click the movie file and maybe connect with a hdmi to a tv. Advanced group one users might eve use a usb drive / stick and plug it into a TV for computerless playback. Usually only a single user, or users who don't mind doing it 'manually'
group2: has a 'collection' is concerned with the 'library' of content possibly has a nas or media pc that handles playback. Jelly fin works fine here, and these guys who haven't used plex DO NOT understand why people would use plex given all the objections. (i'm including you in this group, as 'the interface sucked' Possibly a technical user that wants more than just a directory of movie files. I'd say usually a solo user or a shared setup on family tvs within the same network.
group3: These are folk who may be technical, but don't want to waste time pfaffing with linux configs etc . The shit really hits the fan here because this group will also likely want to share their library with family and friends, and perhaps use apps on their TV/devices to access the content, from different places. Plex is AS EASY as netflix to setup in this way. You invite your users from within plex. They create a plex account for free and they download an app on their TV or tablet from the app store, Sign in, and start watching. It (your server) tracks users, progress, between devices and everything just works in a nice way, there is basically zero configuration required.
of course there's overlap and this is broad strokes, but I see these issues pop up on these discussion all the time . The comment above that said 'just use jellyfin' is like saying 'just use linux 15 years ago' is on the money. Jelly fin is cool, but it's needs heavy dose of polish and more TV apps. Half the TV's in my house don't have a jelly fin app but they do have a plex app . I don't even need to check what my freinds and family have, plex app availability is a given.
When I was in Germany - Capital One blocked access to my account unless I confirmed via SMS or tapping my card. Both of which I didn’t have with me.
Tunnelling into my home machine I was able to access the account and transfer money I needed.
Sure a VPN might be able to do this too but it’s nice being able to exit via a connection you control.
I can also watch Plex movies without exposing ports.
Honestly, I'd like to see the candidate's CV. This description seems off to me:
> I've got a lot of skills - video production, security, Linux, Mikrotiks, Ciscos, virtualization, cloud, domains, DNS, the list goes on and on.
Based on this gumbo of skills (why is there "video production?" And what does even "virtualization" and "cloud" mean in this context?), I would have 0 confidence in the candidate.
> My homelab is probably bigger than some businesses and it's taught me a lot. Even got an SD-WAN site to site VPN set up to my parent's house so they can watch movies off my home Plex server
This gives me a bit more confidence about the candidate, but setting up a VPN is not really a complex task. Is that all there is to the "big homelab?"
> With a fresh CCNA cert in hand, and a CompTIA Security+ to back it up, finding a network or security job should be no problem at all.
CCNA and CompTIA are junior-level certifications. Having a "Security+" cert means nothing if you have no experience in security to back it up.
I don't mean this negatively, but either OP is overestimating their abilities, or is vastly underselling them.
Writing a good CV is a skill... Learn it, or pay someone to do it for you.
I'm not sure I understand the first point. I am nearly 50, and still remember broadcast tv... so the idea that some tv shows ultimately derive revenue from advertising (sweeps month!) is not unfamiliar. But for a platform like Netflix where (hopefully?! dunno, I use Plex) revenue is ultimately derived from subscriptions, how should that be different? The writers don't give a shit about the original source of revenue, just that they get their cut.
Are residuals closely tied to how well the ad dollars flow? If someone buys a sitcom for re-runs, and the dish detergent manufacturers and Chrysler refuse to put ads on during those re-runs, do the writers get less (or no) residuals?
The path as an SE has many roads. I love your post, and I wish I were lucky enough to have had any of that along the path I took.
My first dev job came after mid-way through a PHP course in college. Prior to this, I had also completed courses in Java and C++. At $10/hr (boy was I desperate), I was hired on to replace the outgoing fullstack web dev (basically at an email advertisement spamming company).
I was supposed to "get up to speed" with my replacement within a couple weeks of being hired. It was unwritten and unspoken, but basically I was to become the ad agency's sole fullstack web developer. At the time, I knew zero front-end and the PHP that I did know was murky (5.x) at best.
I had no chance in learning enough to replace the then sole fullstack dev and quit because, I just wasn't ready at the time to absorb front-end web technologies in that short amount of time. Boss warned me that when I give a deadline for a project, it may as well be prophetic - however, I was scared sh1tless giving any kind of projection on any kind of project with me as the sole developer doing things I've never done before; it seemed to me to be absurd.
Fast forward a few years, I just couldn't land any programming/web job because my experience didn't line up with what was requested - even when I thought I was around 70%+ qualified. After a while, I got fed up with the esoteric requirements, even for junior positions. It's exhausting reading through countless job listings trying to find something that may fit. So, to this day, I just code for fun - like a locally hosted movie server that I prefer over Plex. Sorry for the ramble. I'm estranged by the industry in regards to hiring for junior positions.
> Speaking of which, how long before it won't be possible to host your own web server?
It's increasingly getting harder and harder. Recently I was trying to watch a TV show with my friends using a self-hosted Plex server, which was located in one of my friend's house, connected via a gigabit, albeit residential link. Another friend was using LTE internet at that time. He couldn't watch the show, because his connection was so slow, but when he did a speed test the download speed was good enough (100+ Mbit).
Turns out the mobile carrier was throttling connections to select IP ranges to about 1 Mbit (we tested that with a few other IPs). I reckon it was to cripple peer-to-peer protocols. So I guess it's a matter of time until you will be allowed only to connect to certain IP addresses owned by the biggest companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and nothing else.
Postgraphile - Automatically getting a graphql API from a Postgres connection is amazing.
Plex - We have munchkins and they love watching the same stuff off youtube or movies over and over. We simply download them and Plex will sync them to all of our devices with easy offline support. (We run it on a synology NAS)
If you have available vertical space, I've printed a "cooling case" that works great with my pi 3b+ without heatsinks. It's shaped like a flower vase(wide top, narrow bottom). The top is open(think of it like a large, open drinking cup), and the pi sits in the very bottom. Two funnel-shaped openings(large inlet, small outlet) allow outside airflow directly onto the CPU and wifi chips.
So far it works at full load without throttling for at least the time span of a full length movie(my use-case is a plex media server). The concept is that exhaust heat leaving through the larger opening up top is heated(and expanding) air. The depressurized vase pulls cooler ambient air in through the 2 funnels, which strike the CPU and wifi module for a poor-mans "active cooling", albeit at much lower speeds than a motor-driven fan could provide.
The downside is required vertical; the case is 8 inches tall. This is several times the vertical height of the board itself, so it's a bit of a non-starter for small embedded device use-cases. If you have space to spare though, it might be worth a shot depending on your use-case.
I'll be trying this out, it could work well with Cloud Torrent. I've largely moved away from Torrents tho and switched to using NZB's and apps that automatically download tv shows and films[0]
Here is my stack:
1. NZB downloader - NZBGet - http://nzbget.net/
2. TV Shows - Sonarr - https://sonarr.tv/
3. Films - CouchPotato - https://couchpota.to/
4. NZB Search - NZBHydra - https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra (I contribute to this project)
5. Plex - https://www.plex.tv/
Add Torrent support:
6. Client - rtorrent - https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/
7. Web Interface - ruTorrent (warning: PHP) - https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent
8. Proxy private trackers to XML-RPC - Jackett - https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
9. Cloud Torrent - web interface - https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent
Additional:
10. Plex stats, analytics and user management - PlexPy - https://github.com/JonnyWong16/plexpy
11. Plex request - allow users to request content - https://github.com/ngovil21/PlexRequestChannel.bundle
Hardware is a pair of HP Proliant Gen8 microservers, Ubuntu 14, Docker, nginx and LetsEncrypt. There is no real easy way to set this all up, you have to do each part of the stack yourself (a docker-compose file would go a long way to simplifying it)
[0] I spend over $200 a month on content subscriptions so I don't feel bad about utilizing the conveniance of NZB downloads + Plex
I have a HP N40L little 4 disk SMB server which runs ubuntu perfectly with all the tools you list along with RAID and a bit more power.
Instead of having XBMC I use plex a free (though the plexpass is so worth it) fork, which keeps a central library which clients then query, they have a client for everything (rpi, android, ios, windows, mac, linux), by far the best feature is that it remembers what point you were in movies and has a great web interface where you can watch anything - no installation of anything required. Also syncs content of your choosing to ipad or tablets/phones so when you hit the road you have all your shows you want at the correct quality and encoding - I freaking love it. If you have a good enough speed uplink you can also even watch remotely in your browser.
If you like XBMC - try Plex, it's worth a little look at...
edit: Also runs on Roku's too :)