What is going on here exactly?

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Plex Transcoder Error Help

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Xbox One has just started throwing up these errors. I’ll post more data below but IOS and Windows clients are fine

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OMG!! Loving ErsatzTV in Plex!

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Plex on Shield (Google TV) Duplicate Entries on 'Play Next'

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Upgrade day!

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Sorry we are having problems connecting to our servers. Please try again.

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What'd i miss?

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An issue I've started encountering recently. The release year for albums keeps being pushed back to one year earlier.

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Any ideas why Plex isn't picking up the metadata for episodes 2-7 here? The files are named the same way as all the others, and all the info is there on TheTVDB. Not sure what to try

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After upgrading to the Premium account, I was pretty bummed out to discover I couldn't modify the home user icons the same way I can for the primary account. Any workarounds or a chance this could be changing soon?

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Plex not showing cast pictures on my setup, does on my parents

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Anyone else having a big night?

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Difficulty using PleX Remote Access through PIA VPN--what am I doing wrong?

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Me, deciding who I should give a plex account to after upgrading my upload speed.

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These dropdowns never work as intended :(

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Trying to play a tv show in work over 4g now its a 1080p file but it plays as 720p and gives the following reason. Does it mean 4g isnt good enough to play the file in 1080p ?

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Apple TV 4, 75mb/s down...no matter what I do, when I change home/internet streaming it reverts back to 4mbps 720phd every time. Please help.

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My Plex server will not detect this movie.

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Plex for Apple TV 4K won't play HEVC Direct Play but 3rd party Apple TV clients will?

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I felt like my 10 year old build was much more stable then this new build. Plex Pass member for what its worth. Plex just smoking the CPU through simple directplay of 1080. Had plex for over a decade, tried numerous settings for this one and still cant relieve the spikes. Any ideas?

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I never had setup collections till a component swap lost me my library and I had to start over. What a treat they are! Can't believe I only ever used Plex as the most basic file storing system prior to learning some of the ins and outs! It's perfect for a horror buff especially! I'm addicted to them

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Only 1 1080p stream, yet cpu keeps spiking.

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An intermittent issue, I know things are being watched. The server crashes shortly after and I have to restart Plex Server container. After I restart the container, I can see a few people start watching then it no longer shows me items being watched, but has bandwidth. Then it crashes again.

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Plex Music changed all my compilations' album artist field to Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite which is very odd. I wish they'd just support the compilation ID3 tag.

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This is just sad... I apparently have too many users that are stay at home moms!

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Does anyone know if there is a Discovery poster to match this series?

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unlimited GTX 980 transcodes (encoding only due to linux) with ubuntu

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Weird transcoding in Plex?

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My Star Wars collection is complete, in painful chronological order

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My Grafana dashboard - a work in progress!

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How to remove an old server thats not available anymore? Cant find a menu to delete it

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I only have one file for this movie, what is happening here? Appears on all Plex clients.

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When you see transcodes and you KNOW some of the devices and setups are capable of direct play...

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I tried to load up Plex media server this morning and this is all the information I have. Can someone please help?

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vSAN Cluster for Plex Redundancy

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I haven’t been able to to share my library with family or friends. Everytime I try I get this error and I’m at a loss of what to do. Any advice? This is completely annoying.

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Server is unclaimed and not secure!! Please Help...

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I was fiddling around in Plex Dash under server logs, and then this started streaming in. Has my server become sentient?

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No matter what I do, Plex won't recognize this series - Sonarr, TVDB and IMDB ID doesn't work? - This is a first for me and I don't know what to do.

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Plex, please take a page out of their book.

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Since when can we direct stream 4k movies to 1080p screens? This is great!

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What's your Plex 'Guilty Pleasure'? Mine is Adam Sandler Movies!

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Thank You to Everyone for Helping Me Put This Animation Collection Together!

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Finally finished my Plex server cabinet.

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Am I the only person who can't get the subtitle search to return any results on anything?

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Per-Collection Collapse Status is here!! (1.13.1.5063 Beta)

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Recently Added Episodes and Movies cause Tumbnails to Dissapear. Removing and re-adding the show does not fix.

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Plex using 100% cpu and automatically transcoding

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Was there an x265 update for Playstation?

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Fire TV Cube shows up as Majesty Pro LTE (a ZTE phone)

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breaking bad missing season 2 even though its named like all the other seasons

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Collection Posters/Backdrops

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Gravity appears to be broken in my on deck section.

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Is this the right way to let my local devices play if the internet is out?

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PLeX not working on my home network during internet outage anymore

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Anyone know why this happens every few seconds when watching on my iMac?

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Finally reached the 5k club for one of my libraries!

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Since the latest Plex Sync App Update Cannot find my Plex server

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It may not look like much, but it's providing entertainment for all my friends and family! Thanks for all the help I've gotten here!

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I know there are people with much larger libraries, but I'm particularly proud of this milestone.

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Did the latest server release have a requirement for >2 CPU's for transcoding?

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Nvidia RTX 4000 - 7 Plex 4k H.265 Transcodes and not even breaking a sweat. No buffering either.

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This is my most recent build. I'm in love 💕 (Bottom) Dell Poweredge R720 dual Xeon E5 Processors with 128Gb Ram, 1Tb M.2, 96Tb of Hard Drive in raid 10, 10G NIC. (Top) Dell Precision 3930 I9-9900K, 128Gb Ram, 1Tb M.2 10G NIC, dual Nivida Quadro P4000 in SLI. Unifi 48 Pro 10G switch.

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A little sneak peek of the pre-roll that'll be appearing before my movies!

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I'm always amazed by how well Plex can handle doing so many things at once. Ryzen 2600 sitting at about 60% usage, GTX 1050 at 20%.

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What are your server stats?

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Anyone else randomly having posters change to disc images?

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Why does it keep erroring out?

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A Better Various Artist Album Cover/Poster

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Will we ever see full Trakt integration for Plex?

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Why is it converting MKV to MP4? Haven't had this issue before. (2020 i3 MacBook Air)

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Why is plex storing every transcode it transcodes? Why not temporary store the transcode chunks in the ram? Because of this, my 250GB m2 for windows has 7GB left

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Would this make a good Plex server?

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Layout issue on AppleTV with lots of data. Cannot access all buttons.

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I see your Christmas Collection, and raise you my Christmas Library

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Help! This just started happening on some files. I moved my library to a different HD but the same drive letter. What can I do to fix this?

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Sometimes the auto matching can be hilarious

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Working on a Win10-themed Rainmeter widget

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Did they remove the option to remove something from your continue watching section?

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Having an error while attempting to accept invite to my server.

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Slack is a great alternative for Pushbullet.

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Well that took for f&#king EVER!

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Why does Plex do this?

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What do you do when you do Absolute Ordering but have 100 specials? Doesn't seem like you can actually get the meta data from any of the specials.

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What’s the best way to bring as much of these 100tb to Plex? Looking for economical options. I’m okay with Raid 5 and Windows. Suggestions?

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Star Wars Collection Poster, I am learning PS and taking requests

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Nvidia shield issues with accessing drives. other devices access content but Nvidia keeps failing despite being the server and having drives attached by usb! now it's not seeing episodes I've added new. anyone else had similar issues?

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Plex Media Server Download Page - Overhaul!

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A Fire TV Plex app review

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Super impressed with how well my little dual-core i3 is performing!

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Adding Advanced Ratings to Plex

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I finally set up Tatulli after it reset itself a while back. Went ahead and customized my newsletter, too! It used to be much fancier😓

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Plex new video player..... what does it actually add? I don’t notice any difference😂

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Picked a few of these up at Costco, I’ll be set for a while

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What does the exclamation mark on my user's Roku symbol when they are streaming mean?

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Should I move on with my covers or change design?

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Heads up, in case you haven’t seen: All synced files will be removed from your devices (iOS in screenshot) at the end of 2021 to force a move to the new downloads functionality.

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Had to wipe my server, I have all my played information in Trakt, how would I use the plugin to sync this information back down to Plex? These are my settings and so far after 12+ hours of waiting nothing has synced back down.

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Only preferences or quit on Plex Samsung

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First time setting up media server and I am lost

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Is there a way to keep users from transcoding audio?

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new plex server, migrating from my gaming rig

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Grid View now expands to Apple TV

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Help , im sharing my library and my cousin keeps getting this on his end what does he have to do or i , to fix this.?

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Plex's Twitter Funny Tweet - File Naming Conventions?

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Hotel blocks Netflix and Amazon Prime. Thank goodness for Plex on Roku!

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Anyone know why one of these can direct play using HDR and the other prompts HDR tone mapping?

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Well done Plex for not screwing over UK customers with Plex pass subscriptions.

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When people ask me what I accomplished in 2018...

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plex spikes cpu around 9 pm

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my somewhat crazy dual server setup

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Random episodes appearing in continue watching from shared library? Bug?

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Plex, go home you're drunk.

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Colour banding in Plex not in Infuse

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Does the Sonic Analysis normally take 6+ days of running? Still going...

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Plex performing transcode unnecessarily

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This error is new. Any ideas?

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Why can't we pinch to zoom on mobile devices with 18:9 aspect ratio

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Why won't it direct play? When I put the same file on a USB stick the TV plays it. Is that just not the way it works!

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I don't think this is compatible with Plex :D

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Anyone having this problem? My movies are streaming on my PC but not on my phone or TV?

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How do I get my openPHT to look like this?

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Can somebody explain why my server is transcoding this?

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That awkward moment when Plex thinks you downloaded some erotic anime....

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Is there any way to address Plex's ballooning file size? This is just the Plex data folder, no media included

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Which scanner and Agent do you prefer to use and why?

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Made a Plex wallpaper, thought I would share - 2560x1600

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Artwork randomly disappears and requires a PMS restart to resolve. Happens every one or two days.

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After updating Plex on macOS, it shows two grey bars at the bottom and the right of the video UI. What's up with that?

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Looks like the forum hacked data has now been released. Be on the lookout for phising e-mails.

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The episode names for only some of my tv shows is the file title and not the actual episode name. I have the file name correct (eg Cobra Kai (S04E01)), and many other tv shows display correctly. Anyone know why or how to fix?

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I keeping trying to play on original quality but it keeps going back to 480p....and at the same time an error comes up and says my server can't handle it

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Clicking an actor should take you to a list of movies they're in.

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Why are most of my background images showing up blurry? Doesn't change when I change the image. Only when i upload a high resolution image. This was normal before...

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Plexpy plain text/not loading CSS

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Not enough bandwidth? Dont know what setting was changed to cause this, anyone had this or seen before?

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Strange Filenames in Plex Directory on Synology NAS.

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For the last couple of weeks, Plex has been transcoding 1080p down to 720p on my LAN. Typically, everything Direct Play or Direct Streams with an occasional container transcode on the Roku but, never had it down scale like this. Any suggestions?

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I just paid for Plex Pass. Trying to play a synced video, and it gave me this error message. Am I doing something wrong?

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HDR Tone Mapping issue?

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Anyone know where I can get this poster for star wars collection?

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LG TV - Plex crashes/restart galore (vertical video warning)

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How Do You Change Search Back? It used to bring up a new screen, it doesn't anymore

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Plex and Private Internet Access (PIA) working together now!! Sorry if this is old news but I just found out about this yesterday and it's been working flawlessly! Technically, I think you only need to exclude Plex Media Server and not the player. I do have port forwarding set up on my router.

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People doing some last minute catching up.

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Plex transcoding 1080p content to 480p on Roku TV app. DirectPlay doesn't seem to be working either. Please let me know what other information is required.

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is this the page that is supposed to show when i access my plex server from the external IP? i thought it was supposed to show a login page

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