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Rip Blu-ray to Drobo 5N NAS for Plex Streaming

Camille Wesley — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:24:30 +0000

Plex is designed to organize all of your personal media so you can enjoy it no matter where you are. When you store all you media in a Drobo 5N NAS (Plex supported other NAS), you will stream media on Plex via Drobo 5N NAS no matter worry about the storage space. If you can convert Blu-ray to Plex supported format video, you also can put Blu-ray rips to Drobo 5N NAS then stream through Plex.

Thus, converting Blu-ray to Plex is easy with Blu-ray ripping tool. Here, Pavtube ByteCopy <review> is recommended stronly cause it is professional, fast and easy to use for common people. It can rip all the newest and region-locked Blu-ray to Plex supported format with original video quality. Recently, Pavtube ByteCopy has upgraded to support Blu-ray new MKB v62 encryption. In addition, it can extract subtitle from Blu-ray and move over all contents from Blu-ray disc with all audio/subtitle tracks and chapter markers in lossless MKV.

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How to Rip Blu-ray to Drobo 5N NAS for Plex?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

Run Pavtube Top Blu-ray Ripper for plex and Insert the Blu-ray disc you want to rip into your hard drive and run the program. Then load your Blu-ray movies to it for converting. As you can see, loaded files will be displayed on the left item bar and you can select your preferred audio track, subtitle, etc. ISO, IFO and DVD folder are also well supported.

Similar Seach: H.265 to Plex | ISO to Plex | MKV to Plex

Step 2: Choose output format

Click Format bar and choose “H.264 HD Video(*.mp4)” from HD Video, which can be recognized by Plex, TV, tablet, mobile phones well. If you want lossless quality, you also can choose to rip Blu-ray to lossless MKV for Plex. Just choose lossless MKV format from "Multi-track" catelog.

Tips. Click the Setting icon to have the Profile settings box. In the setting interface, you are allowed to adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel to optimize the output file quality.

Step 3: Finish the Blu-ray ripping process

Click the button “Convert” on bottom right to get down to ripping Blu-ray to Plex.

And after conversion, you’ll get the converted Blu-ray rips. Then you can transfer the BLu-ray backups to Drobo 5N NAS and install Plex on it. Finally, you can stream the Blu-ray movies from NAS on HD TV via Plex.

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Copy Region 2 DVD to Plex in Multi-track MKV

Camille Wesley — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 06:27:04 +0000

Media Servers are all the rage lately. While streaming services like Netflix and Hulu give you easy access to TV and movies at home or on the go, they don’t have DVD quality video and audio. Fortunately, there are options like Plex, which provide playback for your DVDs in their original quality. But Plex can’t recognise any region DVD. For example, your region 2 DVD can’t be played on Plex with Region 1 DVD Player. So today, we’re going to walk you through how to rip region 2 DVDs to Plex in muti-track MKV.

To decrypt region 2 DVD to multi-track MKV for Plex, you need a DVD to lossless MKV converter to keep the complete DVD movie in a single file, including many audio, video and subtitles streams and DVD chapters. Searching for best DVD to MKV converter in Google, Pavtube ByteCopy and MakeMKV is strongly recommended cause many DVD Ripper applications can convert DVD to MKV, but not each DVD Ripper can remove DVD region codes and keep multi-track option to include the sub-title stream in MKV container. After compared MakeMKV and ByteCopy, we finally choosed Pavtube ByteCopy for the following reasons:

Reasons to Choose ByteCopy to Rip Region 2 DVD to Plex in Multi-track MKV

– Convert region 6, region 5, region 4, region 3, region 2, etc DVD to Plex.

– Rip PAL and NTSC DVD to Plex.

– Remove DVD encryption including CSS, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, Disney x-project DRM, etc.

– Copy DVD disc, DVD ISO to lossless/uncompress MKV with all chapters for Plex streaming.

– Backup DVD to encoded MP4/MOV with multiple sub/audio tracks for Plex.

– Rip TV Series DVD to Episodes for Plex.

If you are using a Mac computer, please use the equivalent Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac and the reasons to choose ByteCopy for Mac.

Steps to Rip Region 2 DVD to Plex in Multi-track MKV

Step 1: Load DVD videos

Launch this DVD to MKV Converter and then click “File” > “Load from disc” to load the region 2 DVD files you want to rip. As you can see, Blu-ray/DVD disc, BD/DVD folder, ISO/IFO files are also supported.

Step 2. Choose MKV format

Choose MKV format as output, here “Format > Multi-track Video > Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)” is recomended for you. And the audio tracks, subtitles streams, and chapters preserved in the MKV container are available to select at will during playback with Plex.

You may also interested in: H.265 to Plex | MKV to Plex | AVI to Plex

Tip: There is a “Settings” option, which allows you to make adjustments on your audio, video, subtitles. It’s worth mentioning that, by default, all audio & subtitles tracks in a source file are checked to be saved in the MKV container, if there are some tracks you don’t like, you can click Settings button and go to Multi-task Settings window to uncheck and remove them under Audio tab and Subtitle tab.

Note: To do DVD to MKV conversion without re encoding, don’t change audio parameters under “Encode” option, otherwise you will get a encoded multi-track MKV file, not lossless multi-track MKV and recoding ISO to MKV will take a little more time for conversion than lossless output.

Step 3. Start ripping DVD to MKV with multiple tracks for Plex

Click “Convert” button to start to remux DVD files to Plex. The conversion only take a few minutes, after it’s done. Click “Open” button, you will get the converted movie file.

You can add DVD rips into Plex server to play on Roku. If your DVD collection is too large, you also can store your DVD copy onto My Cloud EX4, QNAP TS-X53, WD My Passport Pro, ReadyNAS Pro 6, etc for Plex streaming.

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Does Plex support H.265/HEVC Video?

Camille Wesley — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:31:03 +0000

More and more people are getting to know H.265/HEVC video. The H.265 video quality is fantastic and comparing with H.264 video, 50% bit rate savings verified. But many people rely on Plex to stream video. So they worry that Plex can’t transcode H.265/HEVC video and there are indeed many H.265/HEVC video playback issues on Plex:

"When I try and play a video that is h.265 on Plex seems to be a .05 second pause every half a second or so. My computer is connected with ethernet and the cpu is more powerful than the one that is in my server that transcodes it fine. So not sure what the problem is."

"Is there any Synology NAS that supports proper h.265 playback (atleast 1080p) through Plex? I’ve seen DS216j has h.265 hardware but Plex doesn’t seem to support it(?)."

"I’m wondering how HEVC is working on plex currently, particularly is streamed through a roku 3. I’m considering making future movie backups in HEVC, but don’t want to begin until plex support is 100%."

Actually, H.265 support depends on the client you are using and not the Plex server. For example, if your TV has h.265 support, then in most cases you will be able to Direct Play H.265. It is verified that when streaming H.265/HEVC video to Roku Stick, Vizio App and a GoogleTV, Plex does transcode every time right now, however the hardware doesn’t support it, and it does make your PC work harder during the transcode. That’s why many people get video choppy when streaming HEVC video on Plex. To directly play H.265/HEVC video on Plex on Roku/TV without any hassle and fast, the best way is to transcode H.265 video to H.264 video with some third-party tool.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is the highly recommended for transcoding H.265/HEVC video source for Plex. It is one of the firsts to provide an H.265 encoder/decoder for Windows and it ranks top on the H.265 converter application list. With it, you can convert H.265 to H.264 MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, MPG, FLV, M4V as Plex supported formats as with several mouse clicks as well as create H.265 video from non-H.265 videos.

This video converter also can offer you these solutions: MKV to Plex, Blu-ray to Plex, DVD to Plex, AVI to Plex, ISO to Plex, etc.

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How to Convert H.265 to play in Plex?

Step 1. Add H.265 videos

Run H.265 Converter program, go to the menu bar, select “File” button to select the H.265 files you want to import. You can also directly drag the video files to the program for conversion. It supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at a time.

Step 2. Choose output format for Plex

Click on “Format” bar, select any format you need from the drop-down profile list. You can choose regular video formats like MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, etc. from Common Video. Or choose format from “HD Video” to get 1080p output. It suitable for Plex. If you would like to enjoy movies from Plex to your mobile phone and tablet like iPad, you can select a decent format like “iPad > iPad HD Video(*.mp4)” from the profile list comes with the software. Learn Plex Supported format

Tip:

1. Before conversion, you can go to the “Settings” to set the parameters for your movie. To compress the file size, adjust the parameters to be smaller. Learn best settings for Plex.

2. Click Edit button and you can trim, crop or adjust the video with the built-in video editor to get the very part and effect of yoru original H.265 video as you want.

Step 3: Start H.265 Video conversion

When everything is done, click Convert icon to start transcoding H.265 files.

Once you’ve liberated your movie library on Plex, you’ll make it available for viewing on Roku and HDTV freely anytime. Read >> Plex Alternatives and Similar Media Server

H.265 vs H.264: Differences between H.265 and H.264

In general, H.265 has several big advantages over H.264, including better compression, delicate image and bandwidth saving. For more detailed differences, please read H.265 vs H.264 comparison table.

	H.265/HEVC	H.264/AVC
Names	MPEG-H, HEVC, Part 2	MPEG 4 Part 10, AVC
Approved date	2013	2003
Progression	Successor to H.264/AVC	Successor to MPEG-2 Part
Key improvement	* 40-50% bit rate reduction compared with H.264 at the same visual quality * It is likely to implement Ultra HD, 2K, 4K for Broadcast and Online (OTT)	* 40-50% bit rate reduction compared with MPEG-2 Part * Available to deliver HD sources for Broadcast and Online
Support up to 8K	Yes	No. Support up to 4K.
Support up to 300 fps	Yes	No. support up to 59.94 fps only.

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ByteCopy for Windows <review>– It can rip Blu-ray/DVD to lossless MKV keeping multi-track subtile/audio and all chapter markers for Plex Server.

BDMagic for Windows <review>– The best Blu-ray solution to rip and backup any commercial and region-locked Blu-ray to Plex Server.

DVDAid for Windows <review>– Capacity of ripping copy-protected DVD to Plex Media Server for playback with suitable format.

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Plex Alternatives and Similar Media Server

Camille Wesley — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 05:58:40 +0000

Plex can make you stream your massive TV/movie collection from computer to elsewhere. It is easy and simple enough for some people who are not proficient in complicated things. But the mobile apps aren’t free. You have to pay if you want to stream from your PC to your mobile device. So you maybe need a free Plex-like media server app or even a complicated way of being able to stream your video collection to remote devices over the WAN.

Here we gathered some alternatives to Plex to help you enjoy media conveniently.

You maybe also interested in the solutions: MKV to Plex, Blu-ray to Plex, DVD to Plex, AVI to Plex, ISO to Plex, etc.

Top 5 Plex Alternatives and Similar Media Server

#1: Emby

Emby, formerly Media Browser, is a media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use interface. Emby prides itself on delivering a fast, intuitive, media rich experience for the whole family.

Read: Backup Blu-ray Collection to Emby Media Server

#2: Universal Media Server

Universal Media Server is a media server capable of serving videos, audio and images to any DLNA-capable device. It supports any device capable of DLNA and runs on all major operating systems: Windows, OS X and Linux. It streams to many devices including PS3, Xbox One and 360, many TVs (Samsung, Panasonic, Sony, Vizio, LG, Philips, Sharp), smart phones (iPhone, Android, etc.), Blu-ray players, and more.

Learn >> Stream BD 3D Backup/ISO via Universal Media Server

#3: PS3 Media Server

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server for the PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It is backed up with the Mplayer or FFmpeg packages.

It features no codec packs to install, no folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing, all your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there is an automatic refresh, and real-time video transcoding via MEncoder.

#4: Serviio

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network. Serviio works with many devices from your connected home (TV, Playstation 3, XBox 360, smart phones, tablets, etc.). It supports profiles for particular devices so that it can be tuned to maximise the device’s potential and/or minimize lack of media format playback support (via transcoding).

#5: KooRaRoo

KooRaRoo Media Server allows you to enjoy your movies, music and photos on a wide range of devices in your home, including modern TVs, Blu-Ray players (BDPs), games consoles (PS3 and XBox360), mobile tablets, smart phones and dedicated media players that support DLNA.

Comparison of Some Media Server

	Universal Media Server	PS3 Media Server	Serviio	KooRaRoo	Plex
Web interface A web interface so it supports even devices without DLNA support	Yes	No	Partial1	Yes	Yes
Automatic bitrate adjustment Automatically changes video bitrate based on your network speed	Yes	No	Yes	No	?
Automatic maximum quality 100% video and audio quality is maintained when possible by muxing – not transcoding – compatible files.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	?
Instant browsing View your files without having to wait for the folders to be scanned, which can take minutes or hours with large libraries.	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Subtitles on all devices When your device does not support the subtitle format in the video, we add it to the video stream to allow you to view them anyway.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
DTS support Pass along full quality DTS instead of downmixing it to another format.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Live subtitles from OpenSubtitles If you don’t have the subtitles for your file, UMS will download and add them for you via options on your device.	Yes	No	No	No	No
H.264 transcoding H.264 transcoding achieves the same quality as the traditional codec MPEG-2 with much lower filesize, making it a good option for wireless networks.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free UMS is and will always be free.	Yes	Yes	Partial2	No	Partial2
True Motion (frame interpolation) This takes regular framerates, usually 24fps or 25fps, and adds frames in between to make the motion smoother and more realistic. This is done using InterFrame, which is an AviSynth plugin that uses SVP libraries.	Yes	No	No	No	No
Overscan compensation If your TV has overscan – which means it cuts off the edges of videos – we can compensate so you see the whole video. Many people watch with overscan and never realize what they are missing.	Yes	Partial 3	No	No	No
Automatic plugin download/install Download and install plugins automatically.	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Unlimited folders on PS3 & Xbox PS3 and Xbox 360 can only display a limited number of folders, but we work around that.	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
AviSynth support AviSynth is a powerful and flexible video and audio serving program.	Yes	Partial4	No	No	No
iTunes support Browse your iTunes library by playlist, artist, album and genre.	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
Renderer search support We support renderers with search capability.	Yes	No	?	?	?
Maximum network bandwidth setting This allows you to set the speed of your network to ensure smooth playing.	Yes	Partial5	No	No	No
DVD support We support playing DVDs whether they are in your DVD drive or on your hard drive.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Archive support Support for browsing archives like ZIP, RAR, GZ, etc.	Yes	Partial	No	?	?
3D SBS video support Most if not all renderers do not support receiving full 3D SBS video over a network, but we work around that.	Yes	Partial	No	?	Yes
High-quality video thumbnails Display the maximum quality and resolution thumbnails that your device can take.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

1 Available as a paid plugin
2 Free and paid editions exist
3 No subtitle position correction
4 No multithreading support
5 Not as accurate as the UMS one

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ByteCopy for Windows/Mac– It can rip Blu-ray/DVD to lossless MKV keeping multi-track subtile/audio and all chapter markers for Media Server.

BDMagic for Windows/Mac– The best Blu-ray solution to rip and backup any commercial and region-locked Blu-ray to Media Server.

DVDAid for Windows/Mac– Capacity of ripping copy-protected and homemade DVD to Media Server for playback with suitable format.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac– Function of converting Blu-ray/DVD, 4K/SD/HD video in any format to play on Media Server.

Pavtube ChewTunes– Record, convert both DRM-ed and non-DRM video and music to all popular video/audio formats in order to ensure free playback on Media Server for better viewing experience.

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How to Play ISO on Plex?

Camille Wesley — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 05:41:01 +0000

Files such as ISO or IMG and folder structures such as VIDEO_TS or BDMV are generally referred to as “disk image” formats. Such formats are not supported in Plex. Simply put, these formats just don’t fit into the idea behind the Plex ecosystem. Many people don’t know this reason so they just wondered why they can’t play ISO image with Plex:

Q 1: “I’m specifically asking in regards to a BluRay or DVD rip, but the same question could be asked of CD’s as well… Rather than rip individual tracks or videos from a CD or DVD, can Plex server read an ISO and present it to the client complete with the DVD menus?”

Q 2: “I have searched the forum but can’t seem to find a definative answer – can Plex for Roku play iso files”

Q 3: “I know Plex doesn’t support ISO playback but am wondering with the release of the ATV4 does ISO playback work? I am currently using an ATV2 jailbroken for ISO playback. Just wondering whether anyone has tried to play an ISO using the new Plex app on an ATV4?”

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Since the ISO image formats isn’t supported, which means the clients don’t support it either, we recommend that users can convert ISO files into Plex friendly and compatible media formats. There are many formats and tools available. Some can retain full quality of the original video or others could greatly compress the filesize with nearly no noticeable visual (or audio) quality loss, like Pavtube ByteCopy.

Using Pavtube ByteCopy, you can enjoy the full resolution of ISO in a MKV container as it straight rips the video/audio streams into the container without any modifications. This software not only can convert ISO to Plex supported video format keeping the original video quality but also can convert Blu-ray/BDMV/DVD/IFO/Video_TS to Plex and other regular video formats, including AVI, MOV, M4V, WMV, MPG, 3GP, FLV, F4V, etc.

Learn >> Why choose Pavtube ByteCopy?

Get the ISO converter and follow the tips to finish your conversion.

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How to convert ISO to Plex playable format?

Step 1: Import ISO image file

Run the ISO to Plex converter on your computer. Click “File” > “Load IFO/ISO” to add ISO images to this software. This app supports batch conversion so you can add more than one ISO images at a time.

Step 2. Choose lossless format.

Click “Format” list and select “Multi-track Video>Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*.mkv)” as below. This format can keep the lossless video quality, multiple subtitle streams and audio tracks and all chapter markers.

Tip: With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original ISO while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality. Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset.

Step 3: Start converting ISO to Plex

Click the “Convert” button to let the program start the ISO to Plex MKV conversion. It may take a while for the whole conversion process. When it completes, click “Open” to quickly find the converted movies.

Now, Plex will recognize, catalog, play and stream these converted ISO files at ease.

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Plex Problems and Solutions

Camille Wesley — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 03:59:54 +0000

Plex organizes your video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your screens. Plex is now available on PS4, Xbox One, Apple TV 4, Roku, HD TV, Tivo, etc. You also can install Plex on your NAS to make your home theater more wonderful. NAS compatible list>. Plex can transcode nearly all video files to make you stream video on TV. But Plex still has flaws, Plex can’t play Blu-ray/DVD, Plex stutters while playing MKV, Plex doesn’t play ISO, Plex transcodes “down” 4K to 1080p on Vizio TV, etc.

Plex is not powerful enough to deal with anything you throw at it. Throughout Plex forum and Reddit, questions about video playback with Plex are asked all the time. Here let’s list the FAQ on Plex and collect the best solution to Plex video playback problems.

Question 1: “I just installed the PLEX app on my ATV4! Very excited. I’m trying to convert all my blurays to digital files I can access easily.” – from macrumors.com

Ripping and backing up Blu-ray to Plex gives you the access to Blu-ray movies on Apple TV 4 without using discs and heavy Blu-ray player. You don’t worry about the scratch and damage on the discs any longer.

Professional Guide: Rip Blu-Ray To Plex Server To Set Up Home Theater

Question 2: “I am very much a beginner so any help would be greatly appreciated. My overall goal is to be able to rip my DVDs and not lose any quality and to maintain the menu structure on both. Storage is not a problem at all” – from forums.plex.tv

Circumventing copy protection and shift format won’t satisfy people nowadays. They want the original video quality. So how to rip DVD to Plex without qulality loss and stream DVD movies with Plex on ATV, PS3/PS4, Roku?

Related Guides:
How To Play DVD On Apple TV 4 Via Plex Channel?
Backup DVD To Plex For Watching On Tablet/Laptop/Mobile

Question 3: “I have a question – i have a full bluray movie in the format of an ISO file. it’s about 45 Giga in size. Is there any way PMS can play the movie? i don’t mind if there will be no menus and ect. just playing the movie itself and enjoy the full resolution the bluray offers ” – from forums.plex.tv

Files such as ISO or IMG and folder structures such as VIDEO_TS or BDMV are generally referred to as “disk image” formats because they’re basically “cloning” the structure and content from a DVD or Blu-Ray optical disc. Such formats are not supported in Plex. Since these disk image formats aren’t supported, if you want to play ISO with Plex, we recommend that you convert such content into more common and compatible media formats.

Tutorial:
Rip a DVD ISO to MKV for streaming via Plex with multi audio tracks
Play Blu-ray/DVD ISO on Apple TV 3 through Plex server

Question 4: “With the recent introduction of Chromecast for Plex to the general public, I want to play a show I downloaded online which is in .mkv format. The thing is, the mkv file does not show up on my dashboard/tablet app. The mp4 files I currently have show up with no problem. What are the steps I need to take for the mkv files to show up on the list? ” – from forums.plex.tv

I have noticed very rarely plex just doesn’t recognize files. It’s probably just the way it is encoded. You can try to fix this issue by renaming the file with only the movie title since maybe the whole file names are not being recognized by Plex. For example, if your mkv videos are all Sports videos so the names were kind of random. To solve it, you should set your ‘Scanner’ as ‘Personal Video Files Scanner’ and ‘Agent’ as ‘Personal Media’. Plex picks up pretty much any file with that setting.

If the problem is caused by the MKV codec (MKV is a container that maybe contain many different codecs), you can try to convert MKV to MP4 for Plex.

MKV to Plex guide: Convert MKV to Plex Media Server with Suitable format

Question 5: “ I have ever downloaded some TV shows from TiVo and want to stream them via Plex for playback? Looking for a software program that will convert TiVo shows to Plex Media Server compatible file type ” – from reddit

Plex comes to TiVo on June 8th 2015 to makes it possible to stream your own media, and a lot of other content, to your TiVo device. But if you do need to convert your downloaded Tivo videos to Plex, I also can give you a detailed guide.

Read here: Plex Tivo Shows Workaround – Importing Tivo files to Plex

Question 6: “I finally sorted out all my media on the weekend and I’m running Plex to be able to watch my stuff on my Samsung TV using smart hub. I really have no idea in terms of the tech side of running media servers, and can only assume I have something wrong in the settings. MP4 and MKV files work perfectly, but avi will not play.” – from forums.plex.tv

Plex supports mpeg4, msmpeg4, mjpeg AVI. If your AVI is not encoded with this codec, your Plex won’t play it.

Read: Can I get AVI working with Plex to watch on my Samsung TV?

Question 7: “ I want to be able to download a movie (from iTunes or other place) on my PC and then connect it to my Sony Bravia TV via Plex Media Server (I have the cables) to watch on the bigger screen rather than the 13″ screen. iTunes tells me that I can only watch it one device at a time. Is there a way around this. Is another rental place better. Do I need to have the apple TV box instead of Plex or similar? Thanks.” – from forums.plex.tv

It’s impossible to watch the iTunes movies/TV shows on Sony TV directly. We have to use an Apple TV or get rid of the annoying iTunes DRM protection.

Related Guide: Play iTunes Purchased/Rented Movie/TV Show on Sony Bravia TV via Plex

Question 8: “Now that I’m set up I want to start ripping my personal collection of DVDs. I am planning on using Handbrake unless otherwise told. What settings in Handbrake will yield the best results for my DVDs to be view on my TV via a Samsung Blu-Ray player? I can use either AllShare or the Plex client.” – from forums.plex.tv

Professional guide: Best Settings for Handbrake video converting to play in Plex

Question 9: Want to play BDMV folder? Read Play BDMV folder on HTPC via Plex Media Server

Question 10: Don’t know clearly what formats Plex support after all? Read What Media Formats are Supported by Plex Media Server and How to Use It?

Question 11: First use Plex so don’t know how to add movies to Plex library. Read Add Movies to Plex to Make Your Media Experience Easy and Enjoyable

Learn >> Other Plex Problems and Solutions

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Convert MKV to Plex Media Server with Suitable format

Camille Wesley — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 04:09:28 +0000

Although MKV offers a richer media experience than any other current format With the features such as alternate audio tracks, multilingual subtitles and chapter points. However, it is not welcomed by Plex Media Sever. In Plex official site, it said that Plex for PlayStation app does not currently support Direct Playing of MKV container videos. That’s why so many people have MKV on Plex playback issue on Reddit.

According to Plex media server supported format, if you want to play your local MKV file on Plex, you’d better convert MVK to MP4. And for Direct Streaming, you also need to keep this MP4 video with AAC audio and 20Mbps or lower bitrate. This need your MKV Converter has the ability of allowing consumers to adjust the video parameters.

Considering the features of easy-to-use and economy, I recommend Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. It is powerful enough to convert any MKV file to Plex supported MP4, AVI, MOV, etc and enables you to change video size, bitrate, codec, frame rate and audio sample rate, channel, etc. Its intuitive interface can make you know the next step clearly. The most important is that it now is only for $45.5 – the cheapest price for a Video Converter Ultimate product since Pavtube is offering Cyber Monday Coupon.

Its Mac verison Pavtube iMedia Converter Ultimate is much cheaper in Pavtube Thanksgiving & Black Friday & Cyber Monday Coupon. It supports El Capitan system so you can convert MKV to Plex Media server on mac OS X El Capitan without any issue.

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How to convert MKV to Plex Media Server with just 3 clicks?

Step 1: Add MKV file

Click “File” to load your MKV file to this app. It supports batch conversion so you can add more one file at a time. And you can choose your wanted subtitle and audio in the chapter list.

Step 2: Choose target format

Press “Format” icon. In the drop-down list, you can see many profiles. Find your target format in “HD Video” or “Common Video”. I suggest MP4 format so you can choose HD MP4 or “H.264 High profile MP4”.

Tip: If you are not sure the output video parameters, you can click “Settings”. Reset the audio codec to AAC and video bitrate to 20Mbps or lower. You can preview the video size and parameters at the below chart.

Step 3: Start to convert MKV to Plex

Simply hit “Convert” at the bottom right corner to start to convert MKV to MP4 for Plex. Once the conversion ends, open the output folder to locate the video.

Plex enables you to share movies on TV, PS3, Xbox One, Android, iOS, and other DLNA-certified devices locally via home network connection, or remotely, as long as you have a Internet connection. So now, you can play this MKV file via Plex on your various multimedia players.

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How to Rip TV Series DVD to Episodes for Plex?

Camille Wesley — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 04:37:39 +0000

Plex Media Server allows you to store all your movies on a central server and watch them on your TV, iPad, computer or phones both home and away. This feature even makes people rip their DVD series to Plex in different episodes so that they can watch each chapter in their space time. The point here is, which tool is the best to rip Series DVD to episodes for Plex? Handbrake? Or another DVD ripper?

If you’ve searched and found varying thoughts over a long period of time, you folks would find that Handbrake is not the latest/best way to backup DVD series to episodes for Plex. Handbrake is a open-source program, which doesn’t have enough fund and labor to support it update to be compatible with each computer operating system upgrade. This easily leads to breakdown issue while ripping DVD to Plex on Windows 10 or Mac OS X El Capitan. Besides this disadvantage, it can’t work in copy-protected DVD. Comparing to Handbrake, although Pavtube DVDAid is a paid one, it can perform well in DVD Series to Plex ripping aspect.

Hot search: iTunes to Plex | Blu-ray to Plex

This DVD Series to Plex ripper can copy any copy-protected, even region-locked DVD to Plex supported format with excellent video quality. On Windows, you can get 6X times DVD ripping speed by H.264 codec which can make you rip more DVD TV series to Plex than Handbrake in the same time period. What’s more, you are allowed to adjust video/audio bitrate, size, frame rate, channel in “Settings”. You can learn more about it in review.

Mac version is here which has updated to support OS X El Capitan.

Free download and install:

Other Download:
– Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/dvd_ripper/
– Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-DVDAid/3000-7970_4-76158510.html

How to Rip TV Series DVD to Episodes for Plex?

Step 1: Add the DVD TV Series

Insert your DVD disc to the drive, then launch the DVD TV Series to Plex Ripper and click the “Load Disc” button to select and load the DVD TV Series to the app. This program will automatically choose the main title of the DVD TV Series disc. If you want to rip DVD to different episodes, you can tick each chapter instead of the whole DVD main title.

Tips: You can click on the dropdown list of “Subtitles” to select your needed subtitles so that you can view DVD movies with proper subtitles.

Step 2: Choose H.264 format

Click the “Profile” > “HD Video” option, and choose MP4 format recognized by Plex as output format. You can select H.264 HD Video (*.mp4) for Plex Media Server.

Tip: With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original DVD while also saving space. Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset.

Step 4: Start to rip TV Series DVD to Plex

Click the “Convert” button under the preview window, and the DVD ripper will start the conversion from TV Series DVD to Plex Media Server. This will take a while, depends on the encoding settings, hardware of your PC and the length of the DVD file.

Once the DVD ripping process ends successfully, locate the ripped DVD TV Series in the output folder. Now, you should drop the ripped DVD TV series file into Plex Media Server so that you can watch DVD TV Series via Plex media server on your smart TV, Apple TV, Xbox 360/One, Roku, computer tablets.

Knowledge Expansion: How to install Plex?

1.The Plex installation is straight forward on a Windows PC and there is no special tweaking needed. You must create a Plex account during the installation which is free. You must also tell Plex which folders contain your media.

2.The Plex sign-up screen is where you assign the server name:

3.This screen lets you assign your media folders:

5. You can configure Plex for Internet channels:

6.Plex adds meta information to your media which it gets from the Internet:

After installed the Plex successfully, now you can add ripped DVD TV Series to Plex Media Server. Then you can watch the TV Series on Plex whenever you are available.

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