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Here is how you activate Plex hardware transcoding on your TrueNAS box to offload your CPU and get those Plex videos to play butter smooth!
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This guide will go through how you setup youtube-dl to automatically download videos from your favorite Youtube channels to a Plex server running on TrueNAS.
Continue reading “Automatically download Youtube videos to Plex on TrueNAS using youtube-dl”TrueNAS includes a set of plugins that will configure a certain application in a jail, for instance Plex. It’s a really nice feature, it works and it’s easy to use. But for long term use the plugins tend to not work as well. I’ve seen issues keeping the jail up to date, both with the latest release of Plex but also with the latest release of FreeBSD. For long term use a custom jail is a better choice since you have much more control over it. Here I will show how you can migrate Plex already running as a plugin to a custom jail on TrueNAS.
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Plex is my platform of choice for streaming local media. It’s great for streaming my Blu-ray collection to any platform I use that have a Plex app on it. But not all platforms support direct playback of Blu-ray rips (mkv-files). I can still play it but the video needs to be transcoded by the Plex media server first to a format the player supports. That process can be quite intensive for an uncompressed Blu-ray. Continue reading “How to use integrated graphics for Plex transcoding”