by QGQBGdeZREunxLe 3 days ago
* IPTV support (xtream codes etc.) yes proxies exist like Dispatcharr but first class support would be better
* Better iOS/tvOS/OSX video playback (just buy Infuse because it can play so many titles the Plex player cannot)
* Add full context menus everywhere. Playlists are virtually useless for anything other than playback in order or randomly. Why can't I multi-select items on a playlist and move them to another playlist?
* Subtitle settings turn off between episodes
* Let me sort by file size so I can watch the disk gobbling files first
Thank God for python-plexapi and a bunch of scripts I use to organize an unwieldy library.
Subtitle settings turn off between episodes
you can enable global subtitles in settings.
Let me sort by file size so I can watch the disk gobbling files first
you can kinda deduce that if you sort by bitrate.
it sounds like you figured out a solution for yourself, already, but there's a lot of existing utilities like tinyMediaManager, WebTools-NG, Raddarr, Sonarr, etc. for doing media management. Plex is just a media server/player.
Adding to the list: postgres (or any real db) support. I’ve had to repair their SQLite db so many times. It’s so common they have a help guide on it too and folks have made automated scripts to do it for you.
How do they manage to get their sqlite database in such a state where it would need "repair"? how would psql fix this?
> or any real db
sqlite is literally the state of the art database. I suspect you mean "database server" or something
I'm guessing incomplete migrations or similar problems where stuff is just partially written, or out of sync. The Plex db is kinda complex under the hood.
> Subtitle settings turn off between episodes
There is actually a way to fix this! Log in and navigate to: https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account
On this page, scroll down past the Security section to Audio & Subtitle Settings under Settings, and edit the account-wide language settings there.
One caveat; any movies or shows you’ve already watched with subtitles not enabled will still have subtitles not enabled.
> * Let me sort by file size so I can watch the disk gobbling files first
Ackshually file size isn't it, it's the runtime / size ratio. A 3 hour 4k movie being 20GB is fine. A 45 minute tv show episode with 10GB+ file size isn't.
You can pretty much vibe code a tool to create a playlist sorted by that ratio from worst to best in a 30 minutes.
Highly recommend Infuse on Apple TV. Since I was running Plex on my NAS it would often be very buggy and slow with buffering. One day I got fed up and tried infuse, pointed it at the same network share, and bam- instant playback that worked consistently, and way better native controls for subtitles etc. I’m sure there are good reasons to use Plex, I did so for years, but honestly streaming has been so much easier since moving off it.