Hello everyone, A along standing limitation to some of the systems, particularly those related to movie type media, prevented the system from automatically fulfilling requests for media that was not in English audio. Among other tweaks and improvements behind the scenes, I am pleased to now inform you that requests for media that is in a non-English language or in it’s original language will be considered active and searched for just like any other movie media. Currently, I am retroactively addressing some of the older requests that were stuck processing due to this limitation. Going forwards, new requests will be processed normally regardless of original film language. This has been a long standing requested feature (non-English film processing/fulfillment) but the main issue was that if the film was requested, and the viewer that ends up watching it isn’t able to understand the spoken language of the original film but still wishes to enjoy it. As new media is added, it is considered for matches towards several subtitle resources that attempt to locate and make available English subtitles for each film in real time. In summary, both platforms (Plex and Jellyfin) will going forward provide original language films and also automatically… Read More »Media – Now In Original Languages

Hello everyone, This post comes with a lot of thinking put behind it. It’s something I’ve been considering more and more as things change in the media server space. Initially, I started this project, as indicated by the sidebar on the left of this webpage, on May 5th, 2014. Having purchased my Plex Media Server Lifetime License for the cost of about $75 USD, in March of 2014. Fast forward to today. What might it cost? Now, this really doesn’t affect me or that status of the project because, fortunately, the Lifetime License I bought in 2014, has been honored as it should be and as advertised despite me having spent a fraction of the current day costs of the same license. That being said, this and prior changes to the Plex Pass included features as well as greatly increased the associated costs to new customers. To me, when this began, it felt like Plex has been losing sight of their original project goals and provide less and less support, clarity and reasoning for their changes particularly on the forums. If you have an issue related to money (billing) or a Legal communication to make with them. There’s a form… Read More »The Great Migration

Hello everyone, Subsequent to recent and steady growth of the user base and in an effort to cope with the system resource demands the come with peak usage times, there will be intermittent periods of server unavailability beginning November 1st, (better late than never I suppose) into November 2nd with an unlikely possibility of running into the 3rd, in order to accommodate the necessary downtime associated with the hardware reconfiguration and testing. Geeked up, playing Xbox all day – Juicy J, May 2011 Up until this point in the project, we have utilized exclusively CPU based means for transcoding media for playback. Why? Well, primarily because over the various iterations of hardware that have been subject to use and abuse in the name of digital entertainment for this project, CPU’s, more specifically CPU cores, were/are plentiful and affordable. Given the reasonably small user base that only saw peak CPU usage around 40% of the current server’s total potential or roughly one of the two physical CPU’s present in the server, there was no need for faster, denser processing chips, let alone a (back then) bank breaking GPU to take advantage of a then newly implemented feature in an early access… Read More »At Long Last – Precious Hardware Acceleration

Hello everyone, It’s short notice but rather important to get taken care of and I figured before the weekend would be best. Early in the morning of the 30th of May, 2025, there will be a few hours of downtime while the array is backed up for image transfer once the new larger drives have been initialized in their new array. Subsequently, later that same day in the early afternoon or morning, there will be another few hours of downtime while the disk image is restored and the array is fully initialized. Estimates have it between the following times… First Outage Window – 2:00 AM EST to 5:00 AM EST Second Outage Window – 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM EST These are tentative but there will be downtime on the 30th regardless. This is to ensure that our growing community has it’s hardware demands met and can continue to function nominally and without unexpected disruption. Thank you for your understanding. -LST