Changes to Plex Media Server – Mandatory Updates

Hello everyone,

Seems we can’t catch a break. Basically what happened was the maintenance performed last night went very well and quickly however a recent change interfered with the restoration of the Plex Media Server databases. To avoid data loss such as play progress we moved the database and removed the old one.

When Plex re-analyzed the media it pointed to where the codecs were on another version of Plex Media Server and when it couldn’t find them and went to download the correct ones it would fail as these codecs were no longer available for download.

See the following link to Plex.tv here.

So it seems that once you go past a certain point in versions you can’t really retrieve the necessary codecs and our last backed up versions of these codecs are incompatible with our current Plex version.

What does this mean for you? The load balancing script we use is currently not compatible with the newer versions of Plex Media Server so we’ll be running everything off the main server rather than all three for the time being.

I’m not concerned that it won’t be able to handle things but it will be doing a lot alone so let’s keep our eyes peeled and please notify me of any errors or issue you experience going forward for a while.

Thanks for your patience everyone,

LightSpeedTaco