Plex and media

[Ismael Duarte]

Hi All!
I've found this plugins much interesting but can't get it to work at 100% :(
My NAS as movies in several formats and audio (music)
Both have same owner and group and permissions.
No problem with audio files, I link from the jail to music dir and works like a charm
Not for videos, no mather what format, can't see a single video file to play!

Any ideias?

Thank you!

 

[Cosmo_Kramer]

Strange, when you SSH into your jail, are you able to view the video files from the command line?
If for some reason you changed your permissions on the mount point after the plex service started, it will sometimes require you to reboot the jail.

 

[Jeren]

I had a similar problem when I first set mine up; not sure if it's related but I had to add plex to the wheel group in the /etc/group file within the jail to give plex write privileges to make a temporary transcode file. Try using directplay and see if setting the "local quality" option under the Plex/Web tab in the Plex WebUI to 20 Mbps helps. I never ended up using log files, but I hear they're pretty useful. Not sure where they are on freenas though.

 

[Ismael Duarte]

Yes, all files are there. I can list them with ls command line
I've tried a lot of ways, even changing permissions to 777 and reboot NAS
There's no user plex to add to wheel group, how do I do that?
Most of files are m2ts, don't know if they're supported, but others are mkv, mp4, avi
Wierd is to make audio files to work I don't have to do anything.

 

[Jeren]

Let's see, here's what I did (not in front of my NAS atm so these are off the top of my head):

Code:

jls

to get the jail id. Whatever jail id plex_1 is under, do a

Code:

jexec number_goes_here csh

to login into that jail. Then, type

Code:

ee /etc/groups

to open the groups file. At the very bottom you should see an entry for plex. Cool. What you want to do is find whatever account is considered your main, with all the right permissions, mine is wheel. It should look like

Code:

wheel:*:something_goes_here

What you want to do is add plex to that group. To do that, make it look like

Code:

wheel:*:something_goes_here:plex

I don't know if the

Code:

wheel:*:something_goes_here

syntax is correct, but you shouldn't be deleting anything, only adding

Code:

:plex

to a line.

Let's see if that gets you anywhere

 

[Ismael Duarte]

It's not working :(
I've done that, also added plex to my own groups since my media as my user groups. I've changed permission of some files to 777, restarted jail and plugin ... no media on plex.
I must be doing something stupid and can't find what

 

[Ismael Duarte]

Well, like I said, something stupid.
I've messed with group file, restarted and now all media is there :D
Just something else, when I try to play some videos on my tablet it says "Video or format type not supported"

 

[Cosmo_Kramer]

Well, like I said, something stupid.
I've messed with group file, restarted and now all media is there :D
Just something else, when I try to play some videos on my tablet it says "Video or format type not supported"

Are you using the app for Plex or the web player?

 

[Ismael Duarte]

app for plex? Didn't know there was one :|

 

[ShipDaddy]

Well, like I said, something stupid.
I've messed with group file, restarted and now all media is there :D
Just something else, when I try to play some videos on my tablet it says "Video or format type not supported"

I am having a similar issue, please enlighten me on what you 'messed' with on the group file?

I can't get plex or minidlna working. I have freenas 9.1.1 x64. I've set permissions to 777 for all folders. When i set the storage and destination the main folders show up but nothing underneath them. My folders are like so - /Media/Movies/Action & Adventure/Movie name/movie file.mp4

In the plex jail folder plex_1/media it has the 'Movies' folder but nothing when I go into the folder. I've been at this for a week and becoming extremely frustrated. Please help

 

[Ismael Duarte]

Have you edited groups inside the Jail ?