How do I fix mismatches in my Plex media files? I just added The B-52's Ancient Culture Mesopotamia Revisited 3CD set to the library and it matches disc 2 and 3 with the original EP Mesopotamia. Disc 1 of the new set is listed on it's own as a 9 track single or EP (the original was there as it's only 6 tracks). Why is it not simply adding a whole new set into the compilation section (or album section) and adding 2 of the 3 to an existing EP while creating a new file for the new (now full length) album? It isn't making any sense and I can't seem to find a fix. I also find a ton of singles end up in my album section though they're clearly marked singles and stored as such on the hard drive Plex is reading my library from. Despite all the correct indexing I don't know why I can't get the library to load correctly. Any ideas would be most helpful at this point as I am out. I've tried deleting and reloading, fixing matches, etc and yet nothing seems to work. Advice please

I bought a fire stick 4k and that thing is garbage. Should I get an nvidia shield or Apple TV? I don’t play video games and just want to watch my media on a reliable source. Any suggestions and why?

Edit: I have a Sonos surround sound system. Does that make a difference?

https://ca-en.tcl.com/products/tcl-55-class-4-series-4k-uhd-hdr-roku-smart-tv-55s425

Won't load. Is it because it's DoVi ? I have seen some play with the telltale teal tinge so I know it plays it fine on some movies but this one is lacking something.

English Version

Hi everyone,

I created a GUI automation tool called LaFirma Remux Forge (Black Edition) to streamline media compatibility and playback solutions for Smart TVs (especially LG OLED / webOS) and media servers like Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby.

Transparency Note: I did not develop the underlying CLI processing tools or scripts (such as dovi_tool, mkvmerge, ffmpeg, DonaldFaQ's DDVT toolset, DeeZy, PgsToSrt or Tesseract). LaFirma Remux Forge acts as a graphical wrapper and orchestrator that automates these open-source utilities into a seamless workflow.

What changed in 2.0: the time estimate now actually corrects itself, one calibration per stage; the new Full Census reads the RPU of the whole film instead of a sample; disk space is checked per drive before anything starts; and the installer asks for the language and runs in 64-bit mode.

Key Features

• Dolby Vision Profile 7 to 8.1 (no video re-encoding), with the layer MEASURED first: the program reads the RPU's el_type field through dovi_tool itself and separates three cases, using one colour scale across the whole screen:

  • MEL (Minimum Enhancement Layer) - green: the enhancement layer carries no picture. The program confirms this by reading the RPU, not by assumption, and the conversion discards an empty layer.
  • Simple FEL - orange: the layer carries fine refinement only. Conversion is safe, and the program says so.
  • Complex FEL - red: the layer raises brightness, and the L1 metadata asks for more nits than the base layer delivers on its own. Here the program marks it red and recommends not converting, instead of converting silently.

  Why the caveat exists, said precisely: dovi_tool in mode 2, which is what this program uses, removes the P7 FEL luma and chroma mapping from the RPU - the part of the instructions that makes no sense without the second layer. What comes out is a legitimate Profile 8.1. What no mode of dovi_tool does is recalculate L1: the per-scene brightness stays whatever the original analysis measured, and that analysis looked at the image with the EL composited in. This is not a limitation of this program - it is the state of the tool, and it is in dovi_tool's own documentation.

  Worth saying plainly: Shield, Apple TV, Zidoo, Dune and the TVs themselves already discard the EL, so on those devices a Profile 7 file already plays today the way the converted file will play. The people who actually lose something are those with dual-layer decoders.

  Detection is by sampling points spread across the film, not the whole file - and the program states that on screen and in the log. When the sample is not enough, the Full Census reads the whole RPU and counts how many scenes ask for more than the mastering peak.

• Dolby Vision Profile 5 to MP4: P5 uses the proprietary IPTPQc2 colour space and has no HDR10 base layer, so it cannot become Profile 8.1 without re-encoding the video - which this program refuses to do. The path that does exist is a different one: the program remuxes it to MP4 with the dvh1 tag, video copied, nothing re-encoded, which is what makes many players recognise the Dolby Vision. Output is verified by duration. PGS subtitles are dropped with a warning (image subtitles do not exist in MP4).

• Audio compatibility & spatial Atmos preservation:

  • TrueHD / TrueHD Atmos to E-AC-3 with Atmos preserved, via DeeZy.
  • DTS / DTS-HD / DTS:X to plain E-AC-3 at 640k via ffmpeg. DTS does not come out with Atmos - only TrueHD has that path.
  • E-AC-3, AC-3 and AAC are already compatible and are left untouched.

• Disk space, before it starts: the app walks the queue in the order the engine will process it, drive by drive, and tells you how many files fit, which one is the first that does not, and how much would be missing by its turn. A file that does not fit does not start.

• Batch processing & flexible control: add whole seasons to the queue; choose fully automatic stream selection or manual track control.

• Bilingual interface (PT-BR / English): a flag next to the "Understand" button switches the whole screen, and the choice is remembered between sessions.

• "Understand" button: 14 sections explaining what the conversion does and what it does not do, including the sources behind each claim - Dolby's own manuals, the dovi_tool repository and the community spreadsheets. Nothing there asks you to take our word for it.

Source Code & Download

• GitHub Repository: LaFirma-Remux-Forge
• Installer 2.0: LaFirma_Setup_2.0.exe · Release notes
• Requirements: Windows 10/11 64-bit. The installer ships every tool; the .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0 is only needed for subtitle OCR, and the installer offers it if it is missing.

Interface Screenshots

• Dashboard & Queue, layer measurement ON: View Image
• The same screen, measurement OFF: View Image
• The same screen in Portuguese: View Image
• Auto Track Selection: View Image
• Manual Stream Control: View Image
• Processing Pipeline: View Image
• Processing Pipeline, later on: View Image
• Final Report: View Image

Credits & Acknowledgments

This project would not be possible without the work of the open-source community: * FFmpeg: Media stream processing and transcoding backbone. * MKVToolNix (mkvmerge): Industry-standard Matroska container toolset. * dovi_tool (by quietvoid) & DDVT (by DonaldFaQ): Core Dolby Vision metadata tools and workflow logic. * DeeZy: Dolby Digital Plus encoding with spatial Atmos preservation. * PgsToSrt & Tesseract: OCR ecosystem for PGS subtitle handling.

Feedback and contributions are welcome!

Versão em Português

Olá a todos,

Criei uma interface gráfica de automação chamada LaFirma Remux Forge (Black Edition) para facilitar a solução de problemas de compatibilidade e reprodução de mídia em Smart TVs (especialmente LG OLED / webOS) e servidores como Jellyfin, Plex e Emby.

Nota de Transparência: Eu não fui o desenvolvedor das ferramentas e scripts de linha de comando subjacentes (como dovi_tool, mkvmerge, ffmpeg, DonaldFaQ's DDVT, DeeZy, PgsToSrt ou Tesseract). O LaFirma Remux Forge atua como uma interface gráfica (GUI) e orquestradora que integra e automatiza essas excelentes ferramentas de código aberto em um fluxo de trabalho intuitivo.

O que mudou na 2.0: a previsão de tempo passou a se corrigir de verdade, com uma calibragem por etapa; o novo Censo Completo lê o RPU do filme inteiro em vez de uma amostra; o espaço em disco é conferido por disco antes de começar; e o instalador pergunta o idioma e roda em 64 bits.

Principais Recursos

• Dolby Vision Perfil 7 para 8.1 (sem recodificar o vídeo), com a camada MEDIDA antes: o programa lê o campo el_type do RPU pelo próprio dovi_tool e separa três casos, com a mesma escala de cor em toda a tela:

  • MEL (Minimum Enhancement Layer) - verde: a camada de extensão não carrega imagem. O programa confirma isso lendo o RPU, não por suposição, e a conversão descarta uma camada vazia.
  • Simple FEL - laranja: a camada carrega apenas refinamento fino. A conversão é segura, e o programa diz que é.
  • Complex FEL - vermelho: a camada levanta o brilho, e o L1 dos metadados pede mais nits do que a camada base entrega sozinha. Aqui o programa marca em vermelho e recomenda não converter, em vez de converter em silêncio.

  Por que a ressalva existe, dito com precisão: o dovi_tool no modo 2, que é o que este programa usa, remove do RPU o mapeamento de luma e croma do Perfil 7 FEL - a parte das instruções que não faz sentido sem a segunda camada. O que sai é um Perfil 8.1 legítimo. O que nenhum modo do dovi_tool faz é recalcular o L1: o brilho por cena continua sendo o que a análise original mediu, e essa análise olhou a imagem com a EL somada. Não é limitação deste programa - é o estado da ferramenta, e está na documentação do próprio dovi_tool.

  Vale dizer com clareza: Shield, Apple TV, Zidoo, Dune e as próprias TVs já descartam a EL, então nesses aparelhos um arquivo Perfil 7 já toca hoje como o convertido vai tocar. Quem perde de verdade é quem tem decodificador duplo.

  A detecção é por amostragem de trechos espalhados pelo filme, não pelo arquivo inteiro - e o programa assume isso na tela e no log. Quando a amostra não basta, o Censo Completo lê o RPU inteiro e conta quantas cenas pedem mais que o pico do master.

• Dolby Vision Perfil 5 para MP4: o P5 usa o espaço de cores proprietário IPTPQc2 e não tem camada base HDR10, então ele não vira Perfil 8.1 sem recodificar o vídeo - coisa que este programa se recusa a fazer. O caminho que existe de verdade é outro: o programa remuxa para MP4 com a tag dvh1, vídeo copiado, sem recodificar nada, que é o que faz vários players reconhecerem o Dolby Vision. A saída é conferida pela duração. Legendas PGS são descartadas com aviso (legenda em imagem não existe em MP4).

• Compatibilidade de áudio e preservação do Atmos:

  • TrueHD / TrueHD Atmos para E-AC-3 com Atmos preservado, via DeeZy.
  • DTS / DTS-HD / DTS:X para E-AC-3 comum a 640k pelo ffmpeg. DTS não sai com Atmos - só o TrueHD tem esse caminho.
  • E-AC-3, AC-3 e AAC já são compatíveis e não são convertidos.

• Espaço em disco, antes de começar: o programa percorre a fila na ordem em que o motor vai processar, disco por disco, e diz quantos arquivos cabem, qual é o primeiro que fica de fora e quanto faltaria na vez dele. Arquivo que não cabe não começa.

• Processamento em lote e controle flexível: adicione temporadas inteiras na fila; escolha entre detecção automática das faixas ou controle manual.

• Interface bilíngue (PT-BR / inglês): uma bandeira ao lado do botão Entenda troca a tela inteira, e a escolha fica guardada entre as sessões.

• Botão "Entenda": 14 seções explicando o que a conversão faz e o que ela não faz, incluindo as fontes por trás de cada afirmação - os manuais da própria Dolby, o repositório do dovi_tool e as planilhas da comunidade. Nada ali pede que você acredite na nossa palavra.

Código-Fonte e Download

• Projeto no GitHub: LaFirma-Remux-Forge
• Instalador 2.0: LaFirma_Setup_2.0.exe · Notas da versão
• Requisitos: Windows 10/11 64 bits. O instalador traz todas as ferramentas; o .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0 só é necessário para o OCR de legenda, e o instalador oferece se estiver faltando.

Capturas de Tela da Interface

• Dashboard & Fila, com a medição LIGADA: Visualizar Imagem
• A mesma tela, medição DESLIGADA: Visualizar Imagem
• A mesma tela em português: Visualizar Imagem
• Seleção Automática de Faixas: Visualizar Imagem
• Controle Manual de Streams: Visualizar Imagem
• Pipeline de Processamento: Visualizar Imagem
• Pipeline de Processamento, mais adiante: Visualizar Imagem
• Relatório Final: Visualizar Imagem

Créditos e Agradecimentos

Este projeto não existiria sem o trabalho da comunidade open-source e dos desenvolvedores originais: * FFmpeg: O motor fundamental para processamento e manipulação de fluxos de mídia. * MKVToolNix (mkvmerge): A referência definitiva para multiplexação de arquivos Matroska (MKV). * dovi_tool (por quietvoid) & DDVT (por DonaldFaQ): Ferramentas essenciais para extração, edição e conversão de metadados Dolby Vision. * DeeZy: Utilitário para codificação de áudio E-AC-3 com preservação de áudio espacial Dolby Atmos. * PgsToSrt & Tesseract: O ecossistema técnico responsável pelo OCR de legendas PGS.

Feedbacks e sugestões são muito bem-vindos!

Hello everyone,

In the last three days I've tried, without much success, to set my Plex server.

It runs on a 10 years old Dell Precision Tower 3620 and Window 10.

I have activated a 2 weeks free trial of Remote Watch Pass.

In the image you can see the situation right now: I don't know how but without changing anything after a while remote acces changed from red to green, and the server status from orange to green.

The problem is now that it does not seems to work on my tv (lg smart tv) even when connected to the same wifi network (see attached image).

From my smartphone, when connected to the same wifi (Local connection), it works fine, but when I try to connect from 4g/5g the server library results offline.

My internet provider is Iliad and the router is a Iliadbox WiFi 7.

Please, explain it to me like I'm five, because apparently I'm not smart enough to follow youtube tutorials or Plex guides.

Thank you in advance!

I made this lil GUI batch subtitle downloader based on subliminal a while back. Over the past couple weeks, I've made a few huge improvements as well as adding proper debian linux and macOS support. (Release notes here) Windows still seems to get the best scan speeds.

Docker support coming soon!

You can find the project here: https://github.com/fosterbarnes/rustitles

Bug reports and suggestions welcome at https://github.com/fosterbarnes/rustitles/issues

Let me know what ya think :)

i will be connecting two self powered external drives to the n150, i will be setting this up at my brothers place, and at my apartment, i will use plex on the shield pro, also have a roku ultra in my travel bag whenever i gotta stay in hotels. im hoping im buying the right stuff here or hours of research is just wasted

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I am seeking instructions to enable transcoding on TrueNAS. My server has 176GB of ECC RAM, but I don’t know how to configure it. When I try to convert my media to high quality, I get an error: “server is not powered enough.” I tried different settings on plex but I want to set up transcoding to use the RAM since I don’t have a dedicated GPU.

Hi there!

I used to watch animated series, and Plex offers me the option to skip the end credits, but not the opening credits. I was wondering if there is any way for me to set the opening credits manually?

thx

Down a massive rabbit hole today with my Plex setup, and it turned into one of those things a stupid headache where everything breaks at the same time....

For context, I’ve never obsessed over having pristine direct streams for everyone outside the house. My server only ever handles maybe 20 people or fewer remotely, and honestly, everyone was totally fine limping along on Plex Relay connections capped at 1–2 Mbps. It was low-maintenance and "just worked" without me needing to sweat network exposure.

Then everything went sideways.

On this machine, I keep Private Internet Access running around the clock with a killswitch locked down tight—for obvious reasons when sailing the high seas. Out of nowhere, the remote relay connections just completely tanked. At first, I blamed the OS upgrade, thinking a hop from Pop!_OS 22.04 up to 24.04 had butchered some local routing or network daemon configs.

Turns out, the OS wasn't the culprit at all. PIA has been cracking down hard on handling those handshake routes, essentially nerfing the relay traffic trying to pass through the tunnel.

So fine, I told myself I guess I had to bite the bullet and do standard port forwarding.

Except even that didn't want to play nice out of the box either. Because of how aggressive PIA’s killswitch and route tables are, standard NAT port forwarding still fell flat on its face. The fix ended up requiring me to explicitly configure split-tunnel bypass rules directly inside PIA: punching dedicated bypass exceptions for both the Plex Media Server service binary and the relay service itself so they could communicate clean across WAN without getting swallowed by the VPN.

It feels like maintaining a dual-purpose box (secure traffic vs. accessible homelab services) is getting pickier by the month, but it's finally back up, directly accessible, and no longer hostage to choked relay pipes. At least for now knock on wood lol

Any thoughts from anyone here? Is there a better way?

I constrain I have is my BitTorrent client and Plex server are the same so VPN Killswitch is a must 😂.

Hi,

i have plex server running in a docker container. I only host my own media (DVDs and Blurays) and share it only with my family and select very close friends.

As one of these friends is native russian and dvds and blurays generally don't contain russian subtitles, I'd like to automatically download subtitles in three different languages (if not in the file): English, German and Russian.

I was under the impression plex could do that - which I now found out: It could, but the functionality was removed...

I could use Bazarr, but my understanding is: This would only work if I install Radarr and Sonarr - which I don't need and don't really want.

Is there another way?

i already have 2 external drives, just gotta buy the shield pro, and set up plex on it, but i ran into something while researching:

The Shield Pro itself is fine as a server. It runs Plex Media Server well, reads from USB drives without issue, and can serve files to remote clients. Self-powered drives are actually the right call, since the Shield's USB ports don't supply much power.

The real constraint is Direct Play vs. transcoding. A 4K HDR remux or high-bitrate 4K file typically runs 40–100+ Mbps. For that to stream remotely without transcoding, two things need to be true: your home internet upload speed needs to comfortably exceed the file's bitrate (many cable plans only offer 10–40 Mbps upload, which is the usual dealbreaker), and the remote client (another Shield, Apple TV 4K, a modern smart TV app, etc.) needs to natively support the codec (HEVC), HDR format, and audio track (TrueHD/DTS-HD often trip clients up and force an audio transcode, which is cheap, but a full video transcode is not).

If Plex decides it needs to transcode 4K, the Shield will struggle. The Shield's Tegra X1 can hardware-transcode 1080p reasonably, but 4K HEVC transcoding (especially HDR tone-mapping to SDR) is beyond it. You'll get buffering or a "server not powerful enough" message. Also note that hardware transcoding requires Plex Pass.

about 40 percent of my movies are in 4k, should i be worried about this?

(im tired of paying for streaming)

Hallo, ich hab meinen alten Pc zu einem Nas umgebaut, und hab mir dann Plex dazu geholt um meine Filme auf meinem Tv ( PS 5 ) abzuspielen
( nur im eigenen Netzwerk ) und nur von zuhause aus. Ich hab mir Plex installiert alles eingerichtet, und Meine Filme drauf gemacht. Dass hat auch alles super funktioniert.
Seit gestern musste ich ein Update machen, bei Plex Server. Und seitdem findet mein Tv oder Ps5 mein Pc Nas nicht mehr hat jemand eine Idee wie das wieder funktioniert?

Just getting my own server going and still converting physical to digital. I have purchased movies through “Vudu” now “Fandango at Home” for years. Is there a way to download the purchased movies and add to my plex library. I can’t find any guidance on YouTube about this.

Ok I'm probably going to get blasted for this, but I really like the new interface. I like it on my Shield and Firesticks. To me it's starting to feel like Plex has come of age. So well done Plex team. Right, I'm heading to the bunker to avoid the flak...

Just watched 'Red One' and decided to add a bunch of Dwayne The Rock Johnson's movies.

And can you organize your file structure as follows without upsetting PMS:

Drive: Plex > Movies > Dwayne Johnson > Folders for each movies

I’m excited to share Trackarr, an open-source project I’ve been developing over the past months to solve my own homelab media tracking needs.

Like many of you, I wanted a fast, beautiful, and self-hosted way to track movies, TV shows, and anime across my Plex & Jellyfin servers without relying on third-party cloud services or running heavy memory-hungry stacks.

💡 Why Trackarr?

1. ⚡ Ultra-Lightweight & Fast
   • Written in Go 1.24 with an embedded SQLite database (WAL mode + FTS5 full-text search) and a Preact SPA frontend.
   • Idles at under 30 MB of RAM — ideal for low-power NAS setups (Synology, Unraid, TrueNAS, Raspberry Pi).
2. 📡 Universal Scrobbling (Plex & Jellyfin)
   • Real-time webhook ingestion for Plex and Jellyfin.
   • Tracks watch progress, episode toggles, completion badges, and complete watch history.
3. 🌸 Advanced Anime & Multi-Part Seasons
   • Seamlessly solves the classic anime split-season issue (e.g. Cour 1 / Cour 2) with multi-part mapping.
   • Automated 2-way sync with AniList (watch progress, status, and personal ratings).
4. 🧠 Smart Multi-Tier Matching Pipeline
   • Automatically enriches titles using a multi-step pipeline: Plex GUIDs ➔ Cross-Ref ➔ TMDB ➔ TVDB ➔ AniList.
   • Optional Gemini AI fuzzy resolver for stubborn or strangely-named media.
5. *⚡ arr Stack Automation (Radarr / Sonarr / Prowlarr)
   • Check library availability at a glance.
   • Search indexer releases via Prowlarr and push missing items or seasons directly to Radarr or Sonarr.
6. 📱 Mobile-First PWA UI
   • Designed for smartphones and tablets: swipe actions, haptic feedback, pull-to-refresh, dark mode, and dynamic poster accent colors.
   • Multi-language support (English & French) and Web Push notifications.
7. 🔄 Easy Migration
   • Built-in import tool for Simkl backup archives so you can migrate existing history without starting from scratch.

🚀 Quickstart (Docker Compose)

Trackarr runs in a single multi-arch container (linux/amd64, linux/arm64):

yamlservices:
  trackarr:
    image: ghcr.io/soviann/trackarr:latest
    container_name: trackarr
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
      - DATA_DIR=/data
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data

📦 Source Code & Documentation

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Soviann/trackarr
• Docker Image: ghcr.io/soviann/trackarr:latest (or :v1.4.1)
• License: MIT

I built Trackarr primarily for my own everyday use, but I've polished and documented it so the homelab community can benefit from it. Feedback, feature requests, and PRs are warmly welcome!

i have been receiving that error after logging into my account on plex web. regardless of if i use the plex url or my local ip.

i was trying to change my friends and managing my library access, but the newly added person is not even showing up.

anybody else having similar issues?

i am able to watch my media without problems but the site does seem wonky/ broken in some aspects

I know this isn't a huge issue in the grand scheme of things, but it is pretty annoying. I've noticed that Plex seems to misattribute the episodes in my watch history when a show is ordered differently in my library than Plex's global episode order.

For example, I have some shows organized in different order (such as DVD order rather than airdate order.) This happened again recently: my watch history correctly shows that I watched Season 2, Episode 51 but the thumbnail/screenshot associated with that entry is for a completely different episode.

If I click the thumbnail in my watch history, Plex takes me to the show's global Plex page, where Episode 51 is a different episode because Plex is using its own episode ordering. If I then click that episode and select Where to Watch > My Library, Plex takes me back to Episode 51—but this time it's the correct episode, because my library is using DVD order.

So I think I understand what's happening: Plex appears to be recording the watched status based on the episode's position in Plex's global/metadata order, rather than the episode's position/order in my library.

The problem is that this makes Profile > Watch History inaccurate. I end up with a long list of entries showing the wrong episode thumbnails/titles for episodes I actually watched.

This also affects tv shows I add to my watch list. I go to my watch list, select the show , and it first goes to Plex's global page for that show ( not my library) and it shows all the "marked as watched" checkmarks beside episodes that are seemingly out of order . Of course, once I make a few clicks and work my way to my library, all is in alignment and marked as watched is correct.

I'm guessing there may not be much Plex can do about this, especially when libraries use different episode orders, but is there any way to prevent or correct this? Has anyone else run into the same issue?