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Plex will now force you to transcode to /config and thus the problem we where trying to avoid is fixed thus we do not need this mapping anymore
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Will this be something handled by the update process when that feature is removed? Or will users need to go in and manually un-map the transcode directory when this change takes affect?
I had to unmap mine
What version of PMS are you using, the latest update? I tried removing the mapping after I updated today and plex got pissed and wouldn't play anything that required transcoding. Did you have to change the directory for transcoding in the server interface as well to something other than /transcode? I assumed that since plex would force transcoding to the config directory I wouldn't need to change anything in the server settings besides removing the docker mapping.
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Plex will now force you to transcode to /config and thus the problem we where trying to avoid is fixed thus we do not need this mapping anymore
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Will this be something handled by the update process when that feature is removed? Or will users need to go in and manually un-map the transcode directory when this change takes affect?
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There is the dropbox.py cli for dropbox installed in the container. It probably can be used to selective sync, but I haven't bothered.
Ok I created a test account so I wouldn't hose my real dropbox if I did something stupid.
Where exactly is the dropbox.py file, in the docker.img itself? I assumed that it would be in one of the mapped container volumes but I can't seem to find it.
Well I think I found. It appears as though dropbox.py is in /usr/local/bin/dropbox.py inside the docker but when I run the exclude add command I get an error. I am trying to follow along loosely with these instructions but am getting an error that Dropbox isn't running.
The command I tried:
root@VOID:/# docker exec Dropbox /usr/local/bin/dropbox.py exclude add Dropbox/test
Dropbox isn't running!
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hmm. I'd try formatting the drive as xfs instead of ext4.
That did it! It performs exponentially better when formatted as xfs vs ext4. The media starts after only a few second delay. Thanks!
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Had some issues with my cache drive yesterday and ended up reformatting it. Now when I try to start the swap I get "swapon failed: Invalid argument". I am creating the swap on /mnt/cache as recommended and I didn't have any issues with the plugin until I reformatted the cache drive.
Any ideas?
Tried to do it manually via SSH and encountered the same error:
root@VOID:~# swapon -v /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapon on /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: found swap signature: version 1, page-size 4, same byte order
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: pagesize=4096, swapsize=4294967296, devsize=4294967296
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
Try running swapoff on this swapfile and then swapon again.
Same issue. It will create the swap file fine but it won't start it. Let me know what info you might need from me to troubleshoot.
root@VOID:~# swapoff -v /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapoff on /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapoff: /mnt/cache/swapfile: swapoff failed: Invalid argument
root@VOID:~# swapon -v /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapon on /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: found swap signature: version 1, page-size 4, same byte order
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: pagesize=4096, swapsize=4294967296, devsize=4294967296
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
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Had some issues with my cache drive yesterday and ended up reformatting it. Now when I try to start the swap I get "swapon failed: Invalid argument". I am creating the swap on /mnt/cache as recommended and I didn't have any issues with the plugin until I reformatted the cache drive.
Any ideas?
Tried to do it manually via SSH and encountered the same error:
root@VOID:~# swapon -v /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapon on /mnt/cache/swapfile
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: found swap signature: version 1, page-size 4, same byte order
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: pagesize=4096, swapsize=4294967296, devsize=4294967296
swapon: /mnt/cache/swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument
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Is the video playing fine? Plex transcodes as needed. It speeds up and slows down when necessary.
No, it hadn't even started playing after 20 minutes. The size of the folder on the transcode drive slowly grew but the video never actually started playing. When I finally gave up and cancelled it, it had only transcoded about 250MB of a 4GB video file.
I have been using the same video file for all my transcode testing and when I had it going to the cache drive (or to RAM) it started playback after about five to ten seconds.
I change the local streaming quality in my plex media player (this is all inside my LAN for testing) to around 480p so I can get an idea of the processor utilization for a lowish quality stream and see how much disk IO it creates. The end goal being for me to be able to figure out how many simultaneous streams my server can transcode without noticeable performance degradation.
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This may or may not be the right place for this as I am unsure if it is specific to the docker or not but figured this would be a good place to start.
I installed a hard drive I had laying around (a 320GB disk formatted as ext4) to act as a dedicated disk for transcoding so as not to beat on my cache drive constantly. I didn't want to add the disk to the array or add it as a cache disk so I am utilizing dlandon's Unassigned Devices plugin to mount the drive on boot. I setup my docker to map /transcode to /mnt/disks/transcode/ and made sure that the permissions were set to read/write.
I can see that the transcode is working and being written to the disk but it is unbelievably slow, I think the transcode has written about 40MB in two to three minutes to the disk. From what I can tell this isn't an issue with the disk itself as I test copied 1.5GB of video files and it completed in about a minute averaging 90MB/s.
Has anyone ever tried to setup the plex docker like this before who might have some pointers for me? Or at least clarify whether this is an issue specific to me and my setup or if others can reproduce the same results.
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Those icons are not stored on the flash drive. They are part of the tarball bundle that is expanded into the memory drive.
I would suggest clearing your browser cache and possibly trying a different browser.
If that doesn't work, start a console session and type "ls /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/icons" and you should see:
edit_script.png*
hourglass.png*
remove.png*
unassigneddevices.png*
view_log.png*
These are the icons for the webgui.
Well it turns out the icons are there and display correctly when viewing Tower/Main but not under Tower/Main/UnassignedDevices. I tried to view the page in both Firefox and Chrome after clearing the browser cache.
That is quite curious. You put Tower/Main/UnassignedDevices in the browser URL. I did that and reproduced what you found. I didn't know that even worked. Let me take a look.
Well I am still new to UnRAID 6 and the whole plugin/docker interface and I found that by simply clicking the plugin image under the installed plugins page (at least for some plugins like swap file) I could quickly get to the settings/interface for that plugin. So that is what I did with this plugin thinking that was the quickest way to get to the interface.
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Does your Dropbox docker support selective sync (ie I can pick which folders I want to be synchronized)? Do any of the current Dropbox dockers support this? I know it is possible in the official application so if not I might just make a Linux VM and use the official dropbox application for my needs.
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Those icons are not stored on the flash drive. They are part of the tarball bundle that is expanded into the memory drive.
I would suggest clearing your browser cache and possibly trying a different browser.
If that doesn't work, start a console session and type "ls /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/icons" and you should see:
edit_script.png*
hourglass.png*
remove.png*
unassigneddevices.png*
view_log.png*
These are the icons for the webgui.
Well it turns out the icons are there and display correctly when viewing Tower/Main but not under Tower/Main/UnassignedDevices. I tried to view the page in both Firefox and Chrome after clearing the browser cache.
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I just installed your plugin and it seems to be working fine (I haven't tried to mount anything yet as I am not home) except I seem to be missing the log and script icons in the webgui. I tried removing the plugin and reinstalling from the repo to no avail.
Looking in the flash\config\plguins\unassigned.devices\ directory there is no icons folder (which is where the plugin appears to be looking for these icons).
Here is a link to my Diagnostics dump: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70586667/void-diagnostics-20160210-1707.zip
Let me know if there is further information you would like me to provide.
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I am also on 0.9.16.4. That is probably where my issue is, I had removed the docker mapping but left the mapping to /transcode under PMS/Server/Transcoder as I was fairly certain that was the default value when I first installed PMS.
EDIT: Yes that was indeed my problem, thanks!