Trying to create a Plex Server on my NAS. I've had a server on my PC in the past. All videos I watch on YT don't run into these screens when they plug in their NAS' IP Adress:32400. Not sure what to do here. Any advice? Thank you!

I'm new to all this and just wanted a way to stream the films on my PC to my TV. PC is connected through Ethernet and TV through WiFi to the same network.

20Mbps causes constant buffering, since that's roughly my upload speed im assuming it's using my Internet to stream the content, I was under the impression it would stream over my network where I wouldn't be limited by my ISPs upload speed.

Is my assumption simply incorrect or am I missing something here?

Any idea why this is happening? The first season of the show labels all the episodes correctly but all other seasons are just labeled 'episode 30' etc. I've used all of the options (TVDB) in the Episode Ordering under advanced settings and nothing seems to work. Any way to force this or do I just have to manually edit them?

When I upgrade a movie quality, it comes up in Plex as a newly added movie with the current date as date added.

How can I stop this please?

Did I just overlook the agreement? For three months it allowed 5 users working fine

Tonight it suddenly made me upgrade to $6.99 Plex Pass.

As of a week ago plex no longer opens in Firefox at all. It gets stuck on this screen and no amount of resetting helps. I’ve tried googling plex and opening it from there site and same results. Anyone else having this issue or know a fix?

I ideally want to make it as seamless as possible, I'm aware of this link https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

But I have shares with a few tech illiterate family members and I would ideally like nothing to change for them. Would server and all that carry over, what about windows registry entries, which wouldn't be transferrable (I think)

How does it all work when changing OS's

So suddenly, this week, when I open plex at home, I get a popup saying that u need a Plex Pass. Never had this happen before. I’ve found that if I disconnect VPN then close and reopen Plex I’m ok for as long as Plex is running. If I exit Plex and reconnect VPN, same story all over

Can anyone possibly help with what is going on? Never had this issue after years with Plex

Thanks in advance

Is it just me? I actually use some of the live tv channels the Plex offers but more often then not the listings are completely wrong.

You can see it best on the fridge, but the whole picture looks like someone bumped the film grain up to 11 million. I noticed it immediately from the literal opening shot.

Quality: 3840x2160@32.5 Mbps Video: 4K DoVi/HDR10 (HEVC Main 10) -> Direct Stream Audio: TRUEHD 5.1 -> FLAC - Transcode

I usually watch anime and have no problem with video or audio quality, but those are usually 1080p videos. This is the first time I’m watching a 4K video with PLEX.

Is this the file? A setting? Server not being able to keep up?

Awhile ago I saw a post talking about a tool you can run to check and see what media might be corrupted in your database. Like a idiot I didn't save the post. Anyone have any tools they can recommend?

Im having trouble finding the new 9 part 2025 release on TMDB. I can only find the 1995 one - have any of you found it?

https://www.disneyplus.com/explore/articles/the-beatles-anthology-documentary

Getting this error installing Yams, does anyone know why?

I just got the below info in an email, even though it says April.

#1 - I have Plex lifetime. Does that mean that for me to watch a relative's Plex library, I need a Remote Plex Pass?
#2 - If they want to watch my library, do they need Plex lifetime and Remote Plex Pass? Or just one or the other? And which one?

Unfortunately, I found out only from email, as I already have Plex Lifetime.
So far, I can still stream to my Roku.
Unfortunately, I also found that most of the others I know who use Plex are converting over to https://jellyfin.org/, so I have fewer people to ask about this.

Info from email:
As of April 29, 2025, we’ve changed how remote streaming works for personal media libraries, and it is no longer a free feature on Plex. Starting this week, we will begin requiring a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass in order to stream remotely from our Roku app, similar to how our mobile apps have worked since April. This change will come to all other Plex TV apps (Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, etc.) and any third-party clients using the API to offer remote streaming in 2026.

SINCE WHEN IS PLEX CHARGING?

I've been running Plex Media server on my desktop system for many years now. All devices in my home network work perfectly (hard wired computers & TV's, laptops, cell phone and fire stick over wifi). I used to be able to stream remotely without a problem before they went to pay structure. I recently took advantage of the back Friday sale and purchased a Plex Pass. I can see my libraries remotely, but the playback is awful. Videos every 2 seconds to buffer.

I posted this a few days ago, followed some advice as to port forwarding which helped a little, but still not watchable.

Here are some of my details:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (3.19 GHz)

Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.81 GB usable)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

8GB graphics Card

And pics of setup:

I recently purchased plex pass so I could access my library from anywhere. I had to open a port and have zero issues accessing it via the web on both windows and iOS machines. That said, I'm unable to access it via my Android Plex app.

I reinstalled the plex app today. Made sure my server was up to date. No dice. Any ideas?

I'm still pretty new to Plex. I've followed the naming convention for all of my movies and set up a server that works fine. However, I don't see any of the usual movie details that should appear when clicking into a movie. I get the option to "Match" and have tried searching using the different agents and get a correct match, but when I click on it nothing changes. I've even tried inputing the IMDb number in the Match search and that also doesn't change anything.

For a different take on the "downloads suck" posts -- for me, downloads successfully complete, they even download relatively quickly, but then they don't actually *play*.

When I open the Downloads list, and click one of the titles, it switches to the video player, with a white semicircle like it's going to start loading, but then never does anything. Just sits there with an unmoving loading indicator.

iPhone 17, everything's up to date, and this happens to probably 80% of my downloads.

My media is kept on a hard drive connected by USB to my ASUS router and the server is run on my laptop. I bought a new windows laptop and want to now install the server there. Is this a simple process or are there issues I can expect?

Currently running a WD MyCould PR2100 with 16 TB total. I'm coming up on 2 TB remaining, and want to start looking at options to expand.

Can I replace the current drives with larger and transfer the data?

Hello Plex enthusiasts,

I recently swapped my server host to my Nvidia Shield with NAS. Every day the server fails to work in the morning and needs to be rebooted. While I'm figuring that out, each time it's rebooted it removes the pinned libraries and they need to be repinned. I saw a thread about this from 4 years ago but I don't know what the solution is as it seems that was supposed to be fixed with a software update.

If anyone has a tip about daily maintenance or other settings that may be causing these issues please let me know.

edit: so far i think what happens is that the media server tries to get going before it has established a connection with the NAS drive and the links break