Posts made by jfreiman

@jfreiman:

I just wanted to give a heads up to the users in this thread and let you know that I am upgrading the computer, my dedicated Plex server this weekend.  Here is an excerpt on the email I sent to my family and friends (with a few additional facts for users on this thread with Adult access.
Update is completed and 100% functional/working

I just wanted to give a heads up to the users in this thread and let you know that I am upgrading the computer, my dedicated Plex server this weekend.  Here is an excerpt on the email I sent to my family and friends (with a few additional facts for users on this thread with Adult access.

I am upgrading my hardware to improve Plex’s streaming and transcoding of videos this weekend – the last ‘major’ upgrade to my server was made in 2014!

During this weekends upgrade (2018-08 18-19th) I will need to take my existing system offline. I am expecting that all services (Plex, Resilio, Media Center, etc) will be down for about 4 hours (fingers crossed).  This will either happen on Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon – dependent on FedEx’s delivery window.

[note] any movies or tv episodes you have synced to your local computer from Plex, will still be available for you to watch.

For those who are curious, I am upgrading from AMD’s A10-7890K APU with RX460 to a new Ryzen 5 2400G APU (w/integrated ‘Vega 11’ graphics) – Still not the fastest, but a huge step up from my existing and struggling system….. and a easier (cheaper) upgrade to faster hardware in the future. (APU/CPU, MB, RAM)

**I will update this post after the update is complete.

Plex/Resilio Collections
Movie Collection: 3,917 titles
Television Series: 867 Series (22,392 episodes!) (yes, I have deleted several series)
Used Storage Space: 40TB (movies and TV only)

Adult Feature Length movies: 2,704 (nearly 1,400 HD titles)
Adult Scenes: 4,437 (about 3,400 HD titles)
Used Storage Space Adult: 11.5TB (Features, Scenes, plus 172 active gtru torrents, mostly reseeds)

All titles in my collections are H.264 or H.265 with AAC, AC3 or DTS audio.  All continent has been converted to these formats to allow for better streaming, plex compatibility (actor/studio/desc metadata, etc), etc.

Plex Media Server’s data files: 390GB (on a dedicated Plex only 500GB SSD for quick search results, etc)

As always, if there is a series or movie title you can’t find or think would be good for my collection to have, please let me know about it. While adding new movies and series, I am also spending a good amount of time sourcing bluray discs to upgrade existing movies in my collection to the best, high quality video and audio – another reason I need better hardware to help Plex slim down 7-13GB movies to fit on a limited internet connections and mobile devices.

If you want access to my collection(s) on Plex or sync the files directly using Resilo Sync https://www.resilio.com/individuals/ (formerly uTorrent Sync) send me a PM.

@caboyinnola:

@billy3785:

Does anyone else use Plex to stream their files to their TVs and Organize their media?
With the library share function it makes it so easy to watch other people's content without having to download - if anyone is interested in sharing libraries - add me and I will add you back - I have 2TB in my share

user name is sk32be

I wish I had access to Plex Cloud!

If we have overlapping titles, I can export the metadata I have entered from my collection and get it to you so you can add the info to the titles you currently have.
All of my titles have the following information (a few exceptions with no model names do exist.

Poster / artwork (all feature length, many scenes)C
Distributor and Studio where different
Production year
Performers (alphabetical, not by featured  )
Description/summary
"Genre" which I list as: Safer; Pre-Condom/Bareback; and Bareback
Some have what Plex calls "Collections" which I use for: POV; 3-Ways, Twinks, Euro, etc.  –- but this info is subjective and not present in many of the titles.

I too use Plex to organize and playback my 'adult' content as well as other tv and movie related

I have had limited success in getting the Gay Adult plug-in to work reliably for "scenes", but I have had generally good support for (gay) feature movies.

The first of the two links is the discussion on the official Plex forums, the 2nd is the link to the metadata agents and plug-in for gay adult videos.

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/32922/adult-agents-for-gay-titles
https://github.com/iklier/plex-gay-metadata-agent

I have always had problems streaming content from Plex and have tried everything to improve it – but nothing seemed to work well or stream consistanty to various clients.  It got to be so bad that I actually just dropped my docsis 3.1 gigabit (Xfinity) back down to Extreme 250 to save on $$ at the expense of 3.5Mbps vs 4.8Mbps upload speeds.

That said, I'm more than happy to share my Plex libraries with you, but would recommend that if you have problems streaming, you should try to "sync" the content onto a compatible Plex Player.  Also, anything I have in my Plex library can be uplodad to gt.ru for anyone who wants/needs it.

username = jfreiman

currently (sept 2017):
Adult Porn -6.5 TB (1400+ movies, 3000+ scenes)
"Hollywood" Movies = 12.5 TB (2800+)
TV Series = 15.7 TB (607 series = 1400+ complete or nearly complete seasons)

I also have the above collections available via Resilio sync shared (read-only) folders.

So I just saw this (old) topic and wanted to chime in and ask a question….

I've been an active member at gtru for 6+(?) months already and have only ever used it with BTGuard (proxy.btguard.com) and so far, I have not had any issues connecting or notices from gtru saying that my ip is bouncing around.

The only thing "i notice" is that gtru always thinks it evening when it's morning and vice versa.

So my question is:  Is it recommended that I use BTGuard or other such service to protect my identity on a system that only connects to gtru and is not used for any public sharing?