Plex Movie Streaming

Summary：For Blu-ray fans, if you have collected lots of Blu-rays with high definition, it is a good idea to backup Blu-ray to Plex for streaming on portable devices during the trip.

Although Plex itself can’t play Blu-ray natively for Blu-ray encryption, there are many ways to rip Blu-ray to Plex supported formats. This guide will help a newbie solved play the MKV files onto Plex but don’t lose any V/A quality as well as the subtitles, switchable audio tracks. Hold on reading…

Q：“I’m currently in the process of making plans to embrace Plex and moving all my video content to a media server. This task will require my ripping over 500 Blu-rays and I’m rather keen to do straight 1:1 MKV rips of my library to avoid any loss in quality (I’m quite aware what this will cost me in storage). Where I am a little confused right now is with the issue of Plex and subtitles. I own quite a substantial number of foreign films, and no doubt a number of English language films that may be interspersed with some foreign subtitled scenes.

My question is, does Plex insist on transcoding whenever there are subtitles, regardless of whether the stream is a direct feed into a PHT Client running on a capable computer (a mac Mini or NUC into the TV/Home Theatre for example)? This seems to be the impression I am getting, in which case it rather renders my having a Plex library of 1:1 rips pointless, but I just want to get some clarification. I understand Plex transcoding from the perspective of streaming to other devices around my home like an iPad, but my intention is to keep the feed going to my TV/Home Theatre free of such things. ” – This is a newbie asked from Plex Forum.

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Do you have met the same situations when backup blu-ray movies to Plex Server? For users who just want a 1:1 conversion of each Blu-ray to watch on Plex and don’t care much about the storage, lossless MKV is definitely the best choice. However, Plex does not support the use of BD, IMG, Video_TS, BDMV, or other “disk image” formats in consideration for pirating issues and local laws. So how to bypass the main obstacle to ripping the Blu-rays with the copy protection that now sits on every disk?

To preserve the Blu-ray video and audio quality, backing up Blu-ray to Lossless MKV for Plex is the best choice. Here, Pavtube ByteCopy is an easy-to-use copy-protection removal which is special designed for ripping Blu-ray movies to lossless MKV to Plex so that you can play Blu-ray on PS4, Smart TV, Media Players, iPad Pro, etc. (Read
Review).

What’s more, it’s also a professional Blu-ray ripper which allows you to rip and backup Blu-ray movies to any video format you like. The output video can be played by portable devices, media players, HDTV, etc, which will give you best video quality. For Mac OS X El Capitanusers, you can turn to Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac which can help you lossless Rip blu-ray to Plex via Mac. With it, you can rip and backup DVD and Blu-ray on Mac OS X El Capitan keeping high video quality.

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Step-by-Step: to Backup Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movie.

Free download Pavtube ByteCopy to your computer, install and launch it. Insert Blu-ray into disc drive which is well connected with the computer, click the “Load from disc” button in ByteCopy and browse to disc drive for importing.

Step 2: Choose lossless MKV as output format

To preserve multiple subtitles/audio tracks and chapter markers, lossless multi-track MKV for Plex will be a perfect output video format. Click the format bar to follow “Multi-track Video” ＞ “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)”.

Step 3: Start backing up Blu-ray to Plex

Click the button “Convert” on bottom right to get down to ripping Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV. And after conversion, you’ll get/stream the converted Blu-ray in lossless MKV format for Plex. With Pavtube ByteCopy, you can easily backup Blu-ray to Plex with lossless MKV in just three steps.

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Source:http://multimedia-hive.com/2016/01/18/backup-bd-to-plex-with-lossless-quality/

Q: “ I have a bunch of home movies that I ripped off my Panasonic mini DV camcorder. They are all AVI files and play fine in the Plex player on my desktop. However, I get an error when I try to play them on my cell phone and the video is scrambled (audio works fine), when I try to send it to Chrome cast. I converted some of the movies to MPEG4 and they work perfectly. Every other video file (including other AVI) work fine with my Plex and Chrome cast. I read that it may be the codec that is causing the issue. Is there way to fix this video to work with Chrome cast other than reformatting each video? Thanks in advance.”

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It is really frustrating when AVI file is prone to such errors; no matter what you do, it does play at all. Don’t get tensed! The best workaround here to bypass this problem and make AVI compatible with Plex Media Server is to convert AVI to MP4 format that Plex Media Server can easily support. There are many tools on the market for users to transcode videos. Here we recommend a best tool - Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, it can be done effortlessly. Read the Review.

In addition, it not only supports AVI videos, but also handles various common video formats, like MKV, MXF, MTS, MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV .etc. Plus, thanks to the built-in video editor, you can personalize and retouch your videos files as you want. For Mac users, iMedia Converter for Mac is a helpful app to encode videos for further usage. Here our task is to encode AVI to MP4 for Plex Media Server. The process is much simple. Follow below guide to start AVI to Plex Media Server conversion.

Best way to Transfer AVI files to MP4 for streaming on Plex Media Server

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- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/blu-ray-video-converter-ultimate/
- Cnet Download: http://download.cnet.com/Pavtube-Video-Converter-Ultimate/3000-2194_4-75938564.html

Step 1: Run this great AVI Converter for Plex, Click "Add" button on the main interface to load your MKV files to the program. (Drag&Drop function is included.)

Step 2: Click "Format" bar and choose MP4 from "Common Video" as output format, which can be recognized by Plex easily. If your source video is in 1080p and you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose HD Video > H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) for Plex Media Server.

Tip: Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset. You’d better keep a balance with your video quality and video size. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality.

Step 3: Tap the Conversion button on the main interface to start transcoding AVI to Plex Media Server. The process will be finished soon. After the conversion, you can easily find the encoded AVI video clips in the destination folder by clicking "Open" button for playing and sharing to your other devices via Plex Media Server.

Now you can stream AVI files through Plex Media Server to HDTV, PS4, Xbox360 or other devices. Enjoy.

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Source: http://open-media-community.com/2015/03/16/playing-avi-to-any-devices-via-plex/

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