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
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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/

In order to playback and save your favorite movies for watching on TVs at anywhere anytime, Plex Media Server could be the best solution. It allows you to store all your movies on a central server and watch them on your TV, iPad, computer or phones both home and away. To play any videos on media devices via Plex, let’s here know more about the Plex supported video and audio formats.

Part 1. What is Plex Media Server?

Plex is a centralized home media playback system with a powerful central server – the Plex Media Server–that streams its media to many Plex player Apps. The Server is available on many platforms like Windows, OS X, and many flavors of Linux, as well as many NAS devices like ReadyNAS or Synology. You use an App to view your media library and watch shows. Apps are available for PCs, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, and many Smart TVs.Part 2. Best Supported Video/Audio Files for Streaming to Plex Media Server
Direct Play, Direct Stream, and Transcoding are designed to provide the perfect media to your device, regardless of what it is. So in this case, we should know better about the suitable videos and audios for Plex Media Server.

A: Supported videos to play and stream with Plex:

If an App tells the Server that it is capable of handling the video and audio streams in the source file, but it can’t handle the file container such like MKV, AVI, etc. So for some common videos like H.264 codec MP4, MOV, etc, we can stream them well into Plex. The Server will copy the streams into a new compatible container and send that to the App so there’s a little more work required by the Server but not a lot.

B: Supported any audio files with Plex:

A Plex App understands the device it’s working on. It knows the ideal media resolution, whether it can handle a particular audio format (Dolby Digital, DTS, etc.). In other words, it can support the AAC, AC3 common audio formats well.Part 3. How to sync those incompatible video and audio formats for Plex?

If an App tells the Server it can’t handle the video or audio in the stream at all, the Server will convert the incompatible tracks to a compatible one and send that to the App. How to deal the incompatible videos and audios with Plex Media Server? Here Pavtube Plex Video Converter Ultimate for Windows or Mac could help you a lot, with the fast conversion speed and easy operation, it can convert any videos (include H.265/HEVC) to suitable ones also with a high original quality preserved. With this professional Plex converter, we can enjoying watching any movies from iTunes to Apple devices or some HDTVs. Is that cool?

Launch this professional Plex Video Converter Ultimate and open the main interface after installing nicely on your computer, then with the “Add video”, we can easily load our original files in. It supports batch conversion, you can import and transcode multiple movies files at one time.

On the output list especially for Plex, we suggest you to choose the “HD Video -> select "H.264 High Profile(*.mp4)” as the best one. You can take the following screen shot as reference.

Notes: For advanced users, you can go to the “Settings” and “Edit” interface to adjust your output videos files for more with your video and audio parameters if you like. Finally, go back to the main interface and hit the ‘Convert’ button, no needs for waiting for a long time, we can get the suitable video formats for watching HDTV or other media devices via Plex Media Server. More details on How to Store and Stream Movies with Plex for Beginners?

Further Reading:

Source: http://i-freepedia.com/plex-supported-file-formats/

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