…the hardest thing I have ever had to do with my Plex server is get my friends and family to not butcher the quality of the content down to 720p@2mbps. Its seriously like pulling teeth, and the Plex application is too stupid to try to “play at original quality” when I have transcoding set to “off”. If the money I spent on a Plexpass could go towards ANYTHING, it would be to have a setting for what my plex clients are forced to “prefer” as far as quality.
My friends and I all live in good areas of America, not the Congo or somewhere else where internet is just being invented, for the love of god, why does Plex default everyone to 720p@2mbps? I swear, I am going to need to hire someone to make a digital pamphlet on how to get going with Plex, because right now the application makes itself hard for newcomers to use.
First, explain what it is, and the benefits. Then, you have to explain how to pin only the good stuff to the lefthand side (vs the …
[](#version-v40-1)Version v4.0
Happy Valentine’s day!!
We’re thrilled to share the next major release of Plexamp with you! One major focus in this release was an upgrade of some of the core building blocks of the app (React Native, React Navigation, and many others). The result is a faster, smoother app, which starts more quickly and transitions more smoothly between screens.
The other major feature addition is the ability for Plexamp to be remotely controlled. Those with a good memory will remember that the older Plexamp v1 did have this feature, but lost it in the v3 upgrade. Bringing back remote control also unblocks work on a headless version of Plexamp for the Pi, and given that it means bundling a full HTTP server into the app, lots of other innovation is now possible.
We hope you enjoy this new release, and thank you so much for all the love, helpful bug reports and and great feature suggestions along the way!
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We are seeing a lot less deals from providers and indexers over the last six months. There has been talk that Usenet would begin to see higher pricing. Black Friday was a pretty good indication that this may be the case. Does anyone have any thoughts on where pricing is going to settle and how soon? What are the forces in the arena that drives this type of action? I have my own ideas but would love to see what others think.
I want to preface this by saying that I am NOT a programmer or any kind of CS grad. I work in healthcare making more money than I know what to spend and with a love of tech (mostly consumer level) and a hatred of paying for 50 different subscription services. I set up a synology NAS with sonarr, radarr, sab, plex etc… so I can create my own medi- my own personal way to download Linux distros… yeah, that’s the meme… and I love it. Usenet is awesome, it’s better than torrents, and after smacking my face on the keyboard for a week I got it all working.
As an old habit from my tween and teen years of perusing not very reputable sites to find torrents to leech I installed a vpn that masks the entire server. Extra layer of security right?
Well it all still works fine, isp doesn’t send me fancy papers or anything, but because of that vpn I cannot stream my Linux distros at their original quality.
So my question to you people is: can I really turn off the vpn and just use ssl encryption via …
Hi Everyone,
So long story short I’m looking for something that functioned like old forums. Where people can just go and have discussions. There were some specific forums I knew, but they died.
I noticed some of the alt usenet groups have similar communities, so I was hoping to to go there instead.
I have zero intentions to download anything. I just want to communicate in the communities, if that’s a thing I don’t know?
The issues seems to be that it’s not free, or not cheap. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding? How can I connect to those groups?
Thanks!
Is anyone else that has Tweaknews experiencing this. I am on Frontier 500⁄500 fiber and this started about 3 weeks ago. First, the speeds started to slow a little. Then, the speeds started to have big dips going from 60 megabytes to 7 megabytes (it kind of looked like a slow-rolling wave on my speed graph). Now I am stuck at downloading at 7 megabytes. I am downloading to an SSD but have switched to my nvme 980 Pro and still the same slow speeds.
One odd thing to note, I have Astraweb as a secondary account and have tested my speeds on that account and I get the same slow speed.
Is my ISP blocking something making me have these slow speeds? I have run speed tests and everything is getting 500⁄500. I have even tested my Steam downloads and I get great results. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks!
EDIT: I am almost 100% sure it is my ISP. I am at work and take out my Surface Pro to download the SABnzbd test file, which I tried yesterday on my Surface Pro …
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Hi all,
So, it’s finally over. Valentines day. This Monday was filled with fake-love and commercial gift-giving. We were sick and tired of all the sweetish hearts, chocolate, flowers and other gifts because someone decided this should happen on the 14th of February. I mean, what’s in it for all the singles?
Because we understand that not everyone had someone to share this (super sweet) Monday with, we thought we’d make it up to our single customers (and everyone else, of course). So we’ve decided to throw in a 30% discount.
And that’s why: As of right now until Tuesday the 22th of February (12:00 CET), you’ll get 30% discount on everything!
Not a customer? Click below:
https://stingyusenet.com/en/order/?promocode=not-a-valentines-day-2022
Already a customer? Click below: …
Searcharr is an open-source bot that allows users to add movies to Radarr and series to Sonarr through the Telegram messaging app. Searcharr utilizes inline keyboards to provide end users with a compact, user-friendly experience. If you are unfamiliar with Searcharr, you can find some screenshots in the GitHub repository.
I have received a handful of common enhancement requests since the initial release, and I am happy to announce that I have implemented most of them in Searcharr v2.
TL;DR: I made an iOS Shortcut to add IMDB links to *arr applications. The shortcut works for both Radarr and Sonarr.
This is something I’ve been working on for a while to get it “just right” and I’m finally ready to share.
I love to keep the IMDB widgets on my Home Screen on iOS to see what’s new and popular. I wanted to be able to quickly add those movies/shows to my *arr applications so I made this Shortcut.
To use it, open the IMDB app and go to a movie, tap the three dots in the upper right and select share. Choose the “IMDB to *arr” option from the share sheet and the Shortcut will do the rest. If you do not have the IMDB app installed, you can share the link from Safari as well. Or, copy the link to your clipboard and then run the shortcut.
On first run, the shortcut will ask for your *arr settings and then save your settings for future use. You can reset your settings by running the shortcut with an empty clipboard.
The shortcut does need access to GitHub in order to check …
What are the actual benefits of using something like Prowlarr vs just setting up your Indexers directly in the *arr apps? I only use USENET.
EDIT: Thanks for all the info. I installed Prowlarr and I can certainly see the benefits for more complex setups. For my very straight forward setup I’m not sure I really gain any huge benefit from it but, do gain another layer that needs to be maintained and could be a point of failure. I’ll leave it in the mix for now and see what happens.
I have a really large library and it is now at the point where I need to re-download most of my files again as I was careless in setting up my profiles to begin with and have ridiculous file sizes now and would very much like to replace them with smaller H.265 files.
I have checked Traash guides and wikiarr etc. I also came across an old post where someone says to enter this string into custom formats and then put it as the cutoff in your profile so that it will still download H264 and then upgrade to H265 if available. I understand how the profiles, cut offs all work, but I’m getting a little confused as to where I put this string and how I implement it into my profile?
Here is the comment I am trying to make use of:
“Add this string as a custom format and name it something like H265 Cutoff and set it as the cut off in Profiles. It will then download a X264 version but Upgrade to x265 when it becomes available. That way you don’t miss anything;) …
There is a new show starting in March and it is not in Sonarr yet and that lead me to wonder how does a new TV series get are to Sonarr?