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I don't think Plex ever really worked with amazon. Plex advertised it at first but it didn't end up working out, sadly. See https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/02/am

I don't think Plex ever really worked with amazon. Plex advertised it at first but it didn't end up working out, sadly. See https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/02/amazon-isnt-playing-nice-with-plexs-new-cloud-service/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/02/amazon-isnt-playing-nice-w...

tribby 9y ago
this is incorrect, plex works fine with amazon.[1][2][more on request] the issues being described in the link you posted may refer to early-release bugs, users who were getting throttled or nuked due to the anti-piracy efforts I referred to earlier, or any number of things (certain kinds of transcoding, maybe?) -- it's a pretty vague article! but plex and amazon can definitely be integrated. 1. https://amc.ovh/2015/08/13/infinite-media-server.html https://amc.ovh/2015/08/13/infinite-media-server.html 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using_amazon_cloud_drive_and_encfs_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...
- derimagia 9y ago
  Those links are from a while ago. You linked to a FUSE solution, which isn't first-class and you need a computer for it. You're right, it probably would "work" with that, but I would say that's an outlier solution. It doesn't work with plex's cloud feature: https://www.plex.tv/features/cloud/ https://www.plex.tv/features/cloud/ - they removed it from the list there. This would have gotten a lot more users
  - 9935c101ab17a66 9y ago
    I used acd_cli to mount an ENCFS store that I decrypted on the server and used it successfully to play media back (files as large as 18gb) for 18 months. So, yes it was possible. You need a computer for any reasonable Plex transcoding. Just because it wasn't supported by Plex cloud doesn't mean it didn't work. Lots of people were doing it.
  - tribby 9y ago
    that is correct, plex cloud is not the preferred solution for data hoarders using plex. plex cloud only supported amazon drive until jan 1st of this year[1] and all existing accounts were grandfathered in. that was a pretty short period of time but probably enough to create a problem. plex cloud is beside the point, though, because it isn't what people use for this. they used amazon cloud drive with fuse. regarding fuse: > you need a computer for it well, not really, only to the extent that a VPS is a computer. > I would say that's an outlier solution an outlier solution for an outlier problem (can we agree to call that people storing 100+ TB of files?). except the problem was seemingly large enough that they had to get rid of it, so maybe it's not fair to call it an outlier. I don't think "first class" is a concern for people with such ridiculous amounts of data. plex cloud just makes things simpler, but running plex on a VPS takes two commands and there are some pretty detailed guides out there for people who don't know what ssh or digitalocean is. it's at a point now where there's even a platform for automating this stuff, complete with fancy dashboard etc.[2] needing to use things like fuse and encfs is hardly a barrier. people talk about this stuff a lot more publicly than I would have thought, in places like /r/datahoarders, /r/plex, as well as the lowendbox, quickbox, and torrent tracker forums. 1. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203082447-Supported-Cloud-Storage-Providers https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203082447-Supporte... 2. https://quickbox.io/ https://quickbox.io/
    - derimagia 9y ago
      Yeah VPS ia computer, plex cloud doesn't require that. But that doesn't matter, I think we're both correct, although I don't think as many people run VPS's as you seem to think for this. Not saying it's not easy, it' s just not the usual way I've seen people use plex. But it doesn't matter, really. Thanks for the links, quickbox does look neat. I've been looking to get a media server for my plex stuff and it seems to support a lot.

tribby 9y ago

this is incorrect, plex works fine with amazon.[1][2][more on request] the issues being described in the link you posted may refer to early-release bugs, users who were getting throttled or nuked due to the anti-piracy efforts I referred to earlier, or any number of things (certain kinds of transcoding, maybe?) -- it's a pretty vague article! but plex and amazon can definitely be integrated. 1. https://amc.ovh/2015/08/13/infinite-media-server.html https://amc.ovh/2015/08/13/infinite-media-server.html 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using_amazon_cloud_drive_and_encfs_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

derimagia 9y ago
Those links are from a while ago. You linked to a FUSE solution, which isn't first-class and you need a computer for it. You're right, it probably would "work" with that, but I would say that's an outlier solution. It doesn't work with plex's cloud feature: https://www.plex.tv/features/cloud/ https://www.plex.tv/features/cloud/ - they removed it from the list there. This would have gotten a lot more users
- 9935c101ab17a66 9y ago
  I used acd_cli to mount an ENCFS store that I decrypted on the server and used it successfully to play media back (files as large as 18gb) for 18 months. So, yes it was possible. You need a computer for any reasonable Plex transcoding. Just because it wasn't supported by Plex cloud doesn't mean it didn't work. Lots of people were doing it.
- tribby 9y ago
  that is correct, plex cloud is not the preferred solution for data hoarders using plex. plex cloud only supported amazon drive until jan 1st of this year[1] and all existing accounts were grandfathered in. that was a pretty short period of time but probably enough to create a problem. plex cloud is beside the point, though, because it isn't what people use for this. they used amazon cloud drive with fuse. regarding fuse: > you need a computer for it well, not really, only to the extent that a VPS is a computer. > I would say that's an outlier solution an outlier solution for an outlier problem (can we agree to call that people storing 100+ TB of files?). except the problem was seemingly large enough that they had to get rid of it, so maybe it's not fair to call it an outlier. I don't think "first class" is a concern for people with such ridiculous amounts of data. plex cloud just makes things simpler, but running plex on a VPS takes two commands and there are some pretty detailed guides out there for people who don't know what ssh or digitalocean is. it's at a point now where there's even a platform for automating this stuff, complete with fancy dashboard etc.[2] needing to use things like fuse and encfs is hardly a barrier. people talk about this stuff a lot more publicly than I would have thought, in places like /r/datahoarders, /r/plex, as well as the lowendbox, quickbox, and torrent tracker forums. 1. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203082447-Supported-Cloud-Storage-Providers https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203082447-Supporte... 2. https://quickbox.io/ https://quickbox.io/
  - derimagia 9y ago
    Yeah VPS ia computer, plex cloud doesn't require that. But that doesn't matter, I think we're both correct, although I don't think as many people run VPS's as you seem to think for this. Not saying it's not easy, it' s just not the usual way I've seen people use plex. But it doesn't matter, really. Thanks for the links, quickbox does look neat. I've been looking to get a media server for my plex stuff and it seems to support a lot.