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Cake day: June 20th, 2023
  • Fribbtastic@lemmy.worldtoPlex@lemmy.ml•Plex announces a new primary metadata source for images which "should improve the quality of the posters we use, especially for lesser known titles in our metadata catalog."English
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    5 months ago

    If you look at your library it shows you what they currently use and you can even set which you want as default.

    yeah, can’t say that this is the case. Since the Metadata Agent would be responsible for requesting and adding metadata to your library items it would be set to the Official Plex Metadata Agents, since this is specifically for Movie Artworks, this would then only apply to the Plex Movie Metadata Agent.

    But nowhere is any mention of where that metadata is coming from. Since I already wrote my own Metadata Agent and have some experience with it I know that the metadata is coming from watch.plex.tv as the metadata aggregator. I also know that movie-related Metadata is coming from TheMovieDB or IMDB.

    You can specifically define that you want metadata from any of the sources if your “force match” the related source through the {tvdb-110381} on your folders. But not in the agent settings itself.

    For TV Shows this is somewhat different because you can specifically select the Episode ordering to either TVDB or TMDB. By default, and from my tests, everything is coming from TheMovieDB unless otherwise specified.

    I am curious where you did see that…

    But, again, the point is to make this more clear what the origin is because I have had multiple instances in which I had to do some detective work telling a user where that incorrect metadata is coming from because all they see is some wrong metadata in their library that someone maliciously changed on on TVDB, IMDB or TMDB.

  • Fribbtastic@lemmy.worldtoPlex@lemmy.ml•Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and FamilyEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I am pretty sure I have disabled this as well but I am not sure about the “set everything to private”. I know I have seen this recently but I cannot find it anywhere so it isn’t that easy to find, at least for me right now.

    On the other hand, even if I would set that family and friends could see my watch history, I would still have to have some assumptions about what is shared and what is not and how that is being accessed. There is a huge difference between “they can see everything that I have watched regardless of whether they have access to the library or not” and, more importantly getting notified about what I have watched or they have to go to some UI element or browser to see what a user has played.

  • Fribbtastic@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stanceEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is the same problem/argument you have with the argument/perception of planes being unsafe.

    In 2022 almost 43000 people died in “motor vehicle traffic crashes”. And yet many believe that Planes are much more dangerous to use than cars because hundreds of people die all at once in a Plane crash.

    A Plane crash is automatically a sensation, something that doesn’t happen every day but a car accident happens every day but this isn’t reported as much because it is already a daily routine.

    The same goes with the “Coal kills more than nuclear” argument which is even less likely to be grasped by the normal population.

    I mean just look at the climate change denier who say “but it is snowing so climate change isn’t real” while at the same time complaining that each summer is so incredibly hot.

    All of those things are so incredibly complex that the vast majority can’t understand and outright deny them because they read/heard somewhere that they actually can understand, that it is a hoax. I mean, I wouldn’t count myself to the people that understand climate change but I can understand that it will have a drastic impact on our lives if this goes on.

  • Fribbtastic@lemmy.worldtoPlex@lemmy.ml•Help with GPU selectionEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There is a very helpful link that I will link below that shows stats of what some Nvidia Cards are capable of.

    Though, as with everything “transcoding 4K related” would be, WHY? Why would you go through the trouble to store 4K content and then be okay with letting that high quality be transcoded to either a lower bitrate, resolution or even different codecs? All you do in those cases is affect the quality which you specifically want with 4K content. An alternative, 1080p version would not even take that much storage space from you and eliminate the transcoding requirements.

    Transcoding should be the backup that should be used to make a video playable if any other attempt or way failed, it should NOT be the standard.

    https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex-Hardware-Transcoding