Now all I get is green lines over the movie. Then I get a notice about an update, which I did. I have been using VLC media player for a while and was pleased with it.

It is able to play incomplete, unfinished or damaged video, but it will drive you crazy sometimes.įor example, here is a true story. VLC is a free, open-source, portable, and cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. You can find a suitable VLC alternative to play video and audio files. Have you ever used VLC media player? This post is going to show you some excellent VLC alternatives for Windows/Linux/Mac. Choose the best VLC alternative depends on your actual situation. This post lists different VLC alternatives for Windows/Mac. Let me know if I missed anything, or added to your questions.Sometimes, you may need VLC alternatives because of the annoying 'Rebuilding Font Cache' thing or others. Plex doesn't make that real clear, but if you SSH into that folder, you will see 'stay out' messages from Plex. The shared folder 'Plex' is not to be used for anything. For this folder, I gave Plex read-write access. I created a separate shared folder for this optimized content (I named it 'optimized'). I recommend that Plex has read-only access to your media files, as I see little reason for Plex to edit or delete those files.įor 2 tv series, I have Plex pre-transcode the next 3 unwatched episodes (Plex calls this 'optimize' IIRC). Within that, I created subfolders for each individual TV series (according to Plex's recommended naming structure). In my case, I added a TV library within Plex. If you don't have that folder, you could create a new shared folder 'media' and add subfolders for TV Shows, Movies, Music, etc. For example, most of my media resides in the shared folder 'video' that was created by Video Station (before I moved to Plex).

Plex media server not showing library