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DNS Rebinding & Permitting a private domain
I have some orbi 850's i need to change the DNS rebinding to allow a domain. Support is zero as its out of warrenty. I cannot find any settings about DNS rebinding protection. Help please. Someo...
DLink DGS-108 - it's an 8-port unmanaged consumer gigabit switch.
I probably didn't explain the situation correctly though. The iPad can connect to Plex and stream content, no issues there. I can also have the iPad successfully kick-off the content download, no issues there. It is when the content is being transferred, a transcoding process is running on the Plex. The content on Plex is typically 1080P at a pretty high bitrate and the original format of the content results in pretty large file sizes. Besides the part of higher res and bitrate are pretty big overkill when viewing direct on the iPad, I don't have a lot of space, so transcoding the content into something like 720P at 2-3mbps is plenty quality wise and allows for more content on my 32GB iPad.
Some may find this dumb, but reasoning behind downloading the content is I go boondocking in central CO for 1 1/2 weeks where there is no mobile signal. I actually transfer fly tying videos, and some movies, and bring all of my fly tying stuff in my travel trailer. The movies are for night or if it decides to rain. Yes, I can get by without downloaded movies during my trip but like to have some of my other videos for difficult patterns I don't tie often.
Thanks for the information. Makes perfect sense to me. Totally reasonable thing to do.
The DGS-108 actually does have IGMP snooping:
https://us.dlink.com/en/products/dgs-108-8-port-unmanaged-gigabit-metal-desktop-switch
I searched Amazon looking for a switch that does not include IGMP snooping. The Netgear GS-308 is inexpensive. The Netgear data sheet does not mention IGMP snooping, but the Amazon description does. (Who to believe: the manufacturer or Amazon?)
Would Plex have an option to transcode the video file to lower resolution/bandwidth, store that version under a different name, and then download the smaller file? Or, is it downloading anything that fails?
That is beyond strange about the DLink switch.I would never have guessed it had IGMP Snooping on it but I suppose who am I to say if someone would be using multicast. I actually work with multicast video products although I've never had to setup a network for multicast video but do know well the differences between ASM and SSM where SSM does require snooping turned on.
Plex is not designed as an offline transcoder, it has on-the-fly transcoding based on requests for the content. You can set max resolution and approximate bitrates on the transcoded content but there are not many knobs other than that. You actually bring up an interesting point about it though, I've never looked into how the Plex and app work together but assuming simple https GET requests for the content, just never curious about it until now especially considering the work I do.
Very much appreciate your insight and willingness to help spark ideas. Thank you!
Transcoding on the Plex is kicked off by way of the request as mentioned and it does that if watching it live or if downloading the content to mobile device. So no, it does not have the ability to separate downloading from the transcoding process or vice-versa. Unless you specifically set it up for downloading original content. But again, that gets back to the files being way too large and extremely limits the amount of content I can download to my iPad.
Apart from investing $25 in a different Ethernet switch on the off-chance that IGMP snooping somehow affects downloading but not streaming, I'd look in two directions:
- Some obscure Plex setting that affects download but not streaming. (my first thought is that it must be the Plex Client that controls this if the server is going to transcode for both operations)
- Manually transcode the videos using a different product and then either copy them to the iPad manually or load them back into Plex with a different name.
Handbrake claims to convert almost anything into anything else: https://handbrake.fr
VLC claims to convert files.