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Addons on R6
Hello Because it was disclosed most of you can installl addons without going on Genie, perhaps because you have R6 on old X86 Nases or for some other reasons. Please Guys, Note that Whocares and...
/apps/plexmediaserver/plexmediaserver_environment specifies that the transcodes should be stored in /apps/plexmediaserver/tmp
The problem is this directory does not exist and it is using /tmp to store the transcodes.
Even if I create the directory and reboot the NAS it still uses /tmp
There are instructions here on how to manually change the temporary directory: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/65594-custom-cache-location-for-transcoding-on-ubuntu/ (note the setting you need to change is visible if you turn on Advanced Settings)
After doing that
# cat /apps/plexmediaserver/MediaLibrary/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml should give something like:
Hopefully a fix can be made to properly set the Transcoder Temp Directory automatically on install.
The problem is this directory does not exist and it is using /tmp to store the transcodes.
Even if I create the directory and reboot the NAS it still uses /tmp
There are instructions here on how to manually change the temporary directory: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/65594-custom-cache-location-for-transcoding-on-ubuntu/ (note the setting you need to change is visible if you turn on Advanced Settings)
After doing that
# cat /apps/plexmediaserver/MediaLibrary/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml should give something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Preferences MachineIdentifier="XXXX" ProcessedMachineIdentifier="YYYYY" AcceptedEULA="1" FirstRun="0" TranscoderTempDirectory="/apps/plexmediaserver/tmp"/>
Hopefully a fix can be made to properly set the Transcoder Temp Directory automatically on install.
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