[SOLVED] Adapting Snakeoil for general media streaming

[patricia1066]

Thanks @"agent_kith" and @snoopy for your help.

I agree that the UB400 wont be as nice an experience as the zidoo ( and I can see that theres a 2nd hand one on ebay for about £150 which is tempting). I am trying to stop buying more boxes, which clutter up my room, so I am going to get Plex set up just to see if it is usable.

I checked samba on Ubuntu server, it wasnt on the windows network, so I updated that and added a video share. 

Plexmediaserver starts but on Roku 4k express the plex app sees the ubuntu server, but doesnt access it. On Panasonic UB400 the network sees the LMS and Minimserver shares but cannot see any content (mkv or mp4)
The manual says that it does have mkv codec so that is a puzzle. 

I feel I have almost cracked it.

Code:

patricia@mac:~$ sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver
[sudo] password for patricia:
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: >
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-07-21 08:59:18 UTC; 41min ago
   Main PID: 756 (Plex Media Serv)
      Tasks: 44 (limit: 9240)
     Memory: 116.4M
        CPU: 23.603s
     CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
             ├─ 756 "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server"
             ├─ 952 "Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system]" /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources>
             └─1154 "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service" /usr/lib/plexmediaserver>

Jul 21 08:59:18 mac systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server...
Jul 21 08:59:18 mac systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
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