[SOLVED] Adapting Snakeoil for general media streaming

[agent_kith]

I have ripped many BR recently and have saved them to the same drive as holds my music managed by Snakeoil.

I installed plexmediaserver (snap) and was unable to get a response until I removed it. Prior to that I looked for plex on the Software page on SO, and tried to install it without snap. If plex isnt suitable for SO, does anyone have a dlna suggestion for .mkv files?

patricia@mac:~$ sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver
Failed to start plexmediaserver.service: Unit plexmediaserver.service not found.
patricia@mac:~$ sudo snap remove plexmediaserver
2023-07-19T11:22:01Z INFO Waiting for "snap.plexmediaserver.plexmediaserver.service" to
stop.
plexmediaserver removed

Plex should show up as a player if you install it I believe. At least I added that a while back (but may have removed it in newer versions). Will have to double check.

For plex, it's best to avoid Snap... (Actually it's best to avoid snap altogether ). Go to this site (https://www.plex.tv/en-au/media-server-downloads/), click on the drop down to change it to Linux, download the deb file, transfer to your snakeoil machine, and run

Code:

dpkg -i /path/to/plexmediaserver.deb.file

If you see plex now showing up in the list of players, run this:

Code:

systemctl disable plexmediaserver

Above command just means you're using Snakeoil to control start/stop of Plex, and not systemd.