Monitoring Plex Media Server logs using Promtail, Loki and Grafana
There are many reasons why you might want to monitor the Plex Media Server (PMS) log files. I simply want to have all logs available through a Grafana dashboard and configure some thresholds / alerts on it. Requirements You have already installed Loki and Grafana on a...Two-Pass encoding with FFmpeg
First: Why and when to use a two-pass encoding? Let’s make a simple example: We target a video bitrate of 6 Mbit/s. This means that in average a 8 second video needs 6 MB storage (6 Mbit * 8 seconds / 8; 8 Mbit = 1 MByte). So the encoder has 6 Mbit (or 0,75...Nightly Builds of FFmpeg for macOS and Linux
My new build server is now online for a few weeks. It compiles once per day the latest version of FFmpeg, FFprobe and FFplay. In addition to this, it uses commonly used codecs (like x264 and x265). The source code is also published here. You can download the static...Compile FFmpeg on your own
Since 2017 I provide a build script to compile FFmpeg on your own. If you just want to run FFmpeg, go to https://ffmpeg.org/download.html and download the executable. Compiling FFmpeg is not that hard. So simply download the latest source code and compile it, right?...About Me
My name is Martin Riedl living in Germany. I'm working since more than 15 years as software developer.
