| Credit where credit's due, I mainly used these 3 resources to get this all working. There were several others but I don't exactly remember which is which. So at least here are the 3 main places that I used. | |
| The vast majority of this came from this link, the others helped me make it work for Plex. | |
| http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/30975-reverse-proxy-with-ssl-hostname-routing-and-embyopenvpn-port-sharing/ | |
| https://gist.github.com/spikegrobstein/4384954 | |
| https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/207725/ubuntu-14-04-4-lts-plex-incorrectly-handles-lower-case-headers#latest | |
| The data flow here is: |
Last updated: April 2021
Also known as itag or format codes and way back they could be specified with the fmt parameter (e.g. &fmt=22).
Depending on the age and/or popularity of the video, not all formats will be available.
| Resolution | AV1 HFR High | AV1 HFR | AV1 | VP9.2 HDR HFR | VP9 HFR | VP9 | H.264 HFR | H.264 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MP4 | MP4 | MP4 | WebM | WebM | WebM | MP4 | MP4 |
(especially while expanding)
Warning: The exact commands may not match for your particular linux OS / Synology(NAS) device. I had to customize the commands after exploring my particular system's setup.
If you're new to linux, or this is a new piece of hardware / a new synology device, jump down to the section called "Inspecting a setup"
My work requires us to have full-disk encryption, so these are the steps I use.
The basic idea is to create a LUKS-encrypted partition which is used as an LVM Physical Volume.
The GRUB boot partition isn't encrypted, but everything else is.
These steps tested and working on 22.04 (jammy) and 20.04 (focal).