What's the best practice to mount rclone crypt for video streaming on Ubuntu?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

What's the best practice to mount an rclone crypt remote (Google drive) for streaming videos?

My stored video files are 700 - 5300 Megabytes in size. And the video always gets downloaded in full before it starts. I tried all kinds of variations with different chunk sizes and flags - same results.

Question 1:
I don't want to guess here, but rather am interested in a best practice or recommended command and flags usage for video streaming from a crypt remote on Google drive.

Question 2:
I originally wanted to serve the directories from a server using rclone serve SFTP (or WebDAV) and then mount the SFTP (or WebDAV) on the client-machine.

Do you recommend this or should I just mount the Google drive directories directly on the client-machine using rclone mount?

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount gdrive.crypt: /mnt/gdrive --fast-list --allow-other
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For best experience you have to add cache - then files do not have to be downloaded in full.

On Linux the best way is to create systemd service. Here you are very good example - you can tweak it to your needs:

It says Dropbox but pretty much the same you can use for Google.

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I want to watch the video files in my collection (each ~ 700 MB), but dont want to wait till it all downloads before it starts.

Currently streaming does not work. The video just doesnt show, until its all downloaded.

I use:

rclone serve http gdrive.crypt:/ --config /home/mv337/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --addr :8080 --fast-list --dir-cache-time 9999h --cache-dir=/opt/rclone-cache --vfs-cache-mode full --vfs-cache-max-size 30G

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you are mixing things.

For what you described use mount not serve

run:

rclone mount gdrive.crypt: /mnt/gdrive --config /home/mv337/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --fast-list --allow-other --dir-cache-time 9999h --cache-dir=/opt/rclone-cache --vfs-cache-mode full --vfs-cache-max-size 30G

and you will be able to watch films without any issue.

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still does not work - it keeps loading but nothing happens

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post results of:

rclone version

post content of your rclone.config file - remove all passwords etc.

run:

rclone mount gdrive.crypt: /mnt/gdrive --config /home/mv337/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --fast-list --allow-other --dir-cache-time 9999h --cache-dir=/opt/rclone-cache --vfs-cache-mode full --vfs-cache-max-size 30G --log-level DEBUG --log-file ~/rclone.log

try to play something, unmount and upload created rclone.log file here

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rclone v1.63.0

  • os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 5.15.0-76-generic (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.20.5
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

rclone.conf

[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
client_secret = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
scope = drive
token = {"access_token":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":1XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX","expiry":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"}
team_drive = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
root_folder_id = 

[gdrive.crypt]
type = crypt
remote = gdrive:/
password = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
password2 = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

rclone.log (437.0 KB)

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It is not good idea to use crypt on gdrive root

create crypt folder on gdrive - move all your encrypted content there and change gdrive.crypt to:

[gdrive.crypt]
type = crypt
remote = gdrive:crypt
password = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
password2 = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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@asdffdsa if you have a moment could you please look at this? I am off for now.

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The issue was Ubuntu 22.04. I reinstalled the OS and now it works.

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