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Loving plex and the fact it works on every device in the house. Windows computers, ios and android devices, xbox, chromebook, chromecast, ...
Brilliant piece of kit. I've paid for a lifetime subscription before they upped the price, but I don't think I've ever used any of the paid for features.
Brilliant piece of kit. I've paid for a lifetime subscription before they upped the price, but I don't think I've ever used any of the paid for features.
.ZesPak said:
Fair point Jimbo, however a home server these days isn't really that exotic anymore.
I've recently installed the server on an old laptop 1gb of ram running Linux mint.
The fact that you can then watch all your videos anywhere on any device really makes it worth it imho.
Agreed. I've just rebuilt an old Thinkpad T61 as a Plex Server. Works perfectly.I've recently installed the server on an old laptop 1gb of ram running Linux mint.
The fact that you can then watch all your videos anywhere on any device really makes it worth it imho.
I agree and I already have 3 or more devices running various servers in the house, PMS transcoding streams to be streamed externally does require more power than I'd like to leave running and doesn't run satisfactorily on my existing hardware.
For my 3 clients (Android TV Box, Android Tablet and a Pi) XBMC is a better fit. With a My SQL server I even get the resuming on different devices and shared bookmarks without having to run the closed source PMS.
For my 3 clients (Android TV Box, Android Tablet and a Pi) XBMC is a better fit. With a My SQL server I even get the resuming on different devices and shared bookmarks without having to run the closed source PMS.
Agreed with all of the above. But, with all these internet services devices seem to become "thinner" and "thinner" again.
Look at chromecasts, chromebook/box, several tv's,...
XBMC, if I'm not mistaken, requires the decoding to be done by the client, Plex does not (handy if you have some iOS gear as well).
On top of that, I won't even start to count them but we easily have about a dozen devices in the house that get used. Plex requires no set up, no connections, on any of them.
Don't get me wrong, I still have an old XBOX that runs XBMC, and have a couple of Popcorn Hour media players that get used daily. I just feel Plex (and similar) is the way forward in this.
Look at chromecasts, chromebook/box, several tv's,...
XBMC, if I'm not mistaken, requires the decoding to be done by the client, Plex does not (handy if you have some iOS gear as well).
On top of that, I won't even start to count them but we easily have about a dozen devices in the house that get used. Plex requires no set up, no connections, on any of them.
Don't get me wrong, I still have an old XBOX that runs XBMC, and have a couple of Popcorn Hour media players that get used daily. I just feel Plex (and similar) is the way forward in this.
Bullett said:
Make sure that your media is either in a format that the client supports natively or you have a server powerful enough to transcode.
Fair point.Any computer (as above, an old laptop with 1GB RAM) will do fine, some of the NAS (intel atom?) clients could have problems with higher end decoding.
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