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Edited by a community support team member, 19 September 2022
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sorted byIt also does something called transcoding. Basically lowers the quality of stuff so you can watch it on the go.
Unless you have a decent collection of films/tv shows/music, this isn’t for you. (edited)
What is Plex?
What do you actually get for your money?
I've only ever viewed them as greedy squatters trying to profit off a free project and I can't understand why people use it and pay them when free and better software exists.
if you click on one of those films it will give you all the cast, reviews from rotten tomatoes (or another service if you prefer), a summary and so on, like so...
also it will keep track of you viewing progress across platforms, like netflix or prime do. If i watch 10 mins of this film on my laptop here, then stop and move to my living room tv, it will start playing there where you left off. (edited)
The one downside is that it's a bit fiddly, at least it was for me, to get it to properly handle 4K content.
With Plex, you can just throw anything at it and it'll play it. With Jellyfin (and Emby), you have to tweak the playback settings until the content plays and even then, it might take a while to buffer.
also just set up radarr / sonarr / lidarr / prowlarr and trakt.tv to work with it and it's so so so good.
i could never go back to having a bunch of files in a folder that play in VLC or whatever
Plex has changed how we consume media in our home. Four different TV's are all able to access the same high quality content and we never have to worry about a streaming service removing our favourite shows. Obviously you have to build up your own content library but this is worlds apart from plug a usb stick/hard drive into the TV or xbox and hoping the files will play.
I have literally just come here to encourage anyone who has an interest in building a media server at any point to purchase a life-time license and then when the time is right, you will have an increadible front-end interface waiting for you.
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If you check the Plex interface there should be a section in the settings that tells you if it's using hardware acceleration.
plex.tv/abo…es/
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
LTT recommended this handy tool for grabbing metadata:
tinymediamanager.org/
some titles I had previously had random thumbnails and Plex struggled to grab data for it - after doing this, I can't fault the Plex service!
zacholland.net/a-c…ds/
What appeals to you all with Plex?
Had intended to record shows so that my father could watch them at his leisure on his own tv 100 miles away.
Then he decided that it was too difficult to press a couple of different buttons
For the past few years I have been back to using NPVR as a PVR (which as the name implies is what it does best) and Plex to stream the resulting recordings. As I paid for plex years ago, I don't begrudge paying NPVR a few quid a year (optional, but I feel it's only fair) and also the XML guide data people whose name escapes me (they aren't optional - no pay, no service, but freeview built in guide data is only a few days worth and quite unreliable)
Thanks.
2) Plex looks great
3) Hardware encoding!
I am more than techie enough, but my mum is also a user, so simple is best.
Plex is wife-friendly, runs on everything and has a great audio player.
Every Plex post, ever
truly baffling stuff
This one worked for me, the important step was cancelling the plexpass so you can reinstate it and change the country to Turkey., then upgrade to a lifetime pass.
You might need to find some other working codes first if they don't work, TOUCHDOWN has been working for a few years so hopefully that's still valid.
Different strokes for different folks.
I don't know why.
Let us know what they say!