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no you need just a plex pass
No......
Plex Media Player Plex Pass £3 per month or £25 per year (Xbox One / Xbox 360 Media Server Now Included)
maybe
Stop beefing the Plex Pass up by slapping Xbox One / 360 in the title as it's main selling point.
support.plex.tv/hc/…ons
Quite a big jump from lifetime from $74.99 to $149.99
it's not the server it's the client, what goods a server on a locked down system?
So is Plex working with Chromecast a waste too?
I download a lot of stuff and me and my partner watch it on the TV. Before Chromecast we put media on a USB stick and put that in the TV. Now I download and put in the Plex folder and use my phone to play the content/cast to TV. This makes it even easier for me. One negative I had with Plex/Chromecast was I often pressed stop instead of pause and have looked for a remote I could use but, problem solved. Uses Xbox voice AND I bought a media remote at the weekend anyway so very happy bunny.
Oh, so you can view your media on an xbox? Still seems a waste of an xbox and it seems you have to subscribe to keep using it.
Plex Pass is way too expensive and that was before the price hikes!
At least the client more or less works now, although there are still problems that really shouldn't be there.
Nope, you have Plex server on a PC and run the Plex client on the Xbone. The software just streams from the server. You can also run the client on the server so can can start with just one box and work upwards.
waste of an xbox how?
it doesn't magically remove all the other functions of the console when you install the plex app you do know this yes?
He misunderstood and was assuming that the Xbox became a dedicated server.
The cost of a Plex Pass isn't cheap though. The prices have just gone up with a massive price hike too.
My xbox streams some types of video from my media server, but I wouldn't want to watch any videos on it, the screen isn't big enough. For the other tvs, I have WD boxes or the clients are built in and I have (free) aps for the android phones and the ipads.
Depends where your Xbox is really.
We have the 42" TV in the living room with a Chromecast hooked up to it and the Xbox One (and 360) along with the VM Tivo box and all shows/movies are shown on that TV one way or the other. Like I said previously, via USB, then via Chromecast/Plex, now it will be via Plex on the Xbox One as damn it's so much easier to say Xbox pause when the door/phone rings :D, then fiddle about with my phone to pause it.
As it happens, just a couple of days back I looked to see if there was a Plex app for the Xbox as I figured it would make life much easier for our set up :).
Ok, thanks, I see now.
After trying a few media servers, I use the free version of Serviio. This is seen by the WD boxes and the client built into my big TV. The main problem was finding clients for operating systems that can easily see it on the local lan and play all types of file. The mac.was difficult. Fortunately VLC player will install on almost everything, so most types of file are playable. Vlc has an ability to browse the network, but it has never worked properly for me. For guests who don't want to or can't install anything complicated, I get them to install filezilla. I run filezilla server, so they can download the videos directly, They are all classified and in directories anyway, so easy to find and recognise. Everything is free!
Getting media to devices these days isn't much of an issue with UPNP/DLNA etc, its getting the consistency and usability factors right.
I'm a XBMC man, have been from the start. With setups all round the house and mysql on the server its just amazing.
I've used Plex on the odd occasion, the Plex server runs side by side with XBMC on most things. Comes in useful if I find myself with a device that hasn't the power to decode etc
Plex has its place and works great if you aren't a major media hoe, especially with a NowTV box. Done setups with these for many friends & family and they love it. But at these prices not gonna happen.
I'd be willing to pay say a tenner a year for a sub if I used it more, balances out the lifetime sub a little bit. But not $40 (£20+) a year and definitely not $149.99 (£80ish) outright.
That £80 is going on a Fire TV w/XBMC. Looking to downsize my bedroom PC a little
People seem a little confused on the pricing. As it stands to use the Plex app on Xbox One you need a Plex pass but soon the app will be available to anyone with a one off payment to purchase the app. No cost has been given but I hope they don't charge a silly amount just because it's on Xbox. The Android app was only a few pounds (£2 or £3, don't remember exactly).
I was curious and could do with a good media player on my Xbox so went for 1 months pass subscription. Hopefully the app will be available to buy after the month is up. Installed it yesterday and it worked very nicely, usual Xbox One layout, nice and smooth navigation. Plex displayed all artwork as you would expect. All TV shows and movies I tried worked perfectly.
I don't normally like Plex much, and on all my other systems use XBMC, but as this is the only option on Xbox then it will do. I will try it out a bit more then hopefully remove my Raspberry Pi from that TV (yes it works, but just so slow compared to other media players).
It's certainly nice to see Microsoft allow this sort of app. Hopefully others will follow. Who knows, maybe XBMC/Kodi
Right, so currently its only to Pass owners but soon a seperate paid app like the Android one was, no sub needed for normal use. Missed that part, seems like a better offer that way
Good to hear of its quality though. No doubt it will be as slow as poo on the 360, the online dash at the minute is slow sluggish! Gotta reblock the video ads in my router before I go online again, half the reason I pull cable out is its SO much faster without the content.
Does it need a Live connection though or does it run properly just on LAN? If it works OffLive then I'm gonna use my old broken 360s as Plex clients
If MS would 'man up' and accept that not everyone lives and bleeds MS and that they do use other software then maybe they would start to use open source codecs properly. Then we wouldn't need extra apps such as Plex etc.
Last time I tried my 360 navigated my server pretty well using the inbuilt browser (was just sloooww), it just wouldn't play anything. Add a bit of code for thumbnail display and folder/albumart and Bam! decent media player.
No wonder Plex hiked the price up so much, its to pay MS for the 'privilege' of allowing an app on the console. Remember reading about some company (EA, 2k, Indie etc) who wanted to patch some bugs on a game. MS charge them $40,000 a patch...
I hear you on the Pi though, great in theory but XBMC on it just didn't cut it for me.