XBMC vs Plex

So I tried another MP4 file. Seems to be fine with no buffering. Must be a dicey Youtube file although it plays fine on XBMC.
 
getafix33 said:
So I tried another MP4 file. Seems to be fine with no buffering. Must be a dicey Youtube file although it plays fine on XBMC.
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I stream lots of Youtube downloaded videos (same format as your pic) without issue using Plex.

I wouldn't discount that you may have some (sporadic) network inefficiencies. I'm assuming your XBMC communicates with with the NAS using SMB which is a UDP protocol, while Plex uses TCP. As TCP is acknowledged, it is quite a bit more intolerant of networking device/driver/cabling issues.

The fact that you're experiencing buffering at such a low bitrate V:1.84Mbps A:124Kbps is possible indication. For example here is a FHD/5.1 mp4 streaming to my Macbook Air over wireless N at V:17.24Mbps A:630Kbps without any buffering ...

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Roman4604 said:
I stream lots of Youtube downloaded videos (same format as your pic) without issue using Plex.

I wouldn't discount that you may have some (sporadic) network inefficiencies. I'm assuming your XBMC communicates with with the NAS using SMB which is a UDP protocol, while Plex uses TCP. As TCP is acknowledged, it is quite a bit more intolerant of networking device/driver/cabling issues.

The fact that you're experiencing buffering at such a low bitrate V:1.84Mbps A:124Kbps is possible indication. For example here is a FHD/5.1 mp4 streaming to my Macbook Air over wireless N at V:17.24Mbps A:630Kbps without any buffering ...

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That sounds plausable. The question is how to troubleshoot. All my cabling is run into a patch panel and then patched into the switch. There are no other networking devices besides my 3g router.
 
Running XBMC now on a single client with AEON skin. It is so practical and beautiful but I did find quite a few bugs that causes XBMC to crash. A bit annoying tbh but still more practical on a big screen than trying to navigate to video files using VLC. The Navi-X plugin is also very useful. With a good ADSL connection you can stream live TV to your heart's content. All Sky Sports channels are there in high bitrate streams which will allow you to still watch most South African sports live. So thanks to the ease of XBMC I see no further use for DStv and the like.
 
There are problems with the Aeon MQ5 skin and Frodo. If you're having issues then install Eden instead of Frodo and run that until you feel the need to upgrade. Personally, I don't feel the need to upgrade to Frodo yet. None of the new features really interest me all that much and I find it is finicky about the kins that will run decently on it. I upgraded one machine to test and subsequently left all of the others alone...
 
BLIXEMPIE said:
Running XBMC now on a single client with AEON skin. It is so practical and beautiful but I did find quite a few bugs that causes XBMC to crash. A bit annoying tbh but still more practical on a big screen than trying to navigate to video files using VLC. The Navi-X plugin is also very useful. With a good ADSL connection you can stream live TV to your heart's content. All Sky Sports channels are there in high bitrate streams which will allow you to still watch most South African sports live. So thanks to the ease of XBMC I see no further use for DStv and the like.
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I cancelled my DSTV Premium in Dec 2012. Also see no need for it anymore.

Was actually funny... My wife fired up Plex on Sunday night to watch the next episode of Storage Wars only to find she had already seen them all and was up to date. She moans at me asking when the next episode is. I tell he to pretend it is DSTV and just re-watch them all :)
 
Swift-wp said:
Thanks, I'm currently re-evaluating my use of Xbmc over Plex as I know have a multi-view environment. Plex media centre is pretty crap so I'm thinking of using PleXBMC to get the best of both.
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I'm using the PleXBMC plugin at the moment. While it is convenient it doesn't always give you the best experience.

What were your gripes with Plex Media center? Maybe I can help out.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I'm using the PleXBMC plugin at the moment. While it is convenient it doesn't always give you the best experience.

What were your gripes with Plex Media center? Maybe I can help out.
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My biggest gripe is the osd during playback which is not as feature rich as the one in xbmc.

What is lacking in your experience with PleXBMC?
 
Swift-wp said:
My biggest gripe is the osd during playback which is not as feature rich as the one in xbmc.
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That is skin dependent and I believe that Plex can use most of the XBMC skins out there. Not sure about the new skins designed for 12.0 but at least older ones should work. MQ4 for example is OSD eye-candy...
 
What client are you using where you can set a skin in plex?
 
DJ... said:
That is skin dependent and I believe that Plex can use most of the XBMC skins out there. Not sure about the new skins designed for 12.0 but at least older ones should work. MQ4 for example is OSD eye-candy...
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Thanks, I didn't know this. Now I'm struggling to get my XBMC metadata generated by Sickbeard into Plex. It's not reading the episode thumbnails (it seems because it's .tbn) or NFO files for the TV shows. Movies are 100%.
 
I'm using Plex on my Samsung smart tv and it works fine, expect that whenever I reboot my laptop Plex can't find the server, so I have to rescan it every time.
A bit anniying.

There's no XBMC app for the tv yet, so can't try it.
 
I'm using Plex on my Samsung smart tv and it works fine, expect that whenever I reboot my laptop Plex can't find the server, so I have to rescan it every time.
A bit anniying.

There's no XBMC app for the tv yet, so can't try it.
 
Swift-wp said:
Thanks, I didn't know this. Now I'm struggling to get my XBMC metadata generated by Sickbeard into Plex. It's not reading the episode thumbnails (it seems because it's .tbn) or NFO files for the TV shows. Movies are 100%.
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Plex doesn't use NFO data, it downloads and maintains it's own database of metadata.
 
Thanks. I wish the documentation said that. Now I just need for the episode thumbnails to load then I'm all in. I love PMS. Xbmc can't compare.
 
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