XBMC vs Plex

Swift-wp said:
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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Yep, the documentation can be a bit lacking sometimes but I believe this is due to the quick development cycles. The folks at Plex are churning new things out daily and documentation often lags behind.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Yep, the documentation can be a bit lacking sometimes but I believe this is due to the quick development cycles. The folks at Plex are churning new things out daily and documentation often lags behind.
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I wish they would implement hardware accelerated transcoding. That would be perfect.
 
What is this transcoding nonsense I keep hearing about and why should I care? AFAIK XBMC has hardware encoding, so
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DrJohnZoidberg said:
Hehe. No but there are few things I prefer Plex for. The fact that I can access my media from anywhere with the same app is a winner for me.
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That's great but quite a novelty unless you have a 10MB internet connection and aren't being charged mobile rates. There are a few apps that give you the same access with XBMC but can't recall the names now. But yes, same app is great...
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Hehe. No but there are few things I prefer Plex for. The fact that I can access my media from anywhere with the same app is a winner for me.
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DJ... said:
That's great but quite a novelty unless you have a 10MB internet connection and aren't being charged mobile rates. There are a few apps that give you the same access with XBMC but can't recall the names now. But yes, same app is great...
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True but if you have multiple devices running off the same network then it's still preferable over XBMC. i.e. One media server streaming to multiple clients in the house.
XBMC is more of a standalone setup, yes?
 
MartyMarts said:
True but if you have multiple devices running off the same network then it's still preferable over XBMC. i.e. One media server streaming to multiple clients in the house.
XBMC is more of a standalone setup, yes?
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I've got 4 ancilliary XBMC boxes around the house. They all operate off a single Openelec XBMC box in the living room. I set XBMC "clients" (for lack of a better term) to update the library each time it opens, so all media is always up to date on all machines, and streaming to each over wireless is perfect. So for the sake of synchronised watched indicators, I don't see the point in changing my entire setup...
 
DJ... said:
I've got 4 ancilliary XBMC boxes around the house. They all operate off a single Openelec XBMC box in the living room. I set XBMC "clients" (for lack of a better term) to update the library each time it opens, so all media is always up to date on all machines, and streaming to each over wireless is perfect. So for the sake of synchronised watched indicators, I don't see the point in changing my entire setup...
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Didn't know you could do that with XBMC - the server/client setup like you have. That's the reason I moved over to Plex.
 
MartyMarts said:
Didn't know you could do that with XBMC - the server/client setup like you have. That's the reason I moved over to Plex.
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Yip. My Microserver runs Openelec and serves content to all of the client machines perfectly. So I don't see the point of reduced functionality/customisation on Plex for the watched indicators, which is the only Plex function missing in my setup...
 
DJ... said:
I don't even have that setup. That's far too complex for my liking. I simply set each machine to autoupdate the library on startup and once a day. Done...
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But that means XBMC downloads data (nfo data, thumbs, etc) from the internet for each machine no? I know you can get around that with pre-downloaded nfos and images for TV and movies but what about music?
 
DJ... said:
Yip. My Microserver runs Openelec and serves content to all of the client machines perfectly. So I don't see the point of reduced functionality/customisation on Plex for the watched indicators, which is the only Plex function missing in my setup...
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? But then as DrJohnZoidberg said - your clients are essentially downloading from the internet and your Microserver simply has the content/media on it? Then it's still pretty much a standalone setup ... or what am I missing?

EDIT: So the Microserver isn't 'serving' (streaming?) anything but the clients just read off it? And I don't use the watched indicators anyway so that feature doesn't mean much to me personally.
 
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DrJohnZoidberg said:
But that means XBMC downloads data (nfo data, thumbs, etc) from the internet for each machine no? I know you can get around that with pre-downloaded nfos and images for TV and movies but what about music?
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Never thought about music. I only update the video database daily. Music though I tend not to care about the info all that much as I've found inevitably it download incorrect info. Of the thousands of tracks I've got, I think I have a few dozen that are correct. Pisses me off...
 
DJ... said:
Never thought about music. I only update the video database daily. Music though I tend not to care about the info all that much as I've found inevitably it download incorrect info. Of the thousands of tracks I've got, I think I have a few dozen that are correct. Pisses me off...
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I managed to keep my music pretty organized over the years and XBMC pulls an insane amount of data for my music library.
 
MartyMarts said:
? But then as DrJohnZoidberg said - your clients are essentially downloading from the internet and your Microserver simply has the content/media on it? Then it's still pretty much a standalone setup ... or what am I missing?

EDIT: So the Microserver isn't 'serving' (streaming?) anything but the clients just read off it? And I don't use the watched indicators anyway so that feature doesn't mean much to me personally.
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I'm not sure what the difference is between streaming or reading content. The non-geek in me sees it going over the wireless network as it streaming, but I suppose reading the content might be a better way of putting it. Personally, it does the same thing at the end of the day, doesn't it?

And yes, it downloads, but I export the database to separate files quite often, so will often just read from the main machine instead of searching the net. For the shows and movies it needs to read off the internet, well it takes a few seconds longer really - that's all.

Music I don't bother with on most machines though...
 
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