Can you output video directly from computer via HDMI to TV, but still organize media with Plex Server?

Plex Media Server
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I want to be able to use Plex to organize my movies/media (on external 5TB HDD) through the interface, but output directly via HDMI to my TV when I play a movie - I can’t seem to find any topics that address this.

I don’t want to stream or transcode the media, just select it in PLEX then output to TV using direct play from my folder/external HDD…can’t seem to figure out how to do it.

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You would need to have to use plex web or plex client on the machine as well. To output out via HDMI you will need to have a HDMI output on the computer or add a video card that had a HDMI output.

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You need 2 apps

  1. Plex media Server to organise everything
  2. Plex Media Player to play it without transcoding. Plex Web will generally force a transcode as browsers have limited codec support

https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/#plex-app

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Output to an HDMI TV is exactly the same as outputting to an HDMI monitor.
You can play media through the Plex Web app, http://localhost:32400/web

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Yes, but neither can you use HDMI audio passthrough, nor Sync switching.

Plus the inability of web browser a, to decode a lot of codecs.

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I guess I skipped this part. :slight_smile:

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