Hi!
How do you use your Plex? Connected directly to your TV? With Chromecast? With your Smart TV? With your PS4?
I am moving in a new house and planning how to setup my new home. I use Chromecast, have some buffering issues surely related to my router. I was curious on how you guys use it, and how it can be most efficient.
Thanks!
Let me count the ways:
I like the ATV (also run Channels app on it for live TV and that has a high WAF) and the Roku. FireTV (1st gen) is my least favorite.
not much lately since appletv app went down hill and the latest server release is full of bugs
@dragonmel said:
not much lately since appletv app went down hill and the latest server release is full of bugs
Down hill for you maybe. I use my ATVs everyday and am on PMS v 1.7.5.4035 with no show stopping bugs.
Just because you have issues with your setup does not mean the product has gone down hill.
I run my server on a Windows PC, and my most used clients by far are my 2 ShieldTVs. I love them, direct plays most files, I can plug headphones on the controller, etc.
I also have a few android devices on which I sync files, music on my phone and video files on my tablet.
your opinion… not mine… I wont try to change your opinion… so kindly dont tell me how to think or what to say
just in the last week for me…
I am on 1.7.5 and the server went down hill quickly… the last 2 updates to appletv 1.1.2 and .3 absolutely killed blu rips in mkv containers amongst other issues… I am not alone… go to the appletv thread and its on fire when they took away control for directplay/stream on appletv full bitrate stuff pretty much is unusable… everything either is being forced to transcode or must be transcoded manually… if you stuff is already transcoded to lower bitrate things are better but still not stable
half the posts in the last 2 days seem like people complaining their servers just went offline
I have been using the product for what … like 10 years… back when it was an all-in one with no back end front end…
its been touch and go but lately they have way more fails than successes…
@dragonmel said:
your opinion… not mine… I wont try to change your opinion… so kindly dont tell me how to think or what to sayjust in the last week for me…
I am on 1.7.5 and the server went down hill quickly… the last 2 updates to appletv 1.1.2 and .3 absolutely killed blu rips in mkv containers amongst other issues… I am not alone… go to the appletv thread and its on fire when they took away control for directplay/stream on appletv full bitrate stuff pretty much is unusable… everything either is being forced to transcode or must be transcoded manually… if you stuff is already transcoded to lower bitrate things are better but still not stable
half the posts in the last 2 days seem like people complaining their servers just went offline
I have been using the product for what … like 10 years… back when it was an all-in one with no back end front end…
its been touch and go but lately they have way more fails than successes…
I am not trying to change your mind, You stated it as fact, not an opinion. Across the board.
If you had said “For me …” then no problem.
Again in this post you are stating things as if they are fact across the board. They are your facts not mine and I will point that out to people every single time.
I have been to the ATV boards, they are not "on fire’. Yes some have issues. Do you really think those are all the Plex/ATV users? Nope. Not even close. For the vast majority of us Plex and ATV work just fine.
Stop stating your issues as issues across the board.
(And seriously, who cares how long you have been using the product. I have been using for a long time also, since the days of a single, all-in-one solution also.)
Hi Guys. Any suggestions on what is best to run my Plex sever on? currently on a Seagate personal cloud, streamed to either my Smart TV (Samsung), PS3, Roku and my android phone. Movies seem fine but I have started to upload my camera role (which I love the auto upload) but playback of these images is not great, I think it is the Seagate Personal Cloud and not the clients as its the same when viewing on my PC. Router is going to be upgraded, I already have it but my ISP wont let me install third party router, Network upgraded to a gig backbone. so any advice on a server spec would be great. I am thinking another NAS so I have a single device to manage for all my back ups, Plex and media. Thanks in advance…
@Dean1973 said:
Hi Guys. Any suggestions on what is best to run my Plex sever on? currently on a Seagate personal cloud, streamed to either my Smart TV (Samsung), PS3, Roku and my android phone. Movies seem fine but I have started to upload my camera role (which I love the auto upload) but playback of these images is not great, I think it is the Seagate Personal Cloud and not the clients as its the same when viewing on my PC. Router is going to be upgraded, I already have it but my ISP wont let me install third party router, Network upgraded to a gig backbone. so any advice on a server spec would be great. I am thinking another NAS so I have a single device to manage for all my back ups, Plex and media. Thanks in advance…
Anything would better, that’s pretty underpowered. You could easily plug that Seagate in a ShieldTV tv and use that as a server… or a low level Intel NUC or Mac Mini.
it would depend on the plex experiance you are looking for
if you dont want the server to transcode and make a media item in your library playable to multiple devices and multiple bitrates (for outside your network for example) you can run plex on a processor with the power of a pocket calculator… all its doing is running a low powered database and streaming the file… most servers wont go above 1% utilization when streaming
now if you are talking about using plex as its designed to work… ie take just about anything and play it to just about anything and just about any required bitrate… well then the server side needs processing power to transcode… and again that depends on how you store your media as to how much power you need… the combinations are endless…
for current mainstream (1080 blu ray not 4k) plex has suggested a passmark of 2000 … but that is misleading and I believe reflects a cpu total of 2000 for a dual core which would be a passmark of 1000 per core… let me explain why that is important
if you store a blu ray rip in full quality and its encoded in VC-1 the plex transcoder is single threaded for that codec … meaning that if you have a quad core NAS it only uses ONE CORE… and if you NAS has a passmark of 2000 … that is 500 per core but in my experiance a passmark of 1000 barely keeps the transocde at a 1 to 1 rate … ie realtime.
