When I heard the news last April that Plex was coming to the Xbox One, I was very excited. To be able to play all my stored media easily on my living room TV without having to plug in a computer is a great feature. I was a little surprised to find that I still needed to run my PC with Plex Media Server in order for it to work. I'm rather new to this, is there a way to just run the server on the Xbox One so I can keep my laptop off when I want to watch a movie?
If not, is there a way to run the server on a WD My Cloud? My whole goal here is having not to run my computer constantly. Thanks in advance for any responses!
When I heard the news last April that Plex was coming to the Xbox One, I was very excited. To be able to play all my stored media easily on my living room TV without having to plug in a computer is a great feature. I was a little surprised to find that I still needed to run my PC with Plex Media Server in order for it to work. I'm rather new to this, is there a way to just run the server on the Xbox One so I can keep my laptop off when I want to watch a movie?
If not, is there a way to run the server on a WD My Cloud? My whole goal here is having not to run my computer constantly. Thanks in advance for any responses!
The entire idea of plex is to stream from a media server. Not a simple file storage like your cloud service. And The xbox one will not play a server role, only a client. Plex is really for most people with a computer constantly on, or at least on when they want to watch media.
What you are saying is like wanting your cable to work without your cable box on. Your tv is a screen only to show what your cable box puts out, as to your xbone player is a screen showing what your computers streams to it.
The entire idea of plex is to stream from a media server. Not a simple file storage like your cloud service. And The xbox one will not play a server role, only a client. Plex is really for most people with a computer constantly on, or at least on when they want to watch media.
What you are saying is like wanting your cable to work without your cable box on. Your tv is a screen only to show what your cable box puts out, as to your xbone player is a screen showing what your computers streams to it.
Thank you for clearing that up. My point was that the Xbox One might as well be a PC. It pretty much runs Windows 8 (albeit a watered-down version), so I didn't think that the Xbox One acting as a media server and a client was too far of a stretch.
I don't think MS will ever allow that to happen. On top of that, 500gb just isn't enough storage space for movies and games (heck, I've only got like 5 games downloaded and I'm running low on space). Another thing would be, can you image if someone was playing a movie that required transcoding while trying to play a game, that has bad news written all over it. :)
I don't think MS will ever allow that to happen. On top of that, 500gb just isn't enough storage space for movies and games (heck, I've only got like 5 games downloaded and I'm running low on space). Another thing would be, can you image if someone was playing a movie that required transcoding while trying to play a game, that has bad news written all over it. :)
I've got 5TB worth of network drives that store movies. And I would only be using the Xbox One to do one thing at a time (it's the centerpiece of my entertainment center) which would be to watch video. But what I'm getting from everyone is that it's not possible anyhow, which is kind of a bummer.
I've got 5TB worth of network drives that store movies. And I would only be using the Xbox One to do one thing at a time (it's the centerpiece of my entertainment center) which would be to watch video. But what I'm getting from everyone is that it's not possible anyhow, which is kind of a bummer.
I understand your train of thought, but don't expect it to ever be an option.
