I’ve been a Plex user for a long time. And it worked fairly well. Sure, there were a few hoops I had to jump through, like renaming my collection properly. Reasonable enough, for getting the proper identifications. Streaming for my Plex phone to a Chromecast has certainly been useful when at a TV e…

Hey JohnAlex, Whatever floats your boat. If whatever you are using is doing what you need it to do, it’s all good. I wasn’t planing on switching either, until the obsticles became unsurmountable. Heck, if I didn’t like the cover art, descriptions, et al. so much, I could have used VLC for Android T…

[image] kris44dad: Whatever floats your boat Absolutely. I was a Kodi (XBMC) user for many years until I got tired with the maintenance (and lack of server options). Along came Plex and I switched. I have gone back to Kodi a few times (for example, when HTPC got killed off for a while) but…

I tryied Kodi for a while. The setup to get the sources right was challenging. Again too much work, and the Plex interface was nicer.

Holy cow! A convert. For the record, I am not a religious organization, but do accept donations in the form of media files. LOL!

Opps, this is one of mine also. LOL!

added my support for the codec feature. Thankfully I don’t have any data in that format (most of my stuff is h.265) but I agree the more formats supported the better for sure. Wonder what the cost is to Plex to support the format…

For Plex to support AV1 all the clients have to support it in hardware; Roku, Fire, Samsung TVs, LG TVs, HiSense TVs, etc. Plex is NOT writing software decoders for these devices, they need to support it in hardware / firmware. Even though there are software codecs available until the hardware clien…

I have to agree about “internet goes down, so does Plex.” I’ve really tried to get Plex to work when the internet is down, but so far have not been successful. I believe this is because I have managed users. Is Plex an app or a web service? It is feeling more like a web service and that is a concer…

Sorry @granjan7 , you really don’t understand how this works so I don’t understand why you would weigh in. No, the clients don’t have to support in hardware but many already do. The server can easily stream to any client that supports the codec or the server could transcode to any client that needs t…

I didn’t have any managed users. Just me. Same thing.

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Scott-M September 7, 2022, 10:41pm 23

Agreed, a self-hosted application needs to be impervious to cloud outages for something as basic as logging in on the local lan… UniFi is a great example of this (being able to log in through the cloud or locally)

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