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Plex manages videos on your local network drive and streams them to your TV or computers over the network. It can transcode different format of the videos on t
by ww520 11y ago
Plex manages videos on your local network drive and streams them to your TV or computers over the network. It can transcode different format of the videos on the fly into the one your player recognizes. It downloads metadata (thumbnails, title, summary, review) for the video automatically. It tracks your viewing of the videos - new, in-progress (remember where in the video), and played. It groups videos in dozens of way as playlists to let you browse them.
I usually just dump the videos into my NAS and points the Plex server to it. The TV player points to the Plex server and streams the videos from there.
- zuxfer 11y agoDoesn't Kodi(XMBC) do all that, for free, and without installing any software ?
- cavisne 11y agoPlex is significantly better than XBMC, it's night and day.
- cthalupa 11y agoPlex is significantly different than XBMC. Plex is a media streaming/transcoding platform and organizer. XBMC (or Kodi) is a local media player and organizer. A properly configured Kodi setup is far more flexible than Plex and offers a lot of significant advantages (PsuedoTV, for example) as well as a larger set of supported formats and playback options. I use both pretty extensively and the idea of trying to replace either one with the other is distasteful. Different tools for different jobs.
- izacus 11y agoHuh? Is it? Every time I tried Plex is was more limited and clunky when it came to media library organization. And it required me to install software on my NAS.
- zuxfer 11y agonope it isn't. Kodi is more customizable. Plex is easy to install, but Kodi is much more advanced and powerful. Atleast it is for my fire stick and home network
- Exuma 11y agoThat makes sense, thanks for the explanation!