I use both. On my laptop, about 50% of the time I use the shell and mplayer to play a movie, the other 50% I use the Plex web player. But Plex is really cool f

I use both. On my laptop, about 50% of the time I use the shell and mplayer to play a movie, the other 50% I use the Plex web player. But Plex is really cool for streaming to the phone, watching on TV, watching when you don't have your own laptop, giving access to friends and so on. I wouldn't want to give up either.