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Since their initial Chromecast support, Plex has won out in my home thanks to its better metadata support and sharing libraries through their website. Does any

Since their initial Chromecast support, Plex has won out in my home thanks to its better metadata support and sharing libraries through their website. Does anyone with OpenELEC/Kodi experience if this is still the case? Should I switch?

muaddirac 12y ago
I do the same thing - NAS to store media, with plex running on my laptop (which is always on anyway) chromecast on my tv and the plex app on my phone to control everything. Definitely feels like the future, but like you I'd be curious to know how this setup compares to others.
kayone 12y ago
I want to switch to plex for my TV media center software, I really do but the thing that keeps making me move back to xbmc/kodi is the seek lag (trying to skip to the middle of a movie) and sometimes it just freezes while fast forwarding. to be fair, I haven't use the plex media center app, my experience is based on chromecast/android app and the android tv app. (my plex server is running a quadcore haswell i5 with 8gb of ram so it should be fairly responsive) I bought an android TV purely for plex but so far it has been a bit disappointing.
- Veratyr 12y ago
  I haven't used the Android app but I can vouch for the Media Center app. We use it nearly every night at home and it works beautifully.
psykovsky 12y ago
Is Plex open source? I seem to recall it having closed source components. If that is still the case then it isn't a real alternative to Kodi/OpenELEC in my view.
Veratyr 12y ago
We used to use XBMC and switched to Plex. We still use XBMC occasionally when I haven't added something to Plex yet but in general I find the experience of Plex is much nicer. Once you set it up you can pretty much just forget about it. I haven't found any way for XBMC to transcode and stream or sync to other devices, which are very handy features of Plex that I'd hate to lose. Even just having a unified experience is great. It feels painful having to browse through countless third party apps on the Play Store just to find a remote that works. Plex has an official app that's clearly branded as such. Plus having one library for all the devices around the place is great. XBMC doesn't seem to do that as far as I can see.

muaddirac 12y ago

I do the same thing - NAS to store media, with plex running on my laptop (which is always on anyway) chromecast on my tv and the plex app on my phone to control everything. Definitely feels like the future, but like you I'd be curious to know how this setup compares to others.

kayone 12y ago

I want to switch to plex for my TV media center software, I really do but the thing that keeps making me move back to xbmc/kodi is the seek lag (trying to skip to the middle of a movie) and sometimes it just freezes while fast forwarding. to be fair, I haven't use the plex media center app, my experience is based on chromecast/android app and the android tv app. (my plex server is running a quadcore haswell i5 with 8gb of ram so it should be fairly responsive) I bought an android TV purely for plex but so far it has been a bit disappointing.

Veratyr 12y ago
I haven't used the Android app but I can vouch for the Media Center app. We use it nearly every night at home and it works beautifully.

psykovsky 12y ago

Is Plex open source? I seem to recall it having closed source components. If that is still the case then it isn't a real alternative to Kodi/OpenELEC in my view.

Veratyr 12y ago

We used to use XBMC and switched to Plex. We still use XBMC occasionally when I haven't added something to Plex yet but in general I find the experience of Plex is much nicer. Once you set it up you can pretty much just forget about it. I haven't found any way for XBMC to transcode and stream or sync to other devices, which are very handy features of Plex that I'd hate to lose. Even just having a unified experience is great. It feels painful having to browse through countless third party apps on the Play Store just to find a remote that works. Plex has an official app that's clearly branded as such. Plus having one library for all the devices around the place is great. XBMC doesn't seem to do that as far as I can see.