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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by ww520 on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:58AM (#10497856)
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.

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by zuxfer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @01:32AM (#10497943)
Doesn't Kodi(XMBC) do all that, for free, and without installing any software ?
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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by cavisne on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @02:08AM (#10498036)
Plex is significantly better than XBMC, it's night and day.
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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by cthalupa on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @03:24AM (#10498237)
Plex 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.

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by zuxfer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:20AM (#10500528)
kodi has pseudoTv too.
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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by cthalupa on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:57PM (#10503028)
Plex is the one that doesn't have PsuedoTV
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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by izacus on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:31AM (#10498424)
Huh? 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.
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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by zuxfer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:18AM (#10500518)
nope 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

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Re:Plex on the New Apple TV by Exuma on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:05AM (#10499963)
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation!
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