Re:Live TV on Plex
by IanCal on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:36AM
(#14467924)
As a contrast:
I generally just want to watch videos on my TV.
I have plex and kodi installed on my shield. Plex requires me to setup an account to get videos from one app to another on the same device. It also failed to launch and got stuck in a few loops before I found this out. Trying to set it up just now it asked if I wanted to launch the server, but then couldn't find it. Then when manually launching it from the internal settings menu list of installed apps it said going to the next page would add permissions for storage, but just brought up an error so again I had to go into the internal settings menu list of installed apps and enable the permissions myself. I have already ended up in a situation where it said the server was there, running and connected, but showed me no library and I had to force stop and restart the server. I've also so far not been able to find basic settings like hiding the synopsis of unwatched media.
Last time I tried to set it up was on my NAS, and it consistently tried to re-encode video files which would have played just fine when streaming.
Maybe my experience is rare, but kodi has pretty simply worked and played my files without requiring me to setup anything online. My patience for managing my media has dropped drastically over time.
I generally just want to watch videos on my TV.
I have plex and kodi installed on my shield. Plex requires me to setup an account to get videos from one app to another on the same device. It also failed to launch and got stuck in a few loops before I found this out. Trying to set it up just now it asked if I wanted to launch the server, but then couldn't find it. Then when manually launching it from the internal settings menu list of installed apps it said going to the next page would add permissions for storage, but just brought up an error so again I had to go into the internal settings menu list of installed apps and enable the permissions myself. I have already ended up in a situation where it said the server was there, running and connected, but showed me no library and I had to force stop and restart the server. I've also so far not been able to find basic settings like hiding the synopsis of unwatched media.
Last time I tried to set it up was on my NAS, and it consistently tried to re-encode video files which would have played just fine when streaming.
Maybe my experience is rare, but kodi has pretty simply worked and played my files without requiring me to setup anything online. My patience for managing my media has dropped drastically over time.