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PLEX is coming to the new Apple TV
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I agree, Kodi will be better than plex once they port it over in a few weeks. Really looking forward to this.
The question is will Kodi allow you to play full Bluray rips etc on the ATV 4? If it does and it does well then I can get rid of my HTPC especially if HD audio pass through is all supported.
My experience is that Plex is pretty forgiving about naming. Less so with TV shows, which are season/episode specific.
The app hasn't even been released yet (probably mid November at the earliest). You have no idea how it's going to look.
Lol you obviously havent looked at the Aeon MQ6 skin. That blows Plex to smithereens. There is really no comparison. Anyways this thread isnt a Kodi vs Plex fight. So best to stay on topic.
It doesn't have to be that exactly, no,& but it helps keep the library in order. Some of my movies are just the title and Plex can find it just fine. But Filebot is your friend if you want to mass rename files. It's really great for TV shows.
I've just tried plex. The UI is really nice. Better than simpleX.
The Plex apple TV app is able to detect the srt file in the in app settings before playing the movie. However, after I have selected the srt file, the movie just plays without the subtitles. I think this is a bug.
The Plex apple TV app is able to detect the srt file in the in app settings before playing the movie. However, after I have selected the srt file, the movie just plays without the subtitles. I think this is a bug.
You wouldn't. It's solely for people who have multiple formatted files. It's great for me since I copied all my Blu-Ray to MKV and now I can easily watch it on ATV4.
But even you're a solely Apple customer there is one benefit I can think of. If you're Apple Music subscriber, you can use Plex to access your old CD rips in iTunes while using Apple Music in ATV to access your Apple Music library separately.
I find another silly bug. After entering my e-mail address, the on-screen keyboard was spread out so much it didn't fit on my TV screen en even the OK button was invisible. Back to login prompt and try again fixed it.
Why can't devs implement something like Google (Youtube) or Vimeo ? Generate code in app, go to website, login, enter code and sync'up accounts. Laziness...
so is there a recommended server setup to run the plex server? how powerful does it have to be to do transcoding? Can a mid-2012 rMBP do the job? Curious what people are using. That's my problem with this, I'd prefer a client-only solution like kodi. I can't run a plex server on my nas.
The clients don't have to be beefy -- that's why the server transcodes to the optimal format of the client. Even an old Roku 1 can handle a 1080p stream from a Plex server because the server transcodes it to a format that works with the Roku's hardware decoder.
Knowing Apple's affinity for MP4, most likely your Plex server will have to transcode to MP4, even for the Plex app, so the Apple TV's hardware decoder can display the stream.
Yes, your MBP has MORE than enough power to run a Plex server. I used to run my Plex server on a Dell desktop (Core 2 Duo) with 8GB RAM running Ubuntu Linux. No problems serving multiple Rokus with simultaneous 1080p streams.
Server nor client needs to be beefy. I run both on entry-level Mac Minis purchased in 2010 and 2011 respectively and they run crystal smooth, even on Blu Ray MKVs that are 50GB++ in size. The only thing that I've ever seen slow down Plex is network bandwidth but now even the desktop clients have the ability to auto-detect and it plays fine. That issue was years ago on the same 2 Mac Minis running a PowerLine network. Now I have CAT5e cabling and it's all good.
It works amazingly well even over a 3G connection with the iOS app. Total shocker to me that I was able to watch stuff while on a local train. Killed my data cap though.
Direct Play is an option on the Plex ATV4 app. If the format can be decoded by ATV4, it will be. That's more a limitation of the ATV4 hardware than Plex itself.