🙄 Utter rubbish. It’s because all the personal pirated material is not stored anywhere by Plex, so they have complete deniability. It’s Plex’s call.
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🙄 Utter rubbish. It’s because all the personal pirated material is not stored anywhere by Plex, so they have complete deniability. It’s Plex’s call.
Cause it works perfectly fine on the appletv
I have no reason to get rid of Plex. I was using Kodi prior to it cause it plays things natively but getting Kodi onto other platforms usually requires tinkering.
Plex is available on almost everything and even with my AppleTV it rarely has to convert anything I currently have in my massive library.
We PLEX users with our own ripped content will look like geniuses when the power grid and Internet goes down during World Cyberwar One. All your movies and shows will be gone in the blink of an eye while we invite our neighborhoods over for movie night powered by solar-charged batteries, streaming our DRM-free content from our own local NAS servers.
I have Plex running on an Intel NUC.
- 10W Celeron proc running @ 2.0 GHz (turbo to 2.7 GHz)
- Dropped in 8 GB RAM
- Dropped in 1 TB Samsung SSD
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Streams to AppleTV 4.
It’s holding and serving about 500 GB of media, much of which is actually music... I’m not much of a movies or tv person. Ripped the CDs at 320k MP3. Other media is SD movies and tv shows ripped from DVDs at highest quality setting in handbrake. I actually made the NUC itself do a lot of the ripping, and it did okay, just took overnight to get through each of the queues.
I like the NUC because it’s small and it has a super low power profile. Graphics in it is good enough to enable the video hardware transcoding feature. It might not do so good on 4K or maybe even 1080 HD, I haven’t tested it.
Have other friends who have it running off of monster i7 rigs... Thing will transcode and serve HD and 4K video on the fly just fine.
If building your own, probably optimize more toward storage, then compute, then ram.
I have to say that I really am enjoying Plex’s “Plexamp” mobile app... missing Apple Music and iTunes Match less and less.
I will also say that the photo library feature in Plex is kinda junky. It wouldn’t see a good half of what I put in there. I ended up installing Piwigo on the same box and use that for photos.
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I have been debating this for months...Are there any advantages to infuse over plex (I pay $4.99 a month either way sooo) I have been getting so tired of Plex trying to get me to watch their crap. The only reason I went with Plex in the first place was to watch my crap. I wish they would just give me an option to permanently shut off all the stuff coming from them...
- 2018 mini that’s on one end of the house (figure 90 wired feet)
- serves about 14tb of rotating high quality video, mostly mkv's, transcoding done on mini w/o issue
- 5tb dead slow SMR 2.5” drives over USB2 bus
- Ethernet to a mesh router in middle of house
- 5Ghz WiFi to ATV4 about 20 feet away with a metal lathed plaster wall in between
- there's an issue with reliable streaming at least once a month. 100% of the time it’s the ATV. A restart get's it going again for another month. Get the impression it’s a memory management issue. An issue I see cropping up on iOS devices as well. Apple wants us to buy new hardware.
- at some point ATV will be replaced with a Roku. The remote stinks, Apple has joined the world of annoying ads (TV+)
- run basically the same setup at a second home using a 2009 mini. Also runs well.
Started using Plex in very beginning, '09 or '10. Plex has finally matured and is pretty stable. I use the free version.
I 100% support Plex's policy here but I very, very clear op-in option to share with Apple and include my local media would get me to reconsider Plex. While it still have issues, Apple's AppleTV app, on the AppleTV hardware, has slowly won me over, as has AppleTV TV. Now if only they would name those three things differently...
I must be stupid. I’ve had infuse installed for a few years. I find the interface confusing with duplicate media categories showing different content. While Plex is far from perfect, it’s easy to browse media and play. Both my 2018 and 2009 mini's (ssd + max ram) can transcode fine. I do 4K UHD without problems.
I’m on the free version of Plex. I have no idea what you’re referring to with respect to “Plex trying to get me to watch their crap”. All I see is my media categories and my crap.
Don't update then.
I removed it all, and then it is back on my kids's ipads, my laptop, etc.Or, it could be because I am a premium member? That would be ironic. I'll just go back to being a free member.
Further edit, just to be clear. The article is literally referencing my problem. Plex should not be providing content. That isn't why I signed up.
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MacPro5,1 12core 3.46ghz with 96Gb Ram and RX580 8Gb. Several spinners and a SSD and nvme.
would've had a bigger Gfx card by now except for ridiculous prices currently.
slightly overkill for Plex, but then I use it for mac gaming and occasional Win10 shenanigans.
but mostly it just hovers waiting for a plex call from the other devices on my home network.
I used to not update, now I do every time I turn on the ATV. If it tells me there’s a server update, it gets updated. So I’m referring to the latest version. I feel like a premium user to not have some of what you’re referring to. “Up Next” no longer exists (maybe a new setting, it used to be an annoyance). All I see is my own content, there’s nowhere else to go, fortunately. But keep paying, they are doing a better job with whatever budget they have to work with.Don't update then.
Or, it could be because I am a premium member? That would be ironic. I'll just go back to being a free member.
Further edit, just to be clear. The article is literally referencing my problem. Plex should not be providing content. That isn't why I signed up.
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Even Apple doesn’t properly integrate your local content in the TV app. If it’s not in the cloud, it doesn’t exist.
Obviously Plex will never store your media in the cloud and offer it back as a streaming service. That’s a given.
Your own content doesn't have to be in the cloud. It's more a wish that Plex could scan your owned local content's metadata to see what you owned, and somehow include that in the TV app. But clearly the tech's not there yet. 😐
I'm sorry for not replying sooner. I just found out i had pending notifications here on the forum.
There are two advantages I can give you for InFuse over Plex:
1. If you are able to enjoy Lossless audio, InFuse will do that. It will decode the codecs and send it as multi channel PCM to the audio receiver as Apple TV doesn't support passthrough. This works great as long as you aren't expecting 3D audio such as ATMOS. This doesn't work over PCM. Check with Firecore (infuse developer) for more info: http://firecare.com Hope this helps!
I personally don't own a Shield TV, Just Apple TV, and Roku, plus Android TV that my Sony TV runs.
Late to reply but
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Elite PH-ES916E_AG
MOBO: ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha TRX40
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X - 24Core 3.8
RAM: 64gb G.SKILL Trident Z Neo
Storage: 2 Sabrent Rockets nVMe + heatsinks (1TB - Gaming, 500gb - OS) + 70TB (mixture of internal drives, external and a NAS)
PSU: CORSAIR RMx Series RM1000X 1000W 80 PLUS GOLD Full Modular
GPU: RTX 2070 FE (Also have an GIGABYTE Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING OC WATERFORCE WB but have to upgrade PC to watercooling before installing)
OS: Windows 11 PRO
Planning to start consolidating my drives and upgrading to 16 or 20 TB HGST or WD Red drives until I run out of SATA ports, then maybe build a small NAS and throw all of my old drives into those. I have around 70TB of storage and am running out, so I need to expand. I'm constantly having to delete TV series that i don't watch as much, but like having everything just in case. Plus I have quite a few active users on my plex and like to provide many options.
Would like to eventually run an Unraid server to get Plex off my main system since my case supports 2 motherboards and holds upwards of 20 physical drives.
You can disable all of Plex's content just by removing it from the homepage, it'll never bother you about watching their stuff.