PLEX has
Lifetime Plex Pass on sale for
$95.99 when you apply promo code
ITSPROTIME during checkout.
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- Enter your information and complete checkout, your total will be $95.99.
Plex Pass Features:- Sync your movies, shows, music, and photos to your mobile devices for offline enjoyment wherever you go.
- Unlock the power to set extra sharing restrictions and allow access to select premium features for shared users.
- Track your server stats with our desktop Dashboard or on the go using Plex Dash.
- Set max upload bandwidth and per-stream caps to ensure the best streaming experience.
- Use the dedicated video decoder and encoder hardware support in your computer/device to convert videos and stream HD or 4K video more smoothly to more devices at once.
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Plex has two pieces. One piece is the server. You would install a program called Plex Media Server on your computer. Then you tell Plex the location of all your movies and media you own. It scans everything and organizes it.
Then you go to your smart tv devices (fire tv, android box, roku, etc) You can install the Plex CLIENT on these and watch the movies from your Plex your server.
Plex is free if that is how you use it.
The Plex PASS is just some additional features for Plex. It lets you watch movies on your phone/mobile devices. You can download movies from your server. It allows "hardware transcoding". Skip intro/skip credits, etc.
Plex lost their way long ago. I want (and bought) to play local media, not have them push their stream crap on me.
Long time Emby user. Love it. UI isn't as polished as Plex but it's worth the effort to use because of my hate for plex streaming.
Also JellyFin.
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A VPS in the cloud offers much better connectivity and download speeds out of the box while being available from anywhere without you having to maintain any hardware or deal with reliability issues
Plex can do a lot. How well it works depends on people's network, hardware, and many other factors. Streaming media (years ago, high bandwidth; now, not as much) without at least a basic understanding of this stuff can be difficult.
Plex AV quality is perfect if direct streaming - 100% source quality. If it has to transcode, then quality depends on what options chosen for the transcode process.
We're happy to help you configure Plex if you'd like. If you want to stream your own media to another location, chances are it's able to handle it, particularly if you have PlexPass and Intel QuickSync.
A VPS in the cloud offers much better connectivity and download speeds out of the box while being available from anywhere without you having to maintain any hardware or deal with reliability issues
I suspect you haven't poked a hole if you're stuck at 2mbps. That means you're using Plex Relay. Post a pic of your Plex Dashboard while this happens and we can help you.
I can't imagine what you mean by bandwidth getting leeched. You _choose_ to set up a Plex server, so.... ? ?
Also I am not blaming Plex for it. I am saying that I can not trust anyone to provide a free relay to me to transport huge amounts of data with a guaranteed bandwidth; it will cost a lot of money for anyone to swallow. I am reluctant to open Plex server's port to the internet and have used some private relays in the past, including ZeroTier, which were not performing as well as I expected them to.
I am a JellyFin user and have had my instance up running in the cloud for years now and never had a problem with it. I have recently been considering hosting a powerful machine at home to perform transcoding, but I am reluctant to ever go back to Plex again, because of their tactics to push their crap into the front page for all its users
You don't need a powerful machine at home to perform transcoding. A $150 Celeron from Amazon with modern QuickSync, plus PlexPass at $90, is easily enough for 1080p and 4k content transcoding, multiple users at once.
I consider Plex over 32400 to be fully hardened; what's your specific concern in sharing out / opening up port 32400 locally?
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Plex can do a lot. How well it works depends on people's network, hardware, and many other factors. Streaming media (years ago, high bandwidth; now, not as much) without at least a basic understanding of this stuff can be difficult.
Plex AV quality is perfect if direct streaming - 100% source quality. If it has to transcode, then quality depends on what options chosen for the transcode process.
We're happy to help you configure Plex if you'd like. If you want to stream your own media to another location, chances are it's able to handle it, particularly if you have PlexPass and Intel QuickSync.
I've used Plex, way back when, is was bad to say it nicely. If all some want to do is stream their own media from their own archives to their own devices, anywhere in the world, then probably 90% of them already have the single device necessary to do that job. It's called a 'router', and no 3rd party software is required to use it while accessing everything in a network.
For example:
I have 50+ Terabytes spread over multiple drives. If I want access to that data everywhere I go, all I have to do is plug that data into the USB port on my router, and I've got access to it all. It's easy, most modern routers do this basic thing. So why Plex? What are you people doing that Plex seems the only option let alone a viable one? Why pay for what is already free? Again, just simple English and simple but serious questions.
I've used Plex, way back when, is was bad to say it nicely. If all some want to do is stream their own media from their own archives to their own devices, anywhere in the world, then probably 90% of them already have the single device necessary to do that job. It's called a 'router', and no 3rd party software is required to use it while accessing everything in a network.
For example:
I have 50+ Terabytes spread over multiple drives. If I want access to that data everywhere I go, all I have to do is plug that data into the USB port on my router, and I've got access to it all. It's easy, most modern routers do this basic thing. So why Plex? What are you people doing that Plex seems the only option let alone a viable one? Why pay for what is already free? Again, just simple English and simple but serious questions.
Oh, I don't have any USB ports in that? Hmmm...now what?
Plex lost their way long ago. I want (and bought) to play local media, not have them push their stream crap on me.
Long time Emby user. Love it. UI isn't as polished as Plex but it's worth the effort to use because of my hate for plex streaming.
Also JellyFin.
Oh, I don't have any USB ports in that? Hmmm...now what?
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Your router cannot transcode, so if the device on the far side can't natively play H265, it's dead in the water; Plex handles that.
Your router can't change the file (again, transcode) for bandwidth requirements, so if you're playing back from a site with limited bandwidth (cellular, for example), the router is dead in the water. Plex handles that.
Your router can't put a pretty GUI and a friendly front end around anything; lord only knows how you'll even get to it from an AppleTV or a Roku. Plex handles that.
In short, a router is an absurd solution. Might work, sometimes, for very basic local playback. Sucks for everything else.
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