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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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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?
My concern with opening ports to the internet is that it poses some risk of getting hacked, especially through a server like Plex
We have to leave the iPad open on plex for the time it takes to download
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.
My concern with opening ports to the internet is that it poses some risk of getting hacked, especially through a server like Plex
Quicksync Transcoding depends more on the version instead of the how powerful of a cpu. Thats why a modern celeron can do more than the 6700.
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My concern with opening ports to the internet is that it poses some risk of getting hacked, especially through a server like Plex
Re: 4K: I'm sure. I'm doing it on my Synology DS423+ with Celeron 4125. You need PlexPass if using Plex. Plex's benefit (which I don't know if Jellyfin and the others have caught up with) is HW based transcoding of HDR data with Intel iGPU, at least in Linux, which is the OS I use.
Power DVD is available for everything that I'm aware of, so is VLC medial player. Also, most "devices" have adjustable screen resolutions. So why not just wait 5 min to download the file you want to watch in full quality on the device itself, or adjust your player to a lower quality/resolution setting? But a router GUI is pretty consistent now-a-days. Simply type in 192.168, .1 .1 then log in. Any modern router will have your USB drives right there in the main window. Simply click to access as you would on any PC! I don't personally understand watching anything on some little baby 6" and smaller screens, but for those that do, just download the full quality file first or try lowering your playback resolution. Still a better quality option than re-trans-coding and already trans-coded media file.
Most people don't want to be in front of a computer, and don't want to mess with typing in anything at all, and want a beautiful front end. If you only watch media on a computer, don't mind typing all kinds of arcane nonsense (fun with VPN while remote! Imagine teaching Grandma how to do all that!), and don't mind micromanaging your media quality, bandwidth, and all kinds of other details, you do you, boo. Don't ever dream of doing any of this for Grandma.
For everyone else, Plex handles all of those details so that (almost) anyone can play (almost) any media with (almost) any bandwidth available to them, with (almost) no additional work or geekery, from (almost) any device.
To do so, for best experience, the suggestion is a modern Intel iGPU & associated CPU, and Plexpass, and a reasonably fast internet connection (20mbps on up, depending on how many concurrent users, is typically a start; 1000mbps up is no longer unusual, so this isn't asking for much).
Explain to me how you can stream a 90 GIGABYTE 4K movie (The Shinning) anywhere in the world with no loss in quality, when you're re-trans-coding the video and stripping bits down to a file size of 15GB? Son, there ain't no spam in these cold hard facts! Quality is moot an non existent at that point. There are other ways of doing this simple task, most of which are free. I still have yet to hear a good reason to use Plex. But if you like it then have at it. Please, pay them for it! I'll keep streaming my 90 gig movies anywhere I go, free of charge as it has always been. Cheers 🍻
Explain to me how you can stream a 90 GIGABYTE 4K movie (The Shinning) anywhere in the world with no loss in quality, when you're re-trans-coding the video and stripping bits down to a file size of 15GB? Son, there ain't no spam in these cold hard facts! Quality is moot an non existent at that point. There are other ways of doing this simple task, most of which are free. I still have yet to hear a good reason to use Plex. But if you like it then have at it. Please, pay them for it! I'll keep streaming my 90 gig movies anywhere I go, free of charge as it has always been. Cheers
And to accomplish this, you'd simply need 90Mbps uplink. Get real; plenty of ways to do that nowadays if direct play is your only requirement. (https://www.expedient.c
Were you not able to explain how a Roku would do what you've described?
this, and the 20tb hdd deal, now all i need is a nas! *crosses fingers for a ds220+ or better)
this, and the 20tb hdd deal, now all i need is a nas! *crosses fingers for a ds220+ or better)
I own the DS423+. Excellent. Skip the caching, skip mountains of extra RAM unless you're big on docker; neither are really needed for a media server. An SSD as a drive pool for Docker containers is smart, though.
Installed Jellyfin, pointed at folders, and presto. I have read good things about Emby too, that was my next stop if Jellyfin didn't / doesn't work out.
I used plex for 6+ years, don't know why it went insane on me. But search around and you'll find others with similar wacky issues.
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Installed Jellyfin, pointed at folders, and presto. I have read good things about Emby too, that was my next stop if Jellyfin didn't / doesn't work out.
I used plex for 6+ years, don't know why it went insane on me. But search around and you'll find others with similar wacky issues.
I'm sorry you had this trouble, and I'm happy you found something that works well.
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