PLEX has
Lifetime Plex Pass on sale for
$95.99 when you apply promo code
ITSPROTIME during checkout.
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Deal Instructions:- Visit the Offer Page
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- Select the Lifetime Option
- Apply promo code ITSPROTIME
- 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.
Top Comments
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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https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/com..._jellyfin/
The #1 voted comment:
Jellyfin could be the greatest thing since sliced bread as a server, but the client support is asstastic, and that's what Plex does better than anyone. Most end users don't care about why something transcodes or if their setup strips out ATMOS or whatever, they just care that it works on their machine, and that's what Plex does better than any competition (by far)
1. The move from (I'm using my iPad on my network) to (I'm using my iPad externally) isn't intuitive. And unless one knows one's unchanging public IP (and/or using a Dyn-DNS type service) keeping track of this information isn't trivial. For the non-technical, this likely would exclude JellyFin on the spot.
2. Setup (see above, IP addresses) is far from intuitive. This is what Plex gives you with that horrible "centralized" login everyone loves complaining about - once you (or a user) are logged in, you don't have to worry about finding any servers you have access to; from that point it's all automatic.
3. I couldn' t get my HDHomerun going. Yes, I could find it and add it, but I couldn't see how to get guide data (free). I suppose I could pay for a service to do that, but if I am doing that, why not just get PlexPass and get ALL the cool features? $35/year for the guide they recommend (https://www.schedulesdi
Anybody that has a library of digital movies, this is great for playing your collection from anywhere around the globe.
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https://www.plex.tv/blog/end-the-...with-plex/
See how fast you can make the unstable build crash.
Any reason not to just put it in a docker with all the -arrs ?
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.
Compared to Emby and Jellyfin, it's still the most cohesive and user-friendly experience, in my opinion.
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I'm not on plex pass or plex premium either. I control everything that users should see through my "server" which in this case, is just installed on my gaming/workstation. From there you select the location of where you want your video or picture sources to be, manage devies, etc. CPU is a i9-10900k on the server. I'm literally running videos off a external hard drive, not ssd, and I'm getting 4k content with HDR, HD, Atmos, Dolby 5.1, all of it through a freakin 5200rpm western digital passport. Granted, I have a high end CPU which is crucial to encoding/decoding the above content, and also a high end GPU that helps leverage some of the video handingling. The speed at which I can access content on an ssd vs a 5200rpm tradition disc drive (plugged in via usb 3.0 ) is literally unnoticeable.
I see plex being around for a while and would rather not switch to an open source project. From my experience, open source developers can drop out of a project as they please/need to due to life circumstances, etc..then you as an end user need to think about the security of the application, the compatibility for video formats, picture formats being updated, bugfixes, compatibility with new hardware, the list goes on and on.\\
While I am a champion for open source software and OS, keep in mind that open source is FREE for a reason. People making it do it for the fun of it and in lots of cases helps their resume. Open source projects are largely meant to not go on forever with the same team. Lots of projects get deprecated for one reason or another (mostly the reason I stated above); project closes down or another dev joins the team.