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
- Login / Sign-up for a account
- 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.
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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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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.
But at that point if you buy the pass you can download to your local device. Not as convenient, but at least you're not burning cloud space on it.
They are blocking because of multiple complaints filed about copyrighted content being shared. They don't have much of a choice. As usual a couple bad apples ruin the batch.
You posted about issue that happened like 80+ versions ago. Also Open sources does not automatically equal better, especially in this case.
Been a lifetime pass member for years. Anyone recommending JellyFin or Emby or anything else either didn't take the couple minutes to figure out Plex or likes running a not-as-good looking app that's randomly buggy.
We use Plex for Live TV (HDHomeRun), movie library, pictures, music, bit of everything all on either a FireTV Cube 3rd gen or a Apple TV 4k 2nd gen. Runs great on both although we use the FireTV more since it does true Dolby Atmos passthrough directly from Plex (Apple TV does not). We have also used the download function on multiple occasions and never had a issue with it. Granted we correctly setup Plex with the local LAN IP addresses so it knows when our phones and tablets are on our home network so the download is quick.
From this thread it appears most peoples issues with Plex are not knowing how to use it or change settings. I tried JellyFin. I tried Kodi. I tried Emby. None have as clean of a UI, none are as easy to setup, and none work day in and out without fiddling with stuff like Plex does. Other then doing updates when it says to I don't have to change anything and it just works.
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https://lowendbox.com/blog/plex-b...st-piracy/
If it's hosted in Hezner cloud, then it's involved. People commonly pay a few euro a month for "storage boxes" of bulk storage.
Some people prefer to pay 35E/mo to have a hosted cloud platform.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/plex-b...st-piracy/
If it's hosted in Hezner cloud, then it's involved. People commonly pay a few euro a month for "storage boxes" of bulk storage.
Some people prefer to pay 35E/mo to have a hosted cloud platform.
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