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Live TV on Plex
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
PS Vue also has local channels
In my market (Seattle) Vue only has CBS. I specifically want to watch College and NFL FB. NFL is generally on Fox & CBS OTA channels and ABC has many college games. (Other games are on NFL Network, ESPN, and Twitter, which are available via streaming)
Youtube TV isn't even available in Seattle at the moment ( https://support.google.com/youtubetv/answer/7068923 ), so the value proposition there is a bit mixed compared to the available services with mixes of affiliates in many markets.
I assume everybody wants all of them in all markets, it's just a different strategy of when to make something available. E.g. what if you're like me, and primarily watch college sports on ESPN, and don't really care about NBC or Fox locals in your market?
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#83I was considering PlexPass yesterday and today I am definitely getting lifetime membership...
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#84I was considering PlexPass yesterday and today I am definitely getting lifetime membership...
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does Plex compare with Kodi?
It is important that Plex comes in two parts: the server and the player. I would absolutely recommend Plex Media Server as a backend. It is very powerful and has great support by the community (see PlexPy). It makes it very easy to store all my media on my home NAS and watch it from any device, even outside of my house. There isn't really anything like this for Kodi that I have found. For frontends, Plex Media Player…
You can also just use the web, or one of the many apps, like Roku, iOS, android, Wii, etc.
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#86This reminds me of Aereo TV. If Aereo TV would have went DVR only though. I wonder if they could have attempted to stay around from their legal issues.
I thought Aereo TV did have DVR.
I believe the main difference between them was that Aereo "hosted" the antenna's themselves and sold you the stream, whereas Plex is a "set up yourself" service.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like searching based on filename when metadata isn't available, or showing long filenames in search results. These are considered to be stupid last time I bothered checking and I've since given up. It's a bizarre culture.
Purely out of curiosity: why isn't metadata available? Is it that you aren't naming/organizing your libraries correctly, or is it that you are consuming obscure media that isn't cataloged on any of the sites that power Plex's metadata functionality? Either way, you could either: a. Take the time to organize your library, like anyone who successfully uses Plex has. or b. Provide metadata to the open databases that Ple…
Home movies is one example, random clips from the internet that aren't proper movies.
The notion of being able to find and play a file that isn't a formal mainstream movie doesn't seem all that obscure to me, and doing a search on filename isn't exactly what I'd classify as wizardry or difficult to implement. At the very least it doesn't seem like a crazy idea.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you need to pay for the service No, you don't. Source: I've had an account for years and am not paying anything. > it's a PIA to setup and configure. You add folders to a TV and Movies collection once. With Kodi, you're doing it N times, where N is the number of Kodi installs in your house. > Once configured, don't plan on using the computer you setup the Media server on as it is always busy/ bogged down scanning f…
>No, you don't. Source: I've had an account for years and am not paying anything. From https://www.plex.tv/blog/well-do-it-live/ Remember, Plex Live TV and DVR is a Plex Pass only feature, and is immediately available for Plex Pass users. You can find out more info about Plex Live TV and DVR here as well. >You add folders to a TV and Movies collection once. With Kodi, you're doing it N times, where N is the number of…
PlexPass server features are generally just beta release features and not locked to your user account. If you had the URL to the installer for the PlexPass version (which requires no authentication to download), you could have access to this feature without paying them.
But be a good person and pay for PlexPass.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does Plex compare with Kodi?
My best advice: try it and see. Speaking for myself: I switched from Kodi to Plex after finding that Plex requires considerably less effort to achieve greater functionality, and the differences are things that I actually like. Your mileage may vary. As an example, let's say I want to start watching something on a tablet and finish watching it on a TV. This is something that Kodi and Plex can both do, but let's consid…
As a contrast:
I generally just want to watch videos on my TV.
I have plex and kodi installed on my shield. Plex requires me to setup an account to get videos from one app to another on the same device. It also failed to launch and got stuck in a few loops before I found this out. Trying to set it up just now it asked if I wanted to launch the server, but then couldn't find it. Then when manually launching it from the internal settings menu list of installed apps it said going to the next page would add permissions for storage, but just brought up an error so again I had to go into the internal settings menu list of installed apps and enable the permissions myself. I have already ended up in a situation where it said the server was there, running and connected, but showed me no library and I had to force stop and restart the server. I've also so far not been able to find basic settings like hiding the synopsis of unwatched media.
Last time I tried to set it up was on my NAS, and it consistently tried to re-encode video files which would have played just fine when streaming.
Maybe my experience is rare, but kodi has pretty simply worked and played my files without requiring me to setup anything online. My patience for managing my media has dropped drastically over time.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It seems a lot of people in this thread are blaming Plex for their own low-quality hardware and/or lack of knowledge. Plex crashes constantly on my Roku. (This may no longer be true, as I haven't touched it in a year because it crashes so much). That's not low quality hardware, it's bad app. I expect a dedicated hardware device for streaming videos that can stream Netflix, Hulu, Sling, etc, to be able to stream Ple…
>Plex crashes constantly on my Roku. (This may no longer be true, as I haven't touched it in a year because it crashes so much). That's not low quality hardware, it's bad app. The crash could very well be caused by some kind of incompatibility or issue with your server. I'm sure that you've combed through your event logs on the server to verify this isn't the case, though. >I expect a dedicated hardware device for st…
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