Is this worth it? Also, any better alternative?

...

Other urls found in this thread:

github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

It's pretty good

>logo is literally a meme arrow
lmao what a bunch of redditards

>meme arrow
What a great argument, you are a smart person for sure

Thank you wanna chat? ;)
pls only reply if you're a girl

>proprietary
D R O P P E D

>girl
>Sup Forums
>m'lady

how do i share with other people

Burn it on your zip disquete and send by male.

is there a porn of this

>dominated by a female
what a cuck (^:

only if you have an friend with anime collection to share with you

No this free software is not worth free

I has LG TV and this is the fucking only option to stream shit from LAN. Fuck WebOS3.0

With ur sandisk usb cruiser

It's the least complicated solution to set up as long as you are willing to have a computer/server/NAS running that can transcode the content.

I use it with a chromecast hooked up to my TV.

transcoded? Hoe would i do that?

Serviio is better if you're going to go proprietary.

bought lifetime license not long ago, after i've been using it for almost 1 year. (5 people chipped in since i'm hosting it from my media server)

>Serviio
Does it work with WebOS30?

>either paying to pirate or paying a shitload in total for media only to use something that should be used for piracy
why

How can they support the project with a lifetime license?

don't ask me, i've been subbed before i bought the lifetime. so they got a decent amount of dough from me. (also they're not hosting my server, i just got their program) so their costs arent through the roof

Only if you have an old television. My Samsung can decode almost everything natively via direct stream without the need for transcoding.

What open source options are out there? Universal Media Server seems to be bretty good but it's a whole degree just to program it.

how would you like to browse your movies?
(also several people are streaming to their pc's and tv's

You install Plex Server on the computer that has the media. When you then try to play some media on your phone, TV or console, the Plex Server software running on your computer will automatically create a stream in a compatible format for the device requesting it.

Creating this stream is called transcoding and is done on the fly and might take some CPU power (nothing a normal desktop wouldn't be able to handle though.)

Mine isn't even a smart TV, that's why I need the chromecast (which I have to transcode almost everything for ofc.)

So for example, if i have a wmv. file and try to play it on a console, it converts it to mp4 just for that stream?

Probably. Check their website.

Beyond DLNA, don't know, desu. Have been using Serviio for 4 or 5 years without issue, so I haven't looked at what else is out there for a while.

Exactly. It's only temporary and will not actually store this mp4 version of the file any longer than it's needed.

Can it transcode FLAC files? I looked into it some time ago and it didn't.

Also, can you access your files outside of your network? Is that something that you can turn on/off? How secure is it?

Right.

Why would I use this shit instead of Kodi/XBMC?

Fuck off retards

Gib anime server invite pls

It handles every format. Including burning in softsubs.

The only thing I don't like about PLEX is that it won't work if the PLEX service is down and they have complete control over the authentication.

Its like they are hovering their dick over your ass and could plunge it in, but they won't, but they could, and they probably will eventually.

>FLAC
Dunno, I only use if for media within my own local network.

I think that you can access your files outside of your network by logging in to a plex account on both the server and the device you wan't to play the media on. You might need their paid tier for that though (plex pass.)

Also if you do decide to use PLEX for the love of god sandbox that shit.

how?

I use Plex, but this is kind of my feeling too. If they ever become to greedy I'll just jump ship to Emby or whatever else seem to work at that time.

I use a VM but you could use some MACS scheme.

What's an alternative to plex? Sounds sketchy using their user accounts.

Just curious, have you sniffed it's traffic? What kind of data are they leaking?

Why not just use OwnCloud?

It isn't leaking, you are giving them your entire multimedia viewing habits, access to all of your multimedia, and information that could be used to extort / sue you in the worst case scenario.

Fucking great

I use Kodi which is free
you can also just download plex from the same torrent site you get your movies from
derp

Yeah, I figured they weren't. Ofc they could go rogue and it's cool that you bothered to sandbox it. I was just curious if you had discovered any bad behaviour.

Do you have any examples of people being extorted by Plex because of their download history?

If not, stfu with your tinfoilhat bullshit, they run a business and want to make money from subscriptions, the last thing they would want to do is try and blackmail somebody with it, because of that would come out everyone would stop using it

Tips tinfoilhat

Explain yourself.

Well I wish the authentication scheme and user accounts were local but since they are providing a paid service I understand their business model and don't fault them for it.

I rely on the fact that if they did fuck someone over in such a way it would decimate their userbase and revenue.

Honestly all it takes is a few production studios to bundle together a few million and dangle it for access to everyone's PLEX so they can mass sue everyone on the service.

It isn't bullshit and you getting pissy and triggered doesn't constitute a reason for me to need to justify anything I'm saying or even stop saying it.

Why not use owncloud or nextcloud?

It is bullshit and I just explained why it's bullshit.

If you don't have examples of that happening there is no reason to assume that it will.

In fact there is plenty of reason to expect that it won't because their entire business model revolves around people trusting their service.

Yeah, I was considering that too... but, the thing is that they must realize that most of their users are using it for not only legit media. Even their users that mostly have legally bought media must have at least some pirated stuff I imagine.

I just hope that the companies survival instinct stops them from doing something stupid like that.

is plex a nsa/(((hollywood))) botnet?

Can either of them transcode stuff and be easily installed to a Win/macOS computer just laying around?

Idon't know, what are the differences?

>no reason to assume that it will
No reason to assume that it will?

As soon as the user base becomes big enough it will become financially viable for production studios to sue PLEX and force them to settle and provide access. Even if PLEX decided to defend itself, which it probably wouldn't, it would most likely cave to threats and take a deal which they would also very fucking likely be told that they couldn't talk about.

Then the lawyers would shit out a bunch of scary letters and extort a bunch of cash and sue anyone that has enough money to pay.

The PLEX service will have been destroyed and the users coddled and paranoid. At that point a safer alternative will probably emerge and the PLEX branding if its even worth anything will be sold.

> soon as the user base becomes big enough it will become financially viable for production studios to sue PLEX and force them to settle and provide access

When did that ever happen? Prove me with an example? When did a mass sue case over illegal downloads ever happen?

Pretty much every single paid service that provided copyright content distribution methods.

The only differing factor is how large it grew before it was shut down.

The services themselve got sued yes, I am asking about a case where downloaders got sued on masse, which is what you are supposing

They don't sue everyone but they do send letters to the ones that they can and do sue any that they find with large amounts of cash, as was very apparent in trials like napster where they deliberately targeted people. I'm not saying you will get sued by using PLEX, i'm saying that its possible to be sued by using PLEX.

You need to weigh your own risk vs reward and decide for yourself if you want to use PLEX, I understand the risks but as a poor fuck that doesn't share his library en masse and let people sync from it I deemed it acceptable.

>you need to weigh your own risk vs reward
I do, and I think you are very much overstating the risk, with literally millions of people using these services and maybe a few 100 people each year receiving such letters (if that even happens) the risk is very small.

You're probably more likely to get hit by a car

I'm not overstating the risk at all.
You are just construing what I'm saying with a negative bias.

>I'm not overstating the risk at all.
Except you are, your argument is not guided by statistics at all

Is serviio better?

When someone says sue everyone do you always take them literally?

I think its your problem not mine.

Got all my porn on the main account pin protected and then all my movies and shit on a "guest" account

Can watch all my shit on xbox in the living room, or surface anywhere in the house, or phone

>all my porn on the main account pin protected
brave

If you can make enough isk, yeah it is.

>No support for mkv ordered chapters

It's preventing me from committing to it.

how does plex do with REMUX movies and tv shows?

You're avoiding the issue, you said it was a risk/reward asessment, which I agree, you are clearly overstating the risk though

transcodes them to a 700kbps video stream

that sucks

tricked

It's full of features that I don't care about. However, it does a good job of cataloging all of my uh...archived...dvd movies. I have a tb or two on my server and watch them via the roku or tablets around the house. Can even watch it remotely which is neat.

how do you get to watch it remotely?

i was having issues earlier casting a movie but i dont know if it was because it was mkv or because the file size is 15.6 gb. stuttering video on the 4k but in vlc only the audio is fucked up

Oh please. There are docker images for that

Yes. It's entirely self hosted on your own equipment. It doesn't require authentication, so the concerns about Plex expressed in this thread aren't a problem.

What about everything else? Does it have all the features?

I havent tried emby, but kodi+smb does what I need


Also, what's with all of the plex shilling threads lately?

But it uses java...

never understood why people proudly display that they have a porn addiction.

>serviio
Cool never heard of that one before

Im currently using emby to stream in home. Curious about Sup Forumss thoughts on that shit. I'm having issues with it, but im not sure if its emby or my new router.

Got another alternative?

Does emby use java?

Even worse, C#
github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby

Does it Trans code as well as plex? Can I access it outside my network?

>used by plebs who have shit quality rips
>transcodes shit quality rips into ultra-shit quality streams for devices too shit too play anything at all
Why not just get good rips and good hardware instead? I don't get it.

Yes on transcoding. Also yes on accessing from outside your network, provided you purchase the full version ($25).

I fucked around with various streaming services for years. Serviio, Emby, Kodi, PS3 Media Server. I ended up trying Plex about a year ago and it's been my go to ever since. Super stable, has remote streaming capabilities for free, and you can add other people to your Plex server via a Plex Pass(if you have friends).

You're an idiot. You give them your information when you use the service. That is a fact. Just because you are fine with it doesn't mean others aren't.

>wmv

closest youd get is probably Ultimate Surrender

this but there's no other alternative

why wouldn't you simply use your own home computer/HTPC to transcode the video? why use plex's cloud services at all?

Subsonic

>how does plex do with REMUX movies and tv shows?
It transcodes the video and you can set the bitrate but it's still lossy.