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Anyone using either Plex and/or the HD Home Run Prime with a Cablecard (MCard)? Gearing up for a move to a new house and have played around with Plex and an OTA HD Home Run box.
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Is that like the app kodi to where you can watch TV streaming free pay per view and all that X cetera?
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plex+couch potato+sickbeard=non stop self updating server
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Would like to hear more about setups, looking to go with a plex or kodi solution for when I get a new TV coming up and want to be able to stream my own hosted content to mobile devices as well as the TV. Just starting to do my research.
If plex is dumbed down is it more user friendly or easy to use?If it was a snake, it would have bit me.
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Plex has a component that sits on your server and catalogs and streams your content (music and videos) to a pretty but dumb menu driven client that sits on your PC, Roku, FireTV, and Android devices. I don't have Apple products but I assume that they have clients for Macs and iPhones as well. I say dumbed down because Kodi is very user customizable and does not depend on a server component to do the heavy lifting. Plex does not work well for me because I need to upgrade my server before Plex's server component will be able stream video, and because I've been collecting CDs, special edition CDs, and legal downloadable music for so many years that I have multiple versions of some albums (stereo, 24bit-192mhz, and some 5.1) and Plex sticks all three albums in the same playlist. Three track 1s, three track 2s, etc.
Kodi is client based and allows me to point it at my music share on the server and play the folders, Plex's client does not. You have to do things Plex's way which is very lowest common denominator.
Bottom line, if your server is powerful enough (not a very high bar) and you have a simple collection and simple needs then Plex is pretty cool. If you have any need to do things your way then Kodi is better and free."Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." --FREDERIC BASTIAT--
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I just put kodi on a tablet and I am loving it just wish I could figure out how to stream it from my tablet to my xbox one. Since I can't download it to the Xbox one guess I will get a Amazon fire stick that will solve all problems unless something else has other ideas.
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"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." --FREDERIC BASTIAT--
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The fire set stick seems to be a hot item for Kodi .if you watch YouTube there's a lot of how to's
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I've used home run boxes a lot. HD is plainspeak for uncompressed so I would recommend not using wireless from the tuner to the server anywhere along the line...
I used a home run with window media center and I had to use separate drives for the record to and play back since a drive couldn't handle recording one show while you watched another. I used a simple script to copy the recorded program to the play drive....Last edited by sl0re10; 10-31-2015, 12:07 AM.Comment
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Can you explain more about "home run boxes and home run prime"Comment
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home run were tv tuners with an ethernet jack out the back. They'd make uncompressed HD tv signal available on the network. You put a client on a PC to direct the video to your computer and pick the channel. You could put the client on your workstation and watch live or use a media server and have a sort of build it yourself tivo if you had a program with TV times (re: pick things to record in advance).
Prime seems to have some more features built into the box itself like DLNA. Maybe you don't need the old client software.
They generate a lot of traffic on the network though. Uncompressed HD streaming (sometimes from several tuners) to your media server. At one time I was using three tuners...Comment
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