/htpc/ - Home Theatre Personal Computer General

but with RasPlex*

I should also note that I have roommates and a few other residents that'd like to make use of my server, so in that regard Plex is probably safer and definitely easier than setting up some weird SFTP restricted key-based media server thing. Or maybe Samba, but I'm hesitant towards allowing that (even with passwords) in such a public network.

is this the return of the elusive /home server general/?

I recently got a cheap POS rackmount server to run freenas on
how good is kodi at transcoding? is it near the level of PLEX?

>>56411855
That's the main problem with Kodi. It's not so much a media server as a client with nifty scrapers and add-ons and plug-ins. Any transcoding is handled by the client.

Not a big deal for some, but for me and other RPi2 users (not sure how pi3/odroid/etc fare), it means it artifacts on 10-bit color and can't handle h265 very well at all.

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I use plex and its just the best option. Along with chroot sftp jails for certain users to upload movies n shit if they desire. Plex is just much more portable and i fucking love it.

>>56411855
kodi is not client-server. Damn shame too, plex lacks some really nice functionality in a file browser like OP mentioned, subtitle downloader, you can manage your library however you want (smb, ftp, sftp, nfs, etc).

I run Kodibunu on an Intel NUC, using Kore android app as the remote.

I have no need for mass storage as I just stream Mr Robot with Exodus plugin, the whole system will be forgotten about once the series finishes until Walking Dead starts again.

Here's a thing I'm wondering for a long time. Why do some people prefer collecting movies to nas, and stream it to their kodi/plex instead of just using kodi add-ons? Why would you want to wait for downloading the movie, while you can watch it while downloading, and forget about it after you watched. And old/unpopular movies won't even have seeders, so what's the point?

>>56411327
Kodi -XMBC with The Beast or Exodus