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Plex support of subtitles, of all types, is pretty horrible. So if you like films/tv not in your native tongue, or are an Otaku, or deaf, your out of luck with Plex. They have promised a number of times to work on it, but never have and don't seem to care beyond giving the impression that they will, so that people might buy the mobile app on the hope that real support is coming.
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lol I think the OP could use some re-education about "scouring the internet".
What did this involve? Did you open your computer case and look really good inside? Inside your router maybe?
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Plex is software that you use if you want a centralized library shared amongst various clients, including mobile, desktop, Roku,. ATV2, Google TV, etc. All your content will show up just by logging into myPlex. Plex does have a desktop client that works great, but it doesn't have all the new high-tech features of XBMC, such as scripts. For people that care about the media server, and serving up content, everywhere and anywhere, Plex is the solution. If you care about one centralized library, and emphasize the desktop client, than XBMC is the solution. Hope that helps!
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well I use both xbmc and plex. I use xbmc as my main home theater and then on both my atv2. xbmc in my opionion looks way better.
What I do like about plex is that I can view my content away from my network and that all my clients are synced. It works pretty decently aswell. Another thing I do like about plex is the shared library. I currently have my library shared with my father and brother which both of them do not do alot of downloading or tweaking to their home theaters. So for them they use plex which is a bit easier for them to use and then the are able to get my library of 700+ movies and 1300 tv episodes etc..
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2012-05-19, 21:09
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-19, 22:40 by FoxMcCloud.)
I've used XBMC since around 2004 when I chipped an Xbox specifically for XBMC. So make no mistake when I say that I love XBMC and think its some of the best software out there. However, it only fills one purpose these days, as a single media centre. If my HTPC has all the media and there are no other TVs in the house, then this is ideal and is how I had my setup until last year which is when, as the owner of my own multi bedroom home, I decided to stick televisions everywhere.
As such, the current approach proved fairly quick to be the wrong approach. I had to setup multiple devices at length, constantly setup settings and scan libraries and locations etc.
So I gave Plex a shot.
What I have now, is a central library with Plex. When new stuff is added on a daily basis, Plex Media Server sees this and auto updates. I come home, fire up a plex client (roku, AppleTV or HTPC) and go to recently aired or recently added and the new stuff is there. I then, half way through an video, stop it and start it back up again in a different room. It's all so simple. If a client isn't powerful enough to play the video natively, then PMS transcodes the file. Its a server, and if I don't have device with a plex solution available but it has DLNA, that's great too because the server presents itself as a DLNA server too.
I don't use the desktop plex client much but it's not too bad, no where near as good as XBMC though.
So what I'm getting at is that Plex comes in two parts, Server and Client(s).
If XBMC could natively read a Plex server, I'd be in heaven. The best of both worlds in the awesome Plex Media Server backend, and the superb XBMC frontend (especially good through a native solution like OpenELEC, and a small client box like a Zbox Nano or some such).
Or if XBMC ever got its own server app of some such as feature rich and capable as Plex, I'd be back in a shot. Especially if it had tv functionality built in too. My server could have a tv tuner and stream that too to relevant XBMC clients.
Once upon a time, we only had one XBMC device. Now we have the option and opertunity to have multiple devices but XBMC is still atm focused on the one device model. I'd love it to change and hopefully it will. (Please note I understand XBMC can be massaged into syncing with other devices, but this takes much effort and hacking).
Please understand I am not knocking XBMC or recommending against it. I'm just saying that for my needs, I prefer the one server many clients model of Plex.
Thank you XBMC debs for all your work.
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XBMC needs a server/client setup, it is painfully obvious.