(2014-04-06, 08:52)BORIStheBLADE Wrote: (2014-04-06, 08:26)Ned Scott Wrote: Plex is not XBMC. Getting excited over what Plex can be installed on is silly. I'd rather use a full featured program than use the nerfed and locked down interface of Plex thin clients. Not to mention that Plex thin clients are completely closed source.
Your move.
Ned, we all know Plex isn't XBMC.. Plex might work for a lot of people just fine. For people that don't code or need anymore than what it offers does it matter if its open source or not? Plex has been offered for many consumer products other than the basic PC. A lot of people are interested in having one or the other on some sort of settop box that they can plug in and download an app. Look at all the excitement for running XBMC on the new Amazon FireTV box! Yes its not a the perfect device for most of us, but it will be fine for others. Now there is info floating around Google is going to come out with Android TV I bet we will see threads pop up soon if XBMC will work on it. Plex is evolving with the technology trends..
Does it matter for users who will never code? Oh god yes. For example, without XBMC then Plex would have not had a starting point, and might have never happened. The internet as we know it would be far less evolved and probably be fragmented and broken. I'm far from a bleeding heart FLOSS guy, and I have no issues using closed source software, but even I know that it matters for people who will never code.
My comment wasn't to discourage people from using Plex or things like Plex. My point was that just because Plex is an option doesn't make XBMC any less attractive. If all you want is what Plex offers, then why on earth would you bother with XBMC? If you've chosen XBMC over Plex, then you've probably done it for more reasons than just having something that can play video. Anything can play video. My toaster can play video.
The two boxes new boxes/platforms you mention (Fire TV and Google TV) have FULL XBMC support. There's a hardware decoding bug on the Fire TV right now, but hardware video decoding can and does work on it. Plex isn't passing us by. Our version of XBMC for Android is so much better than Plex on a set top box. Plex isn't evolving. That's one of the most absurd things I've seen written here, and I've read the thread on "objective storage". Comparing their thin client garbage to what XBMC can do, and saying Plex is passing us up? What are you smoking?
I'm not sorry at all that people can't use XBMC on a gaming console that can't do 1080 games in 2014. So in response to "your move", I say, "take my turn too, because you're going to need it if you ever want to catch up with XBMC".