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Thinking of joining the XBMC family can this replace Playon for me - buffalosolja42 - 2013-07-04
Ok I have been a playon users since day one, but it resides on my family (kids and wife) PC and this thing has so many items on startup it drives me nuts. Now playon is housed on this machine and my cpu peaks when it is running even if no one is using the PC and causes me to restart it sometime. I am on the fence on just building a Windows 2008 or 2012 server and put playon on it or will XBMC do the same thing and I can place it on a machine in basement. All the shows I watch on Playon are ones I have stored on external and internal hdd and because of formatting playon has to use vlc to provide the content to my xbox 360s (4). I am just looking for information because I can't find a proper comparison of pro vs cons of the two online. Thanks in advanced!
RE: Thinking of joining the XBMC family can this replace Playon for me - Ned Scott - 2013-07-04
Currently, no. XBMC will not do any transcoding or remuxing-on-the-fly, so using it as a server to your 360s won't help with all file formats. These things are coming to XBMC in the future, though.
RE: Thinking of joining the XBMC family can this replace Playon for me - buffalosolja42 - 2013-07-04
Ok gotcha so I guess I will wait for these features in the mean time. Q for your reply
RE: Thinking of joining the XBMC family can this replace Playon for me - Death-Axe - 2013-07-04
Use servioo for your needs.