#PLEX ALTERNATIVES MOVIE#

serving a movie is child's play (it does struggle a bit if I try to serve Goodfellas in HD while playing Mafia 2, so I'll have to stop that). I have the program set to: 'Hurt My CPU', but my CPU just sits on the porch throwing pebbles at my pet goat, Roger - it's used to providing 60fps maxed out settings in Mafia 2 or some other game it has to work real hard at.

I have been using it for about 10 days now and a terabyte of movies and tv on my computer couldn't be happier. The FREE Plex Media Server simplifies your life by organizing all of your personal media, making it beautiful and streaming it to all of your devices. srt file or has the CC encoded in the video file. Subtitle functionality would also be nice as occasionally I'll get a rifftrax video that includes a. I don't even need cover art but it would be nice to have. I don't need all the other bells and whistles Plex is trying to convince me I need, no online streaming, no streaming to my phone, no syncing to my phone. So I'm looking for something that 'just works' to stream video to the roku from my PC.

#PLEX ALTERNATIVES MP4#

Most of the videos I'm watching are mp4 or avi and Rarflix handles them without a hitch, so I don't know why PlayOn should struggle so much. I also am not a fan of having to create an account for whatever big brother service chooses to snoop the PlayOn servers. Maybe I just need some configuration changes on that, but I tried reducing the bitrate with little effect in buffering. I tried the PlayOn MyMedia channel and PC server but it buffered a ton every 5 seconds it would stop to buffer). $75 (or $150 next week) one time I am not ok with. I already pay Netflix to play someone elses files, I shouldn't have to pay so much to play mine. Plex has worked fine for that in the past, but I'm not going to pay to play my own files, my money has other destinations between kids in daycare and school, reduced pay in a new job after the old one lost their government contract, etc. All I really care about is: streaming video files from my PC to the Roku seamlessly.

I got the Roku + Netflix to cut big cable subscription plans and I'm not willing to pay the lifetime Plex price considering their corporate shift towards greed (they're doubling their pricing next week).

#PLEX ALTERNATIVES UPDATE#

This apparently happened around the time of an update requiring a paid Plex channel on the roku or a subscription/membership plan with the Plex service. After digging through forums and googling I discovered the alternative channel rarflix. I've been using Plex for years, but a few months back it stopped working properly. I have the old Roku 2 XD (not the current pointlessly-aerodynamic generation, the older generation). I've used it for years, I'm now looking for an alternative. If you're a Plex Person of Good Streaming Taste, this is not the thread for you, move along please.

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