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You own an Apple TV. You like the idea of Plex – roll your own Netflix – but you have taste and find the Plex UI dumb and transcoding a useless hassle. You're streaming over a LAN, so what's the point of a full-on server when you'd rather just direct stream from a cheap NAS? Maybe you have super high quality/bitrate media like Blu-ray remuxes and don't want compression anyway. But you're disappointed with Plex's implementation of direct play. Enter Infuse. Infuse is a library browser and video player for Apple TV and iOS. It has a gorgeous and deceptively simple UI in front of a rock solid playback core that can stream pretty much any file type you throw at it, including DVD and Blu-ray folders, fast as poo poo. You will be absolutely flabbergasted by how smooth and responsively this baby can play huge files over 802.11ac. It requires a minimum of janitoring to get set up and maintain, and automatically pulls metadata for your files. Since I got this app I have been screaming at everyone I know about how great it is and why are you still using Plex like some kind of Philistine??
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:You're streaming over a LAN,
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Sep 3, 2017 18:40
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You don't need to use a cloud service to stream from it remotely, although I haven't found a need to do so yet personally. https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000074153-Streaming-Away-From-Home I would agree that it's primarily an at home solution where it is leagues better than Plex. I use it to stream from a DS216j to an Apple TV / LG B6. Transcoded video is unacceptable under those circumstances! KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Sep 4, 2017 23:28
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Kodi's interface is even more poo poo than Plex's, and I find the Infuse playback core more compatible and responsive over LAN.
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Sep 5, 2017 19:19
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The use cases are slightly different. Plex is good for remote streaming/transcoding. Infuse is good for playing high quality media losslessly over a LAN. Most of the people I know are using Plex in situation B, and it is deeply suboptimal for that, in terms of quality, reliability, compatibility, ease of use, etc.
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Sep 15, 2017 19:33
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These are the pro-only features, probably not make-or-break for a lot of people.
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Sep 15, 2017 21:26
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UI, format compatibility, and in my experience, reliability with large high-bitrate files.
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