3/21/2024 0 Comments Plex vs vlc streamer![]() ![]() Jellyfin has great metadata locating stuff and supports recording of TV using HDHR network tuners. If you have a 5 yr old computer, the newer codecs aren't decrypted in hardware and you'll need a mid-tier CPU, not any low-end CPUs for playback. But if you have any raspberry pi v3/v2 media players, you'll need transcoding for the newer codecs. If all the clients are relatively new computers, this won't matter to you. Now that content is stored as vp9, h.265, AVC1, most of my playback devices just can't handle that video codec and need for the content to be transcoded to h.264. The DivX support was what we used pre-h.264 for quality compression. They supported h.264, divx and mpeg2 video content, but nothing else. For years, I used hardware-based playback devices. ![]() A rule of thumb is 3000 passmarks per concurrent hidef stream that requires transcoding. Transcoding needs a server that can support it. If the clients cannot handle all the content types, you'll want transcoding. If all your content is natively playable by all the clients, then transcoding doesn't matter. I've had problems with VLC on Windows and Linux "finding" the DLNA servers on the network. mpc - For a quick 'update' command, if new audio files have been added (podcast, new CD).ncmpc - all my linux systems have this to control multiple mpd servers.I generally only use the Roku for paid internet streams, never to access local DLNA content.Īudio Clients: These all communicate with the mpd server to control playback on different mpd servers around the house. Roku3 - this is pretty old now and does more tracking than Plex, which is actually very hard to believe.OSMC/Kodi on raspberry Pi computers - they use the DLNA interface - zero tracking.MiniDLNA (emergency use only zero tracking) This lacks the transcoding feature that Jellyfin and Plex provide. ![]()
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