Kodi is a free and open source media center which is able to play almost every media format out there. Kodi natively supports NFO files - all you have to do is to prepare them with tinyMediaManager and set your data source as source in Kodi. Jellyfin is a free and open source centralized media center which is able to stream a wide range of media formats to your devices. Jellyfin has a wide range of clients where you can stream your media to. Jellyfin natively supports NFO files - you just need to prepare them with tinyMediaManager and to set up your data source in the Jellyfin library.
Plex is a centralized media center is able to stream a wide range of media formats to your devices. Plex has a wide range of clients where you can stream your media to. Childs Lifer. Jul 9, 11, 7 I would think parsing that would be harder than looking at a file name and scraping a web page. I use TinyMediaManager to create the. Shame on them, that sounds like they're just being stubborn. Childs said:. I am not talking about a TV show with more than episodes in that series.
I am talking about a TV library with more than shows total in the library. If you are a serious digital hoarder you are beyond Plex's target market, I have even had one of its developers admit that to me. Without nfo files I would be hand-holding the scraper one show at a time. That makes no sense. Think about it: Why would a nfo file that is sitting locally on my modern SSD be harder to parse than a web page that is hosted outside my network on some foreign webserver?
Local files always win. My system can parse that nfo file as fast as the bus will allow, while the scraper is limited by the bandwidth of my connection and the web server connection. I've opened up nfo files and it looks like its filled with nothing but random characters. I guess I still don't see what this extra step buys you. It seems like all this does it make it a manual step when plex does it automatically, with a reasonably high degree of accuracy, assuming the name is correct to begin with.
That isn't that different than something like Sickbeard which saves series info locally via xml and images, and moving from one server to another is fairly hassle free. When I moved PMS to another server I did look like it rebuilt the libraries from scratch, which was a surprise, but it didn't take long to rebuild 3 libraries with probably a few thousand items.
I assumed I missed a step when I migrated to the new machine. Aside from that one instance, I don't think a library update has forced everything to be scrapped again. It looks like pms is just verifying the local files and scrapping as needed when it finds something new or missing. I know Plex is based on it, but Plex seems more refined.
And I didn't have to customize or download a theme, the Plex theme looks fine. One thing that might get me to switch is all the nickel and diming Plex has been doing with the clients. I did get Mediabrowser clients for free, so I may check that out and Kodi if I ever make a switch. But streaming box client support is a must. I don't want to go the sideload or private channel route.
I want the clients to be able to be updated hassle free. The problem with scrapers is that eventually your library gets so big that the scrapers have trouble with it. Doesn't matter the software, the scrapers are all very similar in their benefits and weaknesses.
Like Aikouka mentioning that scrapers work better from the show root page- I have had the same experience in multiple pieces of software. If you check the logs the reason probably is the scraper is failing somewhere in your huge library. What solution works best for you depends completely on your scale. He has the lifetime pass, he uses it all over the place.
But his library is a fraction of mine. Personally I hit a point where my library is so big that NONE of the major solutions work "out of the box. For that optimal local GUI performance I sacrifice features, like never having my remote access library ever be perfectly the same as my local library, but there is no solution that can be everything for everyone.
That is why it is so difficult to recommend these options blindly to people. You may now proceed to Part 3B of this guide. This add-on will let your play media files served by Plex Media Server. Then select Install from zip file , then select file location. The add-on file should be under Home folder , so select it and press enter key.
Browse to select repository. After this, hit backspace a few times until you reach the main front-end menu. You should be taken to a new menu page. Step 5. When you see your Plex machine already listed in this page, select it and hit OK button to continue. Click Server from the left-hand part of the page and then click Show Advanced menu under it.
Enable DLNA by ticking the check-box, then click save changes. Look for a drop-down selector labeled Transcoder quality , and click on it and select Automatic. You may set this in automatic settings for now, but you may experiment with the other settings ie: prefer higher speed or higher quality encoding. Another is to use software client such as. If you have questions or comments with regard to this guide, please feel free to write your comments below. This is a valid question, though one most devs for both programs will probably try to side step for fear of upsetting the other group.
You are then welcome to make your own decisions. Note: As a project manager for XBMC, I am clearly a biased source and my knowledge of the inner workings of Plex is incomplete at best.
Feel free to call me on something if I get it wrong. The goal is, wherever possible, to always keep functionality the same across OSes.
A recent benefit of this approach has been the inclusion of Dirty Region rendering, which, because it has been designed from the outset to be available across platforms, should reduce CPU and GPU usage regardless of OS. Secondly, the GPL only requires that open source software be open at the time of release.
XBMC devs tended to prefer totally open development, in which the code was opened at the moment it was written down. Plex devs preferred to keep code closed until time of release or, occasionally, shortly thereafter. Both of these differences caused a great deal of frustration for the different dev groups.
Eventually, there was a vote among developers whether to give the Plex devs the boot. While the team voted to keep the Plex devs on board, the Plex devs themselves decided to go their separate ways. I mention it only to give the reader a bit of background on current differences. XBMC remains, to this day, wholly open source. Every aspect and every version is entirely open source software.
This includes the database, the player, the decoder, the official Android remote app, and anything else you care to name. Plex is, at this point, mostly closed source. While the player remains open, the Plex Media Server i.
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