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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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So no offline video playback and it suggests carrying around a hard drive to take movies with me? Also I have to use a cloud service to stream remotely?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:You're streaming over a LAN,
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sellouts posted:So no offline video playback and it suggests carrying around a hard drive to take movies with me?
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I also stream off of a LAN with Plex. But I would take the movies the same place I take Plex? To my hotel, on an airplane, to my parents house? Why would an at home solution tie into so many cloud services? sellouts fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 3, 2017 |
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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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Infuse is similar to MrMC, i.e. what you poor ATV users have to use since you can't get regular Kodi on your platform (easily).
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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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Kodi has a new default interface, its actually pretty good. Anyways my GF has an ATV, I will check this out sometime for kicks.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Kodi's interface is even more poo poo than Plex's, and I find the Infuse playback core more compatible and responsive over LAN. Clearly you have strong opinions and, you know, good for you, but that is a pretty bold statement considering just how customizable Kodi's look and feel is, and how genuinely decent the new default UX in v17 is. Not that it matters anyway because getting Kodi on a newer ATV and keeping it up to date is a giant pain in the rear end anyway. Glad you like Infuse.
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Infuse sounds like it solves a very specific problem for a very small set of users and that problem will likely be rectified with the next rumored ATV update to 4k/HDR, but glad you like it.
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What problem is that? Playing back H265 without having to transcode?
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Infuse is basically no different from plex. I've tried both and stuck with plex. That being said this thread will probably make me go back and try both again just to be certain. So thanks OP. Thanks.
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I have installed infuse on my atv ages ago but never got around to trying it out, this thread has spurred me into action! Confused there are two apps on the app store, one free with an $8.50 IAP to pro and the pro app is $17.99 (prices CAD). What is the difference other than I think IAP are not eligible from family sharing (I think?). E: no web front end for watching on a PC is a bit of a bummer too.
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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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Aha, the $17.99 CAD pro app is lifetime whereas the free one is $8.49 per year for the pro subscription . Playing on ATV for free seems fine. I just pointed it at my Plex server, easy.
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Sep 15, 2017 19:58
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These are the pro-only features, probably not make-or-break for a lot of people.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted: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. How is Plex bad for local play? How can Infuse direct play better than Plex? Directly playing media without transcoding should be the same either way.
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Sep 15, 2017 21:36
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It's not
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UI, format compatibility, and in my experience, reliability with large high-bitrate files.
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This thing doesn't even do music?
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