Medai browser vs Plex

[Magnus33]

For me its lack of coffee. ;)

I understand what you meant though by bugs but freenas is free and for the most part stable. (much praise to the coders)
Plex clients are not free and a much smaller coding job so testing should be much simpler and massive issues like this should never be seen buy their buyers.

Its shockingly bad business when your company depends on a happy buyer base and you can be replaced with software from someone else easily.

 

[Rilo Ravestein]

You are not entirely correct.

- Plex is partly free. If you have a Samsung TV for example, you are good to go for free. You only have to pay for some clients, not all of them.
- Only one client seem to have problems currently

So nothing is THAT shocking and Plex is not easily replaced yet, Plex has apps on Linux, TV's and Raspberry Pi. These are real showstoppers for a lot of people. Also the Plex transcoding engine seems to be a little better than MB, although i have not seen some real benchmarkings yet.

People are ranting about the complete product (line), while only a small part of it has problems. I don't think that is fair. I have been using Plex for years and have never encountered any serious problem.

I'm beginning to sound like a Plex salesman, so i'm gonna leave this topic alone now

 

[Magnus33]

That not actually free its factored into the price of the tv but from the buyer point of view it would certainly seem so and is a nice feature.

At present plex does have many clients and that's a good thing but they are rapidly becoming not the only one on the market.
Media browser for example just came out with roku client.

They are certainly at the top of the heap and have some good software across many platforms.
The real issue though is over the past year they developed a attitude where there little or no response from tech support and shockingly dismissive to the buyers.

its worrisome coming from a company that use to be so good and maybe a sign of the dreaded big guy ego setting in.

Fortunately we now have alternatives and if worse comes to it we wont be be lost.

 

[danb35]

...and I guess the cost of the client is built into the price of RasPlex too...

 

[Magnus33]

No i believe that was given free or very cheaply to them because raspberry pie is more programer/educational.

 

[Rilo Ravestein]

The Plex on TV client is also without any costs. It's one developer doing it for free.

 

[Magnus33]

The Plex on TV client is also without any costs. It's one developer doing it for free.

Unless you talking about a different side loaded client then no.
Its licensed for the tv by the maker just like netflix is or any other app.

 

[Rilo Ravestein]

You have some inside knowledge? I have read something totally different.

 

[danb35]

No i believe that was given free or very cheaply to them because raspberry pie is more programer/educational.

Since RasPlex is completely free and open source, I don't believe this is accurate. At a minimum, if Plex wants to monetize the client, contributing the code to an open-source project like RasPlex would be a poor way to do it, as any other developer could then take the code for free for any other project they wanted.

 

[Magnus33]

Just looked at it and yes its free.
Of course its not on a normally mobile platform so plex doesn't charge for it. ( all pc versions are free)

Only the client versions based on mobile devices and consumer media devices (tv for example) cost money.
In the case of the tv the maker foots the cost and factors it in to the tv as a selling point.