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That lifetime Plex pass deal is looking pretty good these days
What does Plex pass give you that you want to pay for it? I've considered it for awhile now but never bought it.
@skankhunt42
Not what you asked but I'm a huge Jellyfin fan. I used Plex for a while but it struggled with Anime and higher bitrates. The interface responsiveness is GARBAGE compared to Jellyfin on my Nvdia shield pro too.
@sparklecherryz @johnthedoe
The problem is the parents and inlaws are already setup with plex and dont l'île change. I keep thinking about trying IPTV but its almost pointless with thé *arrs
The features people replied to you plus also just supporting them as they’ve made a good seamless product for free over the years
Because no one else answered heres what I use a lot.
Hardware acceleration to use gpu to transcode video.
Intro detection for tv to skip credits.
Subtitle search
Plexamp is a pretty good music player.
I paid for the lifetime pass on sale for $100 which I think is a pretty good deal.
Doesn't the normal free plex also offer transcoding? Or does it only give you CPU transcoding?
Just cpu.
Thanks for confirming. The CPU seems to do the job fine in my case. I set it to "make my CPU hurt" lol.
Its fine enough for most of the time, but its nice to have if a lot of peoole are transcoding at once. Or if someone transcodes 4k for whatever reason.
A bunch of useless shit that no one asked for. The only useful thing I could see for the Plex Pass would be for HDR to SDR tone mapping.
I have two kids so having Plex sync (or whatever it's called now) is a must have when we go on trips. Use our server to put movies/shows on their tablets.
Managed accounts is a huge one for me. Even with just one extra person in your household, it is a lifesaver for keeping everything separate.
Hardware transcoding, if your hardware has support for it, the ability to analyse media and skip intros and HDR tone mapping mostly.
Does the HDR tone mapping work for other users? I have an HDR capable OLED but most of my friends using my Plex server have TVs with no HDR support so the HDR content I download looks like ass for them. I'd like to fix that, but not if every single user has to pay for it.
I have Plex Pass, since the early days when lifetime was much cheaper, and never had any trouble with HDR specifically like you said. And I’m the only one with Plex Pass, everyone else in the free tier.
Here's the support link if you'd lime to read more about.
Okay cool, so it sounds like it would fix this issue for all my users as long as I maintain Plex Pass or buy a lifetime subscription. I might consider this since it's easier than talking my friends into investing in a nice HDR TV or watching shows from their house and feeling pained that they don't seem to care.
Wait what? You can hardware transcode on Plex without the pass....unless I'm misunderstanding?
Quick Sync transcoding is locked behind the paywall.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/