I just recently found out that Plex made a windows based media server that works with a custom app they made for Roku. This is very interesting to me as it helps to provide me with a solution to getting my HTPC content to other rooms in the house. My hesitation in just picking up a Roku is how well it handles the content being streamed to it. Has anyone tried out these two services together, if so can you tell me how it's been? How well does the Roku device handle the file formats that Plex can support such as MKV or DiVX?
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I have been trying this with some luck, but mostly I'm not that happy with it. Firstly I have allot of content encoded in Xvid, and I don't know what the deal is, but some of the content it will use, other it will not. Also I have a big collection of content I've purchased from the Zune Marketplace, it detects all of it, and claims to be working, however, when I try to access it from my Roku, it just stops halfway through the loading process, and when I go to the media server it says ffmepg.exe has quit working, does this every time I try to load any of my Zune purchases. Also, even thou it detects all my music, none of it shows up on Roku.
Considering it's free and it does get some of your content to your Roku, I say use it, but after hours upon hours of messing with it, I decided it was a lost cause. When it works thou, it's nice, the content I've gotten to stream is seamless, once it loads for a few seconds from that point on the content never reloads and plays perfectly. I don't know about all the different file formats and I'm not sure about MKV however it does support Divx.
Considering it's free and it does get some of your content to your Roku, I say use it, but after hours upon hours of messing with it, I decided it was a lost cause. When it works thou, it's nice, the content I've gotten to stream is seamless, once it loads for a few seconds from that point on the content never reloads and plays perfectly. I don't know about all the different file formats and I'm not sure about MKV however it does support Divx.
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My Plex media server has full DVD ripped content. It runs fine off my Mac Mini and I can see the media server from the Roku channel I recently added. When I begin to load the movie, I can see all the meta data and art fine. The movie dumps out when I hit play.
I have a older generation Roku and have not spent much time trying to resolve this issue since it was really just an experiment. Your milage may vary. As mentioned in a previous answer, it is all free.
I have a older generation Roku and have not spent much time trying to resolve this issue since it was really just an experiment. Your milage may vary. As mentioned in a previous answer, it is all free.
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I've had a mixed bag of results with my 2nd gen Roku (not roku2) and plex. I had to use a wired connection for Plex to work at all, and then most of the time I get kicked out of whatever I'm watching every 10 minutes or so. Some files just won't play. Part of the problem is that the Roku has very limited file support and your plex server will need to convert your files on the fly- which works better in theory than practice.
If you're looking to stream online video the Roku is great, but it's not a good solution for local content.
If you're looking to stream online video the Roku is great, but it's not a good solution for local content.
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