On 4/6/2014 9:56 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:: > My problem with Plex was that the frontend is basically XBMC. I can't > use XBMC as my main media frontend because music playback on it is > horrible (playlist support is... not really existant) and reassigning > remote control keys is an insanely horrible ordeal. I've been running OpenElec for about a year and a half now. I really like it. It is built from the ground up for only running XMBC. I run it on a Raspberry PI, and store everything on a NAS. It's pretty slick. It sits behind my TV (smaller than a paperback book). I use a tiny usb wifi dongle, and an external DVD drive as well). The whole setup was less a hundred bucks (not including the NAS of course). Awhile back they added PVR support, but I have never tried it. I had no issues setting up a remote. I picked up a cheap Ortek Win7 media center remote, and it worked right out of the box. I also picked up a tiny Logitech wireless keyboard with a touch mouse built in. I don't use the keyboard much, but it comes in handy from time to time (typing anything beyond "ET" on the remote starts to give me fits of apoplexy). One better hardware with a capture card, and blue-ray it would be awesome. I use other programs on a different machine to do the sorting/renaming to keep the library clean. > > Not sure what the frontend is like on Android or other platforms, but > since I don't really need to stream videos to my phone, and my tablets > can just mount the NFS shares... > > I've also had terrible problems with Plex misidentifying a lot of my > media, even when there is metadata and I store it in the directory > structure they recommend... >