To get a truly integrated household where all devices work consistently and similarly, there's really no substitute for a proper UPnP/DLNA setup, short of getting the same box (WDTV Live, Dune, PCH, Boxee, whatever) at each location. Well enough, in fact, that I dumped my WDTV Live in favor of a Mezzmo setup. It has worked just fine for me for several years. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't work. This is all an MS-caused networking problem.Ĭlick to expand.I find your outlook to be a little humorous. The WD Live-SMP has never had a problem connecting to them via SMB shares. I also have a couple of very low-end linux based NAS units set up for SMB shares that I use for DVD.iso images. Therefore I have transcoding globally disabled in Mezzmo. I use no other devices that cannot play that content native. My content is all formatted to play native on the WD Live-SMP. All its organization and content aggregation features are nice gravy. Connection to the content library is immediate with 100% success rate - that alone would keep me with Mezzmo. I installed Mezzmo and access the Media-PC from the WD Live-SMP as a media server (DLNA client). Like you, I spent countless hours searching for solutions on the web, configuring the network, changing protections and creating guest accounts - all to no avail. I could reboot the server and the WD Live-SMP and then the simple anonymous access to the Media-PC would work - switch to another network source then back to the Media-PC and I'm locked out. I could always see the Media-PC but Win-7 would frequently lock me out and demand access credentials. I never knew when I turned on a WD Live-SMP if it would connect to the Win-7 shares or not. MS really messed up their simple SMB networking.
#Serviio plex pro
I converted my Media-PC/server to Win-7 Pro so I could expand the disk farm past the 2TB volume limits at which point my SMB networking to external devices went into the toilet. If Serviio works and you are comfortable with it, by all means stay with it, but judging the transcoder by how many CPU cycles is not going to give you any reasonable evalution.Ĭlick to expand.When my Media-PC/server was running Win-XP I never ever had a problem with my WD Live-SMP's connecting over SMB shares (wired). Like I said earlier, factors like the size of the source file also have a HUGE effect on how much CPU is necessary. If it is a matter of overloading the CPU to transcode to multiple devices then just turn down the quality settings. In fact, once Mezzmo has transcoded a file for a specific device, you will never have to transcode again unless you clear the cache folder or it has to delete transcoded files because of space. The benefit is that once the entire file is transcoded you can FF/Rew through the movie.
#Serviio plex movie
If they can peg the CPU for 45 minutes and transcode a 90 minuted movie then they will. Plex, Mezzmo and I assume any other FFMPEG based transcoder solution should be trying to use every CPU cycle it can. That really isnt gonna work for me because if I'm viewing content on another television it becomes all jerky and basically unviewable.Īny thoughts on the subject? What doent use Java is what I would prefer, and something that doesnt use every bit of a 6core processor to get the job done?Ĭlick to expand.I think you missed the point since you are somehow convinced that Plex pegging your CPU is a bad thing. When transcoding a movie to a single television it spikes the CPU usage at 100%. So I switched to Plex which does not depend on Java, but I find that it eats up my entire CPU capacity. I used Serviio for a long time but because it depends on Java, well Java can be a pain. The problem I'm having is in finding the best media server for my needs.
On my newer televisions I run the cat6 directly to the televisions and depend on DLNA technology to stream content. On my older televisions I run a Boxee Box through cat6 cable.
#Serviio plex Pc
My home is networked I use my PC mostly for audio/video content, and because I have televisions of various ages I have various ways of routing content.
#Serviio plex 64 Bit
I have a W7 64 bit PC with an AMD 6 core processor.
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