Posted: 3/21/2014 11:55:03 PM EDT
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Just found this little gem.
https://plex.tv/ Lets you stream videos from your computer to your roku. Been looking for this kind of feature for a while. Takes a while to set up/get the hang of how it works, but works perfect so far. 30 day free trial then $5 to buy the channel on roku. |
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Does it stream TO your Roku from your computer (per Russm) for display on your TV or does it stream FROM your Roku to your computer (per Chairman)? Quoted:
Does it stream TO your Roku from your computer (per Russm) for display on your TV or does it stream FROM your Roku to your computer (per Chairman)? It streams to your roku. There is a plex roku app. I have a media server set up on an htpc, and I run the plex client on that pc and have it on all 3 of my rokus. It will also stream to other locations like a work pc or tablet. If you'll re-read Chairmans post he said he has a home server set up that he's streaming from while away, not from his roku. Quoted:
I just got PLEX set up on my home server-it's really awesome so far. If you follow the naming conventions, it's actually really good at finding movie details (even for some of the crappy kids shows). Streaming to iPad and to my computer at work works well. I've found that putting the movie's year in parentheses is a necessity. The only issues I've had and I think it's a Windows 8.1 issue since it ONLY started happening after I did that update, but if my pc sets a long time (6-8) hours the audio stops working and I have to restart the pc. Still chasing all that down. I wish I had never upgraded from Windows 7..... |
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If you'll re-read Chairmans post he said he has a home server set up that he's streaming from while away, not from his roku. I find his description ambiguous. It doesn't specify either connection type(s) or communication direction(s). I guess I don't understand this thing. If you have an HTPC, why not connect that directly to the AVR? What does Roku add to this? Is it because you have the Roku feeding the TV directly and do not have an AVR? I keep a spare HDMI cable connected to my AVR. When I want to play something on my PC and display it on the home theater, I plug the HDMI cable into my PC. It feeds the audio and video into the AVR for display on the large screen and through the speaker system. If I left the PC connected permanently, I could call an HTPC. |
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I find his description ambiguous. It doesn't specify either connection type(s) or communication direction(s). I guess I don't understand this thing. If you have an HTPC, why not connect that directly to the AVR? What does Roku add to this? Is it because you have the Roku feeding the TV directly and do not have an AVR? I keep a spare HDMI cable connected to my AVR. When I want to play something on my PC and display it on the home theater, I plug the HDMI cable into my PC. It feeds the audio and video into the AVR for display on the large screen and through the speaker system. If I left the PC connected permanently, I could call an HTPC. Quoted:
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If you'll re-read Chairmans post he said he has a home server set up that he's streaming from while away, not from his roku. I find his description ambiguous. It doesn't specify either connection type(s) or communication direction(s). I guess I don't understand this thing. If you have an HTPC, why not connect that directly to the AVR? What does Roku add to this? Is it because you have the Roku feeding the TV directly and do not have an AVR? I keep a spare HDMI cable connected to my AVR. When I want to play something on my PC and display it on the home theater, I plug the HDMI cable into my PC. It feeds the audio and video into the AVR for display on the large screen and through the speaker system. If I left the PC connected permanently, I could call an HTPC. Sorry, I read what I posted and I may have sounded like a dick, not my intent. I can't speak for these other guys, but I have my roku's in my bedrooms, I do have my living room TV hooked up directly to my HTPC. If you just had one pc you could run Plex on it and have a roku on your main tv so that you wouldn't have to move your pc around. You can also use plex to view stuff on your htpc from off site, like work or wherever. |
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I find his description ambiguous. It doesn't specify either connection type(s) or communication direction(s). I guess I don't understand this thing. If you have an HTPC, why not connect that directly to the AVR? What does Roku add to this? Is it because you have the Roku feeding the TV directly and do not have an AVR? I keep a spare HDMI cable connected to my AVR. When I want to play something on my PC and display it on the home theater, I plug the HDMI cable into my PC. It feeds the audio and video into the AVR for display on the large screen and through the speaker system. If I left the PC connected permanently, I could call an HTPC. Quoted:
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If you'll re-read Chairmans post he said he has a home server set up that he's streaming from while away, not from his roku. I find his description ambiguous. It doesn't specify either connection type(s) or communication direction(s). I guess I don't understand this thing. If you have an HTPC, why not connect that directly to the AVR? What does Roku add to this? Is it because you have the Roku feeding the TV directly and do not have an AVR? I keep a spare HDMI cable connected to my AVR. When I want to play something on my PC and display it on the home theater, I plug the HDMI cable into my PC. It feeds the audio and video into the AVR for display on the large screen and through the speaker system. If I left the PC connected permanently, I could call an HTPC. Plex Media Server (PMS) runs on my home server. On my home server I have a variety of ripped/recorded movies and TV shows. PMS then streams that content to a variety of devices, including the HTPC hooked to the TV, ipads and iphones of various family members, laptops, and any computer that I'm at with an internet connection (e.g., my work computer). I can also give others that same access to stream content from my server. Plex can stream to PC, Mac, linux, Roku, iOS, Android, the Amazon tv box, Chromecast, certain "smart" TVs, etc. In addition to the (absolutely awesome) remote access features, the advantage of having everything on the server means that I can view that same library on all the TVs in the house (family room, playroom, in front of the treadmill, etc.) as well as on any tablets, phones, computers, etc. Think of PMS as Netflix streaming, but with your selection of movies, rather than Netflix's. I'm at work right now and I can pull up the plex web app on my work computer and see my selection of movies on my home server across town; like the screenshot below. Plex will also transcode the video files on my server to lower quality as needed to stream properly (or as I set). If were inclined to watch one of my movies at work, or in a hotel room, I just pull up the Plex web app and click play. 
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I just got PLEX set up on my home server-it's really awesome so far. If you follow the naming conventions, it's actually really good at finding movie details (even for some of the crappy kids shows). Streaming to iPad and to my computer at work works well. I've found that putting the movie's year in parentheses is a necessity. Yes, and it's a PITA to do it. But Filebot does a pretty good job automatically renaming files. Plex does struggle with some of the more obscure movies, and particularly with a lot of kids TV shows and straight-to-dvd movies. For widely-released movies, however, plex is like voodoo magic as far as retrieving thumbnails and movie info. |