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Elie Teyssedou@elie_teyssedou · Developer
Is it better than Plex ?
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J. Alexander Curtis@_jacurtis · Co-Founder, OhMyTix
@elie_teyssedou I was going to say the same thing. Plex is incredibly well done and mature. It has apps for web, AppleTV, Playstation, Roku, iOS, Android and anywhere else you would want to watch movies. This looks like a very basic version of Plex.
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Apostol Apostolov@apoapostolov · Producer, Designer @ Gameloft Sofia
@elie_teyssedou This is much clunkier than Plex. It is a self hosted web application where you can easily add new shows from scrobbled data, but you have to upload to that web application every media you acquire you-know-how, file by file, episode by episode. The only feature that Plex needs to steal ASAP is the synced watching for remote watching parties. … See more
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Elie Teyssedou@elie_teyssedou · Developer
@apoapostolov You're right, the synced watching is a great feature. I used to this with friends. It's kinda funny, but when it come to pause the movie... it becomes tricky.
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Sebastian Limbach@bastilimbach · Associated Consultant
@elie_teyssedou It is completely open source under the MIT License. I think this is pretty awesome and a big advantage over Plex.
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Claudio H.@kazzkiq · Web Enthusiast
@_jacurtis @elie_teyssedou Basic and *open-source*. ;-)
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Apostol Apostolov@apoapostolov · Producer, Designer @ Gameloft Sofia
@elie_teyssedou For Plex, the real-time infrastructure is already there. If you look at their web app, they can already sync what every user is watching down to 5-10 seconds, with a thumbnail of the currently watched content. They can cut this down to 1 second and less with less data, with remote syncing at that. The voice chat, there're countless of opens-s… See more
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