poul54 wrote:you make me mad..... kodi (xbmc) is supporting nearly every platform, and is the best mediaplayer ever, they are doing a great job for free..... it is just a matter of hardware support that Intel and those WHO use their chipset, have decided not to update because they woukld rather sell newer hardware to you, than update the old ones , i feel srewed too buying this nas for a year ago announced as a nas with mediacenter
Thank you Poul54 for reaffirming why I had you on ignore.
You even admit that this is a problem created by Intel in your post, but then blame Asustor further on in it. Make up your mind! It's either Intel's fault for not supplying EVERY MANUFACTURER that used their chips with the drivers or Asustor's because your pet app doesn't work with their product.
Which is it? I mean you can't blame both for this, when QNAP, Synology and others have the same issue Asustor is having... Take a good hard look at who is to blame for this. And then rethink what you posted. You're mad at ME for giving you a viable alternative.
I don't know if Kodi's player is better, worse or the same and Plex's. I will never know. Plex comes on every smart TV made now, as well as a lot of BR players, Xbox, PS3/4, any tablet, phone, PC or MAC, most streaming sticks or boxes and the Rasberry's too... and I'm sure I'm missing a few. The only reason it costs you $5 from the Android or iOS stores for those clients is the stores themselves.
You don't need to pay for anything with Plex, if you don't want to. Most of the TV apps are free, as are any of the PHT apps for computers. It's the mobile apps you have to pay for, generally. Or buy a Plex Pass if you want the features it provides, in which case the paid apps are free, too. To get some features with Plex you have to pay for them... but the BASE application and most of the players are free.
And both apps, Kodi and Plex were spun off of XBMC. Plex spun off a few years ago, Kodi just absorbed XBMC completely. You could use any of the Kodi players, by installing PleXBMC to use your Plex Media Server, if you wanted to.
But hey, you want your app. I want Lemmings. And the 5 hours it took me to write up that set of tutorials in the Tips and Tricks forum for installing Plex Media Server on your NAS was wasted efforts because you won't even take the time or trouble to look at it. I'm not talking about making Kodi work, so you aren't going to make the efforts. And you are diving right off the cliff as are the others with XBMC and Kodi whining, just like the Lemmings do in RL. Following one right after the other, and never looking to either side for a different way.
I'm happy, hell more than happy with my Asustor NASes. They all do what I want them to do. I had never heard of Kodi until I saw it on these boards, but I knew I wasn't going to try XBMC. I had done that already with my PC and hated it. My library was so large the XBMC locked up my PC all the time every time I tried it, so no way in hell was I putting it on my NAS. I knew there was something out there that HAD to be better. And there is, at least for me, and everyone else that has decided to use Plex.
But I guess it's all wasted breath trying to stop you from following the rest over the cliff. You have your blinders on and can't see past the tail end of the one in front of you. So you just follow behind bitching about something out of Asustor's control, but blaming them for the problems you have. Just as those with a QNAP or Synology NAS are doing when they complain about the same thing. And they are pointing at Asustor thinking we have something that works and they don't... What a vicious circle this must seem to an outsider...
What a life you live to be so bitter about ONE APPLICATION! And so fixated on that application you don't look for alternatives! You must really hate that there are alternatives that WORK for people that try them. Who are willing to open their minds up to the possibilities of other methods and means to accomplish something outside of the Lemming Trains you have been so blindly following.
I will argue about Kodi's player being better than Plex's. If you want, make a feature list of what you like about Kodi's player and we can compare, feature for feature. I'm willing to bet the only reason you think Kodi's players are better is because that's all you have ever used. I bet you haven't looked at the players for Plex. Are there things I wish Plex's players had? Yes, but they are getting more features, almost every day!
Hell, I bet you haven't even looked at the 5 post tutorial I wrote on installing Plex once you realized that it was about Plex and not Kodi. And following along with it to try to install Plex on your NAS? Oh no! You couldn't be bothered to even try it! Plex is BENEATH you with your Lemming attitudes towards Kodi....
Enough... One of us looked around to find alternatives to the poorly executed apps he hated before. One of us has a working media system with their NAS. One of us streams their library locally and remotely. One of us shares that library out to 25+ friends and family members across the US streaming to them day or night to a wide gambit of client apps, and a HUGE library for them to choose from. (1700+ movies and 250+ TV shows spanning almost 14,000 episodes.) One of us is HAPPY!
And the other is ranting on about his pet app not working, staring at the a$$ of the guy that just went off the cliff.