I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so that we could potentially share media. People here seem partial to Jellyfin but the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration). Any suggestions for the most elegant setup possible for hosting a home server for streaming TV shows and movies from xbox?

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    9 months ago

    Years ago when my brother lived with me he started ripping DVDs and Blu-rays and running a Plex server that pulled them from a NAS. It worked great on the Xbox in the house. When I got married and he moved out it didn’t work as well, but that probably had more to do with his network connection than anything else. Haven’t even tried in years though.

    • randombullet@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      9 months ago

      I would imagine poor upload speeds would really make it difficult.

      Also Plex doesn’t direct play outside the LAN. (I think) so encoding could also pose an issue.