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Context; So... Just bought a brand new TV and life is good, but I should have done more research before buying it. I primarily want to use PLEX for watching media on the TV. However, due to "smart TV's" not being smart and being rather slow because most current TV operating systems are either bloated or just riddled with ads.

Question; So Plex is there, but it runs very poorly. What are the best options out there to get this running smoothly? Are the only options AppleTV and Amazon Firestick? Anyone been in this boat before that have any tips-n-tricks to share?

Ps. I hate ads, so the Firestick is of off the charts.

Much appreciated

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[-] axo@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Can it do transcoding and subtitles?

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Subtitles yes. Not sure about transcoding. VLC is a pretty robust application with decades of development.

Okay - googled and yes https://wiki.videolan.org/Transcode/ And I believe most modern browsers will support this and casting, so you can always just open the local media file with your preferred browser and cast it that way

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