<story><title>Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library</title><url>https://github.com/dularion/streama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistermann</author><text>For me, Plex falls flat in that it seemingly can&amp;#x27;t handle non-formal video files like home movies, in that it isn&amp;#x27;t able to search for words within file names, and it is very painful to view long filenames.&lt;p&gt;I posted on the support forums at least twice and was told (not sure if by maintainers or just other users) that I&amp;#x27;m basically an idiot for wanting to do that.&lt;p&gt;So, I am very looking forward to something new in this space.</text></item><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Hello world video hub could be the new hello world blog!&lt;p&gt;But one has only to review the (very frequent) release notes for Plex to see the devil is in the edge cases, not the basics.&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, Plex has a native server app for almost everything, including NAS boxes, and native players shipping with TVs and in game console app stores.  It does a good job on both playback and admin UI across a fleet of media hosts for a household of users, and the latest release unlocks hardware encoding across an array of operating systems.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s even a portable HDD + WiFI hub from Western Digital, to take Plex Server and 4TB of media on the go w&amp;#x2F; 10 hrs battery life, in the size of a Sony Discman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Yes, for something that is so full-featured and sophisticated, I found the media filename issues to be exasperating.&lt;p&gt;For those that aren&amp;#x27;t familiar with it, Plex REQUIRES a particular filename format. If you happen to have a media file that is named &amp;quot;wrongly&amp;quot; it either won&amp;#x27;t show up or it will try to randomly guess what it is so that it can display DVD-title image in your library. There appears to be no way to just force it to accept whatever filename you want. (This might have changed in the last year or so since I uninstalled Plex).</text></comment>
<story><title>Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library</title><url>https://github.com/dularion/streama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistermann</author><text>For me, Plex falls flat in that it seemingly can&amp;#x27;t handle non-formal video files like home movies, in that it isn&amp;#x27;t able to search for words within file names, and it is very painful to view long filenames.&lt;p&gt;I posted on the support forums at least twice and was told (not sure if by maintainers or just other users) that I&amp;#x27;m basically an idiot for wanting to do that.&lt;p&gt;So, I am very looking forward to something new in this space.</text></item><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Hello world video hub could be the new hello world blog!&lt;p&gt;But one has only to review the (very frequent) release notes for Plex to see the devil is in the edge cases, not the basics.&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, Plex has a native server app for almost everything, including NAS boxes, and native players shipping with TVs and in game console app stores.  It does a good job on both playback and admin UI across a fleet of media hosts for a household of users, and the latest release unlocks hardware encoding across an array of operating systems.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s even a portable HDD + WiFI hub from Western Digital, to take Plex Server and 4TB of media on the go w&amp;#x2F; 10 hrs battery life, in the size of a Sony Discman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&amp;gt; can&amp;#x27;t handle non-formal video files like home movies,&lt;p&gt;FWIW I have videos on my Plex system ranging back for several years taken from at least 3 different cameras (highest end from only a Nikon V1 mirrorless though) and 5 phones&amp;#x2F;tablets.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t say I&amp;#x27;ve played all of these back on all devices, but I have (or have had) a Nvidia Shield, Chromecast, Samsung ~2012 Smart TV, Roku2, Asrock Ion 330 running Plex Home Theater on Win8 and later Win10, as well as a couple phones&amp;#x2F;tablets and PC (via web UI) as an interface to Plex.&lt;p&gt;Really the only time I&amp;#x27;ve ever had a playback issue is when my made-from-old-parts server has the CPU maxed out due to some other app going crazy, and then Plex playback will pause a couple times a minute. I really can&amp;#x27;t think of any time I&amp;#x27;ve had content it just can&amp;#x27;t play.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of Plex. I started using MythTV back in mid-2000s, switched to SageTV for a few years (due to the awesome HD300 devices), and very reluctantly (at first) switched to Plex ~3-4 years ago.</text></comment>