PointandClick
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2008
- Messages
- 383
I've been using a JB ATV2 with XBMC for the past few years. While library navigation is somewhat slow, it works ok, but I'm tired of moving it between the bedroom and living room every time we want to watch something.
I finally accepted that I'm probably not going to find one box that will do XBMC and Netflix, so I broke down and bought a Roku 1 and planned on picking up a Pi and loading it with OpenELEC.
Basically, after using the ATV, the Roku interface sucks hard. They really expect you to scroll through 300 icons in a single list? Not only that, but whoever organized Netflix "genre" list must suffer from serious ADD.
The only reason I havn't taken it back already is because I have Amazon Prime and it would be nice to be able to take advantage of the videos. Honestly though, I don't know that there's enough decent content that's not already on Netflix to make it worth it.
Sooo I was looking at Playon. I don't really care for the idea of having to transcode everything I watch, but I do have a server sitting mostly idle. At least I would be able to watch some content without having to already pay for cable. The library integration with XBMC looks pretty slick too.
Tl;dr
Does anyone have any experience with Playon and XBMC? Or just Playon in general? Reliable? Quality? What are you running it on, and what is the CPU usage like?
I'm about to upgrade my server to either a E3 1220 or 1230 V3. Is running Playon in a VM with 1 core to optimistic?
I finally accepted that I'm probably not going to find one box that will do XBMC and Netflix, so I broke down and bought a Roku 1 and planned on picking up a Pi and loading it with OpenELEC.
Basically, after using the ATV, the Roku interface sucks hard. They really expect you to scroll through 300 icons in a single list? Not only that, but whoever organized Netflix "genre" list must suffer from serious ADD.
The only reason I havn't taken it back already is because I have Amazon Prime and it would be nice to be able to take advantage of the videos. Honestly though, I don't know that there's enough decent content that's not already on Netflix to make it worth it.
Sooo I was looking at Playon. I don't really care for the idea of having to transcode everything I watch, but I do have a server sitting mostly idle. At least I would be able to watch some content without having to already pay for cable. The library integration with XBMC looks pretty slick too.
Tl;dr
Does anyone have any experience with Playon and XBMC? Or just Playon in general? Reliable? Quality? What are you running it on, and what is the CPU usage like?
I'm about to upgrade my server to either a E3 1220 or 1230 V3. Is running Playon in a VM with 1 core to optimistic?