Custom universal button idea
Refresh/reload, roll dice on pick of the day?
Illustration is just is to get the location I’m talking about, it could be a nice icon of a dice or something to that effect.
This I believe would help alleviate content choice overload, my wife starts to browse to watch a movie and fall asleep while she’s trying to find something by looking through 2000+ movies, I think allowing the roll of the dice to change pick of the day would be helpful in this fight
I use Plex Server to serve our media, and in our Movies folder there’s at first a collection that serves 40 random movies each time you open it. You could set that to whatever number, but I guess that’s the same you are going for, in case you also use Plex.
Nothing personal please don’t take this the wrong way but I wouldn’t even use Plex with your money… Plex fell far from the force, They abandoned the principles they once held in regard and screwed all of us
I can simulate what I’m talking about by turning off the option for pick of the day and then putting it back to Movies or whatever option it reloads the pick of the day and randomizes another set of movies
Then don’t? I haven’t spend a dime on Plex, and have used it for 11 years.
I don’t, not to mention Plex forcefully Transcodes your video, I’m not interested in less bit rate and poor quality video, I just do CIFS/SMB share and play the files locally through the network, Literally Blu-ray quality/UHD quality Without any recompression
This is completely wrong.
So you can turn transcoding on local network share off? Plex also creates unneeded overhead, all to need is cifs or smb
From a system perspective, yes. But the streaming transfer protocol is much faster than something like SMB or NFS. So if you Wi-Fi is really bandwith limited, then Plex might be a good solution. FTP can also help there
Honestly who has anything less than Wi-Fi five? I use ubiquity and Apple TV and I stream 4K Blu-ray unrecompressed
Theoretical bandwidth is much different than actual. I’m guessing the majority of people have a single router (generally low quality) from their carrier and even if it is WiFi 5 it’s not placed optimally for 4K streaming.
If I had my way I’d probably upgrade to Wi-Fi six but it’s not in the budget not to mention I don’t think it’s going to offer any bandwidth over the top of Wi-Fi five for an Apple TV 4K, I can play 1080p Movies perfectly streamed wirelessly from my NAS (Probably should upgrade the memory but it’s expensive) And 4K UHD will buffer slightly when seeking or when starting but that’s it not a problem during playback at all
