What matters is the support of codecs and decoding capabilities.Ī small device that is hidden behind your TV because it is plugged into the HDMI port will do the job just fine if you give it the correct stuff it can play. Specs don't really matter actually, or at least not as much as you think. Has way, way, way better specs than an Nvidia Shield for example. Then there is no need to connect your laptop to the TV.
But I then installed Kodi with Plex for Kodi and now I literally can play anything.įor example, you could just try to sideload Kodi on your TV install plex and enable that Plex runs automatically when you start Kodi. it worked fine with almost anything I did throw at it. I think you are talking about the Shield which is, from what I can tell, the best client but also the most expensive one.įor example, I use a FireTV Stick 4K and had the Regular FireTV before that. There are a lot of clients available that all can play most of the stuff. I, for example, have the FireTV Stick 4K and the remote that came with it can control my Samsung TV in its basic functions like left/right/up/down, confirm, back and turn on/off. Or, you spend some money and get a decent client that you can connect directly to the TV itself. But if your Intentions are to utilize the Plex Media Player for a better watching experience (because of fewer codec incompatibilities) then it would be a lot easier getting a different device than the remote from your TV connected to the Laptop to control Plex. Which means that, if your intention is to watch Plex on your TV then just install the App on the TV. That would mean that even if you manage to connect the IR remote to the Laptop the signals would or could still be picked up on the TV and you control it there as well. Unlike with Bluetooth, you don't pair remotes, usually, to a single device especially when they are using Infrared as a signal carrier.
Then you would need the drivers and software for Windows to even understand what the remote is talking about. For example, not every laptop can even "catch" IR signals and you would need a receiver for that. That entirely depends on how the remote sends the information that could be infrared (IR), or other, more proprietary, signals. The first one would be connecting the Remote to the laptop.
In terms of controlling the Plex Media Player on a Windows 10 Laptop, that might or might not work but depends on a few things. Which means that you could just install the Plex App on your Samsung TV, which should have the ability to install apps, and then connect to your Plex Media Server from there. Plex is a Server client infrastructure and you can run the Server and client on two different systems.
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If you need logs or anything, just let me know how to pull them from Plex on Roku.Latest Regular Threads: No Stupid Q&A: Tool Tuesday: Build Help: Share Your Build: Submit Troubleshooting Post Files not showing up correctly?
If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know. If I send it a few times maybe it will change, or maybe not.īelow is the clients I'm sending to. GET /player/playback/seekTo?offset=102239&type=video&commandID=61 HTTP/1.1īut if I look at the player, it has not changed. When I send a command to seek to a given timestamp, sometimes the player will respond correctly and sync to the timestamp, but sometimes it does nothing. When I started this project everything was more or less working, but with the new PMP on Roku, I am seeing all kinds of odd items.įor this issue, let focus on an easy one. I'm trying to use the remote control API to sync some Roku clients.