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Talk / Re: Alternative
« on: May 10, 2018, 09:04:38 pm »Yes Ivek thank you for all the help, I know I already thanked you many times but really you kept me afloat for many more months with PVD.
Afrocuban yes I see your point about needing a file.
In PVD I have many movie pages that are not linked to a file because I delete from my hard drive any movie that I do not rank higher than 6.5/10.
In Plex if you delete the file, the movie page disappears.
Like I said I did try Kodi/XBMC and still do not like it (big empty pages with stupid fanart that I do not need)
Plex however is more "to the point" and in terms of speed it is currently handling 5K+ of my movies, and I am not counting the series and personal pics/videos with no issue.
It is also a player and a great quality one.
One thing to note however is that the Plex library is not a file (like the pvd library), and there are limited export options, and I am basically pretty sure the day it crashes I will loose the metadata.
So Plex feels a bit like a black box you do not REALLY control.
But to be honest what matters the most to me are the actual movie files (kept on my hard drive and backed up), my watched/unwatched status (synchronised via API with trakt.tv), and my ratings (synchronised with trakt/imdb). The metadata can be rebuild quite easily as long as you have named/organised your collection properly and using the right scraper.
I really wish we had the bloody PVD code, I am sure this software could fly way above any other software with good development.
I will for sure keep popping my head around here to see if we finally broke that damn wall.