You can create your own NAS from an old PC if you want, or you can create just shared drives, or if you don't care about using multiple devices, you can even just do something that is on a local device like a Shield TV which you can just hook a HDD up to and store all your media on that. Plex will scan and maintain a library, save your position etc too and works across a wide number of devices.Īs far as storage goes, you don't need to use a Synology. I like the flexibility Kodi offers over Plex, but certainly Plex is easier for a lot of people to use as long as you're okay with the Plex way of how it does things. Personally, I don't like Plex for a lot of reasons such as it being rigid with how you have to do things and the fact that they charged money while being a fork of Kodi which was free. Many people use Plex which makes it easy to setup a server/client setup. The thing is, you don't have to use my setup in order to get similar results. It's super streamlined and takes very little effort on my part other than mostly to pop the disc in and tell MakeMKV to start. It then just rips to my NAS and then Kodi will update it's library to see it. My work flow is put the disc in to my drive, launch MakeMKV, select the movie track, and hit start. The Synology also has MariaDB setup to be used as a centralized database so that it can remember what was played and where things currently are if you've paused or stopped so you can continue in another room. I'm storing my content on a Synology NAS, use multiple Shield TVs running Kodi distributed through my house to be used on any TV that we have, and using MakeMKV to rip the discs with a LG WH16NS60 drive.
They didn't have to pick convenience or quality as they got both without sacrificing either. They can even start in one room, stop, go to another room and continue exactly where they left off seamlessly all at the touch of a button. They just browse, and pick, and it plays in full quality with lossless sound.
My family plays all our movies that retain all the quality from the physical discs but to them the interface is like browsing Netflix when selecting what they want to watch. You can have both at the same time because that's how me and plenty of other people enjoy their physical library with the same convenience of digital without any of the quality loss. I agree the most important aspect is to enjoy but just pointing out you don't have to give up one for the other. So you can still display your physical media if you want to, but still have that perfect high quality movie at the touch of a button convenience that we're talking about here. I think you're still missing that even without going the digital library route, you can have the quality of physical but all the convenience of digital if you purchase a physical disc.
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