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Plex

Plex is a media server that catalogs your films and TV and streams them over your network. TinePlayer is not a Plex client, and Plex has no way to cast to one: its apps do not hand playback to an external player.

A Plex library can still reach TinePlayer through Kodi through the PlexKodiConnect add-on, but only if the machine running Kodi and TinePlayer have direct path access to the same files served by Plex.

Direct Paths Is Required

Set PlexKodiConnect's Playback Mode to Direct Paths. In its other mode Plex streams a transcoded version of the video, which will not allow TinePlayer to output multiple soundtracks.

Direct Paths hands over the path the Plex server uses, so your machine has to be able to reach that path as well. This works on a home network and not over the internet.

Making the Paths Reachable

If Kodi runs on the same machine as the Plex server, the paths should work as-is. If it does not, map it to a path accessible by the machine Kodi is on in the add-on's settings under Customize Paths:

  • Turn on Replace Plex paths with custom SMB paths
  • Set the original to what Plex uses, for example /mnt/media/Movies
  • Set the replacement to a path the Kodi machine can reach, such as smb://server/media/Movies or a mounted /mnt/nas/Movies

On Windows, Kodi turns SMB paths into UNC paths on its own, so smb://server/media/Movies maps to \\server\media\Movies.

Resync or repair the Kodi database for path replacements to take effect.

How you make the media reachable is up to you: a mapped drive, a mounted share, whatever your system already uses. As long as the path is accessible, TinePlayer opens it like any other file.