Vero V - better performance with Plex addon?

[jeff2]

@Koldur

I use a Plex addon on my Vero 4K+, it plays everything fine, though with pausing and skipping some H265 files, it sometimes doesn’t respond or responds very late to remote commands.
Is it to be expected to work better in the Vero V? That would be enough reason for me to buy the Vero V, but would like to know before I buy one

The reason I use Plex, is so that I do not need another device for my bedroom TV and can use the native Plex app there, which works great. I want to keep the history of when I stopped a video and which ones I already watched there and on the other two rooms I use the Vero’s I have in.

Love the Vero 4K and 4K+ I have though, very neat devices!

I can’t speak for Plex but I author the Mezzmo Kodi addon which works with Mezzmo (similar to Plex).

Here’s a link with some benchmark testing with the Mezzmo Kodi addon with a Vero 4K+, Vero V and other systems. You can see the performance improvements. I’ve replaced all 3 of my Vero 4K+ units with Vero Vs and haven’t looked back. The improvements you see with Plex may be different.

One note note in the original performance benchmark was the time for a full sync of all 21k items in my library.

Here’s some approximately numbers:

Vero 4K+ - 35 mins
Vero V - 14 mins
Intel i7 NUC - 9 mins

That is impressive that the Vero V is almost as fast as an Intel i7 NUC.

I can also say that I play full 4K UHD HEVC high bitrate files from Mezzmo to my Vero Vs over wireless and have no issues with skipping, FF, RW etc. They al play smoothly, even John Wick 2 which hits over 100mbps. on certain scenes . But I didn’t have those issues with the Vero 4ks so this could be a different issue for you.

Thanks,

Jeff