Show HN: Streem.io - Media Center on the Cloud (opens in new tab)

Good point. I think the bigger downside is the speed -- most people's home internet upload speed is probably not fast enough (the average in the US is ~1.6mbps) to support you streaming your media from around the world and having someone at home use the internet simultaneously.

The use case that this would be useful for is if you don't want to worry about having a local media center at home and relying on your home internet connection to do the streaming (also Streem offers social integration, aggregated list of movies/TV shows to browse, etc.) :).

Is there a Plex client for Android?

I use AirVideo on iOS and it is flawless, but would like to find something similar for Android.

http://www.subsonic.org is a pretty cool alternative for music streeming from home as well. Especially with https://github.com/hakko/musiccabinet

Also no affiliation, and I couldn't recommend Plex more. My 2-year-old Mac Mini handles the transcoding and serving very well. It really is a great UI and seamless.

In fact this Streem looks a lot like Plex's web interface that I already use.

I've been running plex on an older Core 2 duo Mac Mini for a few years. Overall I love it. The downside is the Mac Mini takes a little longer when it's transcoding.

You nailed it -- we're useful for people that want to access their library from anywhere (at work, on vacation halfway around the world, etc.) on any device (phone, someone else's laptop, etc.) without having to lug around their DVD collection or an external hard drive. Having a server at home is also limiting because a) it uses your upload bandwidth, which clogs up your home internet connection, and b) your upload bandwidth probably isn't fast enough for instant streaming (the average is around ~1.6mbps these days), so buffering/seeking will slow you down.

The best way is to compare it to Dropbox -- Dropbox : USB :: Streem : Plex

Plex and MyPlex is also a pretty good solution to watching your media library away from home. And Plex is really a great media center on its own.

Iam using only a raspberryPi, a usb-hd, a port forwarding for ssh and Dyndns. I open that file via sftp and watch it on my IPad or PC

I use Subsonic to solve that particular problem. Works well if you have enough upload bandwidth.

Yeah I found this too, like some weird side effect of overflow hidden on the viewport perhaps? (disclaimer: not a great CSS dude...)

Sorry about that, should be fixed.

It'll be through limiting your library -- free users will get a certain amount of space and streaming bandwidth for free, paid tiers get more as you scale up the price ladder (Dropbox style).

Additionally, we have a completely free collection of movies/TV shows aggregated from Sidereel, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, NBC, etc. At the very least, you can use this as your one stop to browse all the movies/TV shows you can stream through other services (for free, or if you have their subscription), receive recommendations, track with friends, etc.

On the legal front it's like Dropbox -- storing your personal media collection online and letting us transcode and organize it is fine, especially because the content is private (like Dropbox) and not publicly listed (we're not like Grooveshark). Of course, we're DMCA compliant and take down files if they're deemed illegally obtained.

With Flex and AirVideo transcoding is done in real time and works really well. Zero wait time for uploading and transcoding sure beats even a few minutes.

Interesting. Are you able to access your content on the go with a mobile device ?

You can use our webapp using the console's web browser.

The website is on Node.js; the webapp itself is on Meteor.js