They wont play mkv's over DLNA, so I installed plex on the TV, and that is largly sucessful, but I have just seen that I had over a million files in my user profile when I was backing it up.

Seems about 900+ thousand of them are just folders and files that the plex server makes with xml files etc everywhere since they are clearly too lazy to use a real database for things.

So, plex is going as its probably what was making the computer so unusably slow and I dont really see why I should have to deal with that mess just to share media out on the lan to a TV.

Is there anything else that people have sucessfully installed that will allow playback of 1080 movie and 720 tv show MKV;s to the TV with a usable user interface (so either file system browsing or a functional index) that *doesnt transcode* anything?

Dont really want to get a boxie because from what I have seen it wants to keep reindexing entire drives taking a long time rather than just looking for new files.