It’s been a long journey and I hope to accelerate your own learning curve. Over the past decade I went back and forth between Plex and Emby as my media server of choice but eventually settled on the former after I switched my server from my desktop PC to an Nvidia Shield, then to a Docker container in a Synology NAS.

I have 150TB+ in Plex organized in a dozen different libraries, learned a lot along the way, and will share my notes in this entry. That's just me.It’s very easy to get started with Plex to handle a simple movie or TV show collection, but as you add different types of content and grow your libraries, it becomes more and more complicated to keep everything tidy and easy to use. However, 1M/sec is great for most phones for example and can be handled even through 3G (though make sure you have an unlimited or big data plan).įor music though, I prefer Subsonic. Even my TWC 30/5M connection really can only do so-so transcoding. If you want to stream HD out through your cheap ISP, it's not likely going to happen. You also need to check your ISP's upload speed. And the only big kid filter would be the parental setup of which I haven't messed with yet (will be soon and have been looking deeper into this, but that seems the only solution which isn't a great one but.). To stream it outside your network, that's where PLEX comes in. Other gotcha, if you want to do stuff within your network, XBMC is all you really need. Videos need to be in the acceptable formats of which there are many, but no. Still need to work on forced subtitles but other then that they play well. It was made from XBMC which alone still has a few issues but other things are fixed. PLEX is nice, I use it on my 36TB server, but there are a lot of limitations.

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