[ale] home media/file server

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 9/10/2013 2:42 PM, Sparr wrote:
> Plex seems to only work with devices they've written Plex apps for,
> which wouldn't be linux desktops or laptops, or older android devices,
> or a lot of other possibilities. I'm looking for something a lot less
> proprietary than Plex seems to be.

You can access Plex with just a web browser on any platform.
I've been using it for a couple years coupled with mythtv.  It makes a 
great back end.


> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com
> <mailto:chip.gwyn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Check out the plex media server.
>
>     http://www.plexapp.com/getplex/
>
>
>     On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, Sparr wrote:
>
>         I haven't kept up with media streaming technology for the past
>         5-10 years (UPNP is still hot stuff to me), especially
>         proprietary stuff (like how an XBox360 gets media from a Windows
>         desktop on a home network). However, I now find myself in a
>         house full of people who want to share all of our media with
>         each other, and do all of our media acquisition, with a
>         centralized server.
>
>         I do not want to spend more than a few days tinkering with
>         configuration files and network daemons and such. Is there a
>         good mostly-Free mostly-free solution to this problem?
>
>
>