Plex
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I finally pulled the trigger on my NAS, should be here in a few days. Excited to throw Plex on it!
That's appreciated! I look forward to getting every DVD/CD I own all on there at some point. 😛
100%, it's so satisfying! Do you have an optical drive to work with? I purchased a cheap external one that has good speeds and it makes it nice and quick to rip a DVD or Blu Ray and then converting is nice and easy, too! It's a little learning curve, but once you've done it a couple of times it becomes automatic and you'll wish you'd done it years ago!
I've got a pretty old one that I purchased off Wish or something many years ago. I'd imagine I'll be needing to grab a new one.
Sounds like a plan!
My son in law wanted me to build a Plex setup. Do you 2 pay for this? They have a lifetime plan for 119.00. Is the Plex Pass worth it? Any limits you have to watch out for?
Edit: I started to read abit more about the server end of things. I have a server sitting here that I may try it out on. Will have to add more drives to it if I want to keep using it.
Edit: I started to read abit more about the server end of things. I have a server sitting here that I may try it out on. Will have to add more drives to it if I want to keep using it.
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The very start of a deep, deep rabbit hole, lol. Once you get a handle on things you'll be spinning up containers for all sorts of things on your NAS, network monitors, and so on 😉
Yep! Plex Pass is great, and the lifetime license is worth the investment.
Absolutely! Plex requires very minimal resources, so you can use anything from a raspberry pi on up to full enterprise level hardware and it'll work. Storage is the only true consideration, and while I splurged on expensive NAS drives when I could afford it (Seagate Ironwolf drives), you can literally use any drives and be fine!
I guess you can't install it on a Windows Server 2012 R2 rig.
If you had Windows Server 16 you could install Docker and spin up a Plex Media Server container, but I don't think Docker works on Windows Server '12, sadly.
Edit -- actually, strike that, you could run a linux VM and then install Docker CE that way. Not exactly a lightweight solution, but a solution.
I am going to try Ubuntu server I think.
Perfect, then you can slap Docker on there and spin up a Plex Media Server container and you're up and running 🙂
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We have a Plex server at the house. It has so far been the best idea I ever did with our media as now everything is digital, and we don't have any streaming subs to pay for.
Absolutely the best move for that reason, and it's not hard at all to supplement your library with new content 🙂
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