One way to make use of a spare Mac is to turn it into a server for home entertainment purposes. Here's how to set up Plex Media Server in macOS. Owners of an old Intel-based Mac who've replaced it ...

Plex Media Server is a free and open-source media center software that lets you easily create a local or an internet media server, onto which you can stream almost anything. This easy-to-use software ...

Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over ...

I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated component ...

I have been toying with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for quite some time now. Initially, it was a perfect fit for a downloading device I could control remotely. Then, I converted it into a media streaming ...

When I attempt to add a mirror through the Disk Management Utility in Server 08, I get the following error:<BR><BR>"No extents were found for the plex."<BR><BR>I have tried making sure the disk was ...