Does anyone here use Plex as a media server for their home network? Is an Intel NUC/Mac Mini the best way to go about this?
Plex Server / Media Streaming
Juan Nelson
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Isaac Morales
>Does anyone here use Plex as a media server for their home network
yes
>Is an Intel NUC/Mac Mini the best way to go about this
no
Levi Long
Pardon my ignorance, but what does Plex offer that a NAS doesn't? Wouldn't putting all of your media on a NAS solve your problem?
Jacob Wilson
Plex uses a considerable amount if CPU when it's transcoding. MacMini or NUC would work, but not be optimal.
Evan Gray
>Plex
Nah.
Anyone got a free as in freedom alternative to plex server?
Carter Rivera
Build your own mini itx from 2200g.
Charles Jenkins
NUC is kinda underwhelming. It's fucking expensive for one, even a Pentium J5005 NUC is $200 before any RAM or storage, so you'd have spent $400 for a shitty Pentium machine once you kit it out, just to do the same shit that a Nvidia shield can do.
Landon Morris
((((transcoding))))
Noah Rogers
>Anyone got a free as in freedom alternative to plex server?
Kodi.
Daniel Morgan
Kodi, or XMBC (Im pretty sure kodi is basically just an updated xmbc made by the same people)