Who needs Netflix when you have Plex, the media server software that runs locally and lets you stream your own local video ...

For a couple of years, I have used Connect360 from Nullriver to connect my Mac to an Xbox360. There is now also a PS3 in the home plus my stereo receiver can connect to media servers directly.

A few days ago I heard about Jellyfin. This is mediaserver software not a world apart from Plex. So you run it on a local machine and it serves up TV shows and movies that are stored locally. The ...

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2016 saw the rebirth of several older ideas regarding media servers. Whether it was the marriage of multichannel encoders and a media server integrated into the same chassis or a method for legacy ...

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. UMS was started by SubJunk, an official developer of PMS, in order to ensure greater stability and file-compatibility. The program streams ...

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It already dominates the Internet — why not the TV? Probably Google wasn’t thinking exactly in those terms when it conceived the idea for Google Media Server, its latest addition to a ballooning ...

NEW ORLEANS — Microsoft Corp. detailed some of its goals for making its next version of Windows a central hub for multimedia home networks at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here Thursday ...