Plex is hitting reboot on its software for living room PCs. The new app is called Plex Media Player, and it’s a complete break from the previous Plex Home Theater desktop software. By abandoning its ...

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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 ...

Plex used to be the de facto media server tool to set up your own Netflix alternative, whether on a network storage device or an old laptop lying around. It has one of the most compelling use cases — ...

Plex’s foray into free streaming video appears to be paying off, as that side of the business now has more users than its media server software. The company announced earlier this month that it now ...

Yet another company wants to help make sense of streaming with a single menu that covers lots of different video services. This time it’s Plex, which started off as a media server application but has ...

Hi all, don’t know how many of you are running Plex on a Windows 10 x64 machine but for the first time in my experience, the server software won’t update. I tell it to download and install the update ...

I converted my quarter-century old DVD collection into a free, personal streaming service, and it hardly took me any time to ...

Plex (also known as "Plexapp", "Plex Media Center", or "PMC") is a partially open-source freeware media player software with a 10-foot user interface, with a matching closed source media server ("Plex ...