Are you in the market for a new graphics card to add to your media center for transcoding? What if I told you that NVIDIA wasn’t the best option—Intel is. We all know that Intel’s Quick Sync platform ...

Plex charges for features Jellyfin offers for free, but requires more setup. Jellyfin offers free hardware transcoding, while Plex requires a paid subscription. Plex is more compatible with devices; ...

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 ...

Plex has for a long time been one of the more popular services for streaming your local content, including music, photos, movies and TV shows you’ve ripped from DVDs – or, ahem otherwise acquired – to ...

I've got a Plex media server running, and the grandkids want access to it from their phones. I like to think I run a pretty secure home network (but who the hell knows, I'm not an IT guy). Considering ...

Western Digital, like other NAS manufacturers, has made sure its mainstream offerings support Plex. The popular media streaming platform is best used on servers like the My Cloud EX2 where thousands ...