Plex is a media server where you can catalogue your media and theoretically play it from anywhere. You can also reach other media sources through it. It can be run on many platforms so I thought I'd try it on the Pi, as it has spare capacity.
www.plex.tv/en-gb/
I don't have a need for Plex - if I want any of it when away from home I tend to put it on a disk. But I have some media to try out on it.
To me, the Pi doesn't seem to be powerful enough for Plex. I can't even remember what the exact problems were, I think the network connection is too slow for streaming and also it can't transcode on the fly. It certainly didn't work very well.
So, like many of my projects, as it didn't work right away I've put it to one side. Quite a few projects are only done "because I can", or for the challenge of getting them to work. I don't have any use for most of them.
But it beats watching afternoon TV or gardening.
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