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Hi Thought I'd chuck my 2 penneth into this as I have a linux media server (sort of) and macs / pc clients at home. I've never had a reply posting to this list so I'll be short as it appears my email evaporate after clicking send? I use a Hipserv distro of Linux on my network storage which is Seagate, and all works fine for DLNA. All the best with your search for a good media server. Regards Matt On 6 Apr 2014, at 17:33, bad apple wrote: > Another question from me this time, potentially off-topic but I was > originally planning to host it on Linux boxes so not completely random... > > I was investigating various solutions for MythTV/XBMC/Windows Media > Centre/iTunes-sharing/etc style dishing-up of centralised media stores > to all the networked devices in the house (and potentially, outside) for > various reasons - I get asked about them a lot and have a slightly > venerable but perfectly functional mashup of most of the above all > working together here at home. But I like to keep up with all the latest > and greatest developments and a Slashdot article led me to investigate > Plex, which is supposed to be the current front runner (if nothing else, > it's truly multi-platform). > > Anyone got any experience of it, good or bad? Surfing around their > (useless) website wasn't at all enlightening and they don't even have an > official PPA for Ubuntu, which isn't a good sign - not a deal breaker of > course, I'm quite happy to install it from source if necessary, but only > if it would be worth it. And I'm not convinced at first glance that it is. > > Seems to be very 'modern' in it's approach - unless I'm missing > something it can only be configured via "web clients" and through a > Plex-cloud style brokered user account, which is probably great for > hipsters who want to install a DMG on their Macbook, sign up for a cloud > account and then busily install the mobile app on all their Androids, > iDevices and other crap. I can see why the centralised account thing > could work well for people who care nothing for privacy and just want to > stream their home media library to their phones on the run or whatever, > but I'm having problems seeing why those of us who can configure > port-forwarding and ACLs, etc, would want any of that. During a brief > initial trial of the plexmediaserver component on my Ubuntu machine I > couldn't even figure out how to attach to the running server port to > control it (should I also have downloaded the Linux webclient program as > well? Who knows?) > > Thought I'd throw this one out there to see if anyone can jump in with a > compelling reason or two why I should persevere and have another look > (it does at least initially seem really cool and I'd like to like it). > Online forums are just full of fanboi arguments about XBMC vs Myth vs > Win and are useless as a resource so the only arguments I'm interested > in now are from sensible, reasonable people who have already tried it > hosted on Linux. > > Over to you list. > > Regards > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq