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.

We might be in the era of cloud streaming and subscription services, but media ownership (both digital and physical) is still alive and well. That said, being able to consolidate and stream your ...

When you think of media streaming, be it music, TV shows, or movies, there’s a slew of applications to pick ranging from Spotify, Amazon Music, or SoundCloud, for music, and Disney+, Hotstar, Prime ...

Installing Plex Media Server on the SHIELD Pro was quite simple, as you only needed to update to SHIELD Experience Upgrade 3.2; after which you install the latest version of Plex from Google Play.

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 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 ...

(1) Software that makes audio, video or images discoverable on the local network. See media server. (2) Any source for digital media such as a DVR, file server or personal computer. (4) Hardware that ...

LaCie ‘ED mini’ First to Deliver DLNA 1.5-Certifed Media Server SAN DIEGO (Nov. 2, 2007) — PVConnect media server software, now certified by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) as having met ...

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO ...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve built an impressive media empire inside your PC. You’ve compiled album after album of sweet jams. You’ve got reams of cherished photos from all your adventures, and ...

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 ...

Just because you can use a Raspberry Pi as a media server doesn’t mean that you should. I’d say there are better uses for your single-board computer, especially when media server duties can be passed ...