Kodi and Plex share a similar lineage, but have diverged into distinct home media server options. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Pleasing everyone in the household is hard when it comes to music to listen to or TV and movies to watch. Everyone will have their own favorites, and everyone will want control of the remote. If ...

If you’ve been collecting digital media for any amount of time, you may have found it frustrating to catalog or access in a simple way, especially if your media comes from multiple sources or services ...

An old laptop needn't lie in a drawer gathering dust. It can still serve a useful purpose as a Plex Media Server. But does Plex work better on Windows or Linux, and what should you use for your Plex ...

Plex doesn’t exactly hide the fact that it’s a killer app for pirated video. Just look at the marketing materials for the media server software, and you’ll see how easy it is to stream your collection ...

Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android: Plex, a media center and streaming utility based on XBMC, is finally available in Windows, and brings dead-simple music and media ...

Distributed denial-of-service attackers have seized on a new vector for amplifying the junk traffic they lob at targets to take them offline: end users or networks using the Plex Media Server. DDoS ...

I think that a partial fix, such as it is, would be to ensure your router does not have UPnP enabled. If I'm reading things right, this will prevent your LAN Plex server from auto-negotiating a hole ...

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 ...

Adding to the quickly growing list of new Apple TV apps, media server solution Plex issued its hotly anticipated tvOS app on Monday with support for local content playback, Internet channels and more.