While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by playing every weird file you could throw at it. Here's how to get the most ...

ErsatzTV is a project that flips the usual media server experience on its head. Instead of navigating through endless menus of shows and movies, it creates linear channels out of your collection. That ...

I'm used to keeping my home server strategy simple. For things like media hosting, I usually resort to an old laptop, a few shucked hard drives connected over USB, and an installation of ...