You don’t have to skirt the law to take advantage of Plex. Here's how to use the popular media server software—even as a law-abiding cord cutter.

Create a share on the NAS, mount it on the Mini, add a library in Plex, point to share. I avoid transcoding by coverting everyting in to MP4, life is much better.

Hardware transcoding unlike software transcoding, relies on the server’s CPU to convert media files into different formats, hardware transcoding offloads this intensive task to a dedicated ...

After a slightly rocky beta test, Plex's new cloud-based media server is now ready for public consumption. Rather than relying on a media server PC or a networked storage drive, Plex Cloud allows ...

Adding movies, however, was another story. Because of the way iTunes hides files, I had to dig around and tell Plex where they were located.

Plex Cloud aims to solve these problems, as you’ll instead just add your files to Amazon Cloud Drive, then stream from any device using the Plex app.

Plex can pull media from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive Plex Cloud eliminates the need for networked storage or a dedicated server.