Before you toss your old laptop onto the e-waste pile, turn it into a home server that can replace some of those ...

SageTV Media Server software now available for Microsoft Windows Home Server offering always on digital entertainment for TV, PC and Mac screens anywhere SageTV LLC, a leading developer of digital ...

Hello, Ars! Long time lurker here, first time poster. Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, so please move it if it's not. As the title states, I'd like to set up a personal media server on ...

Plex has a ton of problems, so I turned to the open-source rival with the funny name: Jellyfin ...

Have an old PC lying around that no one is using? You might want to consider converting it into a media streaming server. There was a time when people had separate devices for everything. The TV was ...

Hi all, none of the Plex settings have changed, I've confirmed that they are what they should be for the libraries in question, but from a couple months back literally no thumbnail images are being ...

With the immense popularity of digital cameras, smartphones, and tablets for taking pictures and capturing video, and the wide availability of affordable digital music and movies, many people have ...

If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your ...

The protocols used by media servers for discovering files are typically Bonjour and UPnP. For example, iTunes uses Bonjour to discover and DAAP to share, while Windows Media Player uses UPnP and ...

Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the media player that comes with every version of Windows. Windows Media ...