[ale] home media/file server

Calvin Harrigan calvin.harrigan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 15:10:22 EDT 2013


This is true Robert, I installed it mostly for the ROKUs.

On 9/10/2013 2:58 PM, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> It works great with my Rokus.  I only wish I could access it from my
> TiVo and then I'd be set.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Calvin Harrigan
> <calvin.harrigan at gmail.com <mailto:calvin.harrigan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 9/10/2013 2:42 PM, Sparr wrote:
>
>         Plex seems to only work with devices they've written Plex apps for,
>         which wouldn't be linux desktops or laptops, or older android
>         devices,
>         or a lot of other possibilities. I'm looking for something a lot
>         less
>         proprietary than Plex seems to be.
>
>
>     You can access Plex with just a web browser on any platform.
>     I've been using it for a couple years coupled with mythtv.  It makes
>     a great back end.
>
>
>         On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com
>         <mailto:chip.gwyn at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:chip.gwyn at gmail.com <mailto:chip.gwyn at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Check out the plex media server.
>
>         http://www.plexapp.com/__getplex/ <http://www.plexapp.com/getplex/>
>
>
>              On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, Sparr wrote:
>
>                  I haven't kept up with media streaming technology for
>         the past
>                  5-10 years (UPNP is still hot stuff to me), especially
>                  proprietary stuff (like how an XBox360 gets media from
>         a Windows
>                  desktop on a home network). However, I now find myself in a
>                  house full of people who want to share all of our media
>         with
>                  each other, and do all of our media acquisition, with a
>                  centralized server.
>
>                  I do not want to spend more than a few days tinkering with
>                  configuration files and network daemons and such. Is
>         there a
>                  good mostly-Free mostly-free solution to this problem?
>
>
>
>
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