Plex Media Server: A Complete Media Server Solution for Linux

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Plex Media Server A Complete Media Server
Solution for Linux
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What Is Plex Media Server?
Plex Media Server is a simple to use service
that allows you to your computer media like
videos, music, photos, etc., get media on other
devices such as Mobile, Smart TVs, XBox and
PlayStation. Plex Media Server, a server
installed on laptop or computer. It is available
for Linux, windows and android. Plex Media
Server is available for Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS,
ClearOS and all other Linux distros.
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If you want to enjoy your online content in front
of a television, than Plex Media Server is a good
option for you. It is simple to install and
start syncing your media across your devices.
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How Plex Media Server Works?
It is a simple software, just install the Plex
Media Server for your Linux distribution and
install the other application to which you want
to sync the content files. Plex Media Server,
the back-end media server part of Plex.
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Plex Supported Formats

• File container (mkv, mp4, avi, etc.)
• Video codec (H.264, divx, xvid, etc.)
• Audio codec (DTS, AC-3, AAC, MP3, etc.)
• Subtitle format (SRT, VOBSUB, PGS, etc.)

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Plex media server is doing when syncing
1. Direct Play 2. Direct Stream 3.
Transcoding
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Direct Play
When media files are directly played that does
not require any conversion. Its mean this is
100 supported by the client device. In this
condition Plex Media Server not require CPU
performance.
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Direct Stream
Direct Stream means that the media file is good,
but only the container is not supported. In
this condition Plex Media Server required CPU
performance to transcode the container for Plax
player.
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Transcoding
Transcoding means that media files like audio,
video or both are not supported by player. In
this condition Plex media server transcode that
media files for player. The process of
transcoding requires very high CPU performance.
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Install Plex Media Server In Linux

• Plex Media Server is available for Ubuntu,
  Fedora, ClearOS and all other Linux distros.
  ClearOS Plex Media Server app has been integrated
  into Network Map.
• Step 1 - Download and install
• This is the first step, download the Plex Server
  then run it to install.

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Step 2 Setup

• After the download and install the Plex Media
  Server, then create your free account.
• After creating your account the Plex media server
  record which files you want to add to the
  library, Just follow the step-by-step guide.

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Step 3 Connecting Your Devices

• After the installation and setup the Plex media
  server on your system, the next step is to add
  the Plex Media Server to the other devices.
• The whole process should be simple and friendly.

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Conclusion
All the slides define that the Plex Media Server
has done to sync large media files with other
devices. Plex Media Server help to sharing big
media files is very easy. So enjoy and watch
movies and TV shows anytime, anywhere with Plex
media server.