The ultimate home theater experience - Your HTPC running Plex Media Player gives you the best possible playback experience on a dizzying array of configurations. From PCs to Raspberry Pis to Mac Minis, Plex Media Player is the most powerful, sophisticated way to play media in your home theater. A rich multimedia experience. Plex is the ultimate home theatre for Mac users who want to add a special touch to their viewing experience. Re-imagine your entertainment with Plex, a smarter way to view all your favorite media. Upload your photos and videos into the software, and let Plex turn it into a snazzy slideshow. Plex Home Theater on a Mac Mini? Does anybody else run PHT on a Mac Mini with audio over toslink? I can't for the life of me get it to work with either the toslink right to the receiver or with the toslink from the TV to the receiver and the mini hooked up to the TV via HDMI. The Plex Media Server is available for a variety of platforms such as Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker, and third-party NAS (network-attached storage device) Synology, Qnap, Netgear, Seagate, and more The Plex media server is not open-source instead of freemium software and offers some features on a subscription base only.

If you’ve built yourself a handy media library – photos, video, recorded TV, music and more – using the powerful Plex Media Server tool for Windows, Mac or Linux, you’ll need a suitable client to access it all across your network.

This is the media center portion of Plex, recently renamed from Plex Media Player and is the only free client available. Plex works on Mac and Windows, and is designed to look good on your big-screen TV, which means it runs full screen, relies on a keyboard or compatible remote, and can be fiddly to set up.

The initial setup wizard – remember, use your keyboard folks – lets you configure the type of audio and video inputs and outputs you have, then dumps you at the main screen. So long as Plex Media Server is running somewhere (even on the same machine), you’ll have instant access to your movie library.

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Presentation is simply fabulous, with lots of detail about the media you’re browsing to help you find what you’re looking for, but you’ll need to spend a little time familiarising yourself with the interface (press the left cursor key on the main screen to access the all-important settings, for example).

Accessing media over your home network is simple – Plex immediately spots any servers and gives you complete access to your media library as well as any online channels (such as YouTube) that you’ve added to the server. If you want access from the wider internet you’ll need to sign up for a MyPlex account, where you can upgrade to a PlexPass to gain additional features such as direct access to media stored in your cloud storage folders as well as offline playback on iOS and Android devices.

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Plex provides a polished, user-friendly way of accessing your home media content over the network or internet, engineered specifically for the big screen.