The nominal requirements would be enough to install and run Plex, if you don’t intend to encode and transcode media files with your machine. Standalone Implementation – No Transcoding Read further below to see the nominal requirements. If you have higher requirements and probably wanna build a kick-ass media server, then you should go more than the minimum. Your choice of hardware must at least meet the minimum, to install Plex successfully. You also must know the hardware requirements so you could tell whether you choice of OS and hardware components have met Plex’s minimum requirements. Fedora 14 – 19 * CentOS 6 or Newer * FreeBSD 9.1.10.10 Maverick Meerkat * 11.04 Natty Narwhal.Mac * Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard or Later.I’ve listed down below the platforms and operating systems, that it currently supports. You could build your own media server using any versions it currently supports, as your base operating system. Plex’s latest version (0.9.9.12.504-3e7f93c as of July 2014) supports Windows, Mac, Linux and Free-BSD. Also, prepare yourself to be acquainted with Linux command-line. If you wanted to use a Linux-based setup, and you want it headless, then read further and follow the steps enumerated below. If you wanted to use other OS as your Base, then you should read additional information below to know the various platforms it currently supports. I’ve chosen Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server edition as my base-OS for this guide. But in this guide, I’m going to show you how to configure via command-line.

You could install Plex in various supported platforms, and you could either install it with a GUI or GUI-less (headless) installation. In my case, I use it with my XBMC box, Android Phone and Smart-TV. It’s an awesome piece of software that you could build awesome projects upon it. It let’s you stream media to various multimedia devices like, Smart-TV, mobile phones, streaming players, and other multimedia applications (like XBMC). It’s is a software that you can use to organize and stream your media collection. I’m gonna use a proprietary software called Plex Media Server. This is a step-by-step guide that will teach you how to setup an Ubuntu-based media server.

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