It has great playback support – so you can add content from any supported 3rd party media service or manually add ripped video files to watch. I didn’t have the chance to use it in its early days – but in more recent versions, I was amazed to see such a good UI for a Linux application. The user interface for Kodi is beautiful. An active community for discussions and support exists as well. It is completely free and open-source software. Recently, Kodi 18.0 was dropped with a bunch of improvements including support for Digital Rights Management (DRM) decryption, game emulators, ROMs, voice control, and more. Kodi is one of the most popular programs in the category of media servers and players. When that’s the case, I have highlighted it appropriately. They are listed here because they are available on Linux and the article’s focus is on Linux. Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.Some applications mentioned here are not open source. The output should look like this example: Check that Plex is running before continuing: systemctl status plexmediaserver If you ever want to disable the automatic mounting, run the following command: systemctl -user stop s3fsġ. Mount the bucket in the local filesystem: s3fs plexmediaserver /mnt/media -o allow_other -o umask=0002 -o passwd_file=$/.passwd-s3fs -o url=Įnable the script by running the following commands: systemctl -user enable s3fs Modify /etc/nf to allow other users access, by uncommenting user_allow_other.Ĥ. Enter your S3 credentials in the password file and set owner-only permissions on it: echo : > ~/.passwd-s3fsģ. Create the folder into which the bucket will be mounted: mkdir -p /mnt/mediaĢ. apt update & apt install -y plexmediaserver s3fsġ. Now, as the Plex repository is enabled, update the apt package list and install the latest version of Plex and s3fs, which is needed to mount the object storage bucket. Update the apt packet manager and the software already installed on the system: apt update & apt-upgrade -yĪdd Plex’s GPG key to the apt sources keychain and create a new file containing an entry to the Plex repository by running the following commands: curl | apt-key add -Įcho deb public main | tee /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list Bucket names are unique and can only exist once.
Note: In this example, the bucket is named plexmediaserver. Click Create a Bucket to create a bucket that will store your objects The list will be empty if you have not created any bucket yet.ģ. You have sudo privileges or access to the root user.Ģ.You have an account and are logged into console.Plex clients that can be either a web based interface, an application on smart TVs, streaming boxes or other third party applications.The Plex Server application, that is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and even including some NAS devices.
Plex is client-server media player system comprising two main components:
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