The truth is, Plex could be just what you're looking for to help you manage your media collection. Plex is one of those services that has been around for some time but many of us might have passed over for some reason, be it a lack of understanding of what it actually does, thinking it couldn't possibly be useful to you, or something else entirely. All in all, I like it and I've used Plex long enough without paying anything for a phenomenal product. On the Plex app, have it installed on the same, iPad 32/3g, and was streaming a 1080 movie just fine to the bedroom which is my worst room for coverage. Communication happens between the browser and Plex Media Server directly. Or simply comment here or drop me a note via my contact me page.: When using the hosted Plex Web App, your connection does not go “through” the website. If you face issues I recommend the following tutorials: Then you simple browse to the directory that you would like to add, and done.Īfter this, then you go back to your Roku or DLNA capable device and scan the local wireless LAC on which both the Mac and Roku are connected to and you should be ready to stream. Now we are going to select the folder where this Library will be pulling files from… Plex will now ask you to name the Library that you want to add, you can name it anything you’d like, I named it Movies Then you get this screen, you click on Movies: Then you add the folder where you have your Video files on I launched Plex on my Mac and it opened a browser window. Installed Plex on my Mac and moved the executable to the Application folder.Ĥ.Went to Plex website and downloaded the Mac app.Went to my Roku Channel store, and installed Plex.So I went ahead and did all the following: So far it seem a really good alternative for streaming. Plex, has a channel on Roku, has an Mac application, even for Android and Windows, but we do not need them since both Android and Windows already have DLNA. So I kept on searching, and then I stumbled upon Plex. While doing research online, the only solution most people suggested was to use Apple TV, but I don’t own one, so that was not a good solution for me.
So streaming a video from my Windows computer to my Roku or my SmartTV was a piece of cake.īut ever since I moved to Mac, it’s been a real pain trying to stream from Mac OS to any other DLNA. Windows has DLNA built in, so you can stream it to any DLNA capable device such as SmartTVs, tablets, gaming consoles, smartphones, etc. But I also have a Dell XPS with Windows on it. I have a Mac which is my primary computer.
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