PerPlex
The Plex Media Server on your home computer plus RasPlex clients on Raspberry Pis lets you stream music, movies, and TV shows to multiple televisions.
RasPlex client for the Plex Media Server
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Creating a media center in a home with just one TV is simple: All you need is one setup of something like OpenELEC for Raspberry Pi and you are done. However, if you have multiple TVs, a Rasp Pi would have to be prepared and configured for each one. If the individual media centers also have the same data pool, then you would need to set up a MySQL server [1] and configure some complex settings in Kodi.
As you can see, watching a film in one room and then finishing it in another would be difficult to do with a conventional media center like Kodi. Plex [2], on the other hand, administers media data for a central server, and Plex clients let you access the data, creating a seamless viewing experience throughout your house. The Plex media center comprises a server component and various clients, including smartphones and tablets, which means the server is set up just one time, and the clients then get all of their data via the network.
Overview
The Plex Media Server is a commercial media server for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows. It catalogs and prepares a home media collection that can consist of videos, music, podcasts, and photos. With the help of clients, the server also sends the media to devices like smart TVs, streaming boxes, and mobile devices. Plex makes clients available for numerous devices, play consoles, and platforms, including Android, iOS, Fire TV, and Windows Phone, as well as Xbox and PlayStation. Additionally, the Plex Home Theater offers Kodi-based media software [3] that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. RasPlex [4] is based on OpenELEC and brings the Plex standard client to the Raspberry Pi, although conceptually, RasPlex operates very differently (Table 1).
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