How-To Geek on MSN

7 things nobody tells you about hosting a Plex media server

Are you prepared to properly start a Plex server?
How-To Geek on MSN

This is the Docker setting that Plex users always get wrong

All it takes is one mistyped environment variable and hardware transcoding stops working.
Ars Technica

Plex: Forcing audio-only streams to transcode

Is there a way to force Plex to transcode particular audio-only files while playing remotely? It appears that it will transcode FLAC files to AAC if they're above a particular bitrate. e.g., stuff ...
Ars Technica

Plex with Intel Arc 380

I just received an Intel Arc 380 GPU today (bought for ~$115) that I intend to use exclusively as a HW decoder for my Plex system as my system (based on an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3) can't transcode 4k ...