We’re going to walk you through setting up your own Plex system (Plex Media Server and Plex Client).
We all know that Plex allows you to aggregate all your personal media and access it anywhere you go. Enjoy your own media on all your devices with the Plex Media Server. In this article we show you how to set up your Plex for watching any Blu-ray and DVD.
Then Plex make all of those come true if you set up it in right way. It is a centralized media server system that eliminates virtually every problem you run into while managing a large personal Blu-ray / DVD collection:
Step 1. Download the Plex Media Server software
There are options for Windows, Apple OS X, a wide variety of Network Attached Storage, and more. We’ll be using the Windows version in this tutorial.
Step 2. Install the media server software
During installation, Plex will ask you to name your server. When the Installation is complete, Plex Media Server will now run in the background, even if you restart your computer, unless you tell it not to. Plex will ask you to create a login ID. This allows you to view your content and make system changes from any internet connected browser. When you want to make changes to the server settings, simply login at plex.tv, or right click on the taskbar icon, and select “Media Manager." All the configuration is done through a simple web interface.
Step 3. Add Blu-ray / DVD rips to libraries.
Libraries are how you add and organize your content in Plex. You simply select what type of library you want (i.e. Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos, or Home Videos, for Blu-ray / DVD rips you'd better choose Movies), and then tell Plex which folders it should pull that content from.
A single library can point to multiple folders, so if you have one folder for Blu-ray rips, and one for DVD rips, you can select both folders for “Movies”. For more advanced users, you can create multiple libraries. For instance, you can create a library called “Kids TV” and only allow your children access to that library through their devices. You can save your “Grownup TV” library for you and your wife, ahh.
That’s it, your content is now being served up. Let’s move onto Part 2, setting up a client.
Step 1. Download the Plex Client software
The server just one half of the Plex system. The other half is the “client” app, or the app you do all the watching from. While you can play the media from the server’s web-based control panel, it’s like watching Netflix in your web browser–most people prefer to sit down in their living room or watch on their mobile devices. And for that, you need the Plex client to access the server.
Step 2. Activate Plex client app
The Plex media server software has always been free. Most of the client apps have always been free. Some of the client apps have a nominal one time activation fee a few dollars (e.g. the iOS Plex client app costs $4.99).
Plex has two ways of dealing with the paid apps.
If you need many apps across multiple platforms and you want the premium features, you might consider the Pass subscription for $4.99 a month or a $149.99 lifetime pass.
You can read more about which apps are paid, which are free, and the differences between a free Plex membership and a premium one here. To check platform availability and download a client app for your platform, check out the Plex downloads page here.
Now that we’ve looked at the general guidelines for setting up your Plex server, and how to get the client software, let’s look at the rather important step of organizing your Blu-ray and DVD rips.
Plex works best if all your media content is well organized and in the same place. To that end, you should have all your Blu-ray and DVD rips on the same device you’re installing the Plex server software–whether it’s an old desktop computer, a dedicated storage server in your basement, or a NAS device, all your media should be on it.
Step 3. directory structure for Plex
Here’s a simple example of a best-practice directory structure for Plex:
In the above directory structure, you see that the major media categories are separated into distinct sub-folders (like Movies and TV Shows) and that each Blu-ray rip and DVD rip has a pretty straight forward naming convention. Movies go in folders named after the movie; best practice is to include the year in parentheses to cut down on confusion.
Hope this page, setting up Plex Media Server and Plex Client, is helpful for you to watch any Blu-ray and DVD rips. Any question please keep contacting us via E-mail:support@brorsoft.com or Skype: emmalucky2 (Brorsoft_Emma).
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