Hello all,
I am looking for some advice on which path to take. I am looking for a solution that will allow me to stream videos to 3-4 TV sets in my house, and to devices like a PC or iPads/iPhones. It could be streaming two different movies to different TVs/iPads at the same time. Ideally, I would like also to be able to stream music to different players (Chromcast Audio maybe?).
I have a whole bunch of familiy videos in AVI (13 GB per hour) captured from an older mini DV camera, a whole bunch of M2TS clips from a sony video camera, as well as a whole bunch of movies in mp4/mkv/avi formats. I don't minds re-encoding the movies offline if necessary. Presently I have a D-Link DNS-434 NAS on which I am storing all the movies and pics and music that I have.
I am considering buying a rack mountable server with a good xeon in it, on which to install Linux and make it my PLEX server and connect it to the DNS-343 NAS that I have, and hide everything in a corner in my basement. And doing some reading on this site I see that some people mention the possibility to install and run PLEX directly from a Synology NAS.
I would greatly appreciate any advice you guys could offer on which way would be the better option. I am looking for a solution that is elegant and that works well all the time, not just another gadget or an experiment.
Thanks in advance.
-Claude