Chapter    6

Setting Up Media Servers to Stream Your Content

So far in this book you have looked at media streaming around your home network and from the cloud, but what if you have your own music and video collection and want to be able to access it from anywhere around the world? In this chapter, you will look at two solutions that enable streaming your own music and video collection around your home and over the Internet. You will learn how to set up a media server, and then you can access the content on your Windows 10 devices over your home network or the Internet.

The systems you will learn how to set up are the two most popular among listeners to our weekly podcast; they are called Plex and Emby. There are a number of other alternatives. ...

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