With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement.

He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets. Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. If you're new to the Plex game, because sure to check out our tutorial on setting up the Plex Media Server for the first time as well as how to keep your Plex media library up to date. First and foremost, you need to already be running Plex Media Server with your media setup and ready to go.

To follow along with today's tutorial, you only need a few things. And if you're already using Plex, you'll benefit from the great unified Plex experience that you get on all your other devices including your computer, mobile devices, and everywhere else Plex is supported. Rather than jump through those hoops, however, you can now tap into your local media using Plex Media Sever. The Fire TV and Fire TV Stick have pretty decent hardware (especially for the time of their release) but it's far too difficult to get local video files on your Fire TV without resorting to using an Android developer kit and some tricks to install third-party apps like Kodi Media Center. Go to the File tab, click on Add to choose the media file you want to stream, and then click on Stream.The Fire TV and Fire TV Stick have long seemed like a powerful tool in want of something to do. You can also use the shortcut Ctrl + S to get to the Stream settings. To start, open the VLC media player, click on the Media tab in the upper left corner, and then click on Stream. Now you can click on the folder to look through the videos on the plex server and play them by clicking on them.It will take a few minutes, but then your VLC player will show the files from your Plex Media Server.Now, go to “ Local Network” and choose “Universal Plug-and-play.”.The interface for your playlist will be on the left side of the VLC media player interface.Go to the View menu and choose Playlist from there.Open the VLC media player app on your desktop.Here is all the information you need to use Plex. We’ll go over Plex’s many great features in detail and give you step-by-step instructions to get you started. The platform, which is made up of Plex Media Server and Plex Media Player, makes it easy to organize and share your media across a network. Plex is a great home media platform that helps you keep track of movies, music, and other media that you have saved locally. Plex is software that is easy to use and brings together all of your different kinds of media. It comes with its own media player, but you can also play the content with the VLC media player.

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