I’d like some streaming help please.

I’ve got a linux mint laptop, a windows pc, an nvidia shield and films that I’d like to watch from anywhere. Can you suggest a best way to do this, or any ‘best’ method that I can adopt?

I’ll add that I’m not great at Linux, and all these devices will be on sleep mode when I’m away from home (apart from my nvidia) - which I believe is always on.

If possible I’d like to keep costs down, but I’m open to learning some new stuff.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: tarted up text.

  • Rambler@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Thanks for the very detailed advice. Definately some interesting things to follow up on. I got the plex pass when I bought the shield but never got it to connect remotely, but due to them putting ads in their films, I’m now thinking to switch to something else.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Videos you host will never get ads, unless they’re baked straight into the video file, (and at that point you need to reconsider where you downloaded them from.) Plex does have a sort of IPTV service that they run, which has ads. But most Plex users tend to ignore that part of the app, because that’s clearly not why they are using the server. Just use it for hosting your own stuff and you can ignore the Live TV/Movies & Shows stuff from Plex entirely.

      • Rambler@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Absolutely correct. I was referring to videos/films that I’m watching that are hosted by plex. Apologies if I didn’t make that clear. The videos that it hosts for me do not have adverts.

    • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Videos from your own server never get ads. The only ads you’ll ever see in Plex are from the various streaming services that Plex aggregates. These streaming services and their ads have nothing to do with Plex expect that Plex indexes them for you.