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GUIDED LAB · 3 LESSONS
Media & Streaming Lab
Jellyfin, Plex, library automation and retro television
Learn how a self-hosted media environment is organized without publishing it.
Learning path
Open any lesson. Every lesson includes a concept explanation, a practice task, and a short quiz.
01Organizing a media libraryA media server indexes movies and shows from your storage and presents artwork, metadata, subtitles and p...→02Direct play and transcodingDirect play sends a compatible media stream to a client without converting the video. Transcoding convert...→03Building retro cable channelsNostalgex can arrange your own media-library content into themed, scheduled channels and a program guide....→