Plex is great for organizing a personal library. The usual setup, though, assumes a NAS or an always-on PC with local drives. You can skip that. Point Plex Media Server at a Seedr mount (WebDAV or FTP) and your "library" lives in the cloud. What this gets you • A
You have a video file. You double-click it. Your browser says it cannot play the format, or it plays but there is no sound, or the subtitle track is missing. MKV and AVI are especially common offenders — they are container formats full of codecs the web does not natively
This is the deep-dive: Plex Media Server reading your media from a Seedr WebDAV mount. WebDAV is the most stable Plex + Seedr combo — mount it once, Plex treats Seedr as a local drive, your whole library streams on demand without anything saved to your disk. If you are
Plex is a media server. You install it on a computer, point it at folders full of movies or TV, and it fetches posters and metadata so you can watch on any device — phone, TV, laptop, console — with your own library. This guide walks a complete beginner through