So my parents have no internet as they live way out in the country. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on a good setup for them. I would love for them to be able to use plex to view movies, allowing me to share with them my ripped collection without having to leave them all my dvds/blurays. Will plex work without an internet connections, assuming you used a connection to sync up and get the metadata, and if so what would be a good “box”/machine for acting as a plex server that I can hook a external drive to with my ripped films for them. I know I would have to set it up and sync metadata where I had the connection, just was hoping they would be able to access and view offline. Hope this makes sense and appreciate any help.
Plex completely without internet is a challenge. Although possible, it requires more effort on your side. You’d need to fetch posters and other metadata yourself and supply them together with the video file.
http://wiki.embermediamanager.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Then you’d need to install some 3rd party metadata agents which do read those metadata into plex’s internal database.
