Yet, another media server change.
The SimpleDLNA media server has been replaced by the Emby media server, which, may in turn, be replaced by the Jellyfin media server. The reason for the change arose from the server not loading external subtitles. There are subtitles files built into a video file, and there are subtitles files that occur as separate files, known as external subtitles. There are over two hundred movies in my collection that have external subtitles files. Those would be excluded by the SimpleDLNA media server. The software is on github and someone forked the software and supposedly modified the source code to load external subtitles. I tried that version with no success. There is a media server, more sophisticated than others, that started out on github as open source, but became proprietary. A free version was made available as well as a fee based version. There were obstacles to overcome installing and running the software on an older laptop, the T61. Eventually, I succeeded. The system has stabi...