Plex manages videos on your local network drive and streams them to your TV or computers over the network. It can transcode different format of the videos on the fly into the one your player recognizes. It downloads metadata (thumbnails, title, summary, review) for the video automatically. It tracks your viewing of the videos - new, in-progress (remember where in the video), and played. It groups videos in dozens of way as playlists to let you browse them.
I usually just dump the videos into my NAS and points the Plex server to it. The TV player points to the Plex server and streams the videos from there.
I usually just dump the videos into my NAS and points the Plex server to it. The TV player points to the Plex server and streams the videos from there.