gregory_choo
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1. You can playback media on your local network, hard disk, stream it over internet using Plex Media Server.
2. Direct Play, Direct Stream, or Transcoded stream depends on your device(player) capabilities.
3. Nvidia Shield TV can play almost anything - no need PMS to transcode. It comes with PMS too, which you can mount (or network) your media (HDD) to it.
4. HTPC is not necessary, if you just need to stream from HDD.
When using shield or any other android boxes, you can play video over local network easily. It can be done by file manager, such as es explorer.
Plex and kodi are other methods, but required some setup.