Best software for managing and playing videos and music

Storage format:

MKV Videos
- Video: 720p H.264
- Audio: original audio in english, english and german as AAC
Audio:
- FLAC + mp3 subfolder generated from flac

Ripping/Encoding:

Ripper: MakeMKV for DVDs and Bluray
Encoder: handbrake

Storage:

DELL T620 with LVM on RAID1 drives, running Debian

Players:

Player for Videos and Music files: VLC
Media manager and info downloader: “Media Companion” (https://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/)
Media Player Box
- Squeezeboxes for Audio
- Zotac ID62 running XMBC
Media Server Software:
- Squeezenter, no longer investing since Logitech has abandoned squeezeboxes (shame!)
- Plex Media Server (https://plex.tv/) (runs well with portable clients)

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