Universal Media Server
is reasonably well known around the internet, but we were underwhelmed by the amount of activity on the official forum. The knowledge base has some useful articles, but once again we found the documentation scene for Universal Media Server to be rather lacking. If you can’t get a feature to work, you may end up stuck.
As ever, popularity counts for a lot, and Kodi is one of the better-known media servers. For example, when solving a problem, expect to find support threads on sites such as Reddit. Returning to the official support routes, the many subforums are busy, which is what we like to see. Most of the documentation is in the form of articles located in the wiki and they cover every single area of the program. All in all, you can probably accomplish what you want to do using the available support.
The Jellyfin documentation takes the form of a series of articles, and it’s highly professional and well organised. The forum is perfectly active and it was clear that questions and discussion points were being responded to.
Due to the largely proprietary nature of Plex, it’s not surprising that the support information was a bit hidden on the website, but when we did locate it, we couldn’t fault the collection of support articles. There’s about 100 of these and they cover every area of the software.
It’s a fairly simple program, so it’s forgivable that most of the documentation for MiniDLNA is fragmented around the internet. In our case, we used the guide on the Ubuntu site to set it up.