Is Plex still a thing?

[edgedemon]

Back in the day I used to run Windows home server which then migrated to Media portal and I went through the painful process of ripping our entire DVD collection to MKV to stream around the house.
I now have a QNAP NAS and wifey wants to sell all our DVD's to reclaim the space, which is fair enough, we don't even own a player anymore, streaming services have replaced DVD's.
Before she sells them I was thinking that I could re-rip everything and use the NAS as a Plex media server.
Is Plex still a thing?
Is MakeMKV still the best way to rip copies of our DVD's. For some weird reason, even though we haven't watched them in ages, I still feel I should give this a go now that we have the disk space available to us..USB DVD's are cheap on Amazon this week and most of our TV's are still 1080p so this could be an Xmas hols project for me.

 

[edgedemon]

Yep I run the server on my NAS dumped all my old DVDs and Blurays on to it. The children especially find it really handy with all their Disney films on there can watch them from anywhere in the house.

Pretty much what I plan on doing. It might be more than an Xmas project though, a quick estimate now, I stopped counting after 200 discs, no wonder she wants the space.

I'm laughing at makemkv, I'm pretty sure it was in beta 15yrs ago when I last used it.

Oh god, Plex does music as well, that will be a very deep rabbit hole...