Simple, easy to configure streaming server for linux - just transcode & stream After spending a few hours setting up and configuring PlexMediaServer, I realized that it looks awesome for home use, but has some impediments for serving up content to the public at large. 

I have 50 or so video presentations (genetics &amp; infant healthcare if you must know) that need to be served up.  The presentations will be available on a web page, and I would simply need a link to point back to a file that the streaming server would transcode &amp; play.  The HTML is not important - I can have simple href links for that.  

Are there any relatively easy to configure and set up streaming servers that can offer this basic functionality?   My server is CentOS 6.5.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-stream-videos-with-nginx-and-jwplayer-on-centos-6 makes Nginx look pretty simple to set-up as the streaming server. I've not used it but I have used jwplayer and that worked well for me (I was streaming from vlc/vlm). Another good option for the player end would be jplayer.

Web Videos via Watch Folders Transcode is a reasonable approach to the transcode issue.