Elias sat back on his couch. It wasn't perfect. The fast-forward was laggy. The subtitles were a little off-center. Every time he wanted to use it, he had to re-run the exploit from the browser, a five-minute ritual

Similar to Plex, you can use free software like Universal Media Server on your PC to stream files directly to the PS4 Media Player app. The PS4 acts as a DLNA renderer, picking up the stream from your computer.

If you don't want to constantly move a USB drive back and forth, turn your PC into a media server.