Introducing Plex Media Server

[Kaido]

Update: Now with Netflix plugin!

http://www.plexapp.com/

Handles Flash & Silverlight, SD & HD. Now supports plugins! A quick browse of their "App Store" reveals:

Academic Earth
Apple Movie Trailers
Braedon Photography
CBS Sports
Chromasia
CNET TV
CNN News
College Humor
Current TV
Daily Dose of Imagery
Daily Kos TV
FFFFound!
Food Porn Daily
From 10 to 300MM
Google Life
IGN
Jessica Claire
Joost
MTV Music Videos
Netflix
NPR
Pandora
Photo.Shoq
Pitchfork TV
Rae Barnes
Revision3
South Park
Ted Talks
The Big Picture
The Escapist
The Onion
The Sartorialist
The White House
Twit Live
XKCD
Youtube

All I'm waiting for is Netflix support and my other media centers are GONE Boy, if you didn't have a reason to pick up a Mac Mini before, you sure do now!

 

[silverpig]

Installing on my hackintosh now. I was running 0.5.2.1 or whatever the latest stable release was. Gonna have to try out this app store thing

 

[Eastwind]

Kaido,

That was the reason I am making a hackintosh!

I have a full (traditional) home theater, but with Plex and a Hackintosh...

 

[silverpig]

Verdict so far: Pretty sweet!

1. I wish hulu worked in Canada (hotspot shield takes care of it, but then my torrents go to crap)
2. I'd love a CBC feed
3. Hockey would rock

 

[silverpig]

Man, the academic earth really is awesome. I'm gonna be taking some courses at home for free I think

 

[xanis]

This looks pretty awesome. Downloading now, going to try it out tomorrow when I have time.

 

[silverpig]

http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/PornHub

sweeeeeet....

 

[Phobic9]

This is what I originally intended to do with my Mini but I really need hulu + Netflix + TV.com (CBS shows). I'll have to keep using my 360 with PlayOn until that happens with Plex.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I wish hulu worked in Canada (hotspot shield takes care of it, but then my torrents go to crap)

Got $15 a month?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Eastwind
Kaido,

That was the reason I am making a hackintosh!

I have a full (traditional) home theater, but with Plex and a Hackintosh...

Yeah man! All that is really left for me personally is Netflix & Emulator support. Also, Snow Leopard adds TV Resolution support in Display properties (480, 720, 1080), so we'll finally get proper TV output! I'm gonna go bonkers if the Nvidia ION is really Hackintoshable and if Snow Leopard is hackable

 

[tefleming]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Eastwind
Kaido,

That was the reason I am making a hackintosh!

I have a full (traditional) home theater, but with Plex and a Hackintosh...

Yeah man! All that is really left for me personally is Netflix & Emulator support. Also, Snow Leopard adds TV Resolution support in Display properties (480, 720, 1080), so we'll finally get proper TV output! I'm gonna go bonkers if the Nvidia ION is really Hackintoshable and if Snow Leopard is hackable

Any ideas how long it will take them to build a Hack version of 10.6?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: tefleming

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Eastwind
Kaido,

That was the reason I am making a hackintosh!

I have a full (traditional) home theater, but with Plex and a Hackintosh...

Yeah man! All that is really left for me personally is Netflix & Emulator support. Also, Snow Leopard adds TV Resolution support in Display properties (480, 720, 1080), so we'll finally get proper TV output! I'm gonna go bonkers if the Nvidia ION is really Hackintoshable and if Snow Leopard is hackable

Any ideas how long it will take them to build a Hack version of 10.6?

No clue Netkas already has it running, so unless they throw in some extra security stuff at the last minute, it should be in pretty short order. Also unknown is whether or not the ION can be hackintoshed. If both are successful, then we're going to see a whole new generation of awesome, tiny media centers

 

[marketsons1985]

So since it handles silverlight, netflix support should be coming soon eh? Don't seem to see anything on their forums.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: marketsons1985
So since it handles silverlight, netflix support should be coming soon eh? Don't seem to see anything on their forums.

Yeah, I dunno. On one hand, I can see Netflix not wanting to integrate it, since they sell the Roku box and have a partnership with Tivo and other companies, but on the other hand, you can already play Netflix streaming movies in your browser with Silverlight, so what's the real difference?

I also really, really, really want emulator support. I can't wait to fire up some old games with the super-comfortable Xbox 360 controller! You can already do it with various drivers using the Windows USB adapter for the wireless controllers, but you have to launch the app separate - the menus and whatnot aren't integrated yet. MAME, Atari, NES, SNES, Sega...oh boy!

 

[Kmax82]

This new version of Plex is amazing! I love it.

I like Boxee, but I just prefer the interface of Plex. The one thing I wish they would both do better though is scrape my video files more consistently. If I want them both to scrape them consistently then I have to manually initiate it, which sucks. Oh well..

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
This new version of Plex is amazing! I love it.

I like Boxee, but I just prefer the interface of Plex. The one thing I wish they would both do better though is scrape my video files more consistently. If I want them both to scrape them consistently then I have to manually initiate it, which sucks. Oh well..

Yeah, I ended up doing it manually. I setup a file server with my movies and thumbnails, that way all the media centers in the house pick them up without ever having to scrape. It's only an extra 10 seconds of effort to go on Google Images to find a suitable artwork image when copying a movie or video clip to the file server.

 

[Eastwind]

I read on their forums that they are working on Netflix. Boxee has that feature and I guess they are competitive. If I could somehow integrate my Directv box too that would be amazing. I don't know if that is possible. My projector has every input imaginable, but we'll see what is available when Snow Leopard is out.

Im torn. If the Ion is hackable, maybe I'll have to repurpose my hackintosh.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Eastwind
I read on their forums that they are working on Netflix. Boxee has that feature and I guess they are competitive. If I could somehow integrate my Directv box too that would be amazing. I don't know if that is possible. My projector has every input imaginable, but we'll see what is available when Snow Leopard is out.

Im torn. If the Ion is hackable, maybe I'll have to repurpose my hackintosh.

I found a Tivo script for Plex, but the Tivo has to process the output while streaming, so it sometimes is even skippy on a hardwired connection from what I've read. I'd just stick with a universal remote in your case - TV for the DirectTV box and all other media for the Plexbox.

 

[Eastwind]

Well, since the ION isn't out until the summer, I'll be ok. As for the remote, I have the universal for the Directv-A/V receiver-DVD and I bought the parts to make a nice hack using the Apple remote for my soon-to-be Plex box.

Here's the link that I got the Apple remote control idea from:
http://photos.pottebaum.com/gallery/7075206_LwKc4

 

[Kmax82]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Kmax82
This new version of Plex is amazing! I love it.

I like Boxee, but I just prefer the interface of Plex. The one thing I wish they would both do better though is scrape my video files more consistently. If I want them both to scrape them consistently then I have to manually initiate it, which sucks. Oh well..

Yeah, I ended up doing it manually. I setup a file server with my movies and thumbnails, that way all the media centers in the house pick them up without ever having to scrape. It's only an extra 10 seconds of effort to go on Google Images to find a suitable artwork image when copying a movie or video clip to the file server.

Yea.. actually Plex does a great job of grabbing the info when you initiate it yourself, but you have to do that. Reason why I still use Plex is because I don't care to go out on the Web and find all the info, plus Plex hooks right into thetvdb.com which gives me info on all the TV episodes, and plays theme songs, etc...

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Kmax82

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Kmax82
This new version of Plex is amazing! I love it.

I like Boxee, but I just prefer the interface of Plex. The one thing I wish they would both do better though is scrape my video files more consistently. If I want them both to scrape them consistently then I have to manually initiate it, which sucks. Oh well..

Yeah, I ended up doing it manually. I setup a file server with my movies and thumbnails, that way all the media centers in the house pick them up without ever having to scrape. It's only an extra 10 seconds of effort to go on Google Images to find a suitable artwork image when copying a movie or video clip to the file server.

Yea.. actually Plex does a great job of grabbing the info when you initiate it yourself, but you have to do that. Reason why I still use Plex is because I don't care to go out on the Web and find all the info, plus Plex hooks right into thetvdb.com which gives me info on all the TV episodes, and plays theme songs, etc...

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[aphex]

For some reason Plex won't play any Hulu videos for me, it just seems to never start after I select them.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: aphex
For some reason Plex won't play any Hulu videos for me, it just seems to never start after I select them.

It did that for me for the first one or two, but it has worked since.

 

[Kmax82]

Well, I take back a little of what I said. Looks like the newer versions of Plex are doing a much better job of updating when I start it up. We'll see if maybe I just had a bad setting in a previous version. Not sure..

 

[mugs]

Is it actually a server? I see a lot about media player capabilities, I don't see anything about media server capabilities.