Plex Media Center for OS X Leopard

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How do I add internet video such as TED, YouTube, CNET etc?
Internet sources are added using the App Store found in the Applications menu. See the following screencast for more info. vimeo.com/3315184
One of the plug-ins has stopped working.
If a plug-in stops working, it’s likely that the structure of the site changed. This doesn’t happen very frequently with most sites, but it’s a definite possibility. When this occurs, an entity we call the “Campfire Robot” springs into action automatically and tracks us down to let us know, and shortly thereafter we can push an update. As such, if a site stops working, the best thing to do is to check the App Store for updates. If you have automatic updates turned on, check your install history to see if an update got installed while you were getting coffee.
I don’t see the Applications Menu Item.
If you previously used v5 of Plex we suggest deleting the folder called Plex found in ~/Library/Application Support/. Many things have changed and a fresh install will ensure the best performance with Plex.
How do I make Movies and TV Shows show up in their respective areas with poster art, plot info, etc?
View this screencast for more info vimeo.com/2758185

Progress on Video

January 11th, 2008 | Category: Coding | Author: elan

I’m making some good progress on video. The main issue was SDL 1.2 behaving differently on OS X, due to the fact that Linux relies on GLX for certain things. Videos actually sort of play now, although there’s no sound (because I haven’t finished working Portaudio into the DVDAudioPlayer), and videos play at strange rates. Sometime fast, sometimes slow. I think it’s freaking out mostly because there’s no audio, although there may be some timing issues.

I enhanced QueryPerformanceCounter to start counting from zero for each thread, since on Linux it uses CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID. I thought this might help the timing, but it looks like the DVDClock keeps its own start time.

Here’s Al Gore talking about how XBMC really rocks on OS X.

And here’s a video playing while on the main screen. Is it just me, or is that guy’s hand on Audrey Tautou’s breast? How very scandalous.

6 Comments so far

  1. Lars January 13th, 2008 4:52 am

    Cool I can´t wait to use this as my new “Front Row” (and maby finder :)

    Is XBMC-Filemanager set up to view macdrives? :)

  2. HenrikDK January 13th, 2008 1:04 pm

    Here’s Al Gore talking about how XBMC really rocks on OS X.

    LoL. Making great progress, Im really looking forward to some sort of README.osx files or other “idiot’s guide” for getting this thing up and running, since im not really interested in messing up my macbook with fink :)

  3. Karel January 13th, 2008 1:12 pm

    Great news, looking forward for any (beta) XBMC binary I could run on my new Mac mini (my first Mac).
    It would be a great upgrade from XBMC on Xbox, as mini is super silent and h.264 capable.

  4. Coffeemocca January 13th, 2008 1:52 pm

    thanks for all the work you’ve put in, lets ditch frontrow.

  5. Ed January 13th, 2008 4:23 pm

    Looking forward to this. I hope it works with multi-part RAR files!

  6. Dani February 14th, 2008 12:35 pm

    can I connect my xbox360 with my mac by xbmc to see films at the television? (streaming)

    thanks

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