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

18 Comments so far

1. Matt January 19th, 2008 6:23 pm
   

   I only have ‘Internal Speakers’

2. Constantine January 19th, 2008 11:26 pm
   

   I on my mac mini I have “Headphones” and “USB Audio”

3. Martin January 20th, 2008 12:23 am
   

   I have an aluminum 24″ iMac:

   Name: Digital Out
   Type: Built-in Output

4. elan January 20th, 2008 12:36 am
   

   Please list the model as well as the output names, as Martin has done. I’m guessing that perhaps Constantine has an older Mac Mini since the new ones should have digital output?

5. Jasper January 20th, 2008 12:44 am
   

   The both versions i tried both detected my bluetooth jabra so it looks like it autodetects somehow

6. elan January 20th, 2008 12:52 am
   

   It auto-detects through Portaudio’s device detection. I’m guessing you probably don’t want to listen to music through your Jabra, though

   I’m trying to see if the digital outputs always have the word “Digital” in their name, so that I can tell what outputs could support AC-3/DTS. Blasting encoded audio to non-digital outputs is kind of rude.

7. Jasper January 20th, 2008 1:14 am
   

   omg, yeah .. that’s a bad idea to do that.
   But why detect and autochange something what the end user should setup in their prefs?
   I can’t think of any app that detects if the stream is ac3 and then switches to another output device.

   If you want to decrease the number of channels .. maybe you can see how other opensource apps are doing that (VLC, mplayer, niceplayer)

8. Blue Dingo January 20th, 2008 2:17 am
   

   My Macbook has

   Builtin stereo speakers
   Combined optical digital audio input/audio line in (minijack)
   Combined optical digital audio output/headphone out (minijack)

   http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html

   I guess its SPDIF, to use 5.1 or higher, you have to use a mini-jack to toslink,

9. Fabiano G. Souza January 20th, 2008 2:58 am
   

   I use a Mac Mini, combined optical digital audio output for 5.1 output to a receiver.

10. yaneku January 20th, 2008 3:52 am
    

    I have a white 24″ iMac and got:

    Analog and Digital: Built-in Output

    I get music playing using analog, using digital xbmc crashes when opening a mp3.

    Amazing work with xbmc for osx! I am very impressed
    I’m using 0.01 and got got HD videos playing (without audio, some crashes, some playing in 10x the speed). Great work!

    Does anyone know how I can go backwards (one directory back) using my keyboard?

11. yaneku January 20th, 2008 4:01 am
    

    btw.

    don’t get me wrong, I really think that the partial video playing is great!
    I wasn’t expecting video capabilities at all.

12. putnam January 20th, 2008 4:43 am
    

    Macbook Pro, model identifier MacbookPro3,1

    With nothing in the output jack: “Internal Speakers”
    With an optical cable in the output jack: “Digital Out”
    With headphones or any other 1/8″ line in the output jack: “Headphones”

13. putnam January 20th, 2008 4:53 am
    

    Mac Mini, model identifier Macmini2,1

    Exact same as above with the MBP3,1.

    I would imagine all these output names would be enumerated in some language/plist file somewhere. It’d be a lot easier than asking people in the comments. I’ll see if I can find one.

14. putnam January 20th, 2008 4:53 am
    

    BTW, that’s an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini.

15. tofuhero January 20th, 2008 6:44 pm
    

    PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 / OS X 10.4.11

    Name: Digital Out
    Port: Optical digital-out port

16. Lavaweb January 21st, 2008 8:02 am
    

    Apple Mac Pro
    Version: 10.5.1
    2×2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
    3gb 667 MHz DDR2 FB-Dimm

    Name: Internal Speakers
    Type: Built-in Output

    Name: Line Out
    Type: Built-in Line Output

    Name: Digital Out
    Type: Built-in Digital Out

17. tim January 21st, 2008 8:39 am
    

    Quad 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5

    Name: Line Out
    Port: “Built-in Audio”

    Name: Digital Out
    Type: “Optical Digital-out port”

18. Víctor Pimentel April 6th, 2008 1:17 am
    

    Like Constantine, I have “Headphones” and “USB Audio”, and USB Audio is the only way to achieve 5.1 in every Mac (including MacBook and Mac Mini) to analog-only speakers. And these speakers, although there are not the most accuracy, they are today outrageously priced

    It would be really wonderful if you could add support to this USB Audio more than 2.0 (it currently supports that), and XBMC on OSX would be, at least for me, absolutely perfect. The only player I have tried with this level of support is VLC, so it would not be very difficult to get this functionality, as long the source is there.

    Thanks for the excellent work, XBMC is already fantastic!

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