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.
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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

X3100 Battle Continues

February 26th, 2008 | Category: Coding | Author: elan

Very strange…there appears to be something fundamentally wrong or different with the X3100, as best I can tell from my extremely limited experience with such things. Which probably means I’m completely wrong.

D4rk helped me get set up compiling my own fragment programs (thank you!). The approach I took is what I always do, which is get the working code on one end, the non-working code on the other, and then move towards the middle until you find out what breaks.

I took out all the matrix multiplication, and just started with some basic transformations to see what worked. While rgb.r = 1.164 * yuv.r; produced the expected pixel color rgb.r = 1.164 * (yuv.r - 16.0/256.0) + 1.596 * (yuv.b - 128.0/256.0); doesn’t (at least according to my Numbers spreadsheet). So tomorrow I’ll do some more back and forth to see if I can figure out why the second formula isn’t working. (Note that it DOES work on an NVidia card). Doing debugging where the only way to output debugging information is through 0-1 values in pixel color components has given me new respect for people who work in that field.

4 Comments so far

  1. Scott Frazer February 27th, 2008 7:05 am

    There are times when I think I could handle being a programmer (I’m a sysadmin).

    Then I read a post like this.

    Good luck, man :-)

  2. Matt February 27th, 2008 7:52 am

    Could it be a problem with SDL?

  3. Rez February 27th, 2008 8:00 am

    Thanks for all the hard work you put into this. Hopefully all the x3100 issues can be solved.

  4. Strukt February 27th, 2008 10:02 am

    Thanks for putting down so much work in this. And i hope some of our comments motivate you to still keep on. At the moment i am using my 360 as a media center, mostly watching HD movies in WMV format.

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