Comments on: Release 0.5.14: Bugfixing bonanza

By: elan

elan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:25:26 +0000

@Verne: It’s a serious question To the best of our knowledge he’s bullmastiff x american staffordshire. Would love to see photos, drop a link or send me an email.

By: Verne Lindner

Verne Lindner — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:25:44 +0000

I just stumbled on your site by accident and your dog Barkley looks identical to a dog I inherited last summer. Can you me tell me what kind of dog this is?
(I apologize if this is a silly question to ask in a serious forum). Thanks, Verne

By: pippo

pippo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:33:40 +0000

Sorry to insist, but can anybody explain how to use a DVD as source, and also video files burned on a disk medium? I must be doing something wrong.

BTW, yesterday I found the following problem: while adding a video source, I mistyped the path, so that PLEX could not find it. Yet, the error message I got on screen systematically was: “No network connection, add source anyway?” (not literally, I don’t remember the exact words, this was the sense of the message).

By: elan

elan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:32:10 +0000

@Rob: Yeah, Ridgeback + Bullmastiff. Total teddy bear, thinks he’s a little lapdog.

@Atrus: Excellent points all around. I’m hoping to eventually replace some of what the testers do with some automated regression testing also. Nothing beats a computer for doing boring repetitive work!

By: Atrus

Atrus — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:31:26 +0000

@elan: May I suggest somthing (which I guess you already pondered, but nevertheless still important to address). The testers that you have managed to talk into this should benefit greatly with a test checklist. Containing the formats to test from local drives and network drives.

* The different persons should be from different countries so subtitles can be tried with each version and each format.

* A few should have minis, and a few laptops and a few iMacs.

I guess you can come up with 50 different tests of course. But at least this document should include everything basic (everything needed to play files from different locations). The rest is “non-essential” for a specific version.

Just my 2 cents. I check this site 5 times a day to see if there is some new info. You have really managed to catch my interest =)

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:58:54 +0000

Hey is Barkley a Rhodesian Ridgeback? We’ve got a Ridge mix. Aren’t they just big teddy bears?!

By: pippo

pippo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:34:29 +0000

thanks. As for the fonts, I was referring to the fonts used for subtitles display, sorry that wasn’t so clear in my message above.

By: elan

elan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:43:54 +0000

@pippo: Thanks, we also love the work Team Razorfish did, it’s a really lovely skin.

As for mouse clicks, the skin is better used with a remote, at least that’s what I’ve found.

By: pippo

pippo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:37:15 +0000

hello.

Very nice work indeed, the new skin looks really great.

It is possible for the user to add more fonts to those available?

And to modify the key bindings? I find that the skin behaves somehow unnaturally wrt mouse clicks

By: Jordi

Jordi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:19:32 +0000

Great news!!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:07:48 +0000

@ Mickey, thank you for the tip, I snagged PMIII from the package contents of an older download. Thanks for all your hard work Elan!

By: Phullup

Phullup — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:41:33 +0000

Great! Thanks for that.
I’m looking forward to see the new skin.

By: elan

elan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:15:40 +0000

@Phullup: Not working over network, but the new release (which fixes the problem) is currently in testing.

By: Phullup

Phullup — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:55:22 +0000

Could someone please clarify for me: do DVD .ISO files on a network share still work with this new version?
There’s a couple of comments above about TS folders not working and no DVD support (but is that from disc?)

If they do still work I’ll upgrade to the new version like a shot!

As ever, thanks for all your hard work on this.

By: Gentoo

Gentoo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:41:12 +0000

Beautiful.. It works smoothly with the new skin. Awesome guys.

By: Przemek

Przemek — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:17:42 +0000

Great GUI

The only feature I miss is iTunes/iPhoto integration.

By: Jereme

Jereme — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:29:35 +0000

This release was a tremendous step up. The only problem with it is where I don’t have HDTV, and that’s my own issue.

If you guys add back fully functional DVD support eventually, this will be unbeatable.

Dare I say it, but I don’t even see where CenterStage is relevant after seeing this new theme.

Great job! Bravo! hip hip!

By: sunny

sunny — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:54:42 +0000

I just found out about Plex today. The install was flawless, everything works great! The Plex has done a great job, it works and feels like a native mac app. I didn’t even look at menu.

only own hard part was getting the IMBD to work, but the wiki documented it well.

Thanks

keep up the great work!

By: Pacino

Pacino — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:58:14 +0000

Would be nice if it displays Chinese correctly.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:11:15 +0000

@Soner: I use french subtitles too, and I have no such problem. I use PMIII as the skin and Arial 28 BOLD yellow for the font.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:08:53 +0000

@Andy: you may take PMIII from the previous (RC3) version of Plex

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:17:15 +0000

second font = skin ;-P

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:16:32 +0000

@ Elan, cool, believe it or not I was having some problems finding PM3 online, the original skinner seems to have removed it from his site. In any case, being able to scale the fonts up on the default font would be a big help. Thanks again for all of your help!

By: Soner

Soner — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:52:42 +0000

The problem appear with PM3 and Aeon too. In fact i’am using only Aeon.

By: elan

elan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:38:04 +0000

@Soner: I believe this is possibly a MediaStream bug that’s to be fixed soon. Does the problem occur with the Project Mayhem III as well?

I’ve heard reports of people selecting Arial font as a workaround.

By: Soner

Soner — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:56 +0000

Elan, did you see what i wrote before ?

i quote myself :

Elan, there is a bug with all the letters like é è à ù(french letters). They don’t appear normally, at there place there is strange letters.

(excuse me for my english)

I downgraded to the previous version, and the bug is not present on this one.

By: elan

elan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:27:25 +0000

@Andy: We don’t want to make the download even more massive than it already is, hence why we’re asking PMIII users to keep it around in their Application Support.

@Arnout: Known issue, will be fixed in the next version.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:49:54 +0000

Oh, I just want to note that Project Mayhem allows me to more directly increase the font on my TV, at 720p all the words are tiny, even if I bump up the font size to “Massive.”

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:34:01 +0000

Great work, this seems better able to tackle playing larger files. I know that you’re moving away from Project Mayhem, but is there any chance you could leave it in as an alternate theme until this new one has the bumps smoothed out?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:51:19 +0000

Sorry man for flooding the comments, seen this issue is discussed over at the forums…will continue there! Thanx!