Comments on: Plex/Seven: Introducing the all-new Plex Media Server

By: David

David — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:27:14 +0000

Hey, just wanted to say great work. I’ve moved to using Plex for my “entertainment system”. It works great so far.

Just adding my 2 cents asking for an ETA on a windows version of Plex Media Server – just so happens my big workstation with the large disks is a windows box, and currently syncing iTunes libraries across SMB is one hell of a chore!

By: mike

mike — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:26:01 +0000

@mike : Horizonz skin

By: mike

mike — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:58:01 +0000

what’s up with the podcasts screenshot? is that an alternative skin? View:Roller is what’s throwing me off because I can’t get Plex to mimic that view.

By: anewie

anewie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:53:09 +0000

Do’t show the font menu

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:25:49 +0000

Hey, the DL link is gone. Was it removed due to bugs?

By: RL

RL — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:47:44 +0000

Hi. I’ve been doing some reading on Plex and I’m excited about it but I’m a bit of a tech neophyte. I have a Mac, I have a PS3. If I download Plex, will I be able to stream media from my Mac to my PS3? Thanks.

By: elan

elan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:06:27 +0000

@BitPerfect: They are completely different animals. The Plex Media Server communicates (like all self-respecting web services) using XML over HTTP and is thus completely standards based.

By: BitPerfect

BitPerfect — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:25:49 +0000

What are the technical differences between the existing UPnP, Bonjour, XBMSP protocols, and this new PLEX protocol? Or is PLEX just a forked and modified version of UPnP or XBMSP?

I am just curious why you would want to create a new proprietary protocol instead of using an existing open and widely used standard like UPnP or Bonjour.

By: elan

elan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:44:45 +0000

@engessa: I respect your skepticism. I’m not sure that you need to do anything to get it to work with your FreeNAS, since if you’re storing iTunes or iPhoto libraries there, it will just work (since presumably OS X is already connecting via SMB).

Anyway, hopefully what we’re doing in the coming months will convince you that it’s worthwhile!

By: engessa

engessa — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:39:07 +0000

Hmm, i remain a little sceptical. So next to samba, UPNP, DAAP, XBMSP we also get Plex as a streaming protocol. Yay.

I use Freenas to share all my media across many different protocols and to many different systems (xbmc on the xbox, xbox 360, windows xp and vista machines and my macbook) and this is just another protocol i might or might not figure out and get it to work on my Freenas.

It gets a little cluttered with all these protocols and getting and keeping them to work in the right way.

By: DJ Rick

DJ Rick — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:30:33 +0000

I’ve been using Plex a long time now, especially for playing HD content, better then VLC (also when you’re using NAS).

With this release I finally can switch completely for all media from FrontRow to Plex I still use FrontRow for playing my iTunes music, but this version 7 is very, very, very nice. It looks good and is easy to use! And in case I want to, via ‘programms’ I still can access FrontRow ….

@sat_ellite: I’ve got the same problem, in the beginning all iTunes music played well, but now the music plays too slow
I’m using digital output to my Sony STR-DA3200ES receiver.

For the rest, this is a very big step forward for the development of PLEX!

Thanks.

By: sat_ellite

sat_ellite — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:47:35 +0000

ok.. i got it…

but.. i can’t hear anything … music plays slooowwwwwwwwwww tch…. tcha… tchaa…tchaaan… and so.. What can be happening? Any other with the same problem? Pls help!!!1

By: migueld

migueld — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:50:27 +0000

Argentina photos? Nice, that’s my home country

By: elan

elan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:43:49 +0000

@sat_ellite: Check the latest post, there’s a link

By: sat_ellite

sat_ellite — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:11:28 +0000

WHERE CAN I GET THE APP!!??? (sry about the yell)

By: rickler

rickler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:06:22 +0000

Wow, love the app – don’t know if anyone else has picked up on it but love the new icon!!

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:53:45 +0000

Now that Plex7 is released, shouldn’t there be a link up for this too?

By: OwlBoy

OwlBoy — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:41:16 +0000

UPNP support would be sweet. So Plex MS could serve up our media not only to our XBMC installs, but to the increasing number of devices that support the UPNP standard.

Though this would be something to do down the line . Keep it in mind, it would be awesome to have such a thing that knew about iLife media in such a great way this seems to!

-Owl

By: iordonez

iordonez — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:26:57 +0000

@Allards, Freddyflinty Unfortunately we can’t comment on any features that team XBMC will be adding to their software for obvious reasons (mainly we don’t know them).

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:49:52 +0000

In addition to the others, we’ve got St. Vincent, Marry Me as the first in that picture. Great album.

And AMAZING features coming up. Any thoughts on Parental controls or an additional way to sort movies and TV shows? I currently mark anything ‘not kid safe’ as watched and then say ‘Hide Watched’.

I’ll be donating soon.

By: mister ed

mister ed — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:46:27 +0000

let’s see…

what i see:

a few t-corporation albums, and a kruder & dorfmeister.

you should check out some ’sofa surfers’, if you haven’t already

By: Freddyflinty

Freddyflinty — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:23:43 +0000

This is amazing….

What are the chances of the plex:// source type being ported back to XBMC for Linux? I have a Mac with all my Music/Photos but my Media Center runs Linux. Would love to run the Plex Media Server on my Mac and access via my XBMC Linux box.

By: PlexMedia

PlexMedia — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:10:19 +0000

The more we invest on this question the more power you will gain….

WHEN WILL ALL THIS BE RELEASED?

By: Maddox

Maddox — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:47:00 +0000

@elan I meant more for standard video files, not just video inside our iTunes libraries. Also, if the server worked as a uPnP server as well, it’d be absolutely amazing. That’d take care of my ps3 and for tunes on my 360 while playing games. I’m running so much software to get the same functionality done on different platforms!

@pletopia Do you mean using file shares and symlinks? I’ve done this before, and its a good proof of concept, but Os X’s file sharing is so bad, that its easy to break. If you dont manually mount the share after a reboot, everything breaks.

By: pletopia

pletopia — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:18:52 +0000

@Maddox .. have you looked into linking the “slave” plex machines to a “master” plex machine

i think it’s possible to have one plex machine that handles everything and then have “slave” machines with their Plex dir from Application Support linked to that master .. wouldn’t that work ???

By: Lcs

Lcs — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:18:51 +0000

Ok, let’s help someone to get the bonus. In addition to Andre: Frou Frou – Details, Massive Attack – Mezzanine, Kruder & Dorfmeister – K&D Sessions, Eels – Beautiful Freak.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:08:32 +0000

I already donated, but I wish I wasn’t a poor student so I could donate significantly more. These features are fantastic and exactly what the doctor ordered. Good work!

By: elan

elan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:00:14 +0000

@pletopia: We don’t write back to the iTunes DB (for now?)

@Andre: Good eyes!

@shaddix: Yes all around.

@anville: Not presently, but there is of course potential to do lots of cool stuff like that.

@Weavus: Transparent to Plex.

@Maddox: You can play iTunes video podcasts right now. More support to follow.

@Michael: Yes. We emphatically believe that Plex is the wrong place for a UPnP server. I have a Roku Soundbridge so I have a slight soft spot for the protocol.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:20:45 +0000

WOW! you guys are blowing me away with all the ingenuity behind this product. I have to get a Mac…it is a for sure now in my life

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:12:50 +0000

Oh, one other thing – do you plan on having any uPnP support for the media server and can it run without Plex running (since its a separate binary)? I currently run twonky on the same machine that runs Plex so that I can serve content to my PS3. It would be great to just have one media server app…but would also be nice to not always keep the main Plex app running (keeping the cpu busy even when idle).