Comments on: Plex/Seven: One More Thing

By: sat_ellite

sat_ellite — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:40:23 +0000

Please… when 7 is going to show up?..as others I can’t wait !!..
And as someone pointed… will be nice to have a better management of start/stop/sleep/sleep countdowns etc…

I’m pretty new with this amazing “thing” you are doing and i’m absolutely in love with it!!!

Thanks… beers coming soon

By: elan

elan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:54:46 +0000

@pletopia: Yeah, you can add other applications. The next release event might be a Plex Surfing Party

@opet: No option yet, but I can totally see your point.

@Anthony: James has some magic in there to restart both the helper and Plex when the application exits.

@opet: Now that the release has finally been made, I think I’ll have at least one beer to relax.

By: pletopia

pletopia — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:28:24 +0000

@Anthony: from the wiki .. it seemed to me that when you load a program from the Applications screen it would load the app, kill plex & plex helper. when you exit that app it will restart plex & plexhelper.

“When a new application is launched, Plex closes until the opened application is closed.”

ps. Love the “One More Thing” ending .. Steve would be proud of this one

pps. Next time you guys are gonna need to do a real Release Event .. the whole shabang .. Convention Hall, demo’s, hour and a half video showcasing what you did in the past couple days .. eheheh

By: RuggigHund

RuggigHund — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:11:26 +0000

I’m so looking forward to this release! It’s an amazing effort you guys put into this application and I truly appreciate it!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:06:14 +0000

I hope that launching DVD Player from inside Plex doesn’t avert attention from properly supporting DVDs inside Plex! Yes I know I can mount the dvd, then navigate to that volume and launch the vob, but it would be great to support it fully.

If launching one of these apps is able to kill PlexHelper to make the remote available to other apps, then does this mean that you then have to manually start Plex (and therefore PlexHelper) after you are done? Or is there some AppleScript magic to restart PlexHelper after the app is closed?

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:46:02 +0000

Any idea if their will be plex:// support for the original XBMC? I would love to be able to access my iTunes/iPhoto shares from my original (and, yes, inferior) xbox in the living room.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:28:05 +0000

Wow, that feature is truly worthy of a Steve Jobsian “One more thing”.

This is absolutely brilliant! It will go a long way to making it much easier to use apps like EyeTV, and the DVD Player. It’s also a great stop-gap solution until things like MAME can be integrated more heavily as well (which I’m assuming is still the intention, but I appreciate you guys have been BUSY!)

Can’t wait for Seven!

By: pletopia

pletopia — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:15:02 +0000

i’m getting chills .. think about it

this opens up the possiblity of launching games/emulators on your tv through plex

the final dagger .. R.I.P. xbox .. you’ve served me well over the years

By: JonnyV

JonnyV — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:57:57 +0000

Is that third icon an external hard drive?

Will I be able to eject my external hard drive within Plex?

By: gregd

gregd — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:38:20 +0000

Haha great stuff! This new release is going to be amazing. Im assuming apps like Mame OSX should work via this?

By: me2621a

me2621a — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:29:19 +0000

dude i think i actually love you right now. I have wanted this for so long.
Long live Plex, the undisputed best media app on any platform.

By: opet

opet — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:21:00 +0000

Oh.. Another thing. I was going to donate, but then something hit me; according to the button, donations goes towards beer. I love beer and you deserve a whole lot of it. But with how Plex 7 looks, I have a feeling that the amount of donations are going to go up. So… More donations = more beer. More beer = more drunkenness. (Drunkenness = fun ) More drunkenness = less time for coding. Less time for coding = less updates…

By: jayman978

jayman978 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:18:40 +0000

Little bit of info about Apps in Plex here:
http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Getting_Started#Applications

By: opet

opet — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:13:41 +0000

Brilliant! Is there an option for not quitting Plex when you launch a program? I can see this working nicely with packaged Applescripts as well. Add a nice icon and Applescripts available in Plex. BUT, I don’t want Plex to shut down everytime I set my sleep timer…

By: mlk

mlk — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:03:22 +0000

Front Page? I think you mean Front Row.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:51 +0000

Because it’s easier not to waste time deleting it.

By: pletopia

pletopia — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:55:59 +0000

wait .. is that a add app icon ??

By: pletopia

pletopia — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:54:48 +0000

okay .. i see DVDPlayer .. and i see Front Row .. but whats that third icon ??

and o yeah … that looks nice in Mediastream, Horizon gonna work too ??

By: Lars

Lars — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:45:21 +0000

I even removed every trace of Front Page from my Mac – I don’t like the interface and the limited functionality, so why waste space on it?

By: mlk

mlk — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:35:31 +0000

Very nice. After seeing all of these feature previews I’m really starting to see Plex take it’s true shape on the OS X platform (as opposed to XBMC). Keep up the good work.

I have to admit, though, I was hoping that the “one more thing” would be 1080p24 support. That way I would finally be able to throw my stupid Popcorn Hour out the window.

By: Zeb

Zeb — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:29:40 +0000

How much later?
Hehe its half past eleven in my country!
I cant stay awake all night =)

By: elan

elan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:25:52 +0000

@nick: Um, is later today (HST) soon enough for you?

By: nick

nick — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:19:24 +0000

Ugh, when are we going to see some releases of this start spinning out