Comments on: Release: Plex/Seven 0.7.0

By: luke

luke — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:12:29 +0000

is cool

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:12:14 +0000

Great work guys.

Finally AC3 / DTS works on my Sony equipment, and everything else is working fine with a few crashes. Eye-TV external support is very appreciated, I just hope in the future that we can get a better native support, so Eye-TV can run flawless in the background and record TV when enjoying the wonderful features of PLEX

By: michael

michael — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:45:45 +0000

Nice to see a new release, still I’ll stay with the 5.22 for the time being. I get a distorted sound on everything I listen too

By: elan

elan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:58 +0000

@Gumbyx84: You’re not bugging us at all! There’s no separate DMG for now, but you can easily pull it out of a Plex/Seven release, from Plex.app/Contents/Resources/Plex/PlexMediaServer. It’s just a command line application you can run anywhere (except for the fact that I’m an idiot and the 0.7.0 release wasn’t a true Universal Binary )

By: Gumbyx84

Gumbyx84 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:35:33 +0000

I hate to bug you guys, but where is the Plex Media Server dmg? You guys said it would be available as a separate download, but I don’t see it anywhere. I ask because I might be trying to set up a remote iTunes library sometime in the near future and would like to use it on an old PowerBook. Thanks ahead of time for the info.

By: windy

windy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:11:45 +0000

Consider building off/mimicking some of the following features. It is not necessarily bad to be a copycat. Evil empire M$ does it all the time. Apple does it on occasion. All consumer products steal from one another. If they provide the best features of the competitor’s product along with the best of their own product, they attract more customers.

http://gizmodo.com/5095414/10-really-cool-windows-7-media-center-features

By: elan

elan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:52:43 +0000

@breakfingah: Good idea, please file a feature request on Lighthouse

@Koxman: Crackling sound at start of tracks is a known issue.

@faibistes: I’m really sorry you’re having so much trouble. We tried to make it clear that this release was known to be a step backwards in terms of stability and we recommended backing up your Application Support/Plex folder. The first bug has been fixed already, and I’ll look at the last one shortly. Ryan is working on the middle one at the moment as well.

By: theTraveler

theTraveler — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:31:28 +0000

What a great an innovative release!
Plex team is truly amazing.
You make Front Row look like an entry level product.
But watch out you may get hired by Stevie

I Feel a donation coming on!

Now the only thing I dare to dream of is true EyeTV integration!

By: faibistes

faibistes — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:15:37 +0000

Boys, worst release EVER!

I have used it for a couple of hours and discovered three showstopper bugs:

- Some videos (which admittedly were crappily encoded in the first place) that used to play fine in Plex 5, now play at some 2x speed (audio too). I must admit that it’s kind of funny watching The Simpsons as if they had been sniffing helium, but come on! After stopping the video, Plex crashes.
- Crash when going back to TV Shows main menu, if I enable Theme Music
- If I browse my iTunes music by genre, artist…, Plex shows the tracks but won’t play the music. And if I browse it by track, it will show the tracks but may a) not play it or b) play the wrong track (WTF?).

I’ll file those bugs as soon as I get back home. The last one is incredibly weird and hard to explain.

I learned my lesson. Next time I will backup my previous settings. Scraping everything again to pull back to 5 is a PITA.

BTW, wishlist: preamp for videos.

By: Koxman

Koxman — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:31:49 +0000

Hi,
I tried out the new iTunes Library integration (with server). I really like the feature, but I recognise a cracking noise between two songs (I’m not sure if its on the end or beginning of a song). I’ve integrated all album covers into my mp3 so it might be that there are some problems with the meta information beeing played.

By: breakfingah

breakfingah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:47:14 +0000

I’ve been wondering: Are there any way to put this application always on top, when in windowed mode?

This is by far the best performing media player for HD-material, and i often experience quite a bit of skips when running VLC of MPlayer (even with high caches).

By: trinx

trinx — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:01 +0000

Thank you for yet another great release of of this killer app! Looking forward to seeing even more new features in a not so distant future!

By: aureus

aureus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:14:17 +0000

Nevermind the last post, seems to work after I restarted my Mac. No idea what that was but anyway, it works again.

By: aureus

aureus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:34:36 +0000

I’ve been using Plex for some days now. Until version seven everything worked really nice, I was really looking forward to this update and I’d like to thank you for the new features, great work.
Unfortunately, nevertheless, my remote doesn’t seem to be working properly anymore. If I want to leave, let’s say “TV Shows” for example, I have to press the Menu button very quickly three times in a row. If I press it once, nothing happens. If I hold it, nothing happens (usually it opens the ‘C’ menu on the keyboard, doesn’t do it anymore..). There are some other things which don’t work but you get the idea. Is this a known problem in any way? I checked my settings but it seems to be alright.
Thanks in advance!

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:59:45 +0000

Hi. I get a bunch of small movies listed in the library view, seems lika trailers. How do I get rid of them?

By: perez

perez — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:14:54 +0000

Great work on the release! When are we going to eat dinner?

By: Nopel

Nopel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:27:49 +0000

@Hecubus: Just put this in your advancedsettings.xml:

true

You can still adjust all settings in there, even the ones that don’t appear in the GUI anymore.

By: eduo

eduo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:05:36 +0000

Damn. We need to make the MediaStream guys come up with a view that is banner-friendly. I like banners a lot (and posters for seasons). None of the views is really workable for banners.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:15:59 +0000

Great release. Been playing around with it for a while

How about Airport Express ‘Airtunes’ support? Would be neat to be able to avoid wires to the speakers

By: Hecubus

Hecubus — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:01:05 +0000

Plex rocks, but I am a little disappointed by the disappearance of a lot of settings. In particular, I miss the ‘disable add source button’, always seeing Add Source is driving me crazy, if there’s a way to disable it in Plex/Seven I would be eternally grateful.
Other than that, Plex is the best.

By: boogaloo

boogaloo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:34:05 +0000

Elan & the Plex team! You guys rock…Plex has made my HTPC on my Mac Mini come alive. Apple has sold a lot of mac minis because of you guys. Keep up the great work.

By: DendeNYC

DendeNYC — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:52:16 +0000

I know its more a skin thing and not a osxbm…Plex thing but I’ve been using MediaStream since it came out giving up my then beloved AEON. However since then I’ve been unable to get my categories to work from the main screen anymore. You know;

Movies
TV Shows
Video
and lets face it
n0rp

what am I missing? how do I get my sources.xml to point to my p0rn and display smutty fanart?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:11:14 +0000

Hey Guys!!! Loving then new theme music..
Quick Question and I’m a slight novice.
I created an advancedsettings.xml fil inside od the userdata folder. It contains the following:

true

However I still get the *All Seasons option when viewing a show with more than one Season.

Any input is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks to the team!!!

By: SharkOne

SharkOne — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:25:47 +0000

Actually my only issue is the F/C one. Region was already set to Canada before, and it still is. Maybe the skin changed and they decided that Canada was using US system altogether, which is wrong (Quebec anyone ?). This could be made available as an option, even in the .xml file, I wouldn’t mind

By: SharkOne

SharkOne — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:19:50 +0000

Oh thanks a lot

By: jayman978

jayman978 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:07:26 +0000

@Sharkone
Answer found here: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php?showtopic=2107

By: SharkOne

SharkOne — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:58:27 +0000

Hey hi,
it seems like since the update (which is awesome actually), the temperature in the weather page is now showing in Farenheit instead of Celcius as better. How can I change it ? (My region is set to Canada)

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work guys, you truely got the best media center app in your hands

By: grey

grey — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:53:25 +0000

Schweet, seeding on gigE. (:

By: jayman978

jayman978 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:48:23 +0000

@Skywalker
Here’s some info on H.264 speed boost
http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Video_Settings#Player

By: Dude McKenzie

Dude McKenzie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:09:31 +0000

Great work team! Love what you guys are doing and with the release of Plex 0.7 series I could not resist joining the forum and all the fun. I have been following the releases ever since the OSXBMC 0.1.1 “Baby Steps” release, and can say that I am very impressed and thankful for all the hard work. I’m always looking for ways to contribute and think that I will have to settle with only a donation at this time. Look forward to trying this release on my Macbook (late ‘08 2.4ghz 4gb kingston 320gb upgrade) this evening. Samsung 50″ Plasma series 5. Cant wait!!