Plex, the most Awesome yet!

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If you love watching movies on your mac, go download Plex NOW!

It is awesome and great at the same time.

That's all.
 
Well Perian plays 99% of my videos, for the rest I use VLC or Mplayer, Plex is my 4th choice.
 
macboer said:
If you love watching movies on your mac, go download Plex NOW!

It is awesome and great at the same time.

That's all.
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Which version are you running?
Also what Mac are you using?
Are you on SL 10.6.4?
Thanks
 
I have to agree on Plex FTW, especially when you add KLEXi in the mix, oh buddy.

I tried Boxee and didn't like it much; also once I got over the love for the latest and greatest skins, XBMC seemed pedestrian IMO.
 
I am using a MBP post May 2010 Intel i5.
Am I right in my presumption that I will need version 10.5 or 10.6? Sorry about the noob question but Mac is new to me.
Thanks
 
You already have 10.6 so you're all ready! Have you installed an app before? You extract it then drag it to the folder /Applications.
 
Synaesthesia said:
You already have 10.6 so you're all ready! Have you installed an app before? You extract it then drag it to the folder /Applications.
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Thanks for the reply. I am really stupid as I associated the 10.5 and 10.6 with the version of Plex. Will download it later when the net is bit faster.
 
Ok, how do I make it not load when I log in? It's sucking the life out of my battery. It's not showing in the login items for my account and it doesn't seem to have the appropriate options in its own preferences.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Ok, how do I make it not load when I log in? It's sucking the life out of my battery. It's not showing in the login items for my account and it doesn't seem to have the appropriate options in its own preferences.
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Remove the Launchagent. It should be in ~/Users/"Your Home Directory"/Library/LaunchAgents/com.plexapp.mediaserver.plist
 
probably a stupid question but is it possible to stream from my iMac to iPad with PLEX ?
 
wolfsburg said:
probably a stupid question but is it possible to stream from my iMac to iPad with PLEX ?
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Yes it is (possible that is, not yes it is a stupid question ;) ). Plex has an iOS app that runs on both iPad and iPhone that connects to the plex media server on your iMac and will stream all the content to your device. Two very nice things being it does so over wifi as well as 3G (ie you can be anywhere as long as you can connect to your iMac you are good to go - but given this country's crappy upload speeds on DSL I don't see much streaming remotely...), second nice bit is that plex does all the transcoding of your mkv's on the fly (on the iMac, so no heavy lifting for iPad) so no content restrictions.

Also on app store is 3rd party app called Klexi that does same.
 
redcliff said:
Yes it is (possible that is, not yes it is a stupid question ;) ). Plex has an iOS app that runs on both iPad and iPhone that connects to the plex media server on your iMac and will stream all the content to your device. Two very nice things being it does so over wifi as well as 3G (ie you can be anywhere as long as you can connect to your iMac you are good to go - but given this country's crappy upload speeds on DSL I don't see much streaming remotely...), second nice bit is that plex does all the transcoding of your mkv's on the fly (on the iMac, so no heavy lifting for iPad) so no content restrictions.

Also on app store is 3rd party app called Klexi that does same.
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thanks for the helpful reply :) appreciated
 
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