[BozemanLUG] Plex Media Server updated info

[david]

I ended up ditching it.  It just didn't work well for me.  Most of my 
movie collection is kids movies that I found at yard sales.  With few 
exceptions it misidentified them as adult movies.  Trying to get it 
accept my names seems glitchy.  It didn't always take.  Using a file 
manager that caches frames works better.  I do have to note that samba 
shares are *much* more stable than nfs.

So I turned to the other killer feature, the tv show library.  Again, I 
was disappointed.  Many shows just toss you to the provider's web page.  
Many don't work at all any more.  And again I was reminded why we 
haven't watched tv (other than PBS) for a couple years now:  there's 
just nothing I want to watch.

Now on to the positive side:  it's open source.

I looked at the pbs plugin to see how they managed to get the programs. 
Within an hour or so, I was able to grab pbs programs on my own.  I'm 
sure in the future if I want to grab a program, I will look to plex.

If anybody wants a pbs fetcher, let me know.  I'll clean it up, add the 
appropriate license from plex, and send it to you.

David.

On 2013-02-12 9:49 pm, Scott Dowdle wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We covered Plex Media Server at that LUG meeting last week.  Since
> then I've done a little bit of extra research.
>
> You may recall I have a Raspberry Pi... the original Model B with
> 256MB.  The updated Model B has 512MB of RAM.  Anyway, the XBMC folks
> recently released the stable version (12) for the Raspberry Pi.  
> There
> are actually three XBMC flavors to pick from.  I picked RaspBMC.
>
> Then I added the PlexBMC add-on for XBMC so I could easily set it up
> to talk to Plex.  It works great.  The Raspberry Pi is actually quite
> a capable streaming media center.  All of my video collection seems 
> to
> work very well including the few 1080p files I have.  The vast
> majority of my collect is 624x352 800kb video / 64kb audio webm 
> format
> files which actually look fairly good on the budget Sanyo 1080p HDTV
> we got for Xmas.
>
> In other news, the Plex folks blogged yesterday about a brand new
> release of their Plex client for Android.
>
> David told me via IRC on Friday that he installed Plex so maybe he
> can comment on how well it worked out for him.
>
> TYL,