[BozemanLUG] Plex Media Server updated info

[Mike Stone]

That's surprising to see. I've been using a Plex server for the better part
of a year now, and I've been really happy about it. The movies I have are
mostly kids movies as well, but they're mostly things like the Pixar movies
or Disney or the like. My oldest has been infatuated with
Hotel Transylvania lately. I have my own TV shows on there, but I don't use
the Channels, I just host them from my PC. It works great for me. My
youngest was down for his nap on Sunday, and my oldest and I were watching
How to Train Your Dragon on my PC. My youngest woke up and I just paused
the movie, moved everybody to the living room TV, and restarted the movie
there. I do the same thing if I'm watching Dexter on the couch, my wife
falls asleep, and I just pause the show, move to the bedroom, and restart
the show on my tablet. I'm working right now to combine the Plex server
with a Myth setup to automatically record TV from an HD Antenna and make it
instantly available via the Plex server. There's some glitchiness about
that because of how Myth names it's files, but I think I'll have that in
place here soon.

On the flip side, I'd love the PBS fetcher. My kids both love Curious
George.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:29 AM, david <david at eder.us> wrote:

> 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,
>
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