[BozemanLUG] Plex Media Server updated info

[david]

I suppose part of my trouble is that I recorded them off VCR tapes 
myself.  I use folder names for the collection (like Veggie Tales, 
Sesame Street, Land Before Time, etc.) and then the filenames are the 
particular episode name.  I've only just recently figured out how to 
record Disney tapes, so most of them are not on my server.  My brother, 
as it turns out, is also using Plex without troubles, but he gets his 
content from various places on the Internet.

Turns out that PBS provides a public api for downloading/streaming 
their content.

I'll clean up the fetcher and post it here probably this weekend.  It 
might need some adjustment for Plex to name it.  I grabbed some Dinosaur 
train and they come in as something like DTN93982.  For my use, I just 
rename them to the episode name.

David.

On 2013-02-13 10:31 am, Mike Stone wrote:
> 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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