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Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.
Organize all of your media, from local drives, network shares, optical media and the Internet, in
Organize all of your media, from local drives, network shares, optical media and the Internet, in
What's New
Version 0.9.5.3:
- NEW: Greatly enhanced media analysis. When I asked Max how to describe the changes, he said “it’s awesome”. He’s a man of few words, but I’ll try to explain a bit more. The media server analyzes your media for a few reasons: In order to extract a thumbnail, and to glean details about the exact format and codecs in the file. The latter is critical in order for players to determine what files they can consume without transcoding, which can be Direct Streamed (remuxed), and which need to be transcoded. The world of media is incredibly complicated. A simple MP4 file be optimized for streaming, or not; it can have 64-bit chunk offsets, or not; the H.264 inside it can be a myriad of different profiles, levels and have different features enabled. We now capture all of that information, and it will have many uses, not least in making the DLNA server component truly world-class. One thing you’ll notice is that when you scan in this version, the scan will take a lot longer the first time on an existing section, because the scanner is upgrading the analysis for all your files. Be patient, kick back, open a beer, and let it do its job!
- NEW: The default on new installs is to empty trash automatically. This was confusing too many new users, and I think it was the wrong default, not to mention a confusing UX around learning how and why to empty the trash.
- NEW: Support for non-DRM iTunes videos and iTunes U.
- FIX: Improved segmented MPEGTS output (fixes Roku artifacts). And there was much rejoicing!!
- FIX: TV shows didn’t load metadata properly if the episode had a date but no index (e.g. personal media).
- FIX: Individual TV episodes can now have their content rating set by the agents.
- FIX: A few random crashes observed in the wild.
- FIX: (Linux) From scratch installs now work again (e.g. Synology).
- FIX: Crash when transcoding (e.g. to LG MediaLink).
- FIX: Status text while scanning didn’t show up in the OS X media manager.
- FIX: Transcoder recognizes some MPEG2 files correctly now.
- FIX: Return the HTTP body from plug-ins even when there’s a failure.
- FIX: Audio transcoder wasn’t working for remote clients.
- FIX: Regression in the transcoder leading to green/artifacts on iOS/ATV2.
- FIX: Many fixes for SRT “burning” during transcode, including subtitles not showing up at all or only partially.
- FIX: (Linux) Ensure we kill orphaned DLNA servers.
- FIX: (Linux) DLNA server occasionally wasn’t able to start, unable to obtain IP.
- FIX: Don’t identify MP4 chapter tracks as subtitles.
- FIX: Durations in MP3 files should be analyzed much more accurately.
- NEW: Developer ID-signed for Mountain Lion.
- NEW: (OS X) Support for Crystal HD
- NEW: Allow forcing transcoding on local networks (good for older clients).
- FIX: Fix a crash when playing video over VNC.
- FIX: Apple remote keymap was incorrect in Now Playing window.
- FIX: (OS X) Many fixes for optical/HDMI audio output.
- FIX: (OS X) Transcoding 5.1 AAC and DTS to AC3 works now.
- FIX: When selecting multi-item videos, it always played the first item.
- FIX: Occasional flicker when starting videos.
- FIX: Respect the “noCache” attribute, fixes some channels not refreshing properly (e.g. Netflix).
- FIX: (OS X) RTMP wasn’t enabled properly.
- FIX: When playing some WebKit channels, it improperly transcoded, resulting in no audio.
- FIX: Saved cookies were making some channels fail to play (e.g. YouTube).
- FIX: Skinning issue that could make multiple thumbs appear for some content.
- FIX: Only show watched state (and context menu items) for library content.
- FIX: Changing display blanking settings required exiting and re-entering full screen to take effect.
- FIX: Plex.ToggleDisplayBlanking keymap function restored.
- FIX: Plex.RunScript and Plex.RunAppleScript work again (Mac OS only).
- FIX: (OS X) Plex.RunScript handles files with the .scpt extension as well as .applescript.
Version 0.9.5.3:
- NEW: Greatly enhanced media analysis. When I asked Max how to describe the changes, he said “it’s awesome”. He’s a man of few words, but I’ll try to explain a bit more. The media server analyzes your media for a few reasons: In order to extract a thumbnail, and to glean details about the exact format and codecs in the file. The latter is critical in order for players more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.3 or later
Plex User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Version Downloads:2,079 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:18 May 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.
Organize all of your media, from local drives, network shares, optical media and the Internet, in one easy to use application. Plex supports a wide range of video, audio and image formats without having to install any additional third party plug-ins or programs. Plex will make the days of trying to find the right plug-in to work with the right application a thing of the past.
Organize all of your media, from local drives, network shares, optical media and the Internet, in one easy to use application. Plex supports a wide range of video, audio and image formats without having to install any additional third party plug-ins or programs. Plex will make the days of trying to find the right plug-in to work with the right application a thing of the past.
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THEE:LEE reviewed on 22 May 2012
Other people may disagree but frontrow interface was much better on the eye IMO
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OsloX reviewed on 12 Mar 2012
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plex-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/0.9.5.2/Plex-Media-Server-0.9.5.2.zip
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At least this is my observation after a quick test install..??
This might not be a problem for some users, for me its a show stopper.
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Snowlprd reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
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JCH2 reviewed on 26 Nov 2011
It's regular expression access to identifying files is rather limited. I was able to improve on that a bit by hacking it. That I had to do so was a minus. And it's lost access to NetFlix and other online entertainment even though it claims the plugins are live and running. More people at the support forums are facing this issue and response from developers has been nil so far.
In the area of file hierarchy, there was no way I was going to start messing with my iTunes file system because it couldn't recognize there was more than one album in more than one subdirectory... like most people (and iTunes) organize their files. Same problem existed in its native acess as well as the alternative iTunes plugin (though the plugin did a tiny bit better).
It one MAJOR upside is that the interface is navigable from first launch, unlike such as Boxee, XMBC, etc. But that's not enough. And as time has passed, looking back and Plex's history and changes, it has had a long struggle trying to keep up. In part, there's some development paradigm problems that are holding it back, and some of those should be evident by comments herein.
I'll keep watching it, for it does "have promise", but it seems to have been in that same state for a long while now.
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Lemming reviewed on 17 Nov 2011
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It's showing promise just not there yet.
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http://elan.plexapp.com/2011/10/31/state-of-the-release-2/
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And the app goes not off from the semi-sleep mode. The screen turns fade-transparent and this get's no back to the normal colors after starting using it, for like 5-7 minutes. Then, it does get's off, the program hangs up and quits unexpectedly right after the colors go back.
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Bottom line: Plex is just not very well made software. I really wish it would work reliably, as it's a nice idea and clearly better than what Front Row has devolved into, but so far it just hasn't been worth the trouble.
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Have you tried contacting the developers and sending them a bug report? Complaining about it "not being well-made" is one thing, but actually trying to work the developers to solve your problems is a much better solution.
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I wish Plex worked for me; looks quite intriguing, well designed and esthetically appealing.
I trashed the app but will check it out again once a newer version appears.
Macbook Pro Intel core 2 duo, OS 10.5.4
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Most disappointing. When will a decent upnp client for Mac appear??
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::mile:: rated on 18 May 2012
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jordanwar rated on 18 May 2012
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rleebond rated on 23 Mar 2012
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Thez rated on 18 Mar 2012
David2stone rated on 18 Mar 2012
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Jetfiredx rated on 12 Mar 2012
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peterssthomas rated on 10 Mar 2012
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Macbond rated on 03 Mar 2012
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TripHHH rated on 05 Feb 2012
Luc VN rated on 22 Jan 2012