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DESCRIPTION
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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.8.1:
- FIX: Idle CPU reduced greatly. On an iMac we went from 24% to around 9.8%. On a 1.83GHz Mini we went from 38% to 16%. Al Gore is happy.
- FIX: Hang when playing WebKit content after 5.1 content.
- FIX: A few issues causing App Store/plug-ins to disappear.
- FIX: Hang on exit (when Media Server Scrobbler was enabled).
- FIX: Cannot play/browse AC/DC (and other artists with funky names) from the iTunes library. Heavy metal fans rejoice!
- FIX: Scrobbling plays of AAC files to the Plex Media Server wasn’t working.
- FIX: Crash on start when Plex Media Server was run on a computer without Plex.
- FIX: Intermittant lack of audio when starting 5.1 videos when background music/themes was enabled. (We also disabling the fading, which was not helping.)
- FIX: VC-1 apparent regression in ffmpeg 0.5 which caused much higher CPU usage and related problems. Ryan and I resolved it by reverting to an earlier version of the codec. Thanks to Peter for bringing the issue to our attention, and to Aaron for help in tracking it down.
- FIX: View Slideshow context menu items weren’t enabled for top-level photo plug-ins.
- FIX: Jay and Isaac tweaked the default settings for IMDB to make sure the best quality posters are returned.
- FIX: James made some tweak to Now Playing. The flip time is now configurable in the Advanced Settings Cocoa UI (Make it flip every 5 seconds! Make your child and/or pets motion sick!) Additionally, the background is more in line with look of MediaStream.
- FIX: We’ve defaulted the automatic audio stream selection to false, as we think that default makes more sense (Thanks, Isaac! You can turn it off manually yourself in the video player preferences.) We also fixed an issue with the auto-selection of subtitles if the auto-selection of audio streams was disabled.
- FIX: We pulled the latest libdcr code which decodes RAW images (it fixes some pink-hue issues with newer cameras).
- FIX: As forum user “someone” reported, the German strings were botched in the previous version.
- FIX: Sébastien Vaast kindly send us updates to the French translation.
- FIX: We fixed a possible crash with Javascript seek bars in site profiles.
- FIX: Relative coordinates on “thumb” seek-bars were broken, many thanks to Robert Nio for reporting the issue and testing the fix.
- FIX: We pulled the latest XBMC UPnP code, in hopes this would help with some problems reported on the forums. We also pulled a fix related to the sendkey HTTP-API command, and a few other fixes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Plex User Reviews (36 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 4 2009 |
MACGEEK19 This app is awesome! A super slick interface, awesome apps (Hulu, NBC etc) and its free. The best media server app available bar none.
(Version 0.8.1) | |
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 | May 11 2009 |
STORMCHILD Still no fix for crash-on-quit behavior? This has been happening since the very first time I installed Plex, many versions ago. I've deleted the preferences and started fresh, but nothing helps. I have literally never seen this program exit cleanly. It has crashed 100% of the time when I've tried to quit, from day one. This was on a brand new MacBook Pro bought less than two months ago, and this behavior was happening within the first two days I had the new machine, before I had even installed or used much of anything else on it. 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.
(Version 0.8) | |
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 | May 11 2009 |
E_COMMERCE An update to my previous comments. On the one hand, little has changed - initial setup and configuration is still decidedly arcane, and the updates are still the whole enchilada - 100MB per update now. However, they are coming at a much less furious rate, which helps. Don't let this be too discouraging. Once set up and configured it is an excellent, excellent media center, and has displaced Front Row on my home theater Mac Mini. It plays anything you throw at it, and launches in a fraction the time of Front Row. The user interface during playback is much more feature rich, and much more suited to HD displays. I really, really want to see this succeed.
(Version 0.8) | |
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| Apr 7 2009 |
MAC5 Decidedly complicated to both setup and use. It wasn't until a recent update that my Logitech mouse would work with this application. A nice concept, but needs a great deal more work before its a user friendly and works without too much effort.
(Version 0.7.14) | |
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| Mar 10 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Tends to be crashy, and also a lot of sizzle and not much steak. It's a complete pain to set up and configure, and nearly-daily 70MB updates are onerous. I'm not saying don't update it - in fact, please update the UI some - but learn to send out patches, not these HUGE full-on "updates".
(Version 0.7.13) | |
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| Mar 4 2009 |
PJOT Looks great but I couldn't get it running (Leopard 10.5.6). After opening for the first time it freezes already at the box 'check for updates at startup'. Had to force quit it. Started it again, it asked in a separate window to check for updates, the main window appeared and froze. Uninstalled it, installed it again but alas, exactly the same problem. Uninstalled and threw it away. | |
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| Mar 4 2009 |
MIšO This thing looks pretty, but that's all it does. Every time there is a new version I, install it, try it a few times a throw it out. It has to resolve aliases, absolutely has to. Or at least symlinks. I store all my media on a few NAS boxes in the garage. Even if I put the locations in manually the next restart it forgets 3/4's of them and they need to be put in again. And then there are the other, ehm, quirks...
(Version 0.7.12) | |
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| Feb 6 2009 |
PALADINO It crashed on me, then after relaunch I couldn't access the various settings. Arrow keys didn't work. Tried to exit the app but could find no way to do so. Pressed escape key on my Macbook Pro but no response. Finally had to do a Force shutdown of my machine to get out of Plex. 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
(Version 0.7.6) | |
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| Feb 27 2009 |
2SHAE Why are you using 10.5.4 instead of the latest 10.5.6 ? o_0
(Version 0.7.10) | |
| Dec 24 2008 |
AROAROS This app is wonderful, very active, the author is very helpful. The finish is a professional app that work flawless and very softly. The Media Center app of the year and I'm sure the 2009 winner.
(Version 0.7.2) | |
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| Dec 24 2008 |
FALKNERX this app is good, but check out Boxee, which is already impressive as an alpha
(Version 0.7.3) | |
| Nov 26 2008 |
STELLAROLA Plex Seven has been a much easier experience over previous builds. All my libraries have scanned and it automagically finds thumbnails and fanart for the background. Great work!
(Version 0.7.1) | |
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