RE: Plex

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Had a little play with it today on the works Mac Mini (a Core 2 Solo
1.66
GHz machine) and it seemed interesting enough - have brought the machine
home with me to have a play. The control of it seems a bit odd though with
menus sliding in from different sides and I couldn't work out what the
keyboard controls were either.

If it will read the movies and music off my network then I *WILL* go in to
Southampton on Sunday and buy one - thing is, would a 1.8GHz one be meaty
enough to do DVD playback at 1080p or would I need to 2GHz one? I'd rather
spend =A3400 than =A3500!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mark McCall
> Sent: 05 September 2008 11:12
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Plex
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> > How does it handle music? Same as XBMC i.e. folders or does it
> properly
> > handle tags?
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> TBH I only use it for Video but I've just had a quick look at music.
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> As with video there are two ways to navigate, either FILE or LIBRARY.
> File is folder and files, while library imports info from the tags it
> seems.  I'm doing an import from my Various Artists folder now to
> investigate further.
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> > Is it stable! No really stable!! I've had it with 'home brew'
'half
> > arsed' 'nearly works' HA apps.
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> The version before this one went with us on hols to Spain.  The
MacBook
> hooked up to the TV and provided us with TV and Movies flawlessly for
> the
> fortnight,
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> As with XBMC it's underconstant developemnt and the 5.14 release was
> quickly followed up with 5.15 as it had broken some stuff.
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> Plex guys have said the following though..."What we=92d like to
do is
> ensure
> two things: that you always have a stable version of Plex to download
> (which gets bug-fixes), and that you have access to more bleeding edge
> versions (with new features). To this end, odd version numbers (0.5.x,
> 0.7.x, 0.9.x) will always be bleeding edge versions, and even version
> numbers (0.6.x, 0.8.x, 1.0.x) will be stable versions."
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> > Skins do look LOVELY! But beauty is skin deep (/me avoids MAC
> references
> > ;-))
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> I've stop evangelising. I've realised it really doesn't matter to me
if
> other can't see it ;)
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> M.
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