for example will show you all movies detected by the Plex Media Server (that is, if you have defined a movies section in the Media Server).
Each of the keys shown can be attached to the URL. If you go to you’ll see an XML being returned. To those wanting to know the tech behind it: Plex Media Server sports a built-in web server, listening on port 32400. No worries there: I started Plex/Nine on my MacBook Pro, scrolled through the (remote!) library and was able to resume the episode as where I stopped watching it on the Mini. Just this week my girlfriend was watching the television (on which the Mac Mini is hooked) when I just wanted to resume watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory. This structural change has proven its use a few times by now here at home.
Plex on mac pro movie#
And it gets even better: remote libraries are shown exactly the same way as if they are loaded up on a local plex.app instance: For example, if you’ve watched a movie on the Mini, the MacBook Pro will also mark it as watched. Yes, that’s right: the Plex Media Server allows connection of multiple (remote) clients! Above that this all goes automagically in plex.app: Any plex.app instance on any Mac within your LAN will detect all Media Servers running, load up their libraries and allow you to play back all media found by those Plex Media Servers. The magic part? plex.app from the MacBook Pro will also be able to communicate with the Mini’s Media Server (and vice versa)!
Now, if you have a second Mac (say, a MacBook Pro) with Plex/Nine, that one too will have its own library. The Plex Media Server on the Mini will build up a library that plex.app can use and play back for you. Not convinced yet? Hold on: Imagine you have a Mac Mini running Plex/Nine. Stuff has changed by now )) Enter the magic (note that this footage is from a pre-alpha version. Plex/Nine Sneak Preview, demonstrating the Media Server The thing is pure magic: it’ll detect everything it finds, download the description, fanart, etc.
Plex on mac pro code#
The scanner code which steers the Media Server is, just as in Plex/Eight, really awesome: just tell the app where your movies and where your tv series are located and … that’s it. By this, the Media Center ( plex.app) was “ downgraded” to being a client application which communicates with the Media Server. the code that scans your disks, detects your media and builds up the library) got separated from the Media Center itself. The thing that got me all excited was an architectural change within the app: in Plex/Nine the Media Server (viz. However, this release got me very, very excited. The release was an entire overhaul of the Plex/Eight code and basically had - featurewise - nothing new to offer (heck, even some stuff that worked before didn’t work anymore!). About two months ago Plex/Nine, the most awesome Mac Media Center solution for OS X out there, was released.
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