can i still use the native Trailers app?

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does installing PC eliminate the possibility of using the native Trailers app? i like viewing the trailers, but didn't see this addressed in the PC FAQ.

 

thanks

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If you're AppleTV is connected to the PlexConnect DNS, then it sees your Plex library instead of Trailers. If you switch back your DNS to your router then you see the Trailers app. It's as simple as going in the AppleTV network settings and changing the values. You can't use them both simultaneously, but changing the settings takes less than a minute.

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Another possibility is to use "iMovies" or "Wall Street Journal" as the entry point to the Plex library (instead of trailers).

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Two things to add to the above:

  • you can also use the Apple trailers plugin for Plex so it is within PlexConnect itself
  • PlexConnect has a trailers button on the pre play screen for and movies in your collection (I am still bewildered why this has not yet been implemented within PMS and it works really nicely)
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thanks all. i dont want to lose trailers functionality and dont like the idea of switching DNS values every time i want to use it...so ill try first w/ the trailers plugin for Plex. we're talking about a plugin for the plex media server?

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Yep you add it to the PMS either via the web interface or a client that supports adding channels (not PlexConnect currently).

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