Please? Anyone?
@mucki said:
Please? Anyone?
Right now nobody can answer you this. Even if devs knew they can’t talk about it (NDA), but the app store is not live. So the only apps running on the dev kits at the moment are the ones from apple and maybe beta-versions from other devs (using testflight). No apps like netflix, hulu etc.
Thanks again.
Didn’ know that.
If you are looking for testers I have a Dev Kit
I also have a dev kit, and iOS dev experience I’d be happy to lend a hand.
@mrfusiontm said:
Looks like we have a confirmation for search API 
I cant wait till its release. It will be my primary plex client.
@ozguraltun said:
Looks like we have a confirmation for search API
Yeah. Now we just need a more useful plex search to go alongside it. A title search only isn’t that useful.
This at least means I don’t totally rule it out. Though with the shieldtv now supporting dtsma/truehd and variable refresh rates it’s hard to think of anything else as the default assuming plex implements those features.
@Quasar said:
A title search only isn’t that useful
I would assume the search logic is handled by Apple, asking the random questions per their demo (the episode of X that has guest star Y) to return a single title match, which is then fed back through the search api to the 3rd party apps to return matches that they have.
Which isn’t ideal if you’re wanting to search for any movies featuring actor Z in your collection I suppose. That said, where do you see that it’s a title-only search? I don’t have a dev account to view the API docs, I suppose I should sort that out! 
I’m wondering how you guys deal with the transcoding aspect of this. It’s a shame, though not surprising, that the Apple TV is just as limiting for file formats as iOS is. Is all your content converted to an Apple friendly format or are you happy to on-the-fly transcode all your stuff to the Apple TV? Or is this a dealbreaker for you, and you want to direct play your content on your TV via some other means?
I’d love to hear some thoughts on this, since I’m deliberating whether to convert all my content, buy more powerful PMS hardware or stay with the Samsung Plex client.
@daan said:
I’m wondering how you guys deal with the transcoding aspect of this. It’s a shame, though not surprising, that the Apple TV is just as limiting for file formats as iOS is. Is all your content converted to an Apple friendly format or are you happy to on-the-fly transcode all your stuff to the Apple TV? Or is this a dealbreaker for you, and you want to direct play your content on your TV via some other means?I’d love to hear some thoughts on this, since I’m deliberating whether to convert all my content, buy more powerful PMS hardware or stay with the Samsung Plex client.
This is why I am sitting back right now, the codec support is a joke and I really don’t have the desire to convert 2500 movies to make it work with apple. I mean, its not a be all end all, but looks like the Roku 4 is announcing soon, and the FireTV2 actually supports codec’s now so I might try to hold off and see. My Raspberry Pi 2 is awesome and requires near 0 transcoding, my NAS wouldn’t want me to go back haha.
Basically 99% of my media is in H264 so no problem for me and probably for most of the plex users 
Of course, but what about SRT subtitles?
@deepseth said:
I would assume the search logic is handled by Apple, asking the random questions per their >demo (the episode of X that has guest star Y) to return a single title match, which is then fed >back through the search api to the 3rd party apps to return matches that they have.
Which isn’t ideal if you’re wanting to search for any movies featuring actor Z in your collection >I suppose. That said, where do you see that it’s a title-only search? I don’t have a dev account >to view the API docs, I suppose I should sort that out!
I was just going on plexes search. I assumed like androidtv the apple api would pass searches to the app and so it would be limited to the search types plex can handle.
@daan said:
I’m wondering how you guys deal with the transcoding aspect of this. It’s a shame, though not surprising, that the Apple TV is just as limiting for file formats as iOS is. Is all your content converted to an Apple friendly format or are you happy to on-the-fly transcode all your stuff to the Apple TV? Or is this a dealbreaker for you, and you want to direct play your content on your TV via some other means?I’d love to hear some thoughts on this, since I’m deliberating whether to convert all my content, buy more powerful PMS hardware or stay with the Samsung Plex client.
Yup, the lack of MKV and DTS/DTS-MA/TrueHD support is a dealbreaker for me. What really gets me is that I’m just asking for passthrough support of the audio bitstream, it’s not rocket science, and I’m not asking for Apple to license the decoding, just pass it through over HDMI!! All my video is H.264. It would be so easy for them to do this. A real shame.
I’m confused though…would Plex handle the mix down and output? Not the Apple TV.
@brandon.moner said:
I’m confused though…would Plex handle the mix down and output? Not the Apple TV.
Theoretically yes, if you’re willing to live with tanscoding and lack of DTS/DTS-MA. I say theoretically because look at the FireTV, I still cannot get surround sound out of the FireTV (a year later) even with transcoding. The only way to get surround it to have it in perfect MP4 format with AC3.
Just wonder what UI they will use? I hope they choose the PHT UI instead of the new one (Roku, Xbox etc.)
I have that, but you are still dealing with maintaining a computer. In addition, there isn’t proper remote control support once you leave PHT for Netflex or whatever. You really need a keyboard which sort of defeats the purpose.
The NUC setup is very nice though.
@Molgaard said:
it would tick all your boxes withhout having to buy new hardware.
@oriolis said:
Just wonder what UI they will use? I hope they choose the PHT UI instead of the new one (Roku, Xbox etc.)
doubtful considering PHT will be gaining the new unified UI eventually.
