With the recent PlexConnect hack, we now have a way to stream videos to an Apple TV. While this is nice, it still requires a PC running to serve these videos and channels. It would be nice to create a "Plex Lite" if you will that runs on open routers (such as DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Tomato) that simply serves up videos without any transcoding. As long as it presents the proper XML format for the Apple TV trailers app, it should theoretically be very possible to serve Apple compliant M4V files without transcoding. There already are DLNA servers that run on those routers, such as miniDLNA. "Plex Lite" could essentially bolt onto something like miniDLNA and serve up M4V files with the proper XML format that is handled by PlexConnect. I for one would be interested in something like this, since it would allow me to watch simple movies on an Apple TV that I have stored on a router NAS without the need for a fully functioning PC running to do so. Curious if anyone was given something like this consideration.
PlexConnect already runs or WRT etc.
If you are speaking about a PMS lite then this is probably the wrong forum.
Also PMS already runs on a number of different NAS devices but it may be stretching it a bit to run on something that limited.
PlexConnect already runs or WRT etc.
If you are speaking about a PMS lite then this is probably the wrong forum.
Also PMS already runs on a number of different NAS devices but it may be stretching it a bit to run on something that limited.
You must not have understood my post. PlexConnect is combination of both the DNS re-routing (requests to trailers.apple.com being re-routed to the PMS) and the XML markup necessary to be rendered on the Apple TV. The re-routing can easily be run on open routers and is detailed in tutorials here. The XML markup scripts exist on the same PC running PMS. What I'm suggesting is running the XML markup scripts and some lightweight version of PMS (or even a simple lightweight DLNA server such as miniDLNA that is already capable of running on routers) on DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Tomato. There would be no transcoding, and again can even use miniDLNA or something, so it would not be a stretch to run on an open router. This is very much a topic related to PlexConnect being bolted on to miniDLNA (or a lightweight simple DLNA server version of PMS if you want to call it that) for the purpose of streaming Apple compliant M4V files from a router NAS to your Apple TV.
I understood what you meant but it is not in scope or vision of the project, PlexConnect is designed to act as a client for a PMS.
If you want to make a pull request with the option you outlined feel free.
I guess I found the topic to be most appropriate here, since it is Apple TV specific and would require all the pieces that make PlexConnect a possibility. The difference exists on the PMS side. Bringing this up in the general PMS forum would be of little interest to anyone, since it is very much 100% related to and dependent on PlexConnect. I will certainly take a look at the source.
I admit it is an interesting idea, I just think it is very much an edge case scenario.
That said I would be interested to see if you come up with anything 
