The only reason Iam playing with PleXBMC on my ATV2 is that my server can take it chill while streaming the content. Because the ATV2 is handling the raw material.
On the normal Plex app for ATV2 the server need to transcode the content and to transcode 720p or 1080p, and it takes quite much on the CPU to do it, and you loose some quality.
i’m having an issue with the ATV2, first i install the repo, and it shows no files. i’m using the nov 20th nightly, is there one we know works? also, if i play a 1080p mkv, it crashes the entire atv2, 720p works just fine. not sure why this is happening. xbmc right now is a better app on atv2 than plex because i don’t have to transcode, but plexbmc isn’t work for me.
any thoughts?
oh yea, since the repo doesn’t show any available stuff to install, like skins and whatnot. why is this? how can i get them? whats up doc?
Hi!
I have a problem with setting of layout in all libs.
I usually select mediainfo or mediainfo2 as default layout for my TVSeries and Movies. In Plexbmc, it forgets this setting on every start and sets it back to list.
Is there a new version soon and will it support myplex?
How to get Hippo out of the rabbit hole? 
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@hippojay… http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/34300-plex-linux-pre-pre-pre-alpha/
Interested in helping on the Plex for Linux project? Looking to create a proper Linux client Not that PleXBMC isn’t super awesome but you would probably have some useful feedback for us.
I understand you already covered somehow this problem and no easy solutions exist but I'm having some difficulties in making my PleXBMC work.
My configuration is the following:
unRAID server (a sort of NAS box but much more powerful)
PMS installed on unRAID server
Now my problem is the following. I want to use smb for playing my media onto my Windows HTPC.
All my media resides on unRAID accessible from folders like: movie, music, tvshows etc.
But, what PMS has recorded is the local full path that is, e.g.: \mnt\user\movies\
When accessed by PleXBMC that path is not working because the prefix \mnt\user is not visible (it's the mounting directory not the share directory)
So, instead of having something like:
\ ower\movies
\ ower vshows
I get
\ ower\mnt\user\movies
\ ower\mnt\user vshows
Is there a way to strip that \mnt\user off?
Any particular reason that you need to use smb? I have the same setup with an unRAID server running PMS and I just let PMS stream to the windows HTPC PleXBMC client. I'm on a gig network and so far I've not had any network speed problems.
I’m using an external player launched by a bat file that mounts .iso files when necessary and from the first tests I made, when over stream, the thing didn’t work. I could try again, maybe I made same mistakes.
Anyway, I’m not using the internal player to watch my movies.
Ok I see. Currently PMS cannot stream iso or any multi-session media, so to make it work you will need to solve the path problem or rip them.
I've nearly finished ripping my dvd collection to mkv, at the beginning it looked like an impossible task, but a couple of months on its nearly done. :D
I thought of that in the past but converting my DVDs into MKVs isn’t the solution I’m hoping for.
Subtitles would be a problem. I’m not English mother tongue, so most of my DVDs are Italian. Even tough I understand it well and try to watch as many movies in English as possible at times some quotes are difficult to catch without subtitles. Moreover not everybody in my family knows English as I do. So I would like to maintain flexibility and I know there are problems in handling subtitles, at least they aren’t as quick to convert as the rest of the media.
So I would prefer to keep them as they are. I’m just asking for an option that gives me the possibility of not just rewriting the path (NAS Root Path) but manipulating it a bit, something like NAS Exclusion Path. I know, it sounds silly.
I totally understand that keeping it in ISO form is desirable. I've also ripped the subtitles from my dvds and if you use handbrake it's not that difficult. Another option is to run the windows version of PMS on your HTPC if it is powerful enough to run PMS as well as the client.
Well, moving PMS to the HTPC would defeat the whole purpose of having a centralized PMS. I’m using it also for serving my Mac, iOS devices and Windows PCs…
So that would mean to manage a mirrored PMS just to make PleXBMC work. With all the due respect, I don’t see it as a neat solution, but I get your point.
If the HTPC is powerful enough then just let it be the only PMS and serve all other devices. If not then only add ISO movies to the PMS on the HTPC and use it to serve to all the windows clients for ISO format content. No need to mirror the whole library.
I agree its not the ideal solution, but it was a quick solution that I used before I ripped to mkvs, as I had all my ISOs in a separate folder.
Well, I think I just solved the problem. All this talking helped me out a lot!!
I will simply create symlinks on the unRAID / PMS server disk root in order to “simulate” what clients see when they access the server, e.g.:
ln -s /mnt/user/movies /movies
And then I will remap all the paths that PMS libraries make use of as sources to these symlinks :D
Is quartz 2 for plexbmc availible? where?! I love the look of it! I assume that the media panels cant show "on deck" listings from the PMS without an update to plexbmc?
/AG
Actually they can. This is Quartz 2 running on Plex Laika :) 90% done, 10% to go but I'm having a break ATM so it will take a while until it's finished.
Great news! Don´t make that break to long :)
/AG
I’m currently using plexbmc on a windows htpc as plex has many issues with my .iso files.
Plexbmc plays all my video files very well indeed except for my music files. The plex media server (latest version)is on a
mac mini and includes my music library. The music will stream to all my other plex clients I use with the exception of Plexbmc.
In plexbmc I can see my library, artists and albums etc but when I try and play them nothing happens.
Any way I can get this working? Is this a known issue?
Two issues:
I noticed that any media path accessed through the smb protocol and containing “funny” characters gets encoded as it were accessed through the HTTP protocol. Obviously the path becomes not valid anymore and I’m unable to play the associated media. Am I doing something wrong? Is that a bug?
e.g.
15:49:25 T:3656 NOTICE: CExternalPlayer::OpenFile: smb://192.168.178.2/movies/1984/Nausica%C3%A4 of the Valley of the Wind (1984)/NVWONND1_tt0087544.iso<br />
15:49:25 T:3056 NOTICE: CExternalPlayer::Process: Player : C:\Users\DIGN\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\mount-tmt.bat<br />
15:49:25 T:3056 NOTICE: CExternalPlayer::Process: File : \\192.168.178.2\movies\1984\Nausica%C3%A4 of the Valley of the Wind (1984)\NVWONND1_tt0087544.iso
The real path is the following:
\\192.168.178.2\movies\1984\Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
My second problem is related to how PleXBMC is parsed inside XBMC. I installed one of the XBMC latest build, installed PleXMBC pre-EDEN4 plugin, enabled the Aeon Plex skin and the Plex menus. All of my libraries present a black screen when hovered, no nice fanarts for each of those voices. Is that the default behavior? Can't backgrounds rotate according to what Plex already has as movie/music/tvshows fanarts?
