Nevermind, worked after re-installing Quartz for Plex. Thanks.
**hippojay**, thousand thanks for picking up your work on PleXBMC again! :D
Beta 2 is working great so far.
What changes must be made to XBMC to solve the double confirmation-dialog?
There is a thread over on xbmc where I'm discussing this. With the help of Spiff I've created a patch that fixes this, but I'm going to look to see if we can improve the resume functionality as well. This would avoid the pause/seek/unpause workaround I use.
It's the mid-2011 Mac Mini. I am only using XBMC under Windows 7 Home Premium on the Mini. And yes, bitstreaming works wonderfully with Frodo 12.0 Alpha (June 5, 2012 build).
Very nice congrats! Intel or nvidia graphics in your mini?
May go with this (what your running) versus a wintel HTPC for XBMC, and this great plugin.
OK, I have pushed Quartz Reloaded alpha to GitHub - [link](https://github.com/pecinko/quartz.reloaded)
Tried to play a bit with plexbmc links yesterday and had some problems with beta release reporting bonjour missing on my OS X 10.7.4 notebook :)
Take a look and if you find Quartz Reloaded worth while we'll cook up support afterwards.
EDIT:
Forgot 1 thing - I'm using multi image control for fan arts and plexbmc (or XBMC? )seems to have a bit of a problem with it. In XBMC it works in a way that it pulls random images from an folder (hence multi) , but if a folder is empty or if only 1 image is found it will show it. I'm using it for fanart, but if fanart image is empty control does a fallback to a user defined folder from where it will fetch fallback image. This works in XBMC without a glitch but comes with black background with plexbmc. Thoughts?
Intel graphics. And I do not see any motion issues like there was under Lion OSX (w/ 23.976 fps). For $40 I upgraded the memory from 2GB to 8GB (purchased on Amazon). Windows 7 allocates 1.5GB of RAM to video memory, whereas OSX only allocated 512MB. With untouched Blu-ray video and 7.1 HD audio (TrueHD, LPCM, or DTS-HD) the CPU usage stays around 30-35% with hardware acceleration DISABLED. It's very impressive. I just use MakeMKV to rip my Blu-rays to MKV and add them to Plex. Hopefully the Plex devs will finally add HD audio bitstreaming to the Windows version of Plex.
Love the update hippo,
Got beta version 2 up and running brilliantly on raspbmc rc3 on my $35 raspberry pi’s…
Just last week I came across the thread on xbmc forums and was saddened to see the project was supposedly dead.
Myplex integration is great! Now my grandparents can stream anything from my movie/tv catalogue. Your a legend!
Thank you, hippo - excited to see an update just in time for the raspberries!
Plexbmc is an inspiration, and the work definitely shows 
I’m excited to test this tomorrow, and have a couple of questions that you can completely ignore if they’re unreasonable
- Is it possible to get XBMC Library integration, like IceLibrary?
It would mean all sorts of bonuses, like not having to use (or code) a custom skin, and my personal favourite: it would mean Plex + PseudoTV!
- Does anyone feel called to create an iOS-like linux client, without XBMC? Maybe with the help of OpenELEC, or something similar? I’d love to just have a RasPlex connected to every TV I can get my hands on; find the right remote (and now with MyPlex integration!!), and it’s a Plexee Box for <$100.
On the Pi, what's the section load speed like? This is the one area that I'm unhappy with, as large sections take a while to load.
Ive tried to optimise it, but can't get it to run any quicker. I
Ya, an embarrassing omission when moving some code around. I moved it to a place where it doesn't work!!! Fixed it now though for next release.
Plex API should be capable of sending the whole section's content list in 1 request. Then you'll just have to put the list in a local cache/database(and eventually, refresh the list of the current folder in background).
If I understand well how it's working actually, you have to make 1 request for each directory.
Plex teams should consider reworking this
Its not the request to the PMS, but the processing of the XML into xbmc items that takes the time.
I’ve considered caching the objects to speed it up, but it then I need to think about realisation and expiry. Plus it’s the internal xbmc routine that takes the time. And background isn’t something I can go with a plugin easily unfortunately.
I’m talking of sections with > 600 items - other stuff loads fairly quick.
Whilst the load is not speedy, it’s bearable.
I’ve included load time comparisons from my iOS devices.
Movies: 493 titles
Pi - 11 seconds
iPhone 3GS - 8 seconds
iPad 3 - 3 seconds
Tv series: 112 shows
Pi - 4 seconds
iPhone 3GS - 3 seconds
iPad 3 - 1 second
Music: 1115 artists
Pi -14 seconds
iPhone 3GS - 10 seconds
iPad 3 - 4 seconds
Any chance you can implement the ‘on deck’ feature from the client, it’s brilliant.
Love how it keeps track of where I’m up to in each tv series I’m watching.
Noticed you mentioned your hadn't used the plex client recently, if that's still the case I recommend you have a look.
I actually prefer it to xbmc, but no pc in the living room is of a higher priority.
Maybe hippojay could look at the trakt.tv Plex addons, they probably give some insight on how they scrape the server for media.
They do it the same way I do it :-) I just have to gather more data and also plug it back into xbmc. I think the limiting factor is the speed at which xbmc allows me to add items on the screen.
Well, I have some experience editing the IceLibrary addon, so feel free to ask for help if you're considering trying their approach to adding remote content to the XBMC library. It'd allow me to use the Trakt.tv addon to sync movies and TV shows to the website, as well as it'd allow you to forgo the specific skin versions for pleXBMC.
+1
Another thing this would enable is using the iOS and android remotes to browse content (which, due to prioritization of text before pictures, actually lists media faster than browsing on screen)
You mean a PMS->xbmc sync process where the PMS data is replicated into xbmc but the media and art remain on the plex media server?
There was some work waaay back on a xbmc nfo exporter, but nothing tha would sync periodically. Given tha xbmc has JSON it might be easier to produce a separate script that exports the items periodically or is triggered by a library rescan. Seems a lot of work though, would it not be easier to just let xbmc manage the library (or are you after some plex centralised/transcoding action)?
If I remember correctly, haven't worked with it since that whole MegaUpload debacle, but IceLibrary worked by scraping from the external server (the IceLibrary website), using BeautifulSoup, the Movies and TV Shows list and you'd select on the client plugin which you wanted to appear on your local library. It would then create the folders with the streaming file and let XBMC handle the rest, such as downloading fanart and logos.
So, their approach was that you'd launch the stream locally through your library, which displayed as a local file would display, and when the stream was called their methods would take over and set the stream using MegaUpload. Their placeholder was a ".strm" file with the name of the movie or the TV show, and it was recognized as any mkv or avi file, fooling the library into thinking it was like any ther local file.
It worked for Dharma for TV Shows, but you had to recompile XBMC if you wanted it to work with movies. However, I think it was changed for Eden and it now works for either type.
