Thanks hippojay for all your hard work. Your add-on is awesome.
Please don't forget that when using PleXBMC 2.0 Beta 3 and Beta 4 subtitles downloading only work on Movies, not on TV Shows. In version 1.9.9.4 it was working on both. Please note, that this is not about the capability to get subtitles from the Plex Media Server by using the 'Auto' choice on the 'Subtitles' tab of PleXBMC settings. It's about the capability to download subtitles from Opensubtitles.org while playing media, by relying on the XBMC subtitles add-on.
This is pretty cool if it works as advertised. I was planning to do something similar to PlayOn’s system when I got mine, where the Raspberry hosts VLC and the HTTP interface, which can report back to Plex Media Server so that it can make something similar to PlayOn’s mobile page when dialed into by a phone, and just act as a dumb video terminal from the side, but that might be cooler if it works.
Hi
I’m using the beta version on eden. pms and xbmc on the same machine.
i can see 3 of my installed plex plugins in channels (crackle etc) but the likes of sky, 4od etc are not shown. I can see them when i search plex online but cant start them from there.
I’ve very little experience with Plex so I’m not sure if it is something I’m doing wrong.
Hippojay,
I’m very glad you built this plugin. I’m a long time user of XBMC but everything was local (in home) until a few months ago when I started traveling more. So I installed PMS and really like it but want to stick with the XBMC client as I think it has many benefits.
My Feature Request…
I’d love to see this plugin provide XBMC the ability to have a seamless integration into the existing home menu items - i.e. replace the XBMC sources in sources.xml with Plex Media Server as the backend/sources. So, PleXBMC would not be a separate menu item, it would be like a path redirection for sources.
This would provide a single source back end for all local and remote clients and allow transcoding when necessary (when remote), automatically.
Thoughts?
thx
Livin
In order to integrate menus you need to download hippojay’s modified Quartz skin and choose “go Plex” on the XBMC menu on the home screen.
I'm asking for a solution that will work for all skins, by substituting out the native XBMC sources for PleXBMC sources.
What you are asking is not possible with current plugin system for XBMC I am afraid. I have for a long time thought that plugins should be part of the library search so that streaming sources and file sources should be treated equally for an experience more like boxee. Most XBMC developers seems to be against this though!
One place where XBMC and Plex diverge is the idea that The media player software should be an island on to it's own: making xbmc work even with itself is a huge pain.
It feels like changing the library to include 'channels' is something that fits the server model perfectly. Hopefully the devs agree
It's not possible I'm afraid. Plex provides much more than a simple source for XBMC, and it's integrating these that causes the problems. You *might* be able to use plex as a source through DLNA, but when I last tried it (which was about 3 months ago) it wasn't working correctly.
My plugin tries to be a library replacement for XBMC, which kinda works against XBMC in a lot of ways. XBMC doesn't have this concept of separate sections, it's either movies or TV, and this is why a modified skin is required. XBMC will never support plex natively, so the only optionsleft are PleXBMC or the full plex client.
Sorry
hippojay,
I have several files that contain foreign audio tracks as audio track #1. Within Plexmediaserver preferences you can set the preferred audio track and subtitles which works great on native plex clients (iOS). I was hoping the PlexBMC Audio and subtitle selector option was going to do the same thing but I continue to get the foreign track #1 to play for these files. Is there a way to offer this feature either utilizing the automated way PMS selects the preferred track or perhaps a context menu option to popup before the start of the file asking which of the audio tracks you would like to use?
Thanks
Hi,
Ive not extensively tested the audio selector yet, as the vast majority of my films have Eng. only tracks. It’s something I’m going I do before the next release.
As for an override, you’ve read my mind, as I’m going to put in a audio/sub manual select screen at some point.
None of the plug-ins will load. I have different problems with separate versions, but I haven’t gotten any plug-in videos to play. 2.0b4 works, but the channel screen doesn’t show any content, just stays on the list of channels. 1.9.x version showed all content on the channels, yet no videos played still. Log is below; thanks.
http://pastebin.com/cEab0XYa
You don't think there might be a way to "intercept" XBMC's calls for source information and replace it with the Plex info?
Not in a plugin or script. It would need adding into XBMC code and that's not something I can do. Sorry.
Here’s the log from version 1.9.6.3. Still cannot get any plug-ins to work correctly. Bonjour works in version 2.0b4, apparently, but not at all in 1.9.6.3.
http://pastebin.com/tCdT7VS2
Oh, I’m an idiot. Nevermind my previous question.
— John
The best solution for me has been to use skins that allow for shortcuts on the main menu. I make a shortcut to my plex tv section and my plex movie section (via plexbmc), then clear everything else off the main menu.
Hi hippojay
First of all thank you a lot for this plugin. I used Plex for a long time and there simply wasn’t any sign they finally fix any major issues. Now with XBMC I can get the latest improvements of the project.
The switch worked well but I have some questions:
[list=1][]**Shelf items: **With Quartz Reloaded for PleXBMC I can add shelf items. How can I modify this transparent icon if I add a media folder of Plex?[]Optional Plex filter menus: Can I filter for adventure movies, last added, collections, etc. ? I didn’t find out how I can do this.**Search: **Unfortunately I can’t search. How should this work?[/list]
Thanks
Hi all!
After spending an hour debugging I managed to fix the crashing xbmc subtitle plugin for TV shows.
The fix was really simple, and I’ve created a pull request for it.
Keep up the good work, hippojay! It is much appreciated!
Thanks! I noticed the Pull request and as you say it's a simple fix (typing of the season infolabel)..
Thanks for spending the time to find and fix - i'll make sure I pull this over this weekend, test and push out a new release.
