Basically, plexbmc will create a number of window properties to control the views. some of these contain metadata (titles, etc) and some are to control when stuff is viewed (such as number of servers.etc). These properties are set with the "skin" and "Shelf" function in the addon.
The Quartz V3 skin is probably a good place to start to see what changes have been made to accomodate plexbmc.:
https://github.com/hippojay/quartz/commits/plexbmc
Specifically, this commit is where pecinko added the vast majority of the plexbmc features, and commits after this either fixed or added stuff:
https://github.com/hippojay/quartz/commit/014acd0b3a2b9612ba9fb620655b82aa718685cb
There was a post I put together a few pages back (hmm, maybe back in august/september) where I wrote a lot of this down - i'll try and find it.
Thanks - I've added this back in as a dependency - so other users won't have this issue.
Thanks - I've fixed this now. Problem was that token were not correctly passed for the shelf when used remotely. I've altered this to allow a master server to be defined, which will be used as the source.
Is this addon compatible with XBMC for Android?
I gues it does, but you could try with installing as zip file, you wont break anything with trying that 
I don’t have access to anything android to check - although I can’t see any reason why not. As mentioned above - you could always install it without the custom skin and access it through the video addons in the XBMC menus. Should cause any issues and you can always uninstall it afterwards.
It works very well with the android version of Xbmc, only subtitles are sometimes not showing.
Hello there, I’m very new to plexbmc and streaming to my new raspberry pi. I have managed to stream movies from my pc from plex but they don’t have any sound. What could I be doing wrong? I installed 3.0.3 from the first page in this thread. Any help is greatly appreciated, it’s a great little program by the looks of it!
It’ll be a RPi/XBMC configuration issue. Make sure you have set up the audio correctly, I seem to remember that it enabled DTS/DD recievers by default, disable these and give it another go.
hippojay, do you know if we can set a larger network cache (I see some occasional stuttering, probably related to WiFi on the RPi)?
Only through advancedsettings.xml - not through the XBMC interface
One of the problem is the limit memory on the RPi - if the set the cache high, then you are going to run out of memory (or swap an awful lot).
However, checking the wiki I can see that setting the cache to 0 will write it to disk rather than memory, which may help.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Userdata/advancedsettings.xml#.3Cnetwork.3E
Thanks I will try it :)
I read in earlier post that PleXBMC didn't seem to "respect" the cache setting? What is your experience?
Also; If I set the cache setting to 0 it writes to disk, but then I can't set the *size* of the cache?
Not really pushed my RPi that hard recently - it’s more of a play device at the moment. I’m assuming that writing the cache to disk will simply write as fast as it can and playback will be from the disk based cache. You have to try it and see
Superb, thanks very much. Really appreciate the work you must put into this
PleXBMC V3.0.4 - Frodo
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eylz4dl5hoq6m17/plugin.video.plexbmc-v3.0.4.zip
Another release, which hopefully fixes a few things and doesn’t break too much:
[list]
[] ADD: Some identification updates so you can see it as a client device in myplex website
[] ADD: Ability to select a master server for use with myplex queue and remote shelf (in settings)
[] FIX: Shelf appearance when used remotely.
[] FIX: clear down shelf items correctly
[] FIX: don’t quit if remote server not found
[] FIX: When shelf is turned off, clear down
[] FIX: if all shelves trned off, don’t bother getting shelf data
[] FIX: Picture display and slideshows
[] FIX: myplex queue playback (at least for youtube and iplayer)
[] ADD: support for RTMP streams in PMS
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This has been tested against Frodo RC3 on Windows 7 x64 and Raspbmc.
Quartz V3 for Plexbmc (incorporating Quartz V4)
A tweaked release for plexbmc.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wk9t5s2p1kx4mip/skin.quartzV3.plexbmc-v0.7.2.zip
[list]
[] FIX: Favourites dependancy added in
[] ADD: add-ons renamed channels for plex mode
ADD: Moved myplex and plexonline to the channels menu heading
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Someone asked about Quartz V4 which was mentioned over at xbmc.org. V4 is actually just V3 with frodo compatibility changes - so this release incorporates those changes and is actually V4, but I’ll still call it V3 because the look and feel is exactly the same).
Xbmc major release requires major skin ver bump (for official repo) - hence v4.
:) I knew there'd be a good reason for it.
Do you guys who own Raspberry pis are able to play at 1080p without problems?
Hey all
I just recently installed Raspbmc using the windows installer from raspbmc.com and have been trying to figure out how to stream content from my windows 7 machines to the raspbmc. Came across plex + plexbmc and it seemed like a good fit so I decided to install both. I have both the plex media server installed (added content also) and also plexbmc 2.1 running. It seems that I am able to connect to the media server but plexbmc does not show any of the content I have uploaed. What can be wrong?
Just tested mine right now with a 1080p mkv of the BBC doco Planet Earth. The early parts have some extreme scenes (waterfalls, a billion flamingos) and it's played fine.
You should install the 3.0.4 version a few posts up above and try it again. I've specifically tested this with Raspbmc.
Note that performance (for me) was pretty bad until I did the following:
1. upped the performance profile to "super"
2. Got a faster USB stick (my sd card was only running at 15Mb/sec, whereas my USB stick is around 23Mb/sec - it makes a difference when caching images)
