Plexconnect Mac

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Plexconnect Mac

A clever little hack to display Plex content on an Apple TV with no jailbreak required:

Plex is a complete solution for local and online media. If you take the plunge and go down the PlexConnect route, this show demonstrates what you might see on your Apple TV. In addition, although not based on iOS, I give you a quick demo of what Plex looks like on a Roku3 box, just for the lolz;-).

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Essentially, you run a program on your computer which masquerades as the Trailer app. Next, change one setting on the ATV, and you’re up and running. It took me less than 2 minutes to install and get it running. It already uses the new transcoder (which means great support for subtitles), and I suspect it’ll support myPlex soon as well.

There’s a bit of manual configuration to do with this first version of PlexConnect. You can find an official discussion board, check out the FAQ, roadmap, or grab the source code here.

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  • How to install Plex on a Mac. To set Plex up as a basic media server, you'll need: An always-on, Internet-connected Mac running Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks or later, with an Intel Core i3 processor or faster, and 2GB of RAM or more. Most Macs will clear these hurdles easily; my 2012 Mac mini runs Plex like a champ.
  • Plex is a media player system that includes Plex Media Center, the front end media player and an associated media server called the Plex Media Server. The Plex Media Center allows user to manage and play videos, photos, music and podcasts from local or remote computer running the Plex Media server.
  • Complete Apple TV configuration steps in the PlexConnect Install Guide ( steps 3 & 4 in Mac and 4 & 5 in Windows guide) Go to the Apple TV Settings. Select ‘ General ‘ then scroll the cursor down to highlight ‘ Send Data To Apple ‘. Set ‘ Send data to apple ‘ to ‘ No ‘.