Plex Media Center
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Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins. - Plex Media Center Website
I was looking for an alternative to Apple's Front Row, which allowed me greater flexibility to deal with a greater diversity of media sources, including those online.
Contents |
Installation
- On the Mac Mini
Disadvantages
- Cannot play iTunes Store-bought videos.
Video Library
DVDs
I am using RipIt to rip DVDs into digital files, which are store on Callies Media External Hard Drive --> Movies folder --> DVDs folder.
Adding DVDs to Videos and Movies
- Go to the Video section,
- Scroll to the bottom of your video sources to the last item, Add Source,
- Browse through the file system and select the folder containing your DVD files,
- Name the source DVDs
- Select the Set Content option
- Set it to Movies and use IMDB as the scraping source
- Turn on the following options:
- Run Automated Scan
- Use Folder Names for Lookups
- Folder Contains a Single Video
- Turn off the following options:
- Scan Recursively
- Hit OK.
Now your DVDs will be added to Videos and Movies
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