Neither does XBMC. You can come back with pleasure. Plex doesn’t have any add ons for these. Just push a button. just look around for "mouse+keyboard+remote", and you'll be golden. A simple interface. Almost anything on Netflix can also be found on usenet. WAN wide area network. This might be over simplistic but surely get the right files in the first place then ‘just’ serve them? So you're not using the Mini as a server? Genesis looks to be a add-on for XBMC, I will investigate. Fire TV Stick is interesting, but I didn't want to be buying more stuff, I was hoping, and surprised to find I was wrong, that the Mac Mini could do it all. So everything can be Direct Played to it and it sorts it out at the player end. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Nobody has made desktop versions of these apps? As in outside the home to your truck. I recently sold my jailbroken Apple TV because I decided to use my Mac Mini as a HTPC (just wasn’t using it as a computer, use my laptop all the time). Sure, XBMC is the same as on the ATV. Video and audio would often un-synch. Generations between models is way too much to go into for this thread, if you are interested I would suggest googling it. Have the programs always on in the background, and add them to your startup items, so they re-open in case the power goes out, avoiding potential wife frustration. Random re-booting. etc. The network is unlikely to be the problem. If you have players capable of direct play you do not need transcoding on the server. Wow, thank you all for your insights. Then I’d expect any mac from the last ten years at the very least to be capable. I even started hoping I could find an emulator to run either iOS or the Apple TV iOS on the Mini. Often my 4k movies only play for 10 minutes then needs to buffer. AVForums.com is owned and operated by M2N Limited, This is some really good information here. But nothing was there for the usual suspects, Netflix and Hulu and HBO and NHL and Amazon. But I thought to myself, “Well, if I’m going to sell one or the other, sell the ATV. And there were a few options, but kinda clunky. What a bummer. Direct connect Apple TV 4K with Mac mini. Nope, it just basically bookmarks a webpage. This website uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. The No. I started looking for solutions. If XBMC doesn't have an addon for something, chances are there's an app for it. Transcoding can take a huge overhead and multiple stream transcoding can be even more taxing, its not just 1 stream is 70% of processor so 2 streams is 140%, 2 streams could be way over 200% depending on what is being transcoded to what device. Check in the dashboard to see if it’s transcoding. Most Macs will clear these hurdles easily; my 2012 Mac mini runs Plex like a champ. Grrrr. I have been using Plex for years both personally and on installs. As far as interacting, the app Apptui is pretty good. Audio streams, wrong containers, wrong codecs FBR vs VBR all can have significant impact on transcoding in Plex. Then I'd buy a couple of old Apple TV's to use as clients and serve from an iTunes library using home sharing. Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. How is it connected now? Its also the reason why I stopped ripping movies and just buy / rent from a streaming service and I buy on BR / 4k everything that I want to watch a lot. If it's online and great quality and streams, like Netflix, I much prefer that route. 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. It shouldn't need a direct connection, both into a switch via ethernet would be the same, while still allowing each to connect to every other device on the network. How to install Plex on a Mac. When I had movies I actually used to rip my movies twice, once for mobile devices - ipads / iphones and one for home streaming, just so that the NAS didnt have to transcode. Can handle any type of local file. For the Usenet option, thank you, but not quite what I wanted. You want it play at least 2 streams to tv's? Also transcoding 4k HEVC files is not trivial, if a Mac has a modern GPU it should be able to use hardware encoder built into the GPU but on CPU alone I'm unsure of what old Mac Mini would be suitable, if no-one here can answer try the Plex server forums. If there are any Mac Mini HTPC owners out there, I'd love to hear from you and what you've learned, any suggestions. With real time trans-coding, there's not"magic" hardware spec. Also check out XBMCTorrent or Stream, and Genesis (with Trakt.tv integration). I use a little $15 remote on a laptop to my TV and it works like a champ! Not quite smooth. I use remotebuddy express (https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/remote-buddy-express/id438093690?mt=12) to switch between eyeTV, plex/ xbmc and basic control with the apple remote. Edited because I missed the XBMC rant the first time. It has 6 Cores and 6 Hyperthreads (like a virtual core). (PM me if it's not something you can post here due to forum rules. i3 and i5 both have 4 cores and the i7 has 6 cores. There just isn’t a user friendly way to control the mini. The 7 in i7 is just the Model number that intel allocated to this type of chip. Your Mac mini will do that. (and it depends on the source and target formats involved.). Copyright © 2000-2020 M2N Limited E. & O.E. Podcast: Reported HDMI 2.1 bugs, Audiolab Amp & LG LED Projector reviews + Best of the Month. It makes the whole experience a bit nicer, since you dont need a mouse/keyboard for most applications. I'm right there with you, as I recently did the same thing. To the mention of a Netflix and Hulu add-on for XBMC, I don't believe there is one. Used to be a Netflix one, and a Hulu one, but I don't think they work anymore. Anything to uncomplicate the switch from Plex to firefox (for NFL gamepass mostly). Leave it on all the time, full screen. Press J to jump to the feed. Would direct connecting my Mac mini to APTV with Ethernet cable fix this problem? The newer generation of NAS are optimised to transcode files so you will suffer with less stuttering. Newznab in particular basically turns all of usenet into on-demand streamable content. That would have been awesome, but nnnnnnope. And Plex is great for the add-ons it has, and for local files. Also the software and sub-systems on a NAS are designed to handle multiple disk access simultaneously where your MacMini may not be optimised for this type of operation, which places additional burden on an already taxed processor. It's just how it is. Install AirServer on the Mac so you can airplay content from iOS apps to your mac. I think you're likely to be looking at a late 2014 with as much RAM as possible. Instead of feeling like I may 'get buy with it' vs using GPM, the opposite is happening: "GPM was never this good." I feel that ultimately this is a much more elegant solution than trying to have a big box at the back-end trying to transcode multiple streams potentially using different codecs. However, until then, I’m happy to have found Apptui. You could use your mac mini running plex server for your local content and then get one of these: (it has a plex client as well as netflix/amazon/hulu/etc. The benefit of the ATV was that the OS was just for watching TV and the few apps on it. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/remote-buddy-express/id438093690?mt=12. If this is for streaming to TV's, the last thing you want to be doing is transcoding it. Transcoding of 4k can eat up a lot of processing power, it may be that despite the bitrate, the server can't transcode fast enough to keep playback smooth. Seems like overkill and a bit of a big “remote”. This makes the whole thing seem like it may be possible. Netflix and Hulu is where a computer sucks. So you need a Plex server to serve 2 local and one WAN stream? The one gem I found was Apptui. how does that fix any of his issues with ease of use? I'll be interested in the quality of the recording, the ease of finding what I want, and I've read something about codex spam, I'll have to look into that too. Having said that, it was mentioned that... " Newznab in particular basically turns all of usenet into on-demand streamable content" That seems interesting, I'll have to check it out. XBMC can receive airplay content, but I've found it flakey. 1 Home Entertainment Tech Community & Resource. I have a spare system that I can use for the server, but I'm wondering if a) the hardware is suitable for what I want and b) what software requirements I'll need. And I was disheartened. Knowing that my wife was going to hate having to learn a whole new way to watch TV. Makes apps out of webpages. I don't want to have to be downloading and managing files that way. For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. to at least help on the remote end, there's dozens of things you can use! Thank you all again. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Grrr. If you have players capable of direct play you do not need transcoding on the server. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. So when I came to accept that my easy user interface was gone, and I’m handcuffed to the web pages instead, I tried to find a way to at least navigate the Mini. As I'm watching Hulu right now, the video seems a bit jumpy. But I think it is getting a little long in the tooth. Powered by Xenforo, Hosted by Nimbus Hosting, Original design Critical Media Ltd. Certain types of files on the local HD (plugged into the router) would always quit. The Plex Media Server is smart software that makes playing Movies, TV Shows and other media on your computer simple. I've never matched the ease of on-demand viewing on the ATV, but XBMC + usenet comes close. Streamlined. It's the same price point, and you get basically the same content. that is adequate for the job, or I guess more correctly we've yet to see anything that exceeds the requirements (whatever number of streams.) Yes the liklihood is that your MacMini is transcoding for the Firestick but Direct Playing to the Shield. Get an IR remote, and check the 'allow XBMC/Plex to open on key press' option in the XMBC/Plex settings, so that one click on the remote opens up XBMC full screen. I would still love to see a desktop versions of pretty much everything on the Apple TV, or an iOS ATVOS emulator for the Mac. These suggestions don't 'solve' the HBO/Netflix/NHL/Hulu problems, but sidestep them. I turned off the transcoding option and it seems to be better...it’s weird cuz some 4k movies with even higher bitrate work flawlessly and then last night it was crap. What could go wrong?”. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I had figured that with a full computer, there must be tons of choices on how to play Netflix and Hulu and HBO and NHL and Amazon in the same friendly way as the ATV. It’s getting old and slow. It would be a good idea to see where your bottleneck is. And I have a bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. I'm looking for a bit of advice on setting up a plex server at home, with the intent being able to spream 4k hdr movies to my new tv running LG WebOS. It more the GUI for Netflix and Hulu and Amazon is what I miss the most. I hope I can find something that will work out, and I'll report back. What's the exact configuration (wired/wifi/WAN) of the paths to the players? If you are streaming WAN, bear in mind most SOHO ISP links are substantially slower in the upload direction than the download direction.
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