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mreff555
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:42 pm    Post subject: Plex Media Center and wine Reply with quote

This actually isn't a question this is more of a comment.

I have a media center hooked to a TV running windows with both Plex Media server and Plex Media center. I made this switch from boxee reluctantly when they stopped updating and supporting their software.

I wanted to try all the software avialable before deciding on one, and I honestly didn't find one I didn't like. MythTv and XBMC are nice too, but I prefered plex. The downside was that all the other machines in my home are on some flavor of linux and Plex only wrote the server for linux not the client.

I finally tried the client with wine and I have never had an easier wine install. Works perfectly. Just thought I would put it out there in case anyone was thinking about trying it.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you get the Plex server to run on Gentoo?

I'm currently running Mediatomb on the server and XBMC clients. But I'm experiencing XBMC being too unstable. I would prefer a server which did the capture, transcoding, render layouts and icons etc. and simply stream the video/audio to a fairly thin client. Is this possible with Plex? I would probably run Android on the client in that case.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I actually didn't try the server because Gentoo is run on my laptop. I figured there was no point in running a server on it. I was streaming from my server in another room running windows.

Is that something people have had trouble in the past?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At the plex site you can only download plex for Ubuntu Fedora and CentOS. I was wondering if there is an ebuild somewhere?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MegaCoffee overlay has it.
http://gentoo-overlay.megacoffee.net/
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