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Plex 0.8.3 brings on the Snow Leopard love fest

by Aron Trimble Oct 28th 2009 at 3:30PM

If you're rocking the Mac mini -- or any other Mac, for that matter --as a media center, then chances are pretty good that you've had some tough times following the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Anticipating such problems, some of us held off upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6. Now the wait is over.

Shortly after Elan discussed the details of a workaround for Plex, a new release has been let loose on the web. Plex 0.8.3 was announced earlier this week with improved Snow Leopard compatibility as well as several other fixes and new features. For users of Apple's latest OS, the biggest new feature is probably the integration of the Candelair driver which returns Plex to the days of Apple Remote compatibility.

Other notable improvements and new features include:
  • Fixed an issue with MKV playback over the network
  • A problem with the media server crashing has been fixed
  • Video playlists work again
  • A new feature where downmixing 5.1 surround audio to 2.0 stereo audio has multiple dynamic range compression options. In other words, surround audio will not be as "quiet" when played through headphones.
  • New handling of quitting/suspending commands that includes a new scheduling feature.
The new release of Plex means I can finally stop holding my breath and upgrade my Mac mini to Snow Leopard. It is available now, for free (!!!) right here. Anybody else ready to upgrade to SL now that the Plex release is out? Once my mini is upgraded, rest assured that Plex will be the first thing I install.

[via Macworld]

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Markus

Plex is just plain awesome. However, apart from the non-Plex remote issue, I never had any problems with Plex on SL. Huge ones with SL in general, but none with Plex =)

October 28 2009 at 4:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mendo Dave

I upgraded to Snow Leopard last night, and Plex .83 right after.

No issues, playback is fine, remote is fine. I use the Logitech Harmony 880.

seems quicker, but that could be the new Mini ;-)

Plex does indeed....ROCK!

October 28 2009 at 4:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Emilio

Correct link to Plex 8.3 http://www.plexapp.com/plexstable.shtml

October 28 2009 at 4:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

Their site link you provided presents a page that lists 0.8.2, not 0.8.3, as the current version.

October 28 2009 at 4:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Aron Trimble

The link goes to the wiki which always presents the correct link to the current stable release. It looks like the wiki has not been updated to note the new versioning.

I would have provided the link in the article (same as Emilio's, below) but I don't think most people would appreciate a direct download link. At least I wouldn't.

October 28 2009 at 4:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

I would hold off on updating a Mini HTPC to Snow Leopard if you have a 1080p TV and you ever use Front Row. There are major video playback issues with > 480p video in Front Row, even with newer Minis. It's detailed here - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2132473

October 28 2009 at 4:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Hobbes

Front Row sucks. Plex rocks!!!! Plex is everything Front Row should have been. Front Row has issues playing pretty much anything.

Give Plex a try. You will never look back.

October 28 2009 at 4:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joshua Ochs

Upgraded to Snow Leopard on day 1, and had no problems (I didn't hit the well-known remote issue because I use Remote Buddy already, which was unaffected).

However, none of the other problems I've seen were fixed:
- Some Apple Movie Trailers do not play (e.g. Toy Story 3)
- Some plugins do not work with the error "Could not determine input stream" (e.g. Tivo)
- Several movie files I have (and have uploaded with bug reports) either do not play subtitles, do not play at all, or do not play smoothly (which is absurd when the file in question is at least a 6 year old 640x480 Divx).

As far as I'm concerned, this update was a non-event. Nothing changed, and there are certainly *plenty* of bugs to fix.

October 28 2009 at 3:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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SlappyWhite

I would expect better support from an app that costs so damn much.

October 28 2009 at 4:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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