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emegmac
Feb 15, 2009, 04:45 PM
I need help with Plex. I really want to like this app but I need some help.
First off I have a 1.83 core2duo macbook. It has the gma950 and blueray playback is not good. The way I understand it is Plex uses the cpu, frontrow uses gpu. I have been reading the plex forums for the last few days but am still confused. I know some of you like plex, especially caveman.
I want to use itunes to keep everything organized because I use have an iphone and need itunes. With Plex media server I can keep everything in itunes and Plex reads it. All my media is on an external hard drive.
So I went to plex system/ system/ media center and made sure it was enabled. Then went to videos and add source and choose my itunes library on the external drive. I can see my movies now but no metadata, or artwork shows up. I really want this to work.
Also I love front rows music format compared to plex. Can i launch plex from front row for video playback?



ethical
Feb 18, 2009, 11:31 AM
im guessing you've read and fully understand all of the stuff here:

http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Getting_Started#Plex_Media_Server

i dont use the plex media server and i dont know if this is the case or not, but do you need to use the scrapper to get movie artwork, just like you do for any other source?

emegmac
Feb 18, 2009, 06:14 PM
I have read it many times but still don't fully understand it. I thought I didn't have to use the scrapper. I dont want imdb meta I want the ones I taged with metax.