#Appletv app for supersync movie#
#Appletv app for supersync full#

#Appletv app for supersync full#

Took less than a minute and my full library was now available. Plex allows you to select individual files, rename then and also then rescan the file ensuring the correct library information is added.

Kill Bill 2 was added as The Killbillies. Once I’d fixed the file names I rescanned the source folder and all my content was added successfully.

#Appletv app for supersync movie#

I’ve chosen a flat structure with all movie files in the same folder and named as above. The excellent Plex wiki contains a lot more detail on naming your video files and support for folders including VIDEO_TS folders. IMDB Movie Title (Year of film).video extension For movies, the following convention should see your content added correctly with information downloaded from IMDB. Again, the size of the job depends on the size of your library. The key to getting content added successfully is to name your files properly. This is where I probably had the biggest pain with Plex. The first time I scanned my movies folder only 5 out of 50 or so movies were added. Depending on the amount of media this can take some time. With content selected, Plex will scan your media folder and download information on your media via the selected scraper. You’ll see why this is important later in the review when we look at media playback. By extra information I mean movie ratings, fan art, music, trailers, actor information etc. By selecting the content you also select the scraper which will be used to download extra information about your media. The important step is to Set Content i.e. To add your media browse to it’s location and set a local name for it in Plex. The first key step is to separate your Movies and TV video’s into separate content. Not obvious and hopefully something they address in future versions to help the beginner. However, goto View Your Video’s and there you will find options to add your different media sources. Visit Movies or TV and there is nothing there either.

How do you add your media? If you visit Preferences there are no options to add media. Straight away though you hit the first quirk of Plex. Using a keyboard or Apple remote you move through an animated menu to select Movies, TV, Music and App’s but by default the only media Plex will pick up is that managed locally by iTunes and some default app’s, so the first step is to add your local media content. Once installed your presented with a beautiful front end and…not much else. Plex is a fork of the legendary XBMC and is currently Mac only. Front Row isn’t a bad application but compares poorly to Plex. By default you can use Front Row as a 10 foot interface to access media stored on your Mac and managed via iTunes. In this article we’ll look at a great media server application called Plex. Welcome to the fourth in a series of posts on creating a Mac Mini Media Centre.