![]() ![]() ![]() I've wanted to do a media centre of sorts for ages, soon gave up, after trying to work out DVD>Handbrake (both time-wise taking A G E S with crap results, and their Help is double-dutch to me so couldn't work things out properly). Please tell us more of your settings/formats used for encoding, or any other info that's useful. If that works, I can see myself ditching Front Row altogether:)ĭoes anyone else use a Mac Mini as a Media Centre? I have yet to try the EyeTV plugin, but I can't see that being problematic given how tightly it integrates into F.R. The interface on Plex isn't radically different to Front Row, but feels far more slick (perhaps due to the images it uses), and more importantly works more quickly with NAS than F.R. Granted it has some quirks it has problems with trailers, and music videos for instance. So far this has been far easier than messing around with iTunes & Handbrake (ripping using Make MKV typically takes about 10 minutes for a full feature film, the import to Plex is more or less instantaneous).Īnother benefit of Plex is that it automatically finds metadata for films (name a file "Terminator", and you will get poster image, and film notes etc). I have started ripping my DVD collection using make MKV onto one of my computers so I can use Plex on them all (plus my phone apparently). Given this frustration combined with DVD transcoding being torturously slow (Handbrake always took hours to rip a DVD, even with an external DVD drive), I started looking at alternatives, and found what appears to be a perfect solution. The bundled programs did what they are supposed to, but felt awqward due to clunky integration, meaning that we would have to use the keyboard/mouse rather than rely on a remote. It worked, but always felt like a computer rather than a DVD player/TV recorder(EyeTV)/Music Player etc. ![]() Late 2009, we bought a mac mini to use as a media centre. ![]()
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