11-30-2008, 04:52 AM
People on IRC might have heard me bragging about my awesome new video setup so now I will brag a bit on here with pictures to boot.
So I've had access to this private site with a LOT of movies on it which also gave me enough speed to stream (HD and non-HD) the movies from there... I used to download them using firefox and watch the .part file so that I could watch while downloading... This worked fine but wasn't pretty and could be improved a lot.
Then I found this application called Plex, a Mac OS X application which is aimed to transform Mac OS X into a media center. The awesomeness came in when I found out I could link plex to the aforementioned site. When I added the movie directory to Plex it started to index all the movies and started to cross reference it with IMDB and make it like I was browsing a video store which I could directly watch.
So here is my tour.... (Click the pictures for the full sized pictures)
This is the main screen where you can choose if you want to watch movies, tv series, music.
This interface (and all other screens) can be used with the keyboard, the mouse, the apple remote, many other remotes and the ipod touch. It's tuned so that it's easy to navigate with any remote.
When you want to watch a movie it gives you a choice on the criteria you can browse them, I'm choosing to browse per genre for this demo.
It uses all the info it got from IMDB to sort all the movies so many movies will be in multiple genres.
After selecting the genre option you can choose what genre you want to watch.
After selecting a genre you can choose to browse your movies in quite a few ways, all of them aesthetically pleasing.
The list style:
The coverflow style:
The grid style:
The media preview style:
The artwork style:
After you found the movie you want to watch you just select it.
It starts to buffer.
And the movie plays.
As you can imagine this is impresses visitors quite a lot more than a directory listing of your movies or a random site...
So I've had access to this private site with a LOT of movies on it which also gave me enough speed to stream (HD and non-HD) the movies from there... I used to download them using firefox and watch the .part file so that I could watch while downloading... This worked fine but wasn't pretty and could be improved a lot.
Then I found this application called Plex, a Mac OS X application which is aimed to transform Mac OS X into a media center. The awesomeness came in when I found out I could link plex to the aforementioned site. When I added the movie directory to Plex it started to index all the movies and started to cross reference it with IMDB and make it like I was browsing a video store which I could directly watch.
So here is my tour.... (Click the pictures for the full sized pictures)
This is the main screen where you can choose if you want to watch movies, tv series, music.
This interface (and all other screens) can be used with the keyboard, the mouse, the apple remote, many other remotes and the ipod touch. It's tuned so that it's easy to navigate with any remote.
When you want to watch a movie it gives you a choice on the criteria you can browse them, I'm choosing to browse per genre for this demo.
It uses all the info it got from IMDB to sort all the movies so many movies will be in multiple genres.
After selecting the genre option you can choose what genre you want to watch.
After selecting a genre you can choose to browse your movies in quite a few ways, all of them aesthetically pleasing.
The list style:
The coverflow style:
The grid style:
The media preview style:
The artwork style:
After you found the movie you want to watch you just select it.
It starts to buffer.
And the movie plays.
As you can imagine this is impresses visitors quite a lot more than a directory listing of your movies or a random site...