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ChrisJScott
October 28th, 2011, 09:33 AM
Plex just announced the capability (http://elan.plexapp.com/2011/10/28/introducing-myplex/). The iPad app is a great gateway but is effectively useless if you can't access your content outside of the home.

Please tell me this is going to be baked in soon...
darcilicious
October 28th, 2011, 10:05 AM
In the meantime, there's AirVideo, works great.
jimmycheng
November 8th, 2011, 02:11 PM
I love AirVideo, have been using it for a long time now with my iPad to access my media remotely. And I love using my Boxee Box in front of my big screen TV. One thing I wished AirVideo had was an awesome interface like Boxee (with cover art, media info), with a strong server side media manager. Plex released that exact product. It still has a few kinks, but it works just as I had wished for all this time with the Boxee iPad app.
Adrianvfx
November 10th, 2011, 08:58 AM
In the meantime, there's AirVideo, works great.

what are the specs of your computer running airvideo?
On my mediacenter I have with an atom processor, it takes years to encode a video to work :(
darcilicious
November 10th, 2011, 10:09 AM
It's a pretty hefty box (and the reason why all my streaming software/services are installed there) -- AMD quad core 2.2ghz with a GPU that gets utilized for hardware acceleration. However, the Boxee Media Manager is also transcoding and even worse, doesn't make use of hardware acceleration.