Plex software Wikipedia. Plex. DevelopersPlex, Inc. Stable release. 1. Preview release. 1. Development status. Active. Operating system. Server Windows 7 and later, OS X Mountain Lion and later, Linux, Free. BSD 9 and later, Nvidia Shield TV, Synology Disk Manager 5 and later, Netgear, QNAP, un. Support Sonic Download Media Player Default Format For WordRAID, Drobo, ASUStor, Thecus, Seagate, Western Digital. Player Roku Amazon Fire TV, Android, Android TV, Apple TV 4th, Chromecast, i. OS 8. 1 or later, Play. Station 3, Play. Station 4, Roku, web. OS, Tizen, Windows Vista and later, Xbox 3. Xbox One, Mac OS X Snow Leopard and later. Platformx. 86, ARMSize. Server 9. 01. 05 Mi. B compressed, depending on the platformAvailable in. List of languages. Server Afrikaans South Africa, Arabic, Bulgarian Bulgaria, Burmese, Catalan Andorra, Chinese China, Chinese Taiwan, Croatian Croatia, Czech Czech Republic, Danish, Dutch, Dutch Belgium, English, English Australia, Estonian Estonia, Finnish, French, German, Greek languages, Hebrew, Hungarian Hungary, Icelandic Iceland, Italian, Japanese Japan, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay macrolanguage, Norwegian, Polish Poland, Portuguese Brazil, Portuguese Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian Slovenia, Spanish, Spanish Latin America and the Caribbean, Swedish, Tamil, Thai Thailand, Turkish Turkey, Ukrainian. Type. License., GPLv. Alexa rank 1,1. 59 September 2. Websitewww. plex. Plex is a client servermedia player system and software suite comprising two main components. The Plex Media Server desktop application runs on Windows, mac. OS and Linux compatibles including some types of NAS devices. The server desktop application organizes video, audio and photos from your collections and from online services, enabling the players to access and stream the contents. The media players. There are official clients available for mobile devices, smart TVs, and streaming boxes, a web app and Plex Home Theater no longer maintained, as well as many third party alternatives. TagRename is a music files tag editor that easily handles all popular digital audio formats. No matter what music compressor you prefer, you can keep your music. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D. Microsoft lists. Additional functionality can be added through an app store and Plex Inc sells a premium service Plex Pass with features like synchronization with mobile devices, cloud storage integration, metadata and matchings for music, support for multiple users, parental controls, Live TV and DVR, trailers and extras and cross selling offers. BackgroundeditPlex began as a freewarehobby project in December 2. Support Sonic Download Media Player Default Format Footer' title='Support Sonic Download Media Player Default Format Footer' />Support Sonic Download Media Player Default Format Of DateElan Feingold was looking for a media centre application for his Apple Mac, better than Front Row. Feingold came out of the desire to get XBMC now known as Kodi code running on a more powerful machine that could handle higher resolution media than the devices on which XBMC was usually running. According to Feingold, the perfect platform seemed to be the Mac, especially with the form factor of the Mac Mini. At that time, XBMC spin offs were abundant and were created by developers to solve a specific problem. In this situation, the reason was because XBMC was not available for Mac OS X yet. Fervent user of managed programming languages like Java and C, and after some debate with a coworker with regard to managed languages vs unmanaged ones like C, Feingold decided to port a massive C project as a challenge. Microsoft Office Word 2010 Zeilenabstand Einstellen Einer. He downloaded the XBMC code, a project written in C, and attempted to build it on the Mac for the first time in December 2. This started the port to the Mac OS X platform. Around the same time two software executives who had recently sold their previous company to Cisco, Cayce Ullman and Scott Olechowski, were also looking to port XBMC to OSX. They noticed Feingolds progress on the port via the XBMC forums. At the time Feingold worked as a contract programmer, Ullman and Olechowski reached out to Feingold and offered to both help on the project and partially fund Feingold so that he could dedicate more hours to the project. Feingold, Olechowksi and Ullman were officially a team by January 2. Plex, Inc. in December 2. After having posted on the XBMC forums a report with screenshots about the progress made on the Mac OS X port, Feingold was contacted by the XBMC team, and he, Olechowski and Ullman were brought rapidly on their team. Over the next few months, they made some early releases of the port, which they called OSXBMC. Their purposes were to bring to the project a complete integration to the Mac. That integration comes from DVD playing, to energy saving features without hesitating to cut features out to benefit stability. Given that the three of them came from professional and enterprise software background they were not satisfied with many of XMBCs engineering practices. They thought as a maturing project, XBMC had to improve its engineering practices, embrace software regression tests and provide end user support with an improvement of bug reports. The developers worked under the auspices of the XBMC project until May 2. Due to different goals and vision from the XBMC team, they shortly forked the code to become Plex, and published it on Git. Hub. The code was kept roughly in sync with the Linux code. The new name was announced on July 8, 2. While the team received many suggestions from users Meteor Center, Media Hugger, etc., Ullman came up with the name Plex or Plex Square, due to the unavailability of plex. Feingold suggested Plex was too unwieldy and the single word, Plex, was ultimately chosen because the plex suffix evokes comprising a number of parts. Then, the team began to work on a media centre component to aggregate not only local content but also to bring together web based multimedia services. The new library system was redeveloped from scratch. Work for new remote control was also on the todo list. The Center. Stage UI group, a team aiming at improving the HTPC UI interface, often considered as The interface that the Apple. TV forgot, teamed with Plex to develop the idea further. Center. Stage was looking for developers and Plex was looking for designers, a perfect match. As that hobby was costing money for the required infrastructure for example, the project used donations and was selling mugs in order to lessen the burden of self funding. Relations with content companieseditLike Boxee, Plex had applications for services such as Hulu. Even if Boxee and Plex extensions were both written in Python, Feingold advertised Plex extensions were easier to write thanks to a new in house framework developed by James Clarke, one of the main Plex developers. At that point, Plex had 1. Plex has been listed as an officially approved Netflix app. With Hulu the situation was different. Hulu deployed counter measures by creating changes deliberately to prevent Plex from parsing their HTML. Netflix and Hulu services are no longer officially available with Plex anymore see Plugins for more info. The relationships with content companies were not completely adversarial. Some companies contacted Feingold to add their content to Plex, including music streaming service Spotify. In order to develop his software and make the project viable at some point in the future, the teams purpose was to bring the Plex experience to other devices, without the need for users to buy yet another computer or dedicate one as a HTPC. They also recognized a Mac Mini was a barrier to entry and the Apple TV of that generation with its 7.