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Thursday, July 14th, 2011 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaI have been trying out Plex as a media center, and I have been really happy with it! Basically before I started using Plex, I had to either sync to my laptop, or try to upload a show over wireless, which took over 10 minutes per show, and prevented me from watching any other shows while I was uploading.
Now as long as I'm on the wireless (which extends up to the dining area on a good day), I can watch my shows on my iPad from anywhere in the house. No hassle, that's pretty cool.
But then I found out that it was sharing my iPhoto library over the local network, and according to this forum post this is working as-designed. There's no way to turn it off, because the assumption is that if you're accessing your library from a local network you can be trusted. I don't mind this with movies, but personal photos are different.
Multi-computer households exist, damnit :-(
Luckily there's a workaround for this but ughhh. It feels icky to have everyone at home have unlimited access to my entire photo collection. I've gone from being squeefully happy to grudgingly glad that it works okay for movies/TV shows.
Now as long as I'm on the wireless (which extends up to the dining area on a good day), I can watch my shows on my iPad from anywhere in the house. No hassle, that's pretty cool.
But then I found out that it was sharing my iPhoto library over the local network, and according to this forum post this is working as-designed. There's no way to turn it off, because the assumption is that if you're accessing your library from a local network you can be trusted. I don't mind this with movies, but personal photos are different.
Multi-computer households exist, damnit :-(
Luckily there's a workaround for this but ughhh. It feels icky to have everyone at home have unlimited access to my entire photo collection. I've gone from being squeefully happy to grudgingly glad that it works okay for movies/TV shows.
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Date: 2011-07-13 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-14 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-14 02:39 am (UTC)Are you *just* using it to stream stuff to your iPad? I'm using something called umm ... AirVideo? no hang on ... yes, it is called AirVideo. It goes with a server program on the Mac and I was able to point it at my entire drive so I can use it to watch anything and it copes with most formats fine. It's quite handy :)
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Date: 2011-07-14 01:46 pm (UTC)Plex is that plus some cataloging stuff. I've become pretty spoiled by its ability to mark a video as watched or unwatched (previously I had to remember all that!), but I'd definitely have switched if I hadn't found that workaround.
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Date: 2011-07-14 05:04 am (UTC)BLEAAAEAHHHH!
ICKY.
Okay, wow, freaky. Bad engineers! bad!
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Date: 2011-07-14 01:47 pm (UTC)They did say something about having this fixed with a rollout of finegrained privacy permissions, but that's still some time away, and as a default it just does not work.