It’s about 25% downloaded in the above capture, but it doesn’t take too long on the local network for it to complete. Done.Īs the media content downloads you’ll notice an indicator on the top right tracks progress. A menu pops up:Īs highlighted, you want to choose “ Download“, logically enough. A perfect candidate for a movie to download onto my MacBook for watching later…ĭownloads are done by moving your cursor over the movie poster image, then clicking on the tiny pencil icon.

It’s a film I really want to watch, but I haven’t yet had a chance. Ferrari competition that’s the subject of the upcoming drama of that name. Notably, the 2016 documentary The 24 Hour War, about the same Ford vs. You can see that there are a number of different movies in my recently added list. Which you can now do quite easily in the new Plex app interface!įor example, here’s a part of my Plex Mac client, hooked up to my server:

I personally have mine set up so that it’s invisible to anyone or any device not on my home network, but even if you offer Web access, there are still many situations where you might prefer to download a movie or a few TV episodes rather than trust on network connections. There are also ways you can set up password-protected access to your Plex server from anywhere on the Internet, or allow friends or family to access your server, as you might prefer. In fact, it’s a better interface than many of the so-called smart TV systems on the market! Even better, with the introduction of the new Mac and Windows client apps (rather than just using a Web browser) the interface for users has been normalized and simplified. It offers a modern interface to all the TV, movies, music and other media content you have spread throughout your system. The Plex team has written an amazing media server that can run on a Mac, PC or Linux system.

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