He also enjoys covering Windows, Android, Entertainment, Streaming, and popular devices and apps. Plex has not said whether it might implement that functionality down the road. The Plex app is a free download for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV from the Apple App Store.Ĭhristian joined MakeUseOf in 2021 as a technical writer predominantly focused on Apple's platforms. Related: Check Out These Featured Plex Channels and Plugins In other words, your own media content that you can access from anywhere using Plex Media Server won't show up in Up Next nor can you request it through Siri.

As detailed in our privacy policy, we don’t know what content our users have in their personal media libraries. To make this work we provide Apple with a list of content we have available for streaming. We’d love to integrate personal media as well but that’s not technically possible for a couple of reasons. The same person added that Plex at this stage cannot enable user-hosted content in the TV app due to technical hurdles. Personal content, live TV, and other Plex features do not support this integration. You can find the universal iOS/Apple TV Plex app right over here.A Plex employee confirmed on Reddit that the feature only works with Plex's free on-demand movies and TV shows with unskippable ads. Today, however, Plex on AppleTV goes legit, and it’s free to download. And it wasn’t official Plex, but a third party rebuild (and, its worth noting, both of the main developers on that build now work for Plex). That’s possible! Plex was available on Apple TV before today - you just had to hack the heck out of the Apple TV to make it work. “My friend had an old Apple TV, and it was running Plex!”

Bring up a Plex client on your phone, Chromecast, or now your AppleTV, tap the video you want to play, and bam - it streams it from your PC to your device, transcoding it into a device-friendly format on the fly. Wondering what the heck Plex is? The short answer: you run a Plex server on your PC, and load it up with video and music files in just about any format - from your standard DiVX/XVid file to a big ol’ high res MKV.

Plex, the much adored app for streaming totally-legit-and-not-at-all-bootlegged-cough-cough content from your PC to your other gadgets, has just hit the new Apple TV.

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