The Plex Media Player App is Now Available on the New Apple TV

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Posted November 3, 2015 at 8:33am by iClarified

Plex has announced that their media player app is now available for free on the new Apple TV.

There truly isn’t any other platform we’ve wanted to be on for as long as we have the Apple TV. Today’s the day, and we’re celebrating. The app is free in the app store for everyone, and requires the latest media server (note: you may need to download and install the very latest server manually for now on certain NAS devices).

Running the Plex Media Server on your computer lets you organize and stream all your video, music, and photos to the Apple TV.

"Plex organizes all of your video, music, TV, and photo collections, and streams them to all of your screens. With the free Plex Media Server on your home computer and Plex for Apple TV, you can watch and listen to all of your personal media on your iOS device and share it with friends and family."

Check out some screenshots of the new app below and let us know what you think in the comments. Do you prefer Plex to just streaming from your iTunes Library?

The Plex Media Player App is Now Available on the New Apple TV

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krusty22 - November 4, 2015 at 10:43am

@Dragance - You'll be able to stream from any network based location, including a NAS. As long as the Plex Server knows about the network location it will stream from it. This can easily be configured/added in the Plex Server.

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krusty22 - November 4, 2015 at 10:27am

The Apple TV itself does not really play anything when comes to Plex. It simply relays the video file from a local Plex Server. The Plex Server transcodes the video files and relays/streams it to the AppleTV. So yes, it will most likely play mkv/avi files.

Noman - November 4, 2015 at 6:16am

Free my ass, missleading marketing. To enable streaming you must pay... Nit much but still.

guest - November 3, 2015 at 6:03pm

Does it playback mkv / avi files

dragance - November 3, 2015 at 1:58pm

How about streaming from NAS device? No? Well, to bad. Only reason I will be remotely interested.

John789250 - November 3, 2015 at 10:04pm

Yes, it sure can :) There are some setup instructions on plex's site

James - November 3, 2015 at 9:12am

Do you have to store your movies on your Computer or can you attach an external drive to the computer and stream them that way? And can Siri find them?

O - November 3, 2015 at 9:38am

I'm guessing you could do both (whole point of Plex) !

O - November 3, 2015 at 9:40am

From what I can say, Siri only browses thru iTunes & online streamable content! For obvious indexing reasons but maybe Plex automatically adds index words to your content so you can use Siri... I guess we'll see when we download it !