So I’ve been prepping my Hackbook for a long flight. I ripped some movies with Handbrake using the Apple TV settings (figured I might go media server in the future). When I played them back however, the video and audio stuttered. I thought it might have been because I was playing the files off of the SDHC card, but moving them to the SSD didn’t help. I didn’t really wanted to re-encode a bunch of movies so I hit the MyDellMini forums for some suggestions. The answer – Plex.

This is a great little piece of software whose primary goal is to turn your mac into a really nice media server you can operate with the little remote doohickey that comes with iMacs. But as a benefit for the Hackbook it makes video playback very smoothly. Plus it has some nice interface features. The setup can be a little quirky, but they have a nice forum you can get answers from.

Plex – works great.