{"id":2969,"date":"2013-03-18T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:18:10","slug":"rasplex-new-media-centre-distro-for-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"RasPlex &#8211; new media centre distro for the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rasplex.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rplx-logo4-small1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just released is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rasplex.com\/\">RasPlex<\/a>, a new media centre distribution based on the Plex Media Server. It&#8217;s currently a beta (version 0.1.27) but is receiving quite a lot of buzz in the Piosphere (a new term, think of it as an amalgam of all the online news sources like Twitter and blogs, and you get the jist).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rasplex.com\/\">You can get the distro image here<\/a>. Try it out &#8211; it looks pretty nice. Here&#8217;s a video of it in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2d4c8JIT0E\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just released is\u00a0RasPlex, a new media centre distribution based on the Plex Media Server. 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