The rest I tried currently fail with a variety of errors before you can get to the actual video. The project’s FAQ notes that some channels, though, do work I went through several and found only a couple that actually let me play back media, including Funny or Die and PBS. One limitation of the PlexConnect software itself is that it doesn’t yet fully support third-party video and audio channels on the Apple TV. The most obvious is that running PlexConnect will hijack your Trailers app, so if you want to watch movie previews from Apple’s site, you’ll need to either disable PlexConnect or find another solution. But, in my experiences setting up the software, I did run into a few minor issues. In a word, it’s nothing short of brilliant. Once you’ve set up the program on your Mac, PlexConnect only requires that you reconfigure your Apple TV’s DNS server. PlexConnect offers only a few configuration options on your Apple TV-you can choose whether you view your listings of movies, TV shows, and TV seasons in list or grid format, as well as tweak some transcoding preferences for video quality and subtitle size, along with some more technical options.
Some content isn’t currently available, such as photos from Aperture and iPhoto, and there are bugs here and there. On your Apple TV, you can browse or search your Plex content with your remote, as you would any other Apple TV function. (DNS requests to other addresses, meanwhile, should to be passed through to your normal DNS server, thereby maintaining the rest of your Apple TV’s normal operation.) It’s the latter that handles the magical part you configure your Apple TV to look towards this Mac for its DNS server, and PlexConnect intercepts requests for the URL and redirects them to its Web server, where it provides a custom version of the Plex interface reminiscent of other Apple TV apps, like Netflix and Hulu.
PlexConnect does its magic by running two small servers on one of your local Macs: a Web server and a Domain Name System (DNS) server.
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