April 1, 2011 10:10 PM

I can attest to that. the new interface sucks. Nothing works anymore, or more accurately, the 1 feature I wanted in it was to stream media. It used to work, now it does not anymore. I can't stream / view any video from pogoplug into the iPad.
Also, everything wants to go thru my internet line (my.pogoplug.com does not translate it into a local IP address which is the 192.168.x.x variety)

Please fix it. otherwise it's a brick.

April 2, 2011 5:08 PM

Jonathanbrett said: i'm having the same problem where it wants to stream everything through my internet :(

Yes, under Mac OS X and with the latest Safari and Chrome browsers everything goes though the internet instead of over the local connection. This is a definite change from the previous version of the my.pogoplug.com website. However, Firefox seems to resolve the local IP and thus with both Firefox 3.X and 4.0 the transfers happen over the local network.

April 3, 2011 3:13 PM

coldfinish said: Yes, under Mac OS X and with the latest Safari and Chrome browsers everything goes though the internet instead of over the local connection. This is a definite change from the previous version of the my.pogoplug.com website. However, Firefox seems to resolve the local IP and thus with both Firefox 3.X and 4.0 the transfers happen over the local network.

On my macbook, ive tried with chrome 11, chrome 10, firefox 4 and Safari on my local network and it still goes through the internet!

Firefox 4 wont even use the HTML5 video feature

and...

as with the previous web interface cloud engines has decided to take the genious move of putting buttons over the top of the pause/play buttons, very annoying when i want to pause and click on some other video!

April 4, 2011 4:43 PM

With the new interface hovering over video thumbnails dosn't get them to play. And the VIDOES DON'T PLAY AT ALL FOR SHARED USERS!

What is going on? Is there a quick fix in the work?

April 5, 2011 12:37 AM

MayB the option turned off, because the new version of Pogoplug Video is comming?
So only the standard .MOV and MP4 are only supported now.. and DiVX and Xvid etc.. is supported by Pogoplug Video

April 5, 2011 3:45 AM

I don't think the pogoplug web interface ever played avi files as the avi file is not designed for streaming as mp4 and other video files are.

April 5, 2011 7:49 AM

Everything has just slowed down for me, takes about 2 mins to view a 998k jpg and forget about streaming my video files anymore. On my IPhone I just get "Connection Time Out" error.

Up until the update everything worked great!

April 12, 2011 11:58 PM updated: April 12, 2011 11:58 PM

I am having the same issue with no streaming via web interface. One file does stream but no video just audio. I hope it gets fixed soon or revert it back until it is fixed. My windows client is still working but I have not updated anything there. I also notice I do not seem to have the option to optimize a single video like I used to and my android ap claims it will optimize but seems to do nothing. The queues show no more pending files.

April 13, 2011 4:04 AM

I don't see why people have a problem with pogoplug support, I created a support ticket, and contacted them via Twitter I was asked to email them at a special email address with a full explanation and screenshots, I did this and the following day I logged on to my.pogoplug and my problems were fixed, streaming works and they even moved the selection ribbon thing. Now the new interface works on LAN and is easier to use. I think the customer service I recieved was fantastic and the new UI is great (now
it works)

Also for people having problems streaming avi files you should try re-encoding them using handbrake, with web-optimised checked, if you want to stream files over the Internet rather than LAN you should encode with a constant bitrate of around 200kbps below your Internet upload speed, this works fantastic for me as I stream from home to university :)