Plex (formerly known as XBMC) is a complete media center for your Mac. Play back 1080p content with your Mac Mini, with support for AC3/DTS passthrough. Full-featured Video, Music and Pictures features. This is a port of the popular XBMC media center to the Mac.
To take the power and functionality of XBMC and get it completely ported to the OS X platform. To offer XBMC in a package that runs on (more) modern hardware that is more "accessible" to the non-expert user.
People should be able to experience XBMC in just minutes - and be as simple as downloading and installing any other Macintosh application.
Also, as many long time XBMC users know, the legacy XBox platform simply does not have the horsepower to play HD content.
The Plex wants that by targeting an OS that`s underlying hardware is refreshed on a pretty regular basis will allow the project to continue to be able to play media as it gets increasingly higher definition and higher bit rate.
Here are some key features of "Plex":
· Audio: Playing, Visualizations (MProject), MP3, OGG, AAC, FLAC.
· Video: Playing, Full-screen, most video formats.
· Photos: Viewing, browsing, slideshows.
· Metadata: IMDB, Allmusic, etc pull down working.
· Library mode: Working but can be flaky.
· Connectivity: Local disk, FTP.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· NEW: We display the warning icon on shows/seasons/episodes and artist/album/tracks so that you can see more clearly which media is missing. Also note that if you dislike this feature, you can always disable it in the Library preferences by enabling ???Empty trash automatically??
