i've been having trouble for weeks now with what i thought was Lion. Apple helped me track down a file called "unar" within the Movist app. it takes over my computer and causes the spinning ball and drains the hard drive of free space. within 20 minutes i lose 90 gigs. restart gets it back. it slows the computer to a crawl. anyway, this file unar is somehow creating a folder in the invisible usr which is temporarily filling the drive with far files that have not been uncompressed and it temporarily uncompresses it. this is the strangest thing i've seen yet. Movist is definitely causing it. i force quit the running unar files that are running simultaneously in activity monitor and everything goes back to normal, but i still have to restart. i've lost time and money trying to pinpoint the cause of this problem. SHAME ON YOU developers of Movist. It's a virus disguised as a plague.

Some interesting solutions, for example: range, 4 themes. Nice app.

you can't go wrong with Movist, specially subtitles support for foreign language such as Arabic, and their developers are working hard to improve it

v1.1.3 is out (not updated here yet) and to be fair, i have to say they have been working hard to make this new version as good as the old one (they updated from 1.0.4 to 1.1.2 and now to 1.1.3 in a short time). app store or not, movist has always been top notch, reliable and now, very affordable movie player (no frame drops, out of synch audio and pristine subtitle support, among other things). ok, enough of the mumbo jumbo here you go:

v1.1.3

movie snapshot & full screen navigation is back; remote bugs fixed (menu button for fullscreen); it supports skins so you can make your own or use the prettier qt skin (already available in earlier versions but i missed it); background movist icon is now hi-res; ability to show system time/remaining time in fullscreen; subtitle rotation is back so you can switch to a different subtitle with the keyboard, new feature to customize all keyboard shortcuts for all menu controls; a lot of bugs squashed and it feels as snappy as before (window resizing and overall response); a couple more options added like 'add all subtitles when only 1 movie in folder' (useful to load subs even if they're named differently from the movie) or whether to include or not the top, center and bottom subs in subtitle rotation.

as it is, i could use improvements on loading all movie files in a folder independently from being identified as series or not; resizable sidebar with more basic info for the video/audio (easy to do with mediainfo); eq and audio preamp/volume booster (useful for my mbp speakers).

if you don't mind the appstore, 5 bucks is well worth it and you'll get future updates but to put your mind at ease, if you don't need the new features, the old free version is still up to par with the new one, in performance. sorry to flood this with comments but i just love this puppy.

I really like Movist 1.x. There are plenty of reasons for this, but maybe the biggest standout is Movist's superb handling of subtitles. As I understand it, Movist loads and renders subtitles independently from the video (embedded subtitles are demuxed first). This allows Movist to display more cleanly rendered and readable subtitles, and to display them on the letterbox without altering the picture it's displaying. MPlayerX (also a great app) now has the ability to display subtitles on the letterbox, but to do this it has to alter the video frame so that the letterbox, and in turn the subtitles, are part of the picture (MPlayerX and every other video player on OS X that I'm aware of render subtitles as part of the video). This then requires additional processing power, because a larger frame is being rendered, which in turn increases the chance of stuttering during playback. (The point of that comparison is not to criticize MPlayerX, but to explain how Movist's subtitle handling is unique.) The inability to load embedded subtitle fonts in MKV containers is, for me, an insignificant price to pay for the advantages that Movist's subtitle handling confers.

It's been ages since I've run across a video where the frame advance keys would actually advance the frame.

Wow, that's all I can say. I beats vlc blow for blow. Please fix yourself up vlc. Been loyal all these years. But this player has so much going for it. It's like what vlc is supposed to be. Works perfectly with mkvs. One problem. How do I get rid of the annoying popup title every time I open a new vid?

I have a huge problem with apple remote. SL continue to ignore movist and open iTunes when i push the play button. Same problem with menu button opening front row.

Are you working on it ?

Movist seems to have a pretty bad memory leak in Snow Leopard. In the course of watching a movie the memory usage goes up to over 800mb!

Movist now support sub/idx subtitles but why are they so big ?

I think this is a sort of auto-size but it's really big when the sentence are short. Weird.

Changing size doesn't work.