 | Nov 5 2009 |
STORMCHILD Still crashes on quit. It has done this from day one, through all of the updates, and every OS version I've tried it on. I've deleted the preferences and started with a fresh install several times, to no avail. You'd think eventually the developer would be able to resolve this issue, but apparently not. The Candelair remote driver helps restore the functionality of the Apple Remote, but even with that installed, I find the remote support very flaky in Plex. The Menu button often fails to go back; I end up getting stuck in some areas, and have to walk over to the keyboard to press the Esc key, which is rather annoying and pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having a remote. At one point the remote just stopped working at all. I went to quit/relaunch Plex to see if it would resolve the issue, when I discovered it's still crashing on quit (like it was when I stopped using it months ago), and here we are.
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| Nov 20 2009 |
K01 At of all the hundred's of thousands of users, that don't have a problem with Plex one has to wonder what the real problem is. Sometimes it is just the users machine or just the user.
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 | Oct 29 2009 |
EGGSHELL This app is a fine example of what happens when aesthetics gets priority over usability .
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| Oct 28 2009 |
K01 USER "GREGMLR" Writes "What is a could-be awesome Front Row replacement is too difficult to get up and running. When using the Apple remote with Plex there are two major issues: 1) Navigating up and down through the main menu turns your system volume up and down as well 2) Hitting the "Menu" button to go back (like you do in Front Row) launches Front Row on top of Plex...... Ect. Information to all users that are using the 10.6 Snow Leopard OS with Plex 8.2 and Lower, Plex was not coded for Snow Leopard from version 8.2 -8.1 and lower. The New Plex Update 8.3 is Fully Snow Leopard Compatible and the "Remote Control" issues are Addressed. Directly to User User "GREGML" the Remote Control Issues that you hare experiencing have been due to Apple Changing the Remote Control API to a newer version, All Application that use the Remote control "Such as VMC,XBMC ect.." other then Apples own Applications had this Problem, Plex was not the Problem and was not to blame for the Issues. This Problem was All Over the Plex Forums and was Addressed, Please Next time got to the Forums to find out a cause then just blaming a piece of software as the sole problem of the event Apple had admitted it was a bug and has issued a fix to be included with the "Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update" to be released in a few day. Since Apple has not released a fix with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 update for the remote control problem Plex has included a fix in the New 8.3 update to Address Apples Problem with the help of Remote Buddy Author. Check it out Here. http://elan.plexapp.com/2009/10/23/snow-leopard-thaws-to-the-apple-remote-thanks-to-remote-buddy-author/ So No, Plex was not at Fault for the Remote control issues, it was Apple and a Brand New Release of Snow Leopard That has Caused Allot of Issues, You had indeed pointed the Finger at the Wrong Company. Plex 8.3 Has the Remote control fix, But it also should be included by Apple with the Next 10.6.2 Update in a Few Day's Give it a try, And as we all are aware a New OS can always cause Problems, as Plex and others have said from the Start. if you Use Plex with Leopard 10.5.8 stick with it and wait till Apple fixes the Snow Leopard Issues, But Plex has went a step Further and has fixed Apple's Remote Problem For Them... Thats Dedication and Allot of Hard work for a "FREE Piece Of Software" very Helpful Developers of Plex Would You Not Say . ;-) I See Nothing to Complain About at All.
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| Nov 5 2009 |
STORMCHILD Except Maybe your Arbitrary Use of Capitalization. While you're At It, "why not" ° Throw In @ bunch of Arbitráry punctuation and Other $ymbøls too.
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| Oct 27 2009 |
MONKEYJUNKEY Thanks for regaining control over the Apple Remote. And keep up the work on this. It's getting better with each release...
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 | Oct 26 2009 |
SOULSLAVE i like a lot how Plex looks but is missing a lot of boxee's (which is ugly) utilities, specially: the ability to search for subtitles and app channels (SPECIFICALLY JUSTIN.TV!!)
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| Oct 14 2009 |
GREGMLR What is a could-be awesome Front Row replacement is too difficult to get up and running. When using the Apple remote with Plex there are two major issues: 1) Navigating up and down through the main menu turns your system volume up and down as well 2) Hitting the "Menu" button to go back (like you do in Front Row) launches Front Row on top of Plex Changing the setting for Plex to run on top of other applications does no good. Done a Google search and found no solution. Sad, as this could be an awesome solution for users looking for something more feature-rich than Front Row.
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| Aug 28 2009 |
FRODO_LIFE be aware does not work with Snow Leopard yet, actually crashes my MacMini when used under 10.6 together with apple remote
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| Aug 10 2009 |
SOULSLAVE still waiting for the subtitles search option like in boxee
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| Aug 10 2009 |
MTCOBRA Aware there was an update to Plex, I opened the older version and was promptly advised that there was a newer version, and did I want to download/install it? Options presented were NO and YES. Neither button was responsive. I had to QUIT the older version and download 0.8.2 from the MacUpdate site. Not a problem, but it was curious that the update option within the program wasn't functioning.
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| Jun 4 2009 |
MACGEEK19 This app is awesome! A super slick interface, awesome apps (Hulu, NBC etc) and its free. The best media server app available bar none.
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 | May 11 2009 |
STORMCHILD Still no fix for crash-on-quit behavior? This has been happening since the very first time I installed Plex, many versions ago. I've deleted the preferences and started fresh, but nothing helps. I have literally never seen this program exit cleanly. It has crashed 100% of the time when I've tried to quit, from day one. This was on a brand new MacBook Pro bought less than two months ago, and this behavior was happening within the first two days I had the new machine, before I had even installed or used much of anything else on it. Bottom line: Plex is just not very well made software. I really wish it would work reliably, as it's a nice idea and clearly better than what Front Row has devolved into, but so far it just hasn't been worth the trouble.
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| Aug 10 2009 |
RAMPANCY It's worked solidly for me since the 0.7.x releases, and this is on a MacBook Pro and MacBook with more background hacks, InputManager extensions, SIMBL plugins, and APE modules than you could shake a stick at. Have you tried contacting the developers and sending them a bug report? Complaining about it "not being well-made" is one thing, but actually trying to work the developers to solve your problems is a much better solution.
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| May 11 2009 |
E_COMMERCE An update to my previous comments. On the one hand, little has changed - initial setup and configuration is still decidedly arcane, and the updates are still the whole enchilada - 100MB per update now. However, they are coming at a much less furious rate, which helps. Don't let this be too discouraging. Once set up and configured it is an excellent, excellent media center, and has displaced Front Row on my home theater Mac Mini. It plays anything you throw at it, and launches in a fraction the time of Front Row. The user interface during playback is much more feature rich, and much more suited to HD displays. I really, really want to see this succeed.
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| Apr 7 2009 |
MAC5 Decidedly complicated to both setup and use. It wasn't until a recent update that my Logitech mouse would work with this application. A nice concept, but needs a great deal more work before its a user friendly and works without too much effort.
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| Mar 10 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Tends to be crashy, and also a lot of sizzle and not much steak. It's a complete pain to set up and configure, and nearly-daily 70MB updates are onerous. I'm not saying don't update it - in fact, please update the UI some - but learn to send out patches, not these HUGE full-on "updates".
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| Mar 4 2009 |
PJOT Looks great but I couldn't get it running (Leopard 10.5.6). After opening for the first time it freezes already at the box 'check for updates at startup'. Had to force quit it. Started it again, it asked in a separate window to check for updates, the main window appeared and froze. Uninstalled it, installed it again but alas, exactly the same problem. Uninstalled and threw it away. | |
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| Mar 4 2009 |
MIO This thing looks pretty, but that's all it does. Every time there is a new version I, install it, try it a few times a throw it out. It has to resolve aliases, absolutely has to. Or at least symlinks. I store all my media on a few NAS boxes in the garage. Even if I put the locations in manually the next restart it forgets 3/4's of them and they need to be put in again. And then there are the other, ehm, quirks...
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| Feb 6 2009 |
PALADINO It crashed on me, then after relaunch I couldn't access the various settings. Arrow keys didn't work. Tried to exit the app but could find no way to do so. Pressed escape key on my Macbook Pro but no response. Finally had to do a Force shutdown of my machine to get out of Plex. I wish Plex worked for me; looks quite intriguing, well designed and esthetically appealing. I trashed the app but will check it out again once a newer version appears. Macbook Pro Intel core 2 duo, OS 10.5.4
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| Feb 27 2009 |
2SHAE Why are you using 10.5.4 instead of the latest 10.5.6 ? o_0
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| Dec 24 2008 |
AROAROS This app is wonderful, very active, the author is very helpful. The finish is a professional app that work flawless and very softly. The Media Center app of the year and I'm sure the 2009 winner.
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| Dec 24 2008 |
FALKNERX this app is good, but check out Boxee, which is already impressive as an alpha
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| Nov 26 2008 |
STELLAROLA Plex Seven has been a much easier experience over previous builds. All my libraries have scanned and it automagically finds thumbnails and fanart for the background. Great work!
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| Nov 25 2008 |
SERBIAN The best media center for Mac OSX...Easy to setup, works great and plays everything...What more do you want?
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| Nov 18 2008 |
DARUKARU The Plex Seven series takes a big step forward towards integration with the iLife suite. The streamlining of the preferences is also a bonus. Unfortunately the main attraction (library mode) is still touchy and unforgiving to set up, and there still doesn't appear to be an easy way to fix library entries that aren't scanned correctly.
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| Oct 29 2008 |
FLASH1296 I guess that this is just in Alpha at this stage, but I cannot get PLEX to do anything. It launches and gives me my local community's Farenheit temperature, not that that is of any value to me. I tried a lot of things to get it to do something. Anything ! Aaargh ! Not having any documentation, not even a simple FAQ or "Read Me" document, is absolutely inexcusable.
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| Oct 29 2008 |
TRONDAH What are you talking about? Documentation: http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Documentation FAQ: http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/FAQ Did you even look at the web page? There's a community forum as well with helpful people. Not that you should need one for getting started, Plex really should work out of the box on a supported system.
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| Oct 5 2008 |
PETER DA SILVA I'm confused, and the comments haven't really helped. What does this do that the Apple's own software doesn't do? Or is this just for people who want to move their libraries from XBox to Mac?
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| Oct 6 2008 |
CHADCN The biggest reasons I use Plex over Front Row are: -Plex can play many more types of files than Front Row -It is much more customizable (skins, etc) -It is being developed quite quickly, so you see improvements much more quickly. -It supports my universal remote, so I don't have to use the small Apple Remote There are many more, but these four are the biggest for me
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| Sep 6 2008 |
WIRE http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/FAQ
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| Sep 3 2008 |
STORMCHILD At this point in the game, I'm not going to complain too loudly about it, but I'm disappointed that this is Intel-only. There's probably some reason why it doesn't support PowerPC; an app written in Xcode would usually compile for both, but since this was ported from another platform, that might not be the case with this one. But in any case, I guess I'll have to wait until I get a new Mac to try this out.
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| Oct 6 2008 |
SCIFI
and I am unable to use this app because it is Leopardonly. Cmon developers, stop leaving us out in the cold like this. It is not our fault we cannot use Leopard blame Apple for that decision (mostly).
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| Sep 3 2008 |
HARRI1N This looks great but the mouse pointer disappears when I scroll over the app screen??? Fine around the border but... I can only use the keyboard and its a bit hit and miss.
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| Aug 16 2008 |
DNEM41 ok so i JUST downloaded this and am giving it a test drive right now. it looks and feels gorgeous. its not yet perfect - how do we view RSS feeds? - but certainly puts front row to shame in its infancy stages. is this open source? developers PLEASE KEEP WORKING ON THIS!!! this is awesome, but still needs work!
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| Jul 19 2008 |
NOTAFOOL This updated version (Plex 0.5b10) STILL contains absolutely NO documentation or help whatsoever. Mr Developer, I'm damned if I can figure out how to use this complicated and unintuitive software without some proper HELP. It MAY well be fantastic software, but unless you provide some USEFUL, CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE documentation soon, I strongly suspect that heaps of potential users - such as myself - will totally lose all interest in even trying to find out whether it is good or bad software. NO documentation whatsoever, after requests for same, in my view demonstrates a complete lack of interest in those people willing to give your software a fair try.
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| Jul 30 2008 |
CJC1959AU xbmc.org and read the online manual. it's not difficult.
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| Aug 23 2008 |
GRAPHIC_INNOVATIONS I have to agree with the last commenter - The developer did not 'write' this software, he has simply ported it. It has been around for years on the xbox, and going to the project's main page for pertinent information would be logical. That aside, I found the software to be quite intuitive... Every button performed the expected action, and adding external server sources was as easy as typing in their addresses... So what was it you didn't understand?
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| Sep 1 2008 |
GRAPHIC_INNOVATIONS Ah ok, so you went to the home page, read the manual and are still lost? Well, I guess there is no helping you. For me, typing in addresses with my keyboard is trivial. This version behaves exactly as the game console version, not sure what to tell you.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
CJC1959AU And I would hope that you would give the developers a little bit of slack considering Plex is something you aren't even paying any money for. Have you even donated to the porting crew? Maybe if documentation is so important to you, then you should offer your services to the porting crew to write documentation and online help? or do you just want to whinge? Well, now that you are so annoyed with the poor Plex developers who are getting nothing for what they are doing other than satisfaction and the odd donation, are you going to actually put your hand in your pocket and purchase software that better fits your needs? I didn't think so!
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| Sep 1 2008 |
CJC1959AU Oooooo gees, we are very bitchy aren't we? At no time have I made any personal comments or attacks at all towards you and yet you continue to attack me and others on a personal level. Not a good way to get people to help you. How to setup a Mac program? Open the dmg/zip file and drop the item into your Applications folder. Double click on the icon and follow what is on the screen by pressing a few buttons on your mouse, keyboard or Apple Remote and see what happens. I have at no time read any documentation for Plex or OSXBMC (what it was called previously). I just did exactly the above and went from there. I wonder what happens when I press this button? Oh, so that's what happens. Most of the skins are quite intuitive. Clicking on "Change My Settings" takes you to the configuration screens. Clicking on "Watch My Movies" takes you to your Movies folder. Clicking on "Listen To Music" takes you to your Music folder (but not unfortunately your iTunes folder). Clicking on "View My Pictures" takes you to your Pictures folder. Rather than getting all high and mighty and insulting everyone personally, why don't you try starting the program and pressing the arrow keys/enter a few times? I think you can also use your mouse by default too. You can also use an Apple Remote but I think that has to be turned on in one of the settings. You should be able to find it under Settings -> Remote (I think). You can also load up other skins and use them. Some of the skins are much simpler and easier to use than the current default skin. Look on the OSXBMC forums and you will find information about how to make any skin available for use. You can enable the mouse through the settings, but some think that typically it's better to use the keyboard. The default keys are as follows : - go up back (or up) a directory Is there heaps of stuff about Plex that I don't know yet? Quite possibly, I don't claim to be any expert on Plex. I just click on buttons and see what happens. And if I want to do something specific and I don't know how, I play around a bit and then I usually go to the OSXBMC forums or I do a Google search. I go looking for my answer. Is Plex perfect? Far from it, I never claimed it was. Is it simple and easy to use? I have found that mostly it is. Would it be easier if someone collected all the accumulated information and knowledge in one place and distributed it? Quite possibly For now, I'll just keep playing and see what happens when I click buttons. For a FREE program that works pretty well the majority of the time, I find exploration and learning a small price to pay! And I don't have to insult anyone anywhere along the way to do it!
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| Jun 24 2008 |
BUGEYEDMONSTER It's got a nice gui, etc, but the one feature I wanted from it (upnp client) seems not to work with my mediatomb server. I know the server works, because I already use it with my PS3, but on the Mac I seem to get nothing. CPU goes NUTS, and I get some audio, but nothing else. Most disappointing. When will a decent upnp client for Mac appear??
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| Jun 23 2008 |
ANTHONY SIGALAS This is the Media Center software to use on Mac OSX. While it might seem daunting at first to set up, it's actually easy to use and offers a great deal of customizations. You can download skins to change the way it looks (I'm very fond of xTV, a Front Row clone). OSXBMC plays most of the known media file format with better results than VLC. High Definition MKVs look great and software upconversion do wonders on SD content. The developers are friendly and open to suggestions and this thing is free - what more could you wish? My favorite feature of the newest betas is smart folders support! Too cool!
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| Jun 23 2008 |
NOTAFOOL This program MAY conceivably be good. But the current total absence of ANY documentation or help whatsoever makes it utterly useless for me at present. WHAT is it capable of actually doing ? And HOW does one get the program to actually do it ? At present I have absolutely no idea ! Come on Mr Developer. Tell us all - in detail - how to use your program and I'll be delighted to give it a favourable review if it deserves one !!
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| Jun 7 2008 |
DARUKARU Absolutely beautiful upscaling--better than QuickTime or VLC's to my eye. DVDs look nearly HD. More documentation about how to set up the media library would be helpful. Heck, more documentation period.
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| May 30 2008 |
KEYES please include iTunes-support! (itunes & xbmc on the same mac)
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| May 13 2008 |
SCIFI Ditto. Many of us cannot move away from Tiger for various reasons. If XBMC is based on open source projects, there is no reason to relegate your app in this manner. Thank you.
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| May 13 2008 |
TRONDAH I believe you are welcome to join the project and add Tiger support. Or if you made a donation I'm sure the few developers working on XBMC for OSX would consider adding Tiger support for you.
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| May 15 2008 |
SCIFI Thats a typical remark we get when we make a simple request to not leave Tiger/Panther/PPC/etc. support behind on any open source project. It is understood that we may join a project and/or donate to it, goes without saying. If a team already involved does not know how popular Tiger/PPC/etc. still are and the reasons we cannot upgrade to Leopard/later and/or switch to (buy) an Intel machine, then we have the obligation to let the teams know. But there are more direct ways to let them know besides using MacUpdate as a sounding board, we should be using them also (e.g. file bugreports & such). Thank you.
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| May 30 2008 |
XPANDER many of the dll's and libraries that XBMC uses are all dependent on the x86 architecture to function, so all those would have to be compiled to run on PPC first, and then xbmc would be able to make an attempt at running on PPC. Still running on PPC myself, I know it would be nice to have a version for us, but I'm not holding my breath that anyone would submit themselves to such a huge undertaking for a dying platform. That's wht I keep an old pc and (4) modded xboxes around strewn through the house. XBMC FTW.
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| Jun 2 2008 |
TRONDAH SciFi: simple request? In your previous post you sound like you are being forced to use this software, and it's really easy for the devs to add tiger support. In reality, we are all lucky to have those few devs working hours and hours in their _spare_ time to get us XBMC for OSX. They do not have the resources to do a tiger port, for sure. No bug report will fix that. That's why I suggest talk to the main developer, he is actually very responsive to requests and a really nice guy.
(Version 0.5b5) | |
| Sep 24 2008 |
D4RK XBMC for Mac supports Tiger if you're interested: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28851/xbmc-media-center
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| May 10 2008 |
FLINSTONE It is really great that some people take the media centre idea on the Mac serious! it's new to be able to play MKV files in this kind of slickness (or any other file). It already is superb but still beta. My money is on the table when this one is at version 1.0 I am really stunned!
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| May 9 2008 |
JOHNODD Awesome hands down one of the best frontends for playing media on the mac just install this and vlc and you have it made this really kicks butt
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| May 8 2008 |
DJEFIS The beautifulst and elegant "Media Center" Player that I used on my Mac.
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| May 8 2008 |
JAYHAWKBABE Hot, hot, hot!! This is gorgeous software and, though still beta, was the final factor in me getting rid of my home made (windoze) media PC and investing in a Mac. When this software matures a bit, it will crush FrontRow. Love it!
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| Apr 27 2008 |
DAVID GILMOUR This is the best piece of software ever written for the Mac Mini. The Mac Mini was waiting for this software to be written. 720p and 1080p mkv files on a Mac Mini Core Duo. Amazing. The most beautiful interface ever (with xtv skin). The writer of this program should be thanked by Steve Jobs on his knees, this software is *that* good!
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| May 18 2008 |
FRONTPAGE I have been clamoring and arguing in an empty room on what DVD player, jukebox, media server... whatever the name... that I should get for watching movies on my new 1080p projector. But I started finding these posts on the Mac mini, which I have resisted since I always get MacBook Pro laptops for work. Seeing your glowing report on mkv files and how they play, please, if you have time to send a detailed response with your hardware and software setups, or post them somewhere (like the OSXBMC site) I and many people looking for the next phase of true multimedia experience would be honored to see! Thanks!!
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| May 18 2008 |
DAVID GILMOUR I have a 1.83 Core Duo (version 1), 1GB RAM and play all 720p flawlessly. The few 1080p mkv's I've tried all play excellent as well!
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| Apr 24 2008 |
AIRTRAXX Osxbmc is hands down the best media center option for OSX. Frontrow has nothing on it. Osxbmc can play all formats I've thrown at it so far, and plays HD encoded content the best when compared to using vlc or quicktime. I love that I can catalog all my media using the scrapers. Xbmc on the Xbox was great and I'm glad to have it on OSX. I had trouble watching HD content on the Xbox but now that it's on OSX which is running off my mac pro hooked up to my 1080p rear projection tv, everything just works. Can't wait for universal remote support. Using my Harmoney to control Osxbmc will be awesome.
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| Apr 24 2008 |
GMACKENZ Out of all the alternatives to Front Row, I think this app has the best potential to far surpass it. I am a long time user of XBMC on the original XBox and just recently moved my XBox upstairs for my wife to use as I now use this application for almost all of my home theater needs. I have nothing but the highest admiration for Elan (and the others who've joined the development efforts) to make XBMC a more mac-like application from the ongoing main Linux-porting efforts. Once python script support is fully stable, one of the final missing pieces will be in place and I could recommend this application for everyone. As of version 0.45, it is pretty stable and handles most media you can throw at it. (I also loved this project so much I sent $$$ for many beers to Elan.)
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| Apr 24 2008 |
THAJEZTAH Very nice software, many options that are missing in Front Row although the interface is les intuitive (especially when used with the Apple Remote). The more recent releases are geared towards improving the integration with OS X (removing configuration-settings that are not required on OS X). (for those worried how to 'install'; XBMC is, unlike some other 'MediaCenters', a normal application, it does -not- replace Front Row, just drag XBMC to your applications folder and start it) Four star-rating; still some room for improvements. XBMC 5 will be released soon and promises to improve integration with the Apple Remote
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| Apr 24 2008 |
LOA The best. Fastest, most versatile, prettiest. It plays everything better than anything else. Replaces QT, mplayer, and vlc, no regrets.
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| Apr 24 2008 |
MIKEMCDUFFIE It's amazing how quickly elan and crew are developing this port of XBMC. I replaced Front Row with XBMC early on in the builds as it's that good. Every release gets better and the team has a clear roadmap with milestones (features and target dates) published. The community support for XBMC in general and the Mac OS X port in specific are excellent. elan is very active on the boards (now get back to coding ;-). I'm donating and looking forward to version 0.50!
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| Apr 8 2008 |
XPANDER This is hands down the best software for playing your media files. Nothing even comes close. I've been using it on my xbox for a couple years now, and it's just gotten better. I would go buy an intel mac mini just to install this and put it on my tv.
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