INDYHALLLABS  SJK:

To be fair, Apple has not officially announced that they will be dropping PPC support, but the developer previews have been Intel Only and, as I mentioned, the PPC versions of Core Animation are out of date. If there's any chance of supporting PPC without sacrificing user experience, we'd love to do so.

We'll be finding out the details while we're at WWDC and if it looks like there's any chance that PPC will continue being supported in parallel to the growth of their Intel platform, and based on our findings we'll incorporate that into planning.  
(Version 1.0.3)

INDYHALLLABS  You can send us screenshots and any other error reporting to support@multiplexapp.com and we'll be happy to work with you to get issues resolved. We appreciate your feedback, it helps us make the app stronger!

As for VIDEO_TS support, there are some issues with how Spotlight (which we use to find your movies) keeps track of files that makes it a lot harder than you'd think to simply track down VIDEO_TS folders. We can do it, but the obvious way is god-awful slow and we really don't want to kill the user experience.

The whole Multiplex team is attending WWDC next week in San Francisco, and this issue is one of our priorities: we plan to sit down with some of the folks from Apple who can unwravel some inner-workings of Spotlight that should let us track down the VIDEO_TS files you've already created without killing the performance of the app.

Again, we appreciate your feedback, and hope that we can incorporate it into future releases of Multiplex, which is still in VERY active development.  
(Version 1.0.2)

INDYHALLLABS  Unfortunately, Apple has chosen to not keep their Core Animation libraries up to date for PPC architecture. The entire "Stadium" interface of Multiplex is drawn using Core Animation, and as such, excludes PPC users.

Given that Apple has decided to stop supporting PPC for it's next OS release, it was our decision to continue thinking forward and focus on maintaining currently supported systems.

We're sorry that you haven't upgraded yet, but we believe you'll find that you're going to be excluded from more and more new software as developers take advantage of Apple's new frameworks that they do not maintain for older systems.   
(Version 1.0.2)

INDYHALLLABS  What sorts of movies are you trying to organize with Multiplex? Our "Automagic" movie detection works with .dvdmedia bundle files, which are really just a renamed VIDEO_TS folder generated by DVD Ripping software. We modeled this after RipIt rips, but any non-compressed video rip can be converted easily. There's instructions here:

http://forum.multiplexapp.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3&page=1#Item_0

We're not auto-magically finding your compressed movies because there aren't any elegant ways at this point for us to fingerprint them to get metadata for you, so finding those files with spotlight won't give you much of a headstart ahead of dragging the same movies onto Multiplex's main screen and searching for the box art and title info from Amazon, which you can still do for non-DVD videos.

I'm not 100% clear on the issues you're having with manually adding videos. How are you adding them? Are you getting an error? Can you screenshot the error, or provide us with any logs, we'd like to get to the bottom of the problem you're having but they sound unique to any issues we've had reported while we were in beta.

There's not any specific reason why Multiplex would cause VLC to crash, either. The current version of Multiplex doesn't interfere with any existing player defaults, it simply launches the video file in it's default player (in some cases, that will be VLC). Again, any crash logs or screenshots you can provide will help us fix your issues.

We really hope we can clear up your issues with Multiplex!  
(Version 1.0.2)

INDYHALLLABS  We're sorry that Multiplex isn't living up to your expectations. Our goals are a bit different thatn Plex, though. Our primary goal was to make it easy to organize and collect metadata for your DVD collections.

While not as fully automated as DVD discovery is on local and external drives, Multiplex has made it quite easy to keep track of your non-DVD video files: it's as simple as dragging them onto Multiplex's primary window, dock icon, or browsing to them from the File->Add other movie files menu.

Once Multiplex knows about your non-DVD videos (anything from TV-show to podcasts and more) Multiplex treats it the same way, letting you easily add movie metadata & box art, search, sort, and group movies, and play them in the system's native player.

We haven't released our player yet because our vision for the player is broader than simply including a player natively in Multiplex. We hope that once we release our player-related features, we can win your heart back.

Thanks for feeding back, and we hope you continue to try Multiplex in subsequent feature releases.

Feel free to add feature requests, and votes, to the in-app feedback tool. We pay attention to that stuff, it's how some of our favorite features came to be in Multiplex!

  
(Version 1.0.2)