Comments on: Run-down on Mac OS X media center software

By: iphone apps

iphone apps — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:03:18 +0000

Great to have Mac OS X media center software.

By: Daniel Kedinger

Daniel Kedinger — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:08:57 +0000

Thanks for the reviews Michael. I would suggest looking into Boxee. It is a phenominal program. I wish it worked on PowerPC G5, but alas Intel online. It is a great program and really fast. http://www.boxee.tv/homepage/

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:34:26 +0000

Great post Michael, I just found this a little bit too late, though. The good side about it is that I just freshly re-evaluated e.g. XHub, Eyetv3, etc. and looked at some other options for Mac Mini outside OS X as well at http://www.gamaze.com/blog/?p=64

By: rofl

rofl — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:25:34 +0000

yeah i know what you mean though.

im willing to give it a hack as the titles i did setup look stunning and i think it could be worth the effort.

i really want this PLEX to work. im sick of my PC just being crap and having to rebuild it every 6 months just to get it back to basic functionality.

ill let you know how i go. after all i gotta look out for my fellow melburnians! ;)

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:01:45 +0000

Oh, glad to hear you got it working! Perhaps it needs a little more elbow grease. I could forgive it the troublesome setup if it worked well afterwards. I just haven’t got that far yet – I add my media drive to the sources, then view the library, restarting the app once or twice after nothing happens… But still nothing: “No scanned information for this view. Switch to the Files view”. Bleh, says I.

By: rofl

rofl — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:48:36 +0000

really? ive just had a brief hack at it and found it really impressive.

but i do agree with you that its more complex than i needs to be.

By immature to you mean poorly designed or buggy? Because i was able to add sources and get imdb info all with the little apple remote, which i thought was quite impressive.

The setup is a tad daunting and way more complex than anything ive experienced since moving to Apple but its nothing on the crap that ive seen in the Windows camp! Have a look at Media Portal. You would never know that such an ugly and complex piece of software has its origins in the same place as PLEX.

Ive only just found PLEX today also and it shows a lot of promise for when Apple release the next gen Mac Mini which will replace my Windows MCE machine.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:14:59 +0000

I just had a look at Plex – it looks very pretty, but smells like immature open source, unfortunately.. Very tricky to use, I couldn’t make the ‘Library’ feature, one of Plex’s main selling points, do anything at all. Set up my sources, and followed the docs (which I actually needed to read, never a good thing), and still got told that there was nothing there. Boo!

By: rofl

rofl — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:13:20 +0000

if you can over look the lack of live TV (for now), PLEX looks the goods.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:16:38 +0000

What a great piece of software it is too - unfortunately I already had it installed =)

Maybe I'll give it another try some time.

By: johan bergum

johan bergum — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:04:45 +0000

You need codecs to play non-standard QuckTime files. I use Perian. It handles most video encodings: http://perian.org

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:29:01 +0000

Great! I downloaded it and had a play, couldn’t get it to play the first couple of fairly standard-looking files I tried, then uninstalled it again =) Perhaps there’s something wrong with the machine I tried it on…

By: johan bergum

johan bergum — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:04:41 +0000

XHub 2 is out. Seems very fast and stable. No crashes for me so far. I really like the way I can customise everything. Love the interface and EyeTV integration.

XHub Media Center: http://www.snarb.tk

By: eike

eike — Sun, 06 May 2007 06:03:59 +0000

Hi!

I use Remote Buddy as my Media Center App. It is not perfect, but for 10 Bucks it´s great for everything I do. Try it, maybe you like it. Greetings, eike