OSXBMC becomes Plex

A while back the team behind the Xbox Media Center on OS X (which we covered a while back) announced that they were forking the Mac version from the main trunk. Now they've decided that the Mac version will be getting a new name: Plex (as in 'cineplex' or 'googleplex'). For those of you haven't tried it yet, basically Plex is a Front Row replacement media center application that grew out of the long developed XBMC (originally developed for the first Xbox).

The lastest available version is 0.5.0b10 (which still hasn't been rebranded) and is a free download. In addition there is a great new skin for XBMC called Aeon, which works with Plex and frankly looks amazingly slick.

[via Gizmodo]

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Source: http://www.osxbmc.com/2008/07/05/announcing-plex/

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Trevor

i've been trying out plex and i must say, it massively sucks compared to front row's simplistic elegance. it kills front row in terms of features, but falls on its ass when it comes to usability. fyi :/

September 14 2008 at 11:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

justin

Yeah, I can't get Aero skin to work either...

July 11 2008 at 6:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin Walther

Wow...been searching for a frontrow replacement for my mini for some time now. Even with perian, it doesn't want to handle HD content very well, even on local disks. Forget about HD content on a remote AFP share. I used XBMC on an xbox pre-HDTV and loved it. For some reason, it just handles caching so much better and remote HD content works beautifully. Cheers Plex team!

July 09 2008 at 9:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sietepestes

Sucks it doesnt run on PPC... :(

July 09 2008 at 7:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jared

the funny thing is that 'googLEplex' has supplanted 'googOLplex' in our lexicon.

damn google.

July 09 2008 at 2:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

totoro

Best of luck to the Plex team-sounds like they took the best option available to them by forking at this time. Look forward to what they do next!

And check out the comments section on that blog entry-yikes :p

July 09 2008 at 12:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bob

I like Boxee better.

July 09 2008 at 11:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

maccabbi

skins go in ~/Library/Application Support/XBMC/skin
There are several compatible skins on the plex forum site. I have Aeon, a version downloaded a couple weeks ago.

July 09 2008 at 11:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bob

Plex is cool but should recognise the default media directories in osx without configration. oh and as far as i can tell the latest version of Aeon id NOT compatable with the latest Plex (xbmc).

July 09 2008 at 11:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Taxman

How do you install the Aeon skin for OSXBMC?

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Blackstar

To install skins, put it in the:

user/Application Support/XBMC/skins folder

Then launch the application and select it in the Appearance options.

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