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Product Description:
Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.
What's new in this version:
- FIX: Idle CPU reduced greatly. On an iMac we went from 24% to around 9.8%. On a 1.83GHz Mini we went from 38% to 16%. Al Gore is happy.
- FIX: Hang when playing WebKit content after 5.1 content.
- FIX: A few issues causing App Store/plug-ins to disappear.
- FIX: Hang on exit (when Media Server Scrobbler was enabled).
- FIX: Cannot play/browse AC/DC (and other artists with funky names) from the iTunes library. Heavy metal fans rejoice!
- FIX: Scrobbling plays of AAC files to the Plex Media Server wasn't working.
- FIX: Crash on start when Plex Media Server was run on a computer without Plex.
- FIX: Intermittant lack of audio when starting 5.1 videos when background music/themes was enabled. (We also disabling the fading, which was not helping.)
- FIX: VC-1 apparent regression in ffmpeg 0.5 which caused much higher CPU usage and related problems. Ryan and I resolved it by reverting to an earlier version of the codec. Thanks to Peter for bringing the issue to our attention, and to Aaron for help in tracking it down.
- FIX: View Slideshow context menu items weren't enabled for top-level photo plug-ins.
- FIX: Jay and Isaac tweaked the default settings for IMDB to make sure the best quality posters are returned.
- FIX: James made some tweak to Now Playing. The flip time is now configurable in the Advanced Settings Cocoa UI (Make it flip every 5 seconds! Make your child and/or pets motion sick!) Additionally, the background is more in line with look of MediaStream.
- FIX: We've defaulted the automatic audio stream selection to false, as we think that default makes more sense (Thanks, Isaac! You can turn it off manually yourself in the video player preferences.) We also fixed an issue with the auto-selection of subtitles if the auto-selection of audio streams was disabled.
- FIX: We pulled the latest libdcr code which decodes RAW images (it fixes some pink-hue issues with newer cameras).
- FIX: As forum user "someone" reported, the German strings were botched in the previous version.
- FIX: Sébastien Vaast kindly send us updates to the French translation.
- FIX: We fixed a possible crash with Javascript seek bars in site profiles.
- FIX: Relative coordinates on "thumb" seek-bars were broken, many thanks to Robert Nio for reporting the issue and testing the fix.
- FIX: We pulled the latest XBMC UPnP code, in hopes this would help with some problems reported on the forums. We also pulled a fix related to the sendkey HTTP-API command, and a few other fixes.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
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Another great update 
- Version: 0.7.14, 4/8/2009 06:12AM PST
(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)
xain092
Mac User take note: this is the best mediacenter app on the market!
great stuff! 
- Version: 0.5.0b2, 3/1/2009 01:33PM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
zilverster
This is really a great application, and it's for free!
I connected my TV to my Imac through the external monitor connection,
with a 18 m cable.
Thanks to XBMC I can now see any kind of video with few problems,
I can even add srt subtitles. And the remote for the Imac works as well!
Thank you guys for a great job!
There are some things:
The manual synchronization of the subtitles is very confusing and the range is very limited (-10 to +10 sec),
The scripts do not work with me,
music is a very puzzling thing to play here
actually, only the video is great, but the video then is really great!
I connected my TV to my Imac through the external monitor connection,
with a 18 m cable.
Thanks to XBMC I can now see any kind of video with few problems,
I can even add srt subtitles. And the remote for the Imac works as well!
Thank you guys for a great job!
There are some things:
The manual synchronization of the subtitles is very confusing and the range is very limited (-10 to +10 sec),
The scripts do not work with me,
music is a very puzzling thing to play here
actually, only the video is great, but the video then is really great!
Great great greatest - Version: 0.7.10, 2/27/2009 02:06AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
xain092
Being a big Boxee user I was surprised how many options this mediacenter app has.
It takes a while to figure it all out but once it's up and running all works very well.
Recommended.
It takes a while to figure it all out but once it's up and running all works very well.
Recommended.
