Plex bridges the gap between your home theater and your Mac, 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.
Being able to play all your media in one application is great. Being able to do that and automatically download movie and TV show artwork, fan-art, plot and episode information as well as artwork and artist/album information for your music is simply brilliant!
The Library does the work so you spend less time organizing your media and more time enjoying it. Looking for a romantic comedy? Browse by genre. Looking for a horrible movie to make fun of? Sort by rating and pick the bottom one!
Here are some key features of "Plex":
· Audio: Playing, Visualizations (MProject), MP3, OGG, AAC, FLAC.
· Video: Playing, Full-screen, most video formats.
· Photos: Viewing, browsing, slideshows.
· Metadata: IMDB, Allmusic, etc pull down working.
· Library mode: Working but can be flaky.
· Connectivity: Local disk, FTP.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· NEW: [Mac] Support for automatic refresh rate switching. And there was much rejoicing.
· NEW: Add a way to specify a manual address for a media server, useful for working around network issues.
· NEW: When running without a server, search now returns cloud results.
· NEW: Add a global audio delay setting.
· FIX: CPU usage for software decoding greatly reduced for all codecs, fixing VC-1 “stutter” issue and playback on older machines.
· FIX: Allow selecting interface language in preferences.
· FIX: Enable down-mix volume boost preference.
· FIX: Enable speaker configuration preference.
· FIX: A hang in the home screen.
· FIX: Losing a server even though it was running on the same machine.
· FIX: Not enough buffering (and therefore playback issues) with remote transcoded media.
· FIX: Toggling full screen works on multi-display setups.
· FIX: Allow ESC to get out of a playlist.
· FIX: Add missing strings for shutdown timer.
· FIX: Change the audio settings dialog to show delay in milliseconds, it seemed more huma...