Plex (formerly known as XBMC) is a complete media center for your Mac. Play back 1080p content with your Mac Mini, with support for AC3/DTS passthrough. Full-featured Video, Music and Pictures features. This is a port of the popular XBMC media center to the Mac.

To take the power and functionality of XBMC and get it completely ported to the OS X platform. To offer XBMC in a package that runs on (more) modern hardware that is more "accessible" to the non-expert user.

People should be able to experience XBMC in just minutes - and be as simple as downloading and installing any other Macintosh application.

Also, as many long time XBMC users know, the legacy XBox platform simply does not have the horsepower to play HD content.

The Plex wants that by targeting an OS that's underlying hardware is refreshed on a pretty regular basis will allow the project to continue to be able to play media as it gets increasingly higher definition and higher bit rate.

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 ]

· FIX: A bug where Plex and the Plex Media Server could get out of sync and display the wrong contents for a directory.
· FIX: An issue when stopping music playback, where the GUI “clicks” don’t restore and the playing track is still selected.
· FIX: Photo thumbnails were broken for plug-ins (thanks to orr721 for the report!)
· FIX: Hitting the menu button during a blank slideshow causes a crash. (thank to Majkel and other for the report!)
· FIX: When a track fails to play, Plex jumps into (blank) Now Playing screen anyway.
· FIX: Sometimes the photo screensaver started going “crazy fast”.
· FIX: The new remote code logged too much.
· FIX: The duration didn’t show up in plug-ins.
· FIX: You weren’t returned to the main menu correctly from items added to your Favorites, or direct links to plug-ins in the Music section. Existing favorites will need to be removed and re-added. (James)
· FIX: The iTunes plug-in now sorts artists by the “sort artist” field in iTunes. This one is for Scott!
· FIX: Crashes with WebKit plug-ins that appear in the Music section.
· FIX: PlexHelper occasionally stopped responding (or responded incorrectly) to button presses.
· FIX: Sometimes Plex didn’t start after the first run. Believe it or not, this was an OS X bug, now worked around.
· FIX: Plex hung when using the mouse wheel to scroll through text (thanks to hqrs for the report!)
· FIX: Changed the servers in the TVDB scraper to use the load balanced ones. (many thanks to kruisje for the fix!)
· FIX: Fixed a crash loading some RAW files.
· FIX: DTS-to-AC3 was broken in the last release. Thanks to our audio doctor Ryan who fixed it and improved the AC3 trancoding in the process.
· FIX: When you select “previous track” it now does the right thing with streamed content: moving to the start of the track or the previous track depending on how far along the track is (awesome, James!)
· NEW: Plug-in preferences show up on the context menu for the plug-in itself.
· NEW: Auto-sourcing of remote Plex Media Server iLife plug-ins. Let’s say you have a laptop with iTunes music, or your wife’s iMac has iPhoto on it. No longer do you have to manually add the sources, or wonder if they’ll work when you click on them. With the new version, sources add and remove themselves auto-magically thanks to Bonjour. Make sure you install the new Plex Media Server on the remote machines.