Plex

Over a year ago, I started to play around with using my MacBook Pro as a media center. I had bought a new HDTV a couple of months prior, and wanted to see how I could get the most out of its display capabilities.

I started with VLC, which worked OK, but at the time it was incapable of 5.1 surround output. The next application I tried was MPlayer (using the GUI version), which did everything I needed but all the commands required a keyboard, using arcane commands.