Plex, the ideal home media center.

There are many, many media players out there, but Plex differentiates itself in several ways.

• It connects to online information such as IMDB automatically to provide thumbnails, categories and general information.
• It seemlessly integrates with your iTunes library.
• The GUI is a fantastic.
• It supports several online services including the following:

• Apple Movie Trailers
• BBC iPlayer
• Game Trailers
• Hulu
• Joost
• Major League Baseball
• March Madness Basketball
• National Public Radio
• Netflix Watch instantly
• Pandora Player
• PBS online streaming content
• Pitchfork Media
• South Park
• Spotify
• SVT Play (Swedish TV)
• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Kos
• The Daily Show
• The Onion News Network
• The White House Updates
• TV4 Play (Swedish TV4)
• YouTube

This is an ideal solution for a home media center. I have it running on my laptop. This lets me browse my music, videos and photos literally anywhere. I often plug it into a TV via my laptop’s HDMI output, letting me get the big screen experience on the fly.

Set-up is incredibly easy, consisting of two pieces of software, a server and a client. You run the server on the computer(s) that contains your media and run the client(s) on the computer(s) you want to play the files.

Just install the software, and instantly being enjoying the power of a full-fledged media center.

http://www.plexapp.com/