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If I'm not mistaken, I believe when the team that was working on the XBMC port for mac got together they changed the name to Plex.
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Plex is a fork of XBMC for OSX.
A group of developers within Team-XBMC were working on the OSX version of XBMC. Differences in opinion in several areas resulted in a fork of XBMC for OSX which was later renamed to Plex.
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Not to bring up an old thread but:
The breaking point for me and the plex was the lack of support plex has for 10.4. Until I breakdown and buy a new mini or upgrade to 10.5, XBMC is the only option for me.
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I'm a user of both forks(xbmc and plex).
Since they released the new plex 0.7 I became very disappointed. The plex team figures that there are too much options in the settings panels. So they removed a lot of them, and a lot of those options i used to configure plex to my liking.
Now i have to edit the advancedsettings.xml, and leaves me thinking "is this evolution?" It feels the other way. This decreases the usability a lot IMHO. There are a couple of other examples where Plex is breaking from standard XBMC builds, and it's not the route i want to travel. I rather have one media center that is standardized on all my platforms.
I reverted all my OSX installations to XBMC for Mac.
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I used Plex on my Mac mini Intel Core2 Duo 1.8Mhz but i'm stopped and i'm going to use xbmc because Plex lack in support analog multichannel audio.
I use a Miglia Harmony Firewire sound card with 7.1 multichannel capability and it works well in xbmc while i must downmix to stereo to use it in Plex.
Keep in mind this when you have to choice.
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