Use your Mac as optimal media center!
nessMediaCenter is the suitable replacement for Apple's Front Row: easy to use with a clean look and feel, direct access to movie / picture folder and volumes, support of Aperture, iPhoto and iTunes media including DRM, and comfortable selection of DVDs, EyeTV movies, PDF documents, pictures and videos in all common formats.
Media center and media presentations can be controlled by Apple remote control, "NV Remote" for iPhone and iPod touch, touchpad, Magic mouse or keyboard.
Home entertainment as its purest - comfortable and relaxing, from the couch, armchair, bed or directly at the Apple computer.
MAS: the 64 bit version (based on "AV Foundation") is available at the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/nessmediacenter/id913330315?l=en&ls=1&mt=12
tvOS: The Apple TV version is different from the Mac version, as for example on an Apple TV local media can not be be stored. Therefore, the Apple TV version provides (so far) only access to media server and their media.
VidHub_App added nessMediaCenter as alternative to VidHub - Video Library & Player
Comments and Reviews
I am a media fan: just interested in enjoying my media. And I like simplicity combined with features - this is the reason why I decided to buy a Mac.
My first trials with media centers - many years ago - were very frustrating:
Front Row was already installed, Mac like, free of charge, and the interface was not too bad, but its features? It is a miracle for me why people ask to get it back. Just imagine hundreds of music videos: after starting and watching one video, the nice animated GUI returned to itself forcing me to select another video. Did (or do) I miss a way how to watch multiple videos one after the other?
By the way: the "Videos" app on iPad is even worse: it needs two (!) steps to start one video and then it returns. And Apple TV seems to consider if it should play the next video... :-)
Then I tried MediaCentral, Plex, XBMC and some other media centers... and I was surprised: it seems that I am part of a minor group of users who just want to watch (sometimes short) videos.
A media center is just a "tool" for me: it must help me to easily find, select and watch my media. 95 percent of time I do not even want to see the media center, its GUI and the metadata: I want to watch media.
This should be a review of nessMediaCenter, and not about the disadvantages of other applications. Otherwise the review would be very, very long and I would compare things like 10 feed interface, DVD or iTunes DRM support, file name convention, privacy, Windows look & feel...
Thus I will come to the point: I do not know another application which combines simplicity and features.
And thanx for the "random" playback / playlist feature: I am again and again surprised to see music videos I did not even remember to have.
[Edited by mediafan, October 06]