Front Row alternative

[Vadatajs]

I have a mac mini that I've been using as a media center pc for over a year now. On the whole it's been very capable (better even than my ps3 for picture quality). The only thing is I recently upgraded the audio connection to toslink from analog only to discover that front row/quicktime can't output 5.1 channel sound.

VLC works, and the remote can be used to play/pause and enter/leave full screen, but I'm not aware of any way to use the remote to browse my media collection the way I can with front row.

Are there any alternatives to front row that will allow me to browse my collection using the remote and output 5.1 channel sound?

 

[BrianP]

XBMC

 

[aphex]

I think MediaCentral can do it; http://www.equinux.com/us/prod...ediacentral/index.html

Haven't tried it myself yet, but check out Plex (XBMC ported to OSX) - http://elan.plexapp.com/
Video of Plex in action - http://www.tinkeringwithin.com...c-with-aeon-skin-demo/

 

[Vadatajs]

Thanks, I'll give them a look.