14 DAY TRIAL // Plex has had the great pleasure of introducing its upcoming Plex Media Player desktop app for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and embedded devices, such as Raspberry Pi 2, ASUS Chromebox, or Intel NUC.
Plex Media Player aims to be the little sister project of the well-known Plex Media Center, which we have to admit is one of the most appreciated and downloaded media center apps, besides Kodi, of course, which is open source. Believe it or not, Plex Media Player is based on the powerful MPV media player software, which, in turn, is based on the acclaimed MPlayer and mplayer2 projects.
"We have something really special to share with you today. We’re incredibly proud to be taking the wraps off the future of premium media consumption in Plex. We’ve had a crack team working for the better part of a year on an app we’ve built from the ground up to deliver the absolute highest quality media browsing and playback experience," say the Plex developers in the announcement.
Highlights of Plex Media Player
Plex wants to make the Plex Media Player application the best media playback software ever created. We're not sure about that, but we know that it will attempt to play any media format that exists, including audio, video, and images, without the need to add codec packs and other third-party packages, and it will certainly be beautiful and informative about your media library (check the gallery below for details).
What we also know about Plex Media Player app is that its ultimate goal is to be truly cross-platform and provide hardware acceleration support, even on that little Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computer. We will have more news about the Plex Media Player app in the near feature, but until then, Plex Pass users can download it for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, or a supported embedded device. But wait, how about Linux?!
