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I’ve been using the Sapphire plug-in for Front Row as a media centre application for a few months now. I like it because it creates virtual directories of TV shows for me. So, I just dump whatever I’ve downloaded into the TV directory, and Sapphire organizes it in a coherent way for me to navigate on my television.

It also gives me the ability to filter out the shows that I’ve already watched. This is a great feature because I have a lot of shows in that directory, and I don’t want to have to hunt for what I want to watch.

There is a drawback to the Sapphire plug-in though. Actually, it has to do with Front Row itself. Front Row will only use Quicktime to play video, so I have to use the Perian plug-in (which will play just about any format). Perian doesn’t like mkv files too much. They stutter at the beginning of the file, and jumping around inside the file is a nightmare.

So, I’ve been looking into Plex, which is an offshoot of the XBMC project. It uses mplayer for video, and mplayer doesn’t suffer from the same problems that Perian suffers from. There are a couple of drawbacks to Plex though.

Plex doesn’t have iTunes or iPhoto integration…yet. iPhoto, I can live with out, but I like being able to access my playlists in iTunes rather than navigating through directories.

I guess the ultimate solution for me would be to force Front Row to play video with mplayer or VLC. Anybody know how to do that?

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