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MrMC is a software media center for playing videos, music, and pictures. MrMC, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, and other digital media files from local storage media and media devices/servers such as Emby, Plex, HDHomerun, TVHeadend and more.
Category Price Seller Device
Entertainment Free ROOTCODER, L.L.C. iPhone, iPad, iPod

Features:
- integrated Trakt support
- integrated Emby client with Direct Stream
- integrated Plex client with Direct Play
- integrated SMB, NFS, FTP/SFTP clients
- integrated LightEffects client (boblight/ambilight)
- integrated SQLite or external MySQL databases for video/music libraries
- supports MKV, DVDs (with DVD menu support) and other video files
- supports ACC, FLAC, DD, DTS and other audio formats
- supports MythTV, HDHomeRun and many other IPTV devices
- user installed python addons/plugins are not supported

Reviews

Plays DVD ISOs with full menu support
FormerlyAndroid

I have some DVDs that I converted to ISO to play on iPad. After a lot of failed attempts with other apps MrMC played these with full menu support (very important as these were more organized by menu than chapter) my only negative is this is not the easiest app to figure out, it does take some work to understand its process flow, but once I did that extremely happy!


Close but needs Improvement
zjfsuc

I downloaded the Lite version to try this app before buying. When it works, it works well. Unfortunately, it seems to take several tries to start watching live TV from my MythTV backend. Either the guide data does not show, or the live TV shows channel unavailable. This occurs even when I verify the channel works by checking my Kodi front ends on my TV. Watching recordings and movies works very well. If the live Tv worked seamlessly, I would buy the full version immediately. There could also be some improvement in the overall user interface. Getting to the controls for stopping, starting, pausing, etc, the media is not intuitive and takes a few tries to pull up the controls. A simple tap on the screen should bring up the media controls. It does not.


Poor
xgh

This review is strictly for using MrMC as a remote and/or client for Plex. Don't waste your time let alone purchase the full version. This is the typical coder's app. I'm sure it's elegant but only in the mind of its parent. The "human" interface stinks. Nonsense like it takes about 30 seconds to pull up the video controls (pause, FF, etc). Not because the app is slow. But because it is a complete mystery to anyone in this household as to how to access them. 3 of us have spent 2 days trying to find the magic touch that shows them. And all of us have found the only way is to tap all over the place, one finger, two fingers, whatever. Usually takes about 30 seconds before the controls suddenly appear. At which point, if you wanted a pause, you're not too impressed with MrMC. Setup is perplexing. Alphabetical order does not exist in the main menu, nor can the order be changed. I can go on but suffice to say, this might be a great client and/or remote for Plex. But it's not.


Junk
hoopes4908

What a heaping pile of garbage.


Decent app, but horrible on IOS
PHANTASM2016.

I wanted a consistent app to play files from my NAS and was using MRMC on my Shield and when I picked up an Apple TV 4K I was happy to see it on IOS, but the functionality is not on par with the Shield and while the Apple TV 4K has better PQ I can not say the same for MRMC which no matter what settings I play with has raised blacks such that there is no perfect black even in the letter box bars. Very disappointed this app is such a mess.


Basically Kodi for tvOS
EricTheRed34

There have been many updates since many of the negative reviews. Many bugs have been squashed and many new features have been introduced. This app is basically Kodi for tvOS. There are a plethora of options to customize your experience and this is one of the few apps for tvOS that supports 7.1 atmos audio. There is also no subscription, so you get the full deal for only a few dollars. Compared to the Nvidia shield, this app makes tvOS much better.


Best local video player for ATV
Ned Scott

I've tried them all, and MrMC has them all beat.


This could be really great
Sfatula

Overall, this would be a 6 star app if only bugs were fixed. Main problems I am having are the guide not being populated on startup using mythtv (have to run mrmc several times) and various UI issues like the popup guide in live tv, no way out of it. I posted on the mrmc forums close to a month ago, no response at all. So, I can't see myself buying it with no support.


I want to love this buggy app
Greg2217

I love the vision of MrMC. Solid dev team that’s been formed, and the constant updates are great. That said this is buggy. It’s a bit clunky to use on a iPhone touchscreen (iPhone X). Take the new Plex for Kodi add on… Love it that it’s now available, but user interface challenges make it really hard to enjoy. I’m not sure that you can even exit the add-on and get back to MrMC. Anyway - it’s a good start but hard to switch from native plex to this just yet. Again - I have high hopes as updates keep coming.


Minimal Emby Support
Letters0

I would like to see transcoding options for emby. This would be useful for remote low bandwidth situations and handing hi10p and hevc encodes without murdering battery and performance. Music player is slightly buggy and ideally I’d like to see background playback. 5 stars because the app is as advertised and giving low reviews for a feature request is scummy.