A powerful video player with remote control support?

Hi there, I'm currently looking at my most used Windows applications, to see if it is on Osx, or at least an equivalent to it.
Currently I enjoy using PotPlayer for my video needs (fluid playback of all formats, srt - file support and so on) on a laptop that is connected with hdmi to a TV.
This is then paired with Goldworm remote control, which enables me to control the video player from my Android phone (Galaxy Note 2). So the remote app needs to be available for Android too.

None of these programs are available for Mac, but do you know how I could get the same experience?

 

I suppose you could boot camp the Mac with windows just a suggestion....sadly I haven't owned a Mac in 4 years so I'm not sure I know any alternatives

 

Maybe see if XBMC for OSX will work. ( plus a codec pack ) I have never tried it on there but I use the windows and Android versions all the time to control our two media centers.

 

VLC develops their program for OS X, I'm just not sure about the remote option. If you have a Mac with an IR sensor, you can always buy an Apple remote to control basic playback functions.

 

May work, Last time I tried it it was awfully buggy in the OSX version. but here is a guide to get started if you want to try
VLC Remote Setup - Manual method for Mac OS

 

In case it wasn't clear, I don't own a mac yet, I'm merely examining the implications of switching.

As far as I can remember, the vlc remote is very simple, and doesn't work all that well.

I haven't used xbmc, but that could be a good idea, I'll have to research it some more.

Bootcamp is of course a possibility, but is it possible to interact with the Mac partition when running Windows?
It would be a bit of a pain, to move files from the Mac partition to the Windows partition, every time I want to watch something.

 

Yes it is possible to interact with it as long as the apple drivers are installed we bootcampped my friends Mac so he could play Arma II and all those games with us and his Mac partition is visible

I'll double check it for you when he gets on our servers

 

Visible and can be read from, but not written to.

 

He should be able to write to it I wouldn't see why not ill test it to confirm though

Nvm no he can't

 

There are drivers that allow to to read and write from both the OS X side and the Windows (bootcamp) side. I use a set from Paragon Software. There may be some free solutions out there too. I have large files stored on the OS X partition that I access from Windows because when I create the bootcamp partition on my laptop, I don't give it a whole lot of space which is fine if it "sees" the Mac partition as its "D drive". Works fine. OS X natively has NTFS read only capability. I don't think WIndows can even read HFS+ unless you install a driver of some type which is what I did.

 

The newest boot camp allows you to read only by default but yea other apps will do it read/write