forums.itheaterproject.com— This beats Front Row any day. iTheater, the premiere Mac media center, hit version .1.3 today, enhancing the existing modules and even adding Wiimote support!
Feb 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
This would be sweet if it used the VLC player for video somehow. That's pretty much the only thing stopping me from setting up a mac mini htpc is that i know codec support will always suck with Quicktime based players and the VLC front-end isn't exactly "theatre" like (no remote support for a start). no, for now xbmc will just have to do.
So far the best media center app I have stumbled upon is XHub (<a class="user" href="http://www.snarb.tk):">http://www.snarb.tk):</a>"XHub Media Center is your full screen home theater. Its fast, feature-rich and highly customizable, yet amazingly easy to use. Connect your Mac running XHub to your living room TV, and enjoy all of your digital entertainment on the big screen from the comfort of your sofa. With XHub you can listen to music, podcasts and Internet radio, view photo slideshows, play DVDs, read news feeds, surf the web, watch live and recorded digital TV, enjoy theatrical trailers, movies of most formats, video podcasts, music videos and TV shows - and you can control it all with a single remote. Whether this be your Apple remote, ATI remote, Keyspan remote, cell phone or PDA."Does what it says and does it well. Much better than Front Row, MediaCentral and Centerstage (not to mention iTheater).
geocas1Feb 3, 2007
Media PortalFree and open source, great skins works great<a class="user" href="http://www.team-mediaportal.com/">http://www.team-mediaportal.com/</a>
themacthinkerFeb 3, 2007
What's the point of all this if not to bring more confusion. Do you really think that with frontrow we need more?---------------Wanna get the most out of your mac,Visit: <a class="user" href="http://www.mostofmymac.com">http://www.mostofmymac.com</a>
stimsFeb 4, 2007
This would be sweet if it used the VLC player for video somehow. That's pretty much the only thing stopping me from setting up a mac mini htpc is that i know codec support will always suck with Quicktime based players and the VLC front-end isn't exactly "theatre" like (no remote support for a start). no, for now xbmc will just have to do.
radmarshallbFeb 5, 2007
LCDs have image persistence which, while not as permanent, is very annoying when it happens. So a lot more than just plasma TVs can have this issue.
leatherscotFeb 6, 2007
MediaCentral was crap - now very cool - stable and easy to use
kohibaJul 2, 2007
So far the best media center app I have stumbled upon is XHub (<a class="user" href="http://www.snarb.tk):">http://www.snarb.tk):</a>"XHub Media Center is your full screen home theater. Its fast, feature-rich and highly customizable, yet amazingly easy to use. Connect your Mac running XHub to your living room TV, and enjoy all of your digital entertainment on the big screen from the comfort of your sofa. With XHub you can listen to music, podcasts and Internet radio, view photo slideshows, play DVDs, read news feeds, surf the web, watch live and recorded digital TV, enjoy theatrical trailers, movies of most formats, video podcasts, music videos and TV shows - and you can control it all with a single remote. Whether this be your Apple remote, ATI remote, Keyspan remote, cell phone or PDA."Does what it says and does it well. Much better than Front Row, MediaCentral and Centerstage (not to mention iTheater).