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26-03-2008, 04:12 PM
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OSXBMC challenges FrontRow
For those who have played with XBMC on a modded XBox, you will be no stranger to a new media-centre challenger to Apple's FrontRow -- OSXBMC. If you're running 10.5 on an Intel Mac, then you can download it and give it a try. The lates build now works correctly with online movie trailers.
[Edit: remove stupid image error]
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Last edited by Brains; 26-03-2008 at 05:16 PM.
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26-03-2008, 04:14 PM
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dloading now
worth a shot
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26-03-2008, 04:26 PM
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/ off topic.
I love the hot linked image telling off.
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26-03-2008, 04:31 PM
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looks fantastic - definately giving this a run
Thanks for the heads up!
Do we just download that build from 8 days ago? seems theres been more recent development than that
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It's intel only - I got owned
Now make me forget about it until it is a UB...
Last edited by purana; 26-03-2008 at 04:52 PM.
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26-03-2008, 05:55 PM
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Im a big fan of xbmc. I see osxbmc as my next choice as a media center once my xbox is retired. I've been following the dev of osxbmc and it is happening quite rapidly. Still no full screen but I can say with certainty it will shit over frontrow in no time.
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26-03-2008, 06:17 PM
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if this goes UB, do ppl think it will run well on a G4 Mini (i assume it will stay 10.5 and not compatible with 10.4?)
[i should have read more of the FAQnot likely/no chance for PPC]
Last edited by avolve; 26-03-2008 at 06:25 PM.
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26-03-2008, 07:01 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by avolve
if this goes UB, do ppl think it will run well on a G4 Mini (i assume it will stay 10.5 and not compatible with 10.4?)
[i should have read more of the FAQnot likely/no chance for PPC]
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Yes, it runs on an XBox with a 733mhz processor in more or less this form so I imagine a g4 mini would run it - although as they say in the FAQ, probably not full HD content
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26-03-2008, 07:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiprya
Yes, it runs on an XBox with a 733mhz processor in more or less this form so I imagine a g4 mini would run it - although as they say in the FAQ, probably not full HD content
As I've already expressed, I'd be very keen to try this out if they make a PPC compatible version
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From the FAQ
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Will you support PPC and/or Tiger?
It's unlikely that we will ever support PPC. Many people think that it is as simple as "checking PPC" in XCode, it is not. Additionally, as stated above one of the goals of OSXBMC is to support HD playback on most hardware - this is just not likely on legacy Mac PPC hardware. Tiger support is not a near term goal, but it is a possibility in the future. It's obviously quite possible to get OSXBMC to work on Tiger, but the team has determined that it is also non-trivial. As we get closer to a 1.0 release we will poll the community to see how much demand there is for Tiger support.
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26-03-2008, 07:14 PM
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I tried XMBC, it's nice, took me back to my modding days but to be perfectly honest I prefer FrontRow. Perhaps I'm just an interface whore but I'll live with it for now.
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26-03-2008, 07:48 PM
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i prefer front row as well
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26-03-2008, 08:28 PM
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my only issue with it is the use of the apple remote leaves a bit to be desired. for instance, you can't scroll down a list of files, you have to keep pressing down each time.. if you have alot of files, that gets annoying pretty quick
you also can't do queueing etc without the mouse (frontrow cant queue at all), which also annoys me. until they make it better suited to the apple remote, i'll stick with frontrow
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27-03-2008, 08:13 PM
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This app could have potential, I still prefer frontrow though.
Hopefully apple will bring the new frontrow from the appletv to a leopard update.
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