Torell Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 DISCLAIMER. Elan (the guy's name) asks that you do not mention anything about Hackintoshes on his website (http://www.osxbmc.com) obviously due to legality and he wants to stay on the good side of Apple, even keeping track of hardware sales. I'm surprised nobody has picked up on this yet, or that it hasn't been posted to Front page news yet. I stumbled across it when I was troubleshooting my original xbox with the new SVN release. A very talented programmer has ported XBMC to Leopard, and just released version 0.1.2 which features dual core support for H264 playback. I've tested version 0.1.1 on my recent hackintosh and it works beautifully at full screen as well. You have no idea the amount of excitement I had when this program loaded up! In his blog he mentions that 1080p videos have shown improvement on the Mac Mini! I know that once this project matures I will definitely be buying a Mac Mini to put in my Home Theater setup. Some interesting things people should know (but make sure you read first before you ask): -Virtual File Systems works, which means you can play video files from rar files, subtitles work as well -Playing ISO images of DVDs does not work at the moment (i don't think, haven't tried it myself) -SMB doesn't work at the moment, mount network drive, then point XBMC to it -Open keymap.xml for keyboard hotkeys -Issues with playback using newer X3100 integrated graphics -Dual monitor support (able to offload playback to second monitor) Here's the FAQ http://dn-0.com/xbmc-trac/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Sound's Awesome, thanks for the heads-up. I'll definitely check it out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harcker Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 This is great! I love XBMC on my old Xbox ! I really missing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 This is a great Front Row replacement . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 This is a great Front Row replacement . Absolutely agreed. I don't know why a so Huge news doesn't take its room on the news page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torell Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 some more light reading... Interview with Elan http://9to5mac.com/xbmc-xbox-media-center-...tunes-345643556 Lifehacker Feature http://lifehacker.com/353955/xbmc-finds-a-home-on-your-mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 A very good mplayer, with some bugs around, but considering it's at the very early alpha release, it's totally better than anything else around. playing video, musics takes so few cpu resources..Very promising!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLiDE FTW!!1 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Absolutely agreed.I don't know why a so Huge news doesn't take its room on the news page Because Numberz likes to post exciting news about how mac user's penises are bigger than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Because Numberz likes to post exciting news about how mac user's penises are bigger than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torell Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 well going by that criteria this news should just make most windows users jealous (it's already being ported to Linux) back on topic: RIP Front Row? what, too soon? lol oh and once this gets SMB support, I'm taking the xbox out of my home theater setup and probably just going to leave it in a bedroom come on...... Front Page News!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 why can't i make it full screen on 1680x1050x32 ? it does about 3/4 of the screen! (it is brilliant however!) SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torell Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 in the settings, keep changing the resolution until yours comes up i can run it at 1680x1050 no problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 in the settings, keep changing the resolution until yours comes up i can run it at 1680x1050 no problems me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 This is wicked, I can see this being a real big success. Needs a Better skin thats all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torell Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 the skin is the original skin released on xbox called project mayhem 3 i believe the beauty of this port is that it can accept xbmc skins i'm running this one at the moment, it's beautiful http://aeonismine.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokra128 Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 A .. ful screen, like frontrow .. It is great btw .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrumBrum74 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 XBMC is really great, but I have a problem showing the right temperature in the weather screen. Shows like: 6Â C. Anybody have a clue on how to get it to show normal temperature? I know region and settings is correctly set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 How can I fill it with different theme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 It works great here. But not as integrated as Front Row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torell Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 i'll try and help but the forums is where you should look for support release 0.1.3.2 got released this project is moving along nicely, looks like he added SMB support now AND mouse support!!! for skins, in the applications folder, navigate to the icon, right click, -> show package contents -> contents -> resources -> here you will find the skins folder and other useful files like user data folder which contains the keymap.xml file for keyboard shortcuts i'm not too sure about the font issue with weather, check the official blog, maybe the most recent font issue fixes your issue. edit: i've got the same issues, maybe it'll be fixed soon maybe not a front row replacement yet, but once someone posts how to auto load it on boot, and adds ir support for the front row remote, we'll see if people will still use front row does front row play all the different formats that ffmpeg does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Please completely ignore my previous writing, I was being a n00b. You can set stuff to run at startup in the Accounts pref pane, as I just remembered. I am surprised to see that I cannot find any info on Google on how to make programs load at startup on OS X...thats like the only feature OS X lacks that windows has. EDIT: I found something...using cron to make apps run at startup: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...041105070509783 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 There is a way pcwiz but you neglect it. Go to accounts and add to the launch at startup applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Yeah I was being a n00b. I remembered it just after writing that trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torell Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 Updated: 0.1.4 Released Summary -X3100 issues fixed! -Scroll support with mouse -Font issue fixed -Audio output isn't stuck in digital anymore Surprise: Apple REMOTE now has basic support!!! ok.... seriously.... Front Page now? or I'm just going to keep bumping this thread with amazing updates. like always, full detail of updates found at http://www.osxbmc.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Amazing! I got it with MC360 skin,now,,Who needs Front Row anymore? Just waiting for controling it with sailingclicker.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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