littlepr Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 My monthly Macworld mag just arrived and there is mention of this FrontRow substitute (Macworld calls it Second Row) called MediaCentral made by equinux. I installed this baby and it is sweet. Guys, no more need of trying to get FrontRow running on your MacIntels. Take a look: http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/support.html Did I forget to mention it's free? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Anyone use it yet? Any opinions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-104986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 I have it on my iBook G3. It runs a bit choppy but it's useable. It's not as nice looking as Front Row, but if you don't have Front Row it makes a great substitute. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-104989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqualeviathan Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 More info here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...hl=mediacentral Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-104990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkblt Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 When i tried it, it was slow as {censored} and hogged a ridiculous amount of memory. Maybe it's gotten better since. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 This has been out for quite a while and isn't worth a you know what if you don't have QE and CI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
velayo Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Hey! Thanks for the link! I love it! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Yea. It's been out quite a while now, and IMO, there is no substitute for Front Row Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denied Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I like mediacentral's look, and the movie trailers are well implemented... ...but it's godawful slow on network shares, like more than 2 minutes to load my video directory, which isn't all that much video (maybe 100 files). And you can't run it in a window. That's a real bummer; if I want to check email or something real fast, I have to exit the prog totally. (it always steals focus, even on virtue desktops) It's a good program. Just not great, IMO. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranSport Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Dude, where you been? This has been Uni-Bin for months... No but it is a great "free" program. It is a bit sluggish if your system is a bit sluggish. A good idea to have all the graphic's do dads installed, fast memory, and fast CPU. The movie trailers are great and always self update. So you can watch what is good for just coming out in the theatres and on DVD. When my cable went out I watched many classics and Indy TV was cool. Although, not all the channels come in because WMV and Real patches are not Unibin yet. Also there are rare times when even VLC won't play a file. Media Central always seems to come through sometimes even more than VLC? Which is odd but it does pull through. On the downside, like Domino mentioned, it has to be run in full screen only. No windows to shirnk down. One user must quick and then resume to multi task... Also the opening music is a bit dark and scary. They should work on that a bit. And last but certainly not least, they need more TV tuner support. Plain and simple.... Overall a great program and worth downloading.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 On the downside, like Domino mentioned, it has to be run in full screen only. No windows to shirnk down. One user must quick and then resume to multi task... I mentioned no such thing . you mean denied Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
velayo Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I never had luck getting the unibin version of Front Row to work. This is an excellent replacement. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadeef Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 This program is great for playing back divx files that run on the AC3 sound codec because Front Row right now doesnt run that. Its also able to read iPod's! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-105451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunchandamovie Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 I tried it...i didn't really like it. It had a few cool things, but the movie trailers it had were like from six months ago, and front row really is better, though I just plugin in my usb mouse just so it'll work and still use my PS2 mouse Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-106762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suleiman Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 anyone notice how the unviersal version of this app doesn't seem to want to recognize the universal version of real player on your system? Running here on a macbook pro with both apps installed, and i'm getting an odd "no universal real player browser plugin" error message. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-106831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadeef Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 yea it doesnt recognize the universal real player plugin. weird right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-106845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
velayo Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 same issue here! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16316-you-guys-are-gonna-love-thisfrontrow-substitute/#findComment-106941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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