Onetrack Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Just stumbled onto this forum, and thought you guys might want to see that XBMC is currently being ported to Leopard. This is GREAT news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 what benefits would this bring OS X owners? I just looked around the net a little for some info on XBMC and I don't see the killer feature... forgive me for being ignorant on these things, I don't own an Xbox... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Okay, so what's so bad about Front Row? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I think front row looks good plus it does everything you need. However, the front row on tiger (and the intel macs) looks better than the one in leopard, imo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 This is great news it's a awesome media center and it's open source so lots of development plus updates. This is also being ported to Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 So this is doing something that Connect360 already does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onetrack Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 NO.. It is more a replacement for clunky and horrible front row. XBMC on an original xbox is the king of media centers out there right now, it is fantastic its being ported to other platforms. It is miles beyond windows media center it supports a good 60 or so codecs, and has a ton of plugins. read up on it. It is definately the ' killer app ' for the original xbox So this is doing something that Connect360 already does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMS Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 I've got XBMC on my old xbox with a 80GB hdd Its an amazing replacement dashboard I can see why he's doing this if he hates Frontrow It seems like a nice little project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 NO.. It is more a replacement for clunky and horrible front row. XBMC on an original xbox is the king of media centers out there right now, it is fantastic its being ported to other platforms. It is miles beyond windows media center it supports a good 60 or so codecs, and has a ton of plugins. read up on it. It is definately the ' killer app ' for the original xbox If it does what it's supposed to do, I'll give it a shot. Hopefully, they won't do something absolutely stupid like make it Intel only (there are still tons of PPC users out there). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 If it does what it's supposed to do, I'll give it a shot. Hopefully, they won't do something absolutely stupid like make it Intel only (there are still tons of PPC users out there). But if they're porting this, then PPC is going to be hard to incorporate, especially considering that even the original xbox was x86 based... (i think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 It might just need recompiled to be Universal or it could involve something more dastardly. It will depend on whether or not the original was processor specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qbattersby Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I actually dont mind FrontRow on Leopard, however XBMC is amazing. I recently well, over the summer, bought an original XBox solely for XBMC and to play a few old games on a console (Have a PS3 and Wii as well), anyways, the features in XBMC are endless! I love being able to stream all of my movies from my storage drive. Also all the plugins are great, if only the Joox plugin still worked thats was awesome too. I didnt even upgrade the harddrive on the xbox, just modded it with the IDE cable trick, which was quite sketchy I must say, but all worked out. I fully support XBMC although I dont think I would use it as a FrontRow replacement. Still an interesting project nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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