Plex Media Center for OS X Leopard

Progress on Video

January 11th, 2008 | Category: Coding | Author: elan

I’m making some good progress on video. The main issue was SDL 1.2 behaving differently on OS X, due to the fact that Linux relies on GLX for certain things. Videos actually sort of play now, although there’s no sound (because I haven’t finished working Portaudio into the DVDAudioPlayer), and videos play at strange rates. Sometime fast, sometimes slow. I think it’s freaking out mostly because there’s no audio, although there may be some timing issues.

I enhanced QueryPerformanceCounter to start counting from zero for each thread, since on Linux it uses CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID. I thought this might help the timing, but it looks like the DVDClock keeps its own start time.

Here’s Al Gore talking about how XBMC really rocks on OS X.

And here’s a video playing while on the main screen. Is it just me, or is that guy’s hand on Audrey Tautou’s breast? How very scandalous.

6 Comments so far

Lars January 13th, 2008 4:52 am

Cool I canÂ´t wait to use this as my new “Front Row” (and maby finder

Is XBMC-Filemanager set up to view macdrives?
HenrikDK January 13th, 2008 1:04 pm

Hereâ€™s Al Gore talking about how XBMC really rocks on OS X.

LoL. Making great progress, Im really looking forward to some sort of README.osx files or other “idiot’s guide” for getting this thing up and running, since im not really interested in messing up my macbook with fink
Karel January 13th, 2008 1:12 pm

Great news, looking forward for any (beta) XBMC binary I could run on my new Mac mini (my first Mac).
It would be a great upgrade from XBMC on Xbox, as mini is super silent and h.264 capable.
Coffeemocca January 13th, 2008 1:52 pm

thanks for all the work you’ve put in, lets ditch frontrow.
Ed January 13th, 2008 4:23 pm

Looking forward to this. I hope it works with multi-part RAR files!
Dani February 14th, 2008 12:35 pm

can I connect my xbox360 with my mac by xbmc to see films at the television? (streaming)

thanks