OSXBMC: A Better Front Row?
http://macapper.com/2008/03/07/osxbmc-a-better-front-row/

I just which people would stopped calling the software for OSXBMC or Xbox Media Center on OS X, when its name is XBMC for Mac OS X

The next big thing for me to wish for would be support for scripts, otherwise it is a fully working app.

Thanks again.

I’ve just bought a macbook a few weeks ago, 0.15 version runs so fine on my sony bravia 32D3000 (dvi to vga in).
AC3 downmixing in this version definitely kills my old xbox (thanks of you Elan, it makes some room at home!)

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Your Bravia must support 24p first. Email me and I’ll send a screenshot of the settings so you can post it somewhere.

Anyway, I wanted to post my settings to get 1080/24p on Sony Bravia x3500/x3000 and XBR4/XBR5 series tellies. It’ll probably work with the w3000 and other Bravias as well.

@fatez: Beers, bears, they’re all the same except for one gives you a buzz and the other is furry and mauls you if you run slower than your hiking companion.

So the same applies for the Apple Trailers?

thanks a lot for ur time.. for this great porting and… for ur time!

Just a request if u can (time/wife) : can u implement audio output in raw mode like vlc? Couse my receiver works well in DD5.1 only with VLC but i love osxbmc!

Thanks elan, bear for you soon!

I have same issue as spiderland and fpoll. Crash everytime trying to use Library mode. I’ve tried mounting my shares locally and also through SMB, it hangs both ways. Also tried both windowed mode and full screen, no difference. Also tried deleting Application Support/XBMC folder and still hangs. Here are both the xbmc.log and a stack trace…

log – http://pastie.caboo.se/162895
trace – http://pastie.caboo.se/162896

Thanks for all the hard work!!!

@spiderlane: I haven’t tested MythTV support at all, and it’s possible that I actually turned some portion of it off to fix a compile issue.

@Weavus: I can try another clip, but that bird one is really the only H.264 one giving me much issue these days. I really think the improved CABAC parallelism makes deblocking “cheaper” on a multi-core processor.

@Mactastico: Good question. I did try enabling ffmpeg for MPEG-2 support and there were serious issues; libmpeg2 seemed much faster and better supported. MAME will be integrated via Python interface/launcher. It’s not our intent to replace or integrate something like SwitchResX at the moment, but rather intelligently select the modes that are available.

@spiderland and others: Looks like there are some scraper issues. Serves me right for updating to trunk. Try whacking Application Support/XBMC if you haven’t already. Thanks for the crash reports!!

@phunkysai: DVD playing is on the roadmap. Where’s the roadmap? In my head

@Firefly: It’s not likely that we’ll integrate FireFly anytime soon. Do keep your eyes peeled for iTunes integration.

@niad: It looks like we’ve found our new “fast video” bug. If you have digital mode & passthrough enabled, you’re going to hear the static of encoded audio. Turn on analog mode and you should be much happier.

I went back to the 0.1.4 and all working

I wil try to post the log to pastie

“xbmc fetches all metadata for the whole library as soon as it connects. Including the metadta for all items in all playlists. That takes a while. Fireplay and the soundbridge fetch smaller subsets and only when needed.”

But Firefly in XBMC would be sweet even without those DAAP client fixes

http://www.fireflymediaserver.org

The DAAP client library in XBMC could also do with an update though :/

I hope you’re still working on getting DVD discs to play within XBMC…my wife is getting tired of exiting XBMC, launching the DVD for my son, and then relaunching XBMC once the dvd is over
I’m working on ripping our entire dvd collection but it’s taking forever (and no, I’m not gonna get a new wife

Thanks!

I hope it’s helpful

Have you though about if you will be integrating MAME (and other emulators) into XBMC via a Python interface/launcher like the existing emuLauncer python script emulator launcher for XBMC on the Xbox, or nativly via the Programs menu?, so that we can start specific ROM directly from the XBMC GUI without having to start a third-party MAME GUI (like MacMAME) first then start the specific ROM from there?
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30659

Finally, does anyone know if there is an open source alternative to SwitchResX which would be integrated into XBMC? I think it would be very useful and simplify the setup for those of us who plan to use XBMC on our Mac minis as dedicated HTPC.

The bird scene may not be the best video for testing the “skiploopfilter” as its using extreme bitrate and encoding options. Perhaps you should run the same kind of test on some more normal 1080p samples.

Anyway, great release, keep up the amazing work! Looking forward to Python support