Rivet
Version: 2.4.2 ||
Release Date: 2010-01-21 ||
License: Commercial with demo
($19.95)
Developer: The Little App Factory
Rivet allows you to access your digital life on your Xbox 360 and PS3.
Browse, play, and view all of your pictures, movies, and video through the Xbox 360 and PS3's media player right in your living room.
Rivet will automatically load and give you full access to your iTunes music, iPhoto photographs, Aperture photographs, and any video or picture folder that you wish to share.
Required OS: 10.5
Tags:
xbox360
, streaming
, media
, video
, audio
, itunes
, ps3
, iphoto
, aperture
7 Opinions
Want to watch your iTunes movies on the big screen? Want to listen to iTunes from your stereo? Want to show your pictures to friends without crowding around the computer screen? If you answered yes to any of those questions Rivet is for you.
Rivet allows you to stream photos, videos, and audio from you Mac to your Playstation 3 or Xbox360. Rivet also integrates in iLife, so you can access iTunes, iPhoto, and Aperture directly from your PS3 of 360. When running, Rivet sits in your menubar, not disturbing you.
Rivet is very customizable. You can choose which content you would like to share, including folders and other sources like iPhoto; you can set what thumbnails are created and the quality of photos displayed; and even allows you to disable sleep while Rivet is being used.
Rivet works very well and is easy to use. It requires no setup on the PS3 or 360 to use. Rivet is the best choice for media streaming to a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.
For PS3 users, the open-source, free PS3 Media Server is perfectly adequate.
Brilliant app, much better than Connect360.
@nhesson : uhm… what do I care about "eye candy" in an application like this? The only thing it should do is to sit nicely and quietly in the background and stream my media to my 360. Both Rivet & Connect360 do this.
But: Rivet's feature to repliacte the folder structure whereas Connect360 doesn't (until today; of course it MIGHT be updated someday to do so as well) is a much more important to me than "eye candy" (I like Rivet's interface and appearance as a menu dock item anyway)
It's all about priorities. So until Connect360 gets an update to support folder structures I'd prefer Rivet anytime.
That was some impressive, hassle-free buying. The demo worked since second 1, then the survey discount and the one-step transaction. I've bought a handful of apps but I had never seen everything work so well.
Rivet was just announced on April 16th, 2008.
I had bought Connect360 earlier, but this already beats it hands down. Rivet has a couple of essential features Connect360 is missing, like replication of the folder structures on your Mac, automatic media updating and most important of all you can choose multiple source folders for your media.