XBMC Media Center
Version: Dharma RC2 ||
Release Date: 2010-12-02 ||
License: GPL
Developer: Team XBMC |
App Owner: teamxbmc
The perfect Frontrow replacement for Mac OS X and Apple TV.
XBMC is an award winning media center for Mac OS X. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is powerful, easy to use, looks slick and has a large helpful community. It is the perfect replacement to Frontrow.
Required OS: not specified
Tags:
music
, video
, audio
, frontrow
, center
, media
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8 Opinions
"XBMC does not yet support any listed methods of hardware (eg: GPU) accelerated video decoding" :(
http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Hardware_Accelerated_Video_Decoding_Developement
I've used all of the XBMC variants (xbmc, plex, boxee), and the official is by far the best and most well maintained. Plex only has the advantage of the Plex media server (closed source) which leverages WebKit for such things as playing Hulu. Boxee similarly allows for great simple and social support of online content. However, when it comes to expandability, features, customization, plugins, organizing/playing local media, and bug fixes they just can't match XBMC.
I highly recommend running the latest SVN, as the release schedule is very slow and lacks the features and updates you get from the nightly revisions. Just google "XBMC nightly builds" to find the unofficial nightly builds to download. Also check out the latest skins as they make all the difference in the world, the included skins are a bit boring and feature lacking. The Rapier skin is my current favorite. (available from the official downloads page).
I just installed the 9.0.4 (Babylon) RC1 release and my first impression is "WOW". This program has breathed new life into an original 1.25GHz Mac Mini. I had previously connected the Mac Mini to the AV system and added an IR receiver and Remote Buddy to get an Apple Remote to work with iTunes but this is really a much better solution that looks great on my 52" LCD TV.
Great Job!
The video player is multithreaded (ie: uses multiple cpu cores), this is very useful to play 1080p hd movies, although the fans become quite loud on my 2.2Ghz macbook pro. (VLC and Mplayer aren't really multithreaded afaik.)
Can play "DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images, (...) IFO/VOB/BUP files on a harddrive or network-share, and also ISO and IMG DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives." (wikipedia)
The XBMC for Mac specific FAQ is here.
Both VLC and MPlayer would use 100% CPU to play my HD videos. Boxee was fine, but it wouldn't display complete subtitles. Then I found XBMC and all my problems were solved. :)