Items Tagged With media player

XBMC for Mac took another major step forward today with the release of v0.5.0 beta 1.  This brings extended support for the Apple Remote as well control from universal remotes and the XBox 360 remote.  It also includes a raft of other features and fixes (we've noticed that ripping movie thumbnails and info from IMDB is working much better for example) and is based on almost the latest from the Linux port code...

OSXBMC is free open source media player for the Mac.  It's a port of the popular XBox Media Center (XBMC) that was developed over a number of years by a large group of talented programmers.  With its "plays anything" philosophy, beautiful user interface and ability to pull info for your movies and music straight off the web, it provides an unrivalled experience.  If you've ever used FrontRow you need to check this out!  In our interview with the project developer - Elan - we find out where the project is heading, we get the skinny on the new remote control features about to be released and we hear what special additions are planned for the future...  

Chris Carey has created a front end for watching MythTV recordings on the iPhone.  Check out Chris' site for a live demo of the software and watch the video after the jump...

In his latest blog post, our Masked Installer reveals his inner thoughts on hard drive HiDef video media servers and what it's like to regularly work with 15 to 20 TB of his customers data...

While we wait for Logitechs UK PR company to send us our review sample, Automated Home Reader Tim Morris has sent us his own review of the new Squeezebox Duet streaming audio system...