(3)
Your rating: Now say why...
XHub Media Center is one of the most popular alternatives to Apple's Front Row software. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X Tiger and later, XHub Media Center is fast, feature-rich and highly customizable, yet amazingly easy to use. Just connect your Mac to your living room TV and enjoy all of your digital media on the big screen from the comfort of your sofa. In addition to the essential music, movies, and photos modules, XHub Media Center also offers internet radio, web browsing, and EyeTV integration.
XHub Media Center has an appealing interface and is fully themeable, with a wide
XHub Media Center has an appealing interface and is fully themeable, with a wide
What's New
Version 2.3.1:
- Fixed DVD aspect ratio issue (bug #45)
- Fixed EyeTV Hybrid compatibility issue (bug #48)
- Fixed Music module submenu selection issue (bug #23)
- Fixed video playback OSD issue (bug #42)
- Fixed FF/Rew single press issue in TV module (bug #43)
- Fixed black screen issue in TV module (bug #44)
- Fixed black screen after system wake issue (bug #20)
- Fixed Tiger pref pane issue (bug #41)
Version 2.3.1:
- Fixed DVD aspect ratio issue (bug #45)
- Fixed EyeTV Hybrid compatibility issue (bug #48)
- Fixed Music module submenu selection issue (bug #23)
- Fixed video playback OSD issue (bug #42)
- Fixed FF/Rew single press issue in TV module (bug #43)
- Fixed black screen issue in TV module (bug #44)
- Fixed black screen after system wake more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, 1GHz CPU or faster recommended. NOT compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, 1GHz CPU or faster recommended. NOT compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
XHub Media Center User Discussion (Write a Review)
Overall:
(6)
(6)
| Downloads:10,583 |
| Version Downloads:2,751 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Free |
| Date:11 Dec 2007 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
Overall (Version 2.x):  |
Features: |
| Ease of Use: |
| Value: |
| Stability: |
-
-
-
XHub Media Center is one of the most popular alternatives to Apple's Front Row software. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X Tiger and later, XHub Media Center is fast, feature-rich and highly customizable, yet amazingly easy to use. Just connect your Mac to your living room TV and enjoy all of your digital media on the big screen from the comfort of your sofa. In addition to the essential music, movies, and photos modules, XHub Media Center also offers internet radio, web browsing, and EyeTV integration.
XHub Media Center has an appealing interface and is fully themeable, with a wide range of skins and sound sets to choose from. You can even design your own theme for a truly personalized media center experience.
With built-in support for Salling Clicker, an award-winning software that allows you to use a Bluetooth/WiFi-enabled cell phone or PDA as a high-end remote control, XHub Media Center has the most sophisticated control options available on any system. It also supports remotes from Apple, ATI, Keyspan and many other manufacturers.
XHub Media Center has an appealing interface and is fully themeable, with a wide range of skins and sound sets to choose from. You can even design your own theme for a truly personalized media center experience.
With built-in support for Salling Clicker, an award-winning software that allows you to use a Bluetooth/WiFi-enabled cell phone or PDA as a high-end remote control, XHub Media Center has the most sophisticated control options available on any system. It also supports remotes from Apple, ATI, Keyspan and many other manufacturers.
Copyright © 2012 MacUpdate LLC
- -
+17
+322
http://snarb.freebsdguy.co.uk/Contact.html
+125
+17
http://snarb.freebsdguy.co.uk/forums
Or you can contact us directly here:
http://snarb.freebsdguy.co.uk/contact
coolcaper reviewed on 13 Aug 2007
XHub integrates very well with Salling clicker and together they provide quite an experience in the Mac Home Media Center!!
+1
Richy reviewed on 16 Jun 2007
The previous version did have a few stability issues, this version seems better but it does have a tendency to lock up occasionally, but it usually responds after a while or you can quit and restart it with the keyboard.
Definitely worth 4 stars a bit more work on keeping it running smoothly and it'll be a 5 :)
+11
organik reviewed on 11 Jun 2007
Sorry to hear about your crash. It sounds likely that it was caused by (the old) Clicker remote rather than by XHub itself. Perhaps you forgot to install the new remote for XHub 2.0?
As I told you once before, here, and as is clearly stated in the documentation, you can force quit XHub at anytime with Command+Option+Q.
If you prefer to be able to force quit it like visible applications, making a daemon process appear in the Dock is very simple. Just drop me a line and I will be happy to help you.
Best,
Developer
PS. It is generally a better idea to file a bug report than posting a review at some third-party site. Chances are we may not see it.
+21
Jeff H. reviewed on 05 Jan 2007
But, everytime it's launched it crashes my finder/dock...VERY annoying! Have to relaunch all my widgets again after I'm done using Xhub. The control over EyeTV is also very limited...I have a widescreen display and have to change the screen aspect ratio to 14:9 in order to make everything right, and I can't do this from within Xhub.
Lastly, I attempted to purchase this through Macupdate on 1/04 for the $9.99 sale price, which was supposed to go thru 1/04 and it was not honored, so I will not be purchasing Xhub, but it will be on my radar in the future.
EdN reviewed on 16 Dec 2006
+11
organik reviewed on 12 Sep 2006
Scans movie folder for compatible vid files, then displays those in a list - not good! I put my vids in a folder structure for a reason, give me my folder structure!
Also, it needs to be an actual app, not a pref pane. Froze and I couldn't force quit it...had to hard power cycle.
One more thing - iPhoto browsing is broken: selecting an album displays photos from the whole library.
I think with some work this will be a great app, for now it's front row for me.
Without this it's not usable for me. But if the developer fixes this I might be tempted to pay and take it for a test drive...