 | Nov 23 2009 |
DANA SUTTON What MACLORNEBEYN has to say makes no sense. No sane developer who actually wants meaningful feedback from beta testers is going to say I want you guys to guess whats new in this version and tell me if it works.
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| Nov 23 2009 |
MRGLSMRC it does not make sense to post potentially conflicting release notes in many different places that that have to be revised quickly for beta software when that kind of info can easily be garnered at the developers website forum notes. distributing software itself is another matter because of the costed bandwidth when the software is unmonetized. i feel these attacks upon this developers behavior amounts to little more than a pet peeve on the part of someone who does not appreciate the process. a comparison to food is also vapid because the federal law in the usa requires the safe labeling of food drugs. installing this or ant software involves entering into a contract or license even if the software is provided without cost. one agrees to the terms of usage. no one forces you to use free software. your one man crusade to ask macupdate to delist free software that you don't intend to use flies in the face of the freedom of others to choose for themselves and also macupdate's business model. and i do not suppose that microsoft software will improve in quality when free competition is delisted. so even if you won't use developmental distributions, it is in your interest directly that these exist.
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| Nov 22 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 "Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated." I get so sick of reading this from developers who want to keep us in the dark and have us beta test away the flaws in their software. Of course, these flaws can damage our systems, cause us to lose data, and waste our time. They know plenty of people will beta test for them because geeks are naturally curious. And please don't respond with, "Don't complain! It's free software." The developer is not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.
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| Nov 22 2009 |
DANA SUTTON Even if theres no sinister motive for this practice of not publishing release notes, its a bad one. Imagine buying some food in the store and when you look to check its ingredients the mfr. only said Ingredients list not available at this time. Would you want to put the stuff in your mouth? And yet quite a few software developers expect us to put their stuff in our computers without giving us any idea what were getting. It might be a good idea for us to boycott software like this as a matter of principle, and the good people who run the MacUpdate site might want to think about refusing to post any software offerings that are not accompanied by release notes. This all sounds a bit harsh, I know, but how else are we consumers going to get developers to clean up their act?
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| Nov 23 2009 |
MACLORNEBEYN I really don't understand the criticism... * In the title, the version number and the editor notes it is clearly stated that this actually is a beta version * Open source communities depend on voluntary beta testers, lacking those convenient but cost-intensive Q&A departments of commercial developers. Therefore it is necessary for them to have their beta versions listed on pages like MacUpdate to recruit fresh and formerly uninvolved geeks * If you do not want to be a beta-tester: there is a link to stable versions of this software on this very page * Also there is direct link to the (well-done) community's website with all the information you could ever want * Most of the open-source developers actually do all the work out of the goodness of their hearts (or maybe out of interest for the project), but definitely not for financial gain (except perhaps the chance to get better payed jobs when adding their involvement in open source to their CV)
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| Nov 14 2009 |
JEFF H. Amen Brooooother
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 | Aug 11 2009 |
JEFF H. This is such a great thing for us with PPCs (there are a few out there u know! lol!). I use my Mac for everything as well as my main (and only) entertainment/media center. I've ripped all DVDs to external drives( 6 drives totaling 4 TB), have EyeTV with 2 digital ClearQAM tuners, a set of Logitech Z5500s and a 47" monitor with a G5. But I was a bit envious of Plex and others that I've seen that will only run on Intel. I've been relying on Front Row which is ok but kind of unbuttered toast. Now I've just got to figure out if I can run my EyeTV devices through XBMC
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| Nov 14 2009 |
ILGAZ It also shows that they have capability to ship product for PPC Macs, even in this age. It should be a lesson for Adobe (PS elements 8), MS (Silverlight 2) and Apple (some tools, like Quicktime X). No wonder why people predict open source will take over, no matter how amateur things begin.
(Version 9.11.alpha2) | |
| May 12 2009 |
ANONYMOUS PLEX has an enormous advantage over XBMC : its developers are clever enough to have a server wherefrom a PPC version can actually be downloaded. Brilliant guys for sure !
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| May 21 2009 |
VIKRAM SHARMA Do you have the link to the PPC version of Plex, I tried to look for it but could not find. Thanks.
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| May 27 2009 |
D4RK Obvious plug, but how is that even an advantage? You still need an Intel Mac 10.5 to run Plex. XBMC will run natively on PPC or Intel with 10.4. Comprehend the difference?
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| May 28 2009 |
RAMPANCY I'm sick of the complaining over Plex being Intel-only. If they can only afford to direct their available resources to Intel-only development, then I'd rather have Plex being an amazing app on Intel versus being a mediocre, buggy app on PPC and Intel. What next, are you going to complain that Apple isn't supporting OS X on your Performa 6400?
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| May 28 2009 |
D4RK RAMPANCY, the only one complaining here is you, maybe you meant to post in another thread. Also, the quality of a piece of software doesn't have to be inversely proportional to the number of supported platforms. If that were the case, most console games would be unplayable.
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| Nov 14 2009 |
ILGAZ @RAMPANCY as I said above, a tool being Intel only tells a lot about its inner parts, how "native" it is, how "portable" it is for future (very interesting things to come), how competent the developers are.
(Version 9.11.alpha2) | |
| May 11 2009 |
E_COMMERCE As someone else asked (and got no answer), how does this compare to Plex? They're based on the same core, right?
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| May 11 2009 |
NED SCOTT Now complete with a PPC version.
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| Feb 26 2009 |
MRGANDO What's the difference between this and Plex?
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 | Jan 28 2009 |
MACBOOKBABY I have installed xbmc on my apple tv but i don't know how to find my macbook on it? my macbook is installed on my apple tv so i can play my music but I want to play various video files and things through my television. Have I not installed xbmc properly? should it just work automatically? when I open xbmc and itunes in xbmc my music isn't there. how do I install my macbook so I can play everything on it through my apple tv using xbmc? | |
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 | Jan 28 2009 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN The horse's mouth: http://xbmc.org/forum/
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| Dec 14 2008 |
DX Congrads to the developers. This is trully an amazing application. It transforms your Mac/AppleTV into an ultimate media center. I use XBMC both on an old xbox and recently installed it on my AppleTV. Once you use XBMC on the ATV, you realize that it was almost useless prior to the update. When I have friends over and I turn on my tv, they cannot believe my setup. Also, cudos on the developers for maintaining a very helpful website and being very responsive to suggestions and bugs on their forum.
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| Dec 4 2008 |
JEFF H. So bummed that it this only works on Intel Macs. I use my Mac as my only source of media and I would really love to have a more together multimedia interface. I work with Frontrow right now and its ok. Its better than nothing at all, but this looks great. | |
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| Nov 16 2008 |
XYPHER Thanks for supporting Tiger. This is a great app, love the skin function.
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| Nov 16 2008 |
SWATERS I must be missing something - the interfaces i awful and I don't see what use this ponderous bunch of PC code is.
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| Nov 15 2008 |
DB has anyone figured out how to get a download of this going? no joy with the link or at sourceforge.
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| Nov 11 2008 |
DEUCEDAVIS I'm an avid and loyal Mac fan. I was skeptical about trying out XBMC on my ATV and Mac, but I have to tell you that it is superb. . . I used to use iTunes and the aTV Front Row interface for some time, but I was looking for another solution that would simplify everything and hopefully could get some better performance. I have to say . . . xbmc!!! did it for me. I simply rip my DVD and xbmc does the rest . . . scraping for all of the information and much more. Before, I had to manually change the file information via iTunes. No More, now I just dump my file to the NAS location, and the xbmc scraper does the rest. The performance improvement . . . tremendous. I used to have intermittent choppiness via aTV and Front Row when accessing the files on my NAS Server . . . no more, well, at least not yet. I've been testing non-stop for the last week or so. As for the installation process. It was easy too. I was worried about possibly bricking my aTV, but following the instructions to the tee . . . no problem. I cannot rave enough about xbmc! I will still use iTunes for my music, the aTV interface for rentals, but for my own collection of movies, I'm going with xbmc. I've loaded it on my aTV, macbook, and iMac. get it, use it, you won't regret it.
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| Oct 26 2008 |
SEZ AppleTV with XBMC is the greatest ever media center. Now I can turn off my old black xbox. Thanks!!
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| Oct 25 2008 |
RUKIDDIN I have to say, XBMC for the Apple TV and the Mac are working much better than I expected. The install, especially on the Apple TV was suprisingly easy and straight forward, and it actually works! Now I can see all the content on my NAS drives, and it plays nearly everything (and I'm guessing as people report issues, it will eventually play everything). I'm no longer stuck with iTunes and what little content I have there, now everything I have works.
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| Oct 7 2008 |
OSXRULZ Would be nice if under "Requirements" it specified Intel Mac to save us PowerPC users (yes, we're still around) the download. Would really like to try this out. Any chance of a UB version?
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| Oct 7 2008 |
LOGAN_X50 If you have AppleTV this is unmissable. Cannot rate this highly enough. 5 Stars
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 | Sep 21 2008 |
D4RK The screenshot above is of the MediaStream skin by Team Razorfish. You can download it from their website. http://teamrazorfish.co.uk
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| Sep 21 2008 |
SHANE C SMITH Can someone please tell me what the difference is between this an plex? Is it not the same thing with a different name?
(Version Atlantis Beta 1) | |
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| Sep 21 2008 |
D4RK Plex is a software fork of XBMC, developed by different teams.
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