CenterStage Combo for Mac0.6.2

Just to note, this project is long dead: "R.I.P. CenterStage "January 2005 - December 2008 "It is with regret and sadness that I announce that CenterStage - The Mac Media Center is no longer being actively developed, even after teaming up with the Plex group we feel that it is too big a task to make our concept become a reality. Plex now uses the MediaStream skin, it is therefore doubtful you will see the 'CenterStage concept' as part of Plex due to the effort needed by all to bring it up to this standard. "We would like to thank everyone for their support over the years, and of course are always open to serious offers from open source developers to revive this project - but as said above we feel that this is too great a task for a small open source project. "The site content has been archived offline and is available by contacting the webmaster, binary & source code alpha releases are available on our SourceForge Project page along with contact for mrzippy the project webmaster. "I now direct anyone looking for a Mac Media Center to the Plex site. "Thank You, The CenterStage Team."

this may have been out before Frontrow, but doesn't mean Frontrow is a rip of this. Frontrow was obviously in production for a while before it came out (whereas Centrestage was known of and available right from the beginning of it's production). I do look forward to seeing where this goes though, as there is no way i want my media centre to be windows based.

Launch CenterStage-spinning beach ball-force quit (CS not responding)-Trash.

uh... FrontRow cloan??

Couldn't find any 'Systems Requirement' for the download. Quits on launch on 10.3.9. Looks good and promising otherwise, especially in black.

For an Alpha release, I think it looks good. I was able to--intuitively, mind you--select the movies option. Every movie on my system, on every drive, was available in alphabetical order in a browser type screen. Selecting a movie played it instantly in a top right pane. There is a button to enter full screen mode, and ESC returns to the browser view. I played a few music videos, all looked decent--though the compression artifacts were there. Those aren't noticeable when I use EyeHome when watching movies. A couple of other issues. Full screen view doesn't scale movies properly. I believe movies fill the vertical screen space with little regard to horizontal space. On my 20" ACD, everything looked stretched upward. While I can appreciate the main menu interface, the images only look good when they are rotated to the frontmost position. In other positions they appear jagged around the edges. I was excited to hear about this project when the Mac mini came out. I'm glad to see that its coming along so well.