- CenterStage Combo has been discontinued
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The CenterStage Project
CenterStage Combo is an open source project that aims to create a fully functional Mac Media Center application to allow you to watch movies, view photos, listen to music etc. from one streamlined application that can be controlled via a remote control.
BackStage is a movie organisation tool for CenterStage Combo that can be used to store information on all your computer based movie files, including in application lookup of Internet Movie Database information such as movie artwork and actors.
You can also preview movies in BackStage, but it is designed to store movie
BackStage is a movie organisation tool for CenterStage Combo that can be used to store information on all your computer based movie files, including in application lookup of Internet Movie Database information such as movie artwork and actors.
You can also preview movies in BackStage, but it is designed to store movie
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| Downloads:16,227 |
| Version Downloads:5,044 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:10 Jun 2007 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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CenterStage Combo is an open source project that aims to create a fully functional Mac Media Center application to allow you to watch movies, view photos, listen to music etc. from one streamlined application that can be controlled via a remote control.
BackStage is a movie organisation tool for CenterStage Combo that can be used to store information on all your computer based movie files, including in application lookup of Internet Movie Database information such as movie artwork and actors.
You can also preview movies in BackStage, but it is designed to store movie information which it's sister application CenterStage reads.
BackStage is a movie organisation tool for CenterStage Combo that can be used to store information on all your computer based movie files, including in application lookup of Internet Movie Database information such as movie artwork and actors.
You can also preview movies in BackStage, but it is designed to store movie information which it's sister application CenterStage reads.
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"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."
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I do look forward to seeing where this goes though, as there is no way i want my media centre to be windows based.
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Anonymous reviewed on 21 Nov 2005
This is not the first release, and have been active since marts, so if anything, FR is a rip of CS.. but the idea is not new, so who is ripping who????
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And yes, I'm dead serious.
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Now, if we could only do something about correcting the huge misuse of possessive s ('s) in everyone's grammar...
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IM PRETTY SURE YOU KNOW THE TYPE
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Anonymous reviewed on 13 Oct 2005
how about what is posted on the MacUpdate page for this app:
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Gordymac reviewed on 05 Apr 2005
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.
use the esc key to back out of the application