Xbox Media Center ported to Macs
9to5mac.com is reporting that the Xbox Media Center project is at last coming to the Mac. Since its introduction in 2002 to modded Xboxes XBMC has become one of the most full-featured media centre applications anywhere. The introduction to OS X follows the port to Linux last year and on the Mac platform will face-off directly against Front Row/iTunes/Apple TV, Apple’s own built-in products.
Discussing the port to Mac Elan Feingold said:
“it seems like it’s a confluence of people who like the best OS coupled with people who like the best media center”
9to5Mac asked Elan what XBMC offers Mac users that they can’t get from iTunes or Front Row or Apple TV? He listed the following specifications:
- Resolutions up to, including and even surpassing 1080P (AppleTV is currently at 720P)
- DTS/AC3 passthrough (which is great for playing DVD/BluRay/HD-DVD sourced audio). This means if you have a surround receiver you can have it decode multichannel audio
- Almost unlimited video and audio format support since we can play anything ffmpeg supports
- A great virtual file system layer with support for protocols like UPnP
- There is a great looking weather item that puts very useful info in front of your eyes.
- Since it is an open platform, the sky really is the limit, things like Youtube browsers, RSS readers, visualizers, MAME/Other emulators are all being integrated seemlessly. Heck, one could even imagine running an Xbox emulator on my quad-core machine…now that would bring us full circle!
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