Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update released

[koffiejunkie]

Why do you need controls? Click play, click pause.

To quickly find, say, an episode of a series, where all the files start with the same 2 minute intro.

BTW - heard good things about the xbox media center port for osx. Anyone try it yet? http://xbmc.org/

I'll start looking into this kinda thing when I finally get around to set up my home server.

 

[bwana]

To quickly find, say, an episode of a series, where all the files start with the same 2 minute intro.

You can either scrub with the mouse (scroll up/down for ff or rw) or better still invoke quick look and there is a bar at the bottom.

 

[koffiejunkie]

You can either scrub with the mouse (scroll up/down for ff or rw)

That's slower than just watching it.

or better still envoke quick look and there is a bar at the bottom.

I guess that's the only way now. Still, one step more than before.

 

[Ou grote]

You can either scrub with the mouse (scroll up/down for ff or rw) or better still envoke quick look and there is a bar at the bottom.

I want to use the remote for everthing.
And I want to use front row.


Will look at this on the weekend

The OS X developers has decided to fork the code
posted 2008-05-22 by jmarshall // no comments //
The developers primarily working on the OS X port of XBMC have decided to fork the project and go out on their own. There have been differences in priorities between the OS X developers and the main XBMC team for sometime, and this has come to a head recently. The OS X members are now no longer part of the Team-XBMC, and their project and forums will from now on be hosted elsewhere.

One of the good things about open source is that they are free to take the code and use it in any way they wish (subject to the GPL of course), and we wish them well in their endeavours, and look forward to seeing what they come up with.

Team-XBMC will continue to the development and release versions of XBMC for Mac, Linux, Xbox and Windows, and we will continue to support builds on all platforms. As always, any and all help in this regard is greatly appreciated.

References:
Elan's post on his own blog
Forum thread for discussion

 

[bwana]

That's slower than just watching it.

huh? It's quick.

I guess that's the only way now. Still, one step more than before.

The 'extra step' as you call it also gives you the option of full screen without having to open up anything else. How many steps has that saved?

I want to use the remote for everthing.
And I want to use front row.

I'm lost - you could use the remote before for the finder's column mode preview?

Using the remote for fast forwarding in front row is better now than it ever was as you can control the speed that you are fast forwarding as well as skip ahead/back.

 

[koffiejunkie]

huh? It's quick.

On mine it scrolls at about the speed you view, but it also pauses the movie, so when I reached the end of the wheel's travel and have to move my forefinger, the movie doesn't keep playing. Now if it jumped a minute for each click of the mouse wheel, that would have been useful.

The 'extra step' as you call it also gives you the option of full screen without having to open up anything else. How many steps has that saved?

IIRC in Tiger I could hit Command+F while the preview is playing in the finder and that would give me full screen. Now it just gives me search. But I may be confusing that with Explorer in Win2k where Alt+Enter gave full screen.

 

[evolution]

Command + Option + Y, will give you quick look in full screen. Not sure if that's what you're looking for?

 

[koffiejunkie]

It's one step more for each file, but it'll do. It's not something I need every day.

 

[evolution]

One extra button? pfft... hehe

 

[bwana]

It's one step more for each file, but it'll do. It's not something I need every day.

You only need to invoke quick look once - you can still move between files and it will remain open.

Stop fearing change

 

[koffiejunkie]

You only need to invoke quick look once - you can still move between files and it will remain open.

Aah cool!

 

[koffiejunkie]

I just checked, on tiger Command+F also brings up search. So I guess I'm confusing it with explorer.

 

[Ou grote]

My main ones:

Front Row, still a pain in the ass.
Mentioned these before, bwana gave a fix for "1", but prefer apple to fix.
And fix don't work if I want to copy movies from iTunes to my iPhone.



Boot Camp Mentioned before.
My iMac's screensaver still doesn't work in XP, nor does powering off the monitor.

Ok, so my screensaver works now after this patch, for some reason it started working yesterday.