One thing I love about my Mac is the ability to quickly go into Front Row and watch a movie all from my bed or couch with my handy Apple remote. Well when it comes to the whole "Media Center" experience Front Row gets a B- in my grade book. The seemingly difficult task of making sure you have all of the codecs installed to play all of the movies that you ripped from your DVDs can be quite annoying. Well lets take a look of an Xbox application ported to Intel Macs.
This is where a seemingly odd port of an application designed to run on a Pentium III processor and a hacked console comes in. Xbox Media Center otherwise known as "XBMC" has been the go-to application for serving up video, photos, and music for console hackers everywhere. If you weren't in this small fraction of hackers (I say small but check out www.xboxscene.com and have a look at the user count in their forums) then you probably haven't heard of this application.
This screencast just touches the surface of how XBMC is going to make Front Row second best on my Mac.
One thing I did not mention in my screencast is that XBMC for Macs requires BOTH an Intel Mac as well as Leopard. Currently it will only run on that hardware sadly.
You can download XBMC for OSX here.
Because this is the first official screencast on the new and improved AccelMac we are going to offer this video in full 1280x800 HD which you can download here!(right click to download please)