Mac Mini/XBMC - was krankshaft format solution found

[John Rennie]

>PCs are cheap anyway

Yes, but the design of the Mac is just gorgeous :-) No HTPC comes
close. I need Windows because I run various other Windows apps on it,
and for me Bootcamp works very well.

>I am curious about the XMBC

XBMC is a Media Centre not a Media Player. It's intended to be a
central system for organising and playing all your media, and it's
designed to work on systems with no keyboard and mouse using just a
remote control. I have my Mac Mini on a shelf under my TV with the
sound connected to my HiFi system and the video plugged straight
into the TV with a DVI-HDMI cable.

Give XBMC a try, it's free :-)

JR

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From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Jonathan Smith
Sent: 07 April 2011 02:43
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Subject: Re: Mac Mini/XBMC - was krankshaft format solution found

I wouldn't downgrade a Mac by installing Bootcamp (I hate Mac snobbery too
but they are faster)-- PCs are cheap anyway. I am curious about the XMBC,
but does it do anything a PC/ Mac can't? Both seem to play any type of video
if you download the codec, using VLC for example).