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iTheater: Mac Media Center was a open source media center application for Mac OS X.
Active development and support of iTheater is no longer underway in lieu of other media application availability.
Prior to the release of Apple's own Front Row and the mass adoption of online video streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix, iTheater was one of the first pieces of third-party software to act as a conduit between a user and the media on Mac OS X.
[edit] Project History
With the release of the Mac mini at MacWorld SF 2005, it became possible to keep a small computer, with a lot of power, in the living room to share the multimedia content created by Apple's "Digital Hub". iTheater is but one of a few non-Apple Macintosh media center applications over the years, and like most others has an interface that is very similar to Apple's own Front Row. The application was designed to discover and present an array of multimedia content in a user-friendly way.
[edit] Development
iTheater was developed and released under the GNU General Public License. As of May 2009, the iTheater website redirects to their SourceForge repository. Active development and support is no longer underway in lieu of other media application availability.
[edit] Milestone Releases
| iTheater Public Releases |
| Release Date |
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Features |
| 2006-01-31 |
iTheater 0.1 |
First public release |
| 2006-02-19 |
iTheater 0.1.1 |
Bug fix release |
| 2006-06-10 |
iTheater 0.1.2a |
New UI, New Playback engine, Numbered Menu System added to Music module |
| 2006-08-25 |
iTheater 0.1.2 |
Apple Remote support, Letter Skipping |
| 2007-02-03 |
iTheater 0.1.3 |
Preference Pane, Wii Remote support, Playlist Support |
| 2007-04-15 |
iTheater 0.1.4 |
Expanded preferences, bug fixes, major rearchitecting of software to accommodate future enhancements |
| 2007-07-14 |
iTheater 0.2.0 |
Update system and support for multiple monitors included |
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Boxee (Apple TV, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) · Freevo (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) · MediaCentre (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) · Moovida (formerly Elisa) (Linux, Windows) · MyCast Orb (Mac OS X, Windows) · SageTV (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) · Sofa (Linux, Mac OS X) · Voddler (Mac OS X, Windows) · XBMC (Apple TV, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Xbox)
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