Comments on: How-to: Windows Media Center on a Leopard network

By: nicy

nicy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:39:24 +0000

@max: you just a UPnP media server.

go on google and search for one (one such one that is not free is twonkymedia).

By: marc

marc — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:36:04 +0000

A Microsoft multimedia invasion the week XBMC “atlantis” Beta is going out ? (xbmc dot org, without any wha wha wha)It seems a little bit provocative :-)

Same interface, same programm under Linux, Windows, OSX and Xbox… it rings me a bell … wait a minute.. holly cow, the “CUA”, the “common user application interface” IBM tried to lauch with OS/2, (Presentation Manager uber alles)
At last, we got it, and it’s an open source project

By: Time Tracker

Time Tracker — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:17:16 +0000

Dang! This is really genius. I’m not at the point of doing this yet, but bookmarked and saved until the day arrives. Interesting point brought up by Max – is there a way to integrate an xbox 360 into the mix?

By: Max

Max — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:12:33 +0000

This is super awesome… I’ve been looking for a guide on how to build a storage/torrent/server box that plays nice with Mac/Windows…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this setup seems to require a PC running MCE… is there a clever way to configure the server box so that an Xbox 360 will just happily stream media from its drives?

That would be excellent.

By: Joey Celis

Joey Celis — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:15:11 +0000

Adding a network drive to your login items is certainly one way to automate the mounting process and was the first thing I tried to automate the mounting of the drives.

What I noticed was that upon login, it would open up a finder window for each drive being mounted, which of course required the closing of each window.

The automator method mounts the drive but does not open up a finder window on the desktop.

By: JMT

JMT — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:00:17 +0000

@aaron, @eliot phillips

Be careful with adding a drive to login items. I have found in the past that if the drive isn’t available at start-up the system takes a long time to boot or even hangs indefinitely. This problem may be fixed in Leopard, but I know it happens in Tiger. Additionally there are some really good ways to setup automounts talked about in this article http://rajeev.name/blog/2007/11/22/autofs-goodness-in-apples-leopard-105-part-i/.

By: ed3

ed3 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:16:56 +0000

…there’s also MediaPortal, which is free.

By: rauz

rauz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:27:45 +0000

henry cole: press ctrl+alt+cmd+8 on your keyboard.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:13:41 +0000

its called a bookmark henry, or printing the article

By: Henry Cole

Henry Cole — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:14:08 +0000

Being new to Mac, why do great articles like this get printed on black backgrounds or brown on black. There should some way to save this as I have been waiting for this article for over a year.

By: Eliot Phillips

Eliot Phillips — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:55:01 +0000

@aaron I thought there was something like that. I even have a drive that does it. I just could for the life of me figure out how I got that done. :P

By: pip

pip — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:58:28 +0000

MACaday?

By: Aaron Robinson

Aaron Robinson — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:33:38 +0000

If you drag the drive to your system pref=>accounts=>login items it will automatically connect

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:23:42 +0000

Very cool and a great write-up.

Still, I’d recommend one use SageTV to do this since SageTV can do more than Windows Media Center and it supports XP, Vista, Mac and Linux out of the box.