CenterStage: Mac Media Center going Alpha
Barb posted about the development of the Mac Media Center project
a while back, but today CenterStage is poised to release a public alpha
version of the software. Two days ago, they noted: ”We have decided to delay the public Alpha by up to 2 days
to integrate some very nice stuff that has been checked into the source repository over the last few days. . . . God
willing the public Alpha will be out by Wednesday evening at the latest, I hope everyone agrees with our decision as we
wanted to make the public Alpha worth the download.”
So, check back with their site later today to see if the Alpha is live. Don’t get too excited though, as their
site notes ”...this simple version plays movies from ~/movies” and ”is only available via SVN to
compile yourself.” If you don’t know what that means, then you need to check back when they’re closer to a beta
release. Keep in mind that “Alpha” is the step before “Beta,” so the program will probably have its fair
share of bugs.
UPDATE: tjreo writes in to add: ”To clarify… when the Public Alpha version is released, you will not need to compile it yourself. That comment was for those like myself that wanted to download the code from the subversion repository in order to see the application right away.” Thanks for the update!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dave said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
If you could, please fix the "CenterStage" link. Right now it's "http://" which is a little vague, given the general size of the net 'n all. :)
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C.K. Sample, III said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Fixed. Sorry about that; some ghost in the system kept stripping the link, so I had to go into the code and kick it into place.
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tjreo said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
To clarify... when the Public Alpha version is released, you will not need to compile it yourself.
That comment was for those like myself that wanted to download the code from the subversion repository in order to see the application right away.
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JC said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
While this is all well and good. When the heck are we gonna see a box made with video capture unit, optical audio out and additional hard drive capability? The mini hard drive is gonna fill up so fast with tv video, it ain't even gonna be funny!
Has anyone seen or heard about anything out there yet? Other than photoshop pics I mean.
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