iTheater: Mac Media Center http://www.itheaterproject.com iTheater: Mac Media Center Tue, 06 May 2008 20:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en New Feature: Subtitles! http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/05/06/new-feature-subtitles/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/05/06/new-feature-subtitles/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 20:53:50 +0000 crystaldonut http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/05/06/new-feature-subtitles/ Subtitles now work on iTheater Movies Module!

iTheater Subtitles

You will need codecs that can detect subtitles (Perian). We have tested Perian, and it can read subtitles from mkvs and .srt files with the same name as the video file. Perian supports srt and ssa, so its great graphics for text!

Coming to iTheater Movies Module Soon… You can get this via the svn repository now!.

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]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/05/04/photos-from-imaginerit/feed/ iTheater at RIT Innovation Festival - May 3 http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/02/27/itheater-at-rit-innovation-festival-may-3/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/02/27/itheater-at-rit-innovation-festival-may-3/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:07:11 +0000 Ed http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2008/02/27/itheater-at-rit-innovation-festival-may-3/ We will be exhibiting iTheater at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s inaugural Innovation & Creativity festival on May 3, 2008.

This inaugural festival will expose thousands of people to hundreds of examples of student, faculty and staff creativity and innovation. The festival will showcase new ideas for products and services, creative arts and crafts, faculty and student research, and more from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 3.



To learn more about the festival, please visit http://rit.edu/imagine/

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2008/02/27/itheater-at-rit-innovation-festival-may-3/feed/ iTheater 0.2 Re-Released! (Updatex2) http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/07/16/itheater-02-re-released-updatex2/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/07/16/itheater-02-re-released-updatex2/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:06:20 +0000 Ed http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/07/16/itheater-02-re-released-updatex2/ iTheater 0.2 has been released an brings 2 main great new features:

1. Multiple monitor support
2. iTheater Menu Bar item

These features have been highly requested over the last few months, and we are glad to finally introduce them.

UPDATE: iTheater .2 has been re-released and can be downloaded here

Currently under Development:

iTheater Update system

This is one of the next main feature for 0.2.x; we are working real hard to get this feature as stable as we can in the shortest amount of revisions possible. Our goal is that after a few more versions of iTheater, the user will not have to re-download and reinstall the entire application, but rather the user will have the ability to update iTheater from the preference pane.



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This functionality has been inspired by the popular updater ’sparkle’ (you guys might know it from applications such as Adium or iTerm.) Yet sparkle is a very basic update system compared to the more complex update system that iTheater needs since it has to keep track of many types of objects right now (and in future versions).

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/07/16/itheater-02-re-released-updatex2/feed/ 0.20 Development Status http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/06/08/020-development-status/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/06/08/020-development-status/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:05:33 +0000 huckleberry http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/06/08/020-development-status/ Hi Everybody!

Development of version 0.20 is well under way; i wanted to let our users know how we are doing feature wise:

Completed Tasks:

iTheater Multiple Monitor Support

We have now the ability for the user to pick which monitor to use with iTheater. This was a much requested feature for all of you folks that hook up you mac to your television or other monitor. This is currently only configurable via preferences

Introduction of the iTheater Status Bar Item

Another great thing is the addition of an iTheater icon into the status menu; this helps because you have access to iTheater and its preferences via this menu or a user configurable hotkey shortcut.
(currently we are only supporting keyboard shortcuts, but there will eventually be support for apple remote and wii remote)



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Thank you for your support!

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/06/08/020-development-status/feed/ iTheater 0.1.4 Released http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/04/15/itheater-014-released/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/04/15/itheater-014-released/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:04:41 +0000 Ed http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/04/15/itheater-014-released/ Today we released iTheater 0.1.4! This version of iTheater is developer-friendly. Now anyone can develop plugins and modules for iTheater. Get it here

Here’s whats new:
Architecture:
- Created iTheater.framework API
- Added third party plugin support
- Added third party module support

Preferences:
- Added dynamic module/plugin preferences
- Facelift for the prefpane
+ Added tabbed design
+ Modified overall layout
- Added iTheater startup/shutdown tansitions
- Added ability to change iTheater sounds

Misc:
- Added caching capability for web-based modules/plugins
- Created uninstaller for iTheater

Documentation:
- Added plugin development guide to wiki
- Added module development guide to wiki
- Added code examples to wiki
- Created test environment program for modules/plugins

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/04/15/itheater-014-released/feed/ 0.1.4 coming but more developers needed http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/03/22/014-coming-but-more-developers-needed/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/03/22/014-coming-but-more-developers-needed/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:03:47 +0000 huckleberry http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/03/22/014-coming-but-more-developers-needed/ We should be done with 0.1.4 by the end of the month. Basically iTheater has gone under a big rewrite so now its all modular making far easier for development.

But we need more developers to work on our core modules after 0.1.4.

What do we need?

We need people, who want to work on these modules,

Music Module (developer that would supplant our main developer in the future)
Images
Weather
DVD
Apple Remote
Movies (co-developers, to help our main developers)

Also after 0.1.4 is out, it should open the doors for people to develop there own plugins for itheater :)

Email me on ben@itheaterproject.com for more details.

Thanks
Ben

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/03/22/014-coming-but-more-developers-needed/feed/ 5,000+ Downloads of .1.3 in 24 hours http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/02/04/5000-downloads-of-13-in-24-hours/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/02/04/5000-downloads-of-13-in-24-hours/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:03:08 +0000 Ed http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/02/04/5000-downloads-of-13-in-24-hours/ iTheater 0.1.3 has been downloaded over 5,000 times in the last 24 hours! We even survived our first time making it to the Digg front page :wink: . Thank you everyone for spreading the word and using iTheater .1.3! Check back soon because .1.4 is on it’s way!

On another note, thank you Ausdatahost.com for putting up with all the traffic last night. If anyone is looking for a great host, consider the products offered by these guys! For more information visist: http://www.ausdatahost.com/

Thanks to our SVN host as well CVSDude: http://www.cvsdude.com/

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/02/04/5000-downloads-of-13-in-24-hours/feed/ iTheater v0.1.3 released! http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/02/03/itheater-v013-released/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/02/03/itheater-v013-released/#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:02:23 +0000 Ed http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/02/03/itheater-v013-released/ The iTheater Project is proud to announce the release of iTheater 0.1.3. This new version is available for download here.

New Features include:
- Wii Remote support added
- Added iTheater system preference pane
- Added ability to change weather location & degree unit
- Added ability to change background images
- Added ability to change default music, video and photo locations
- Play iTunes playlists Video:
- Fixed video thumbnails
- Installer created
- Misc. code cleanup and bug fixes

Enjoy!

]]> http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/02/03/itheater-v013-released/feed/ iTheater Project Ending OSX 10.3 Support http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/01/16/itheater-project-ending-osx-103-support/ http://www.itheaterproject.com/2007/01/16/itheater-project-ending-osx-103-support/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:01:38 +0000 Ed http://www.itheaterproject.com/blog/2007/01/16/itheater-project-ending-osx-103-support/ We want to deliver the best Mac Media Center, but in order to do so, we are going to need to take advantage of the core functionality that OS X offers us. Therefore, version 0.1.2 will be the last official release of iTheater that supports OS X 10.3. We look froward to continuing developing for 10.4 and the upcoming 10.5, but at this time the interest and resources for 10.3 development is just not feasible. We look forward to releasing some great stuff over the coming year that takes full advantage of all OS X has to offer!

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