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Friday, January 4, 2013

Best and Cheap HTMC Solution with Mac Mini!

Best and Cheap HTMC Solution with Mac Mini! Tube. Duration : 8.52 Mins.


Hello Youtube, Mac mini serves as a HTMC connected to HDTV over HDMI cable www.monoprice.com or www.monoprice.com + your favorite HDMI cable... As for the Audio, if you don't care about 5.1 sound, you can go with analog 2.0 stereo after connecting single jack-2-jack (3.5mm) or jack 2 rca for left and right (white + red) Mini Configuration: - 2.16ghz C2D with Nvidia 9400 GPU (good for HD processing) - Paired Apple Remote (I prefer the new aluminum ones) - Fresh 10.6.3 osx installed - Adobe Flash 10.1 RC2 from labs.adobe.com - VLC from http - Perian from perian.org - Flip4Mac from http - Boxee app from boxee.tv - Remote buddy for controlling your mac with single remote (only paid app we need) http Adjustments in system preferences: - Display (set to 720p) - Energy Saver (Computer sleep and display sleep set to NEVER) Uncheck box "Put the hard drives to sleep when possible" Check box "Allow power button to put the computer to sleep" - Bluetooth: Advances tab (UNCHECK "Open Bluetooth assistant at startup when no input device is present") - Sharing (Enable both Screen Sharing and File Sharing) Configure All remote behaviors in Remote Buddy and there you have it. !!! Don't forget to Check the box in Remote Buddy preferences "Start Remote Buddy at Login time, and Move the cursor to fullscreen friendly position on application start/system wake-up" Goals archieved: 1. Inexpensive and highly dependable portable media center (just unplug it and go across the country, connect and ...

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