Cynical Peak Software

Rivet 2.2.1 was released today. It adds a option to turn off generating thumbnails. It also fixes an issue with the thumbnail caching.  The cache wasn’t also being used first after starting Rivet.  So you should see a little bit better performance the first time you view a folder after launching Rivet.

The update can be download from here

Rivet 2.2 is now available for download from a Cyncial Peak’s website. Rivet 2.2 adds a two highly requested features along with a host of smaller improvements and bug fixes.  The first highly requested feature is display of video thumbnails and album art for music.  Leveraging the power of Leopard’s QuickLook technology, thumbnails will now be displayed on the Xbox 360 and PS3 giving the user more feedback on their selection and a better experience while browsing their media.  The second feature is support for Events in iPhoto.  Users can now browse and view photos from their iPhoto Events along with their folders and smart folders.

Feature Highlights:

• Xbox 360 and PS3 support.
• Music streaming of your iTunes library.
• Photo streaming of your iPhoto library, Aperture library, and user defined folders.
• Video streaming from user defines folders.
• Full organization support, your mac is recreated on the Xbox 360 and PS3.
• Video thumbnail and music album art support using QuickLook.
• Quick automatic updating on the Xbox 360 and PS3. when files are added, deleted, or moved.

New in version 2.1:

• Added video thumbnails display (Xbox and PS3).
• Added music album art display (PS3 only).
• Added support for iPhoto Events.
• Added metadata support for the date and duration of movies.
• Improved loading speed of photo thumbnails.
• Improved parsing speed of media and libraries.
• Fixed display of accented characters.
• Fixed an index number issue.
• Fixed an issue that could cause an iPhoto folder to only display movies or photos, not both.
• Fixed an issue that could cause an Aperture folder to only display movies or photos, not both.

Rivet 2.1 is now available for download from a Cyncial Peak’s website.  Rivet 2.1 brings French, Italian, and Spanish localizations plus major performance and stability improvements.

New in version 2.1:

• Added Italian localization.
• Added Spanish localization.
• Cleaned up the French localization.
• Added a alias loop check for the folder parsing.
• Removed the ability to add / as a shared folder.
• Added a start-up check for / as a saved folder.  This was causing the beachball hangs on launch.
• Fixed the root folder to not show Music when music sharing is off.
• Fixed a crash due to incorrect request counts.
• Fixed a deadlock that could cause Rivet to lock-up during streaming.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during streaming of pictures.

Rivet 2.0 is now available for download from a href=”http://cynicalpeak.com/rivet/”Cyncial Peak’s website/a. This release adds support for the PS3 which we’ve had many requests for. It also fixes a bunch of bugs, adds better Aperture support, and has many performance improvements.

The update features:

• Added PS3 support
• Fixed file size info for files larger than 4 GB
• Fixed Aperture parsing for nested folders
• Fixed folder parsing for folders nested more than 6 levels deep
• Increased the look-up speed of media, photo thumbnail loading to time out less often
• Fixed an issue that caused not all of the media to be shown when a folder contains folders and media
• Fixed an issue that caused the iTunes library parser to abort
• Removed the filtering of iTunes+ files since the PS3 correctly plays them

Good news everybody! Preliminary testing shows that the current version of Rivet works with the New Xbox Experience (NXE) update that came out this morning. All of the files I’ve attempted to play so far, play correctly. I haven’t tried every file type yet, but I’ve done all the ones you guys are most likely to be using.

I did have one small hiccup though that I want to give a heads up on. You have to redownload the media pack again to play some file types. I ran into this the first time I tried to play an xvid file. Fortunately, Microsoft made it really painless. The first time you try to play one, it present an error dialog saying the the update is needed and gives you a prompt to download it from Xbox Live. The screen will say you’ve already downloaded it. Just download to your hard drive again and your good to go. The Xbox will take care of everything else when you try to play the video again.

I have a feeling a couple features that we’ve gotten many requests one might have support now too. I’m not going to say what they are yet to not get people’s hopes up on specific items until I know more. I’m going to be exploring the possibilities and hopefully we’ll be able to add a couple cool new things.

It looks like the fall update is close to being released with Xbox Live being down for maintenance. It has some pretty big changes coming in both the look and the functionality. At this time we do not know if any of the changes will break Rivet. We’re in the same boat as all of you and don’t get any early access or testing on it. If something does break, we’ll be getting an update out as quick as possible for it (I’m not only the president, I’m also a client). I’ll update this post as soon as I can test on it to let everyone know if anything was broken or not.

Rivet 1.1 is now available for download from Cyncial Peak’s website. This release fixes many of the performance and stability issues and new features to allow you to better organize and browse your media on your Xbox 360.

The update features:

• Added better support for video podcasts and TV Shows in iTunes. They will now be sorted into subfolders based on the show and season.
• Automatic media updating is now friendlier on your CPU.
• Compilation albums will now show up as one album and not a separate one for each artist.
• Transcoded pictures are now much friendlier to your hard drive.
• Changed the machine’s IP discovery to work better with virtual machines and system preferences.
• Fixed displaying photos from a self managed iPhoto library.

Rivet 1.0.1 is out.  You can get it here.  This is a small update that fixes an issue where not all of the video files in a folder would show up due to a mime type issue.  

We are excited to announce the release of Rivet 1.0. Rivet connects your Mac to your Xbox 360 allowing you to stream music, video, and photo. Enjoy all of your media from the comfort of your living room from now on. Please visit Rivet’s website for downloads and additional info.

Rivet 1.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. The program can be registered for $18.95 USD and comes with a limited playback demo.