Cyberace
1st October 2003, 11:02
XboxMediaCenter (XBMC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc)) is a new free open source (GPL) multimedia player for MS's Xbox (http://www.xbox.com). XboxMediaCenter is still in beta stage but can currently be used to play and view most video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG/MPG, VOB, AVI, OGM, DivX, XVID, MP3, OGG, JPG, GIF and many more direct from a CD/DVD in the DVD-ROM or of the Xbox build-in hard disk drive, it can also play files over a network (LAN) from a PC via an "XStream Server" application or from a Windows (SMB) share. It has playlist + slideshow functions and ability to funcion as a full replacement Xbox dashboard. These and more features enables the Xbox running XboxMediaCenter to fully function as a multi-media jukebox. XboxMediaCenter also known as "Xbox Media Center" or simply "XBMC".
This project is what the active official Xbox Media Player (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de) developers has been working on in secret for the last 4-6 months. This does not mean the Xbox Media Player (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de) is dead, official and unofficial developers will still be adding new code and maintain it but the lead developers will be focusing on XBMC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc). Remember that XBMC and XBMP are hobby projects and are only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free.
New and big differences compared to XboxMediaPlayer:
- Entire new fully skinnable GUI engine
- Easy switching between skins (if exist)
- Dynamic loader for multiple cores/engines
- Music database with search feature
- Sort files/folders by name, size or date
- File Manager for DVD-ROM/HDD/Network
- Virtual Keyboard
- CDDB and album cover/info lookup
- Movie calibration per resolution
- UI calibration
Things that are not supported in XBMC yet:
- DVD-movie playback
- Audio Visualization
- Matroska file container
- Windows DLL's (WMV/WMA 9)
- FTP-Server
- SHOUTcast
- TV-Guide
Note! Normal retail Xbox's require a modchip with hacked a BIOS for XboxMediaCenter to run.
Official website: www.xboxmediacenter.com (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com)
Official Mirror: www.xboxmediacenter.de (http://www.xboxmediacenter.de)
Offical XBMC Forums: XBMC Forums (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl)
SourceForge Project Site: XBMC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc)
This project is what the active official Xbox Media Player (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de) developers has been working on in secret for the last 4-6 months. This does not mean the Xbox Media Player (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de) is dead, official and unofficial developers will still be adding new code and maintain it but the lead developers will be focusing on XBMC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc). Remember that XBMC and XBMP are hobby projects and are only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free.
New and big differences compared to XboxMediaPlayer:
- Entire new fully skinnable GUI engine
- Easy switching between skins (if exist)
- Dynamic loader for multiple cores/engines
- Music database with search feature
- Sort files/folders by name, size or date
- File Manager for DVD-ROM/HDD/Network
- Virtual Keyboard
- CDDB and album cover/info lookup
- Movie calibration per resolution
- UI calibration
Things that are not supported in XBMC yet:
- DVD-movie playback
- Audio Visualization
- Matroska file container
- Windows DLL's (WMV/WMA 9)
- FTP-Server
- SHOUTcast
- TV-Guide
Note! Normal retail Xbox's require a modchip with hacked a BIOS for XboxMediaCenter to run.
Official website: www.xboxmediacenter.com (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com)
Official Mirror: www.xboxmediacenter.de (http://www.xboxmediacenter.de)
Offical XBMC Forums: XBMC Forums (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl)
SourceForge Project Site: XBMC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc)