[Xbplayer-developers] XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 released!!! - The greatest thing since sliced bread!?

[Gamester17 at t. X. M. P. w. <gam...@na...>]

The XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 point release source code is now available on
SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/> 
 
What's new:
- OSD (On Screen Display) with various of settings during video playback
- Audio Visualization (using Goom
<http://ios.free.fr/?page=projet&quoi=1&lg=AN>  visual effects
generator)
- Local/native SHOUTcast <http://www.shoutcast.com/>  recording to the
Xbox hard drive
- Local/native support for SHOUTcast <http://www.shoutcast.com/>  &
IceCast <http://www.icecast.org/>  playlists (.sc & .pls)
- HDTV 720p & 1080i support (multiple resolutions & progressive scan)*
- TV-Guide (w. IMDb <http://www.imdb.com/> ) ( XMLTV
<http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/>  show listings, requires PC w.
internet)*
- Command line option available when launch a XBE via shortcut (.cut)
- DivX <http://www.divx.com/>  5.03 (inc. 5.03 Pro) playback support*
- AVC - Advanced Video Coding ( H.264
<http://www.vcodex.fsnet.co.uk/h264.html> ) playback*
- Real <http://www.real.com/>  - RealAudio/RealVideo playback (Note!
older versions only)*
- QuickTime <http://www.quicktime.com/>  6.0 video playback (video only
& no audio yet)*
- Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) <http://www.theora.org/>  video playback
support*
- Intel Indeo <http://www.intel.com/labs/archive/indeo.htm>  3.1/3.2 (
Indeo3 <http://www.intel.com/labs/archive/indeo.htm> )  video playback
support*
- Matroska <http://www.matroska.org/>  (.mkv) audio/video multimedia
container/file format*
- NuppelVideo <http://frost.htu.tuwien.ac.at/~roman/nuppelvideo/>
(.nuv) playback support*
- Autodesk <http://www.autodesk.com/>  FLI and FLC Animation playback
support*
- AAC - Advanced Audio Coding <http://www.aac-audio.com/>  (MPEG-4
audio) support*
- Updated picture library, now also support PNG, TIFF, TGA & PCX
- Support for compressed VobSub subtitles (rar) (Small files only!)*
- Auto-launch Xbox game on insert (inc. enable/disable feature)
- XBMSP
<http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xbplayer/ccxstream-1.0.12.ta
r.gz>  - Xbox Media Streaming Protocol ( version 1.0.12
<http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xbplayer/ccxstream-1.0.12.ta
r.gz> )*
- Clock/date synchronization from external (NT SNTP) Time Server
- System info under Settings (build date, free space, IP, temperature)
- Ability to choose which categories show up in main menu
- Support for separate local subtitle directory on HDD
- Read support for MP3 ID3v1 and ID3v2 information tags
- Support for MPEG & OGM files larger than 2GB (not OpenDML AVI's)
- Auto clipping/cropping filter (for videos with black letter-boxes)
- De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implemented*
- Screen saver (black screen) on configurable timer
- Auto-launch other xbe (application) on Audio-CD insert
- Auto-launch other xbe (application) on DVD-movie insert
- Extract IMBd <http://www.imdb.com/>  URL & info from .nfo file (if
selected in My Videos)
- IMBd <http://www.imdb.com/>  improvements (All genres, ratings,
Top250, cast overview)
- Integrated updated FFmpeg <http://ffmpeg.sf.net/> , XviD
<http://www.xvid.org/> , XBFileZilla
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbfilezilla/>  and MPlayer
<http://www.mplayerhq.hu/>  code
...and of course loads of bug fixes, and some new XBMP skins
<http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/download_files.htm> 

* = experimental, unstable, buggy or limited

Our thanks go out to all developers & everyone who contribute & support
this project,
and a special BIG thanks goes to the MPlayer <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/>
, FFmpeg <http://ffmpeg.sf.net/>  and XviD <http://www.xvid.org/>
developers/projects.
We also welcome the Support Tech's from xbmp.de <http://www.xbmp.de/>
to the XboxMediaPlayer Team.

Much more release information is available in the XBMP Forum thread
(link)
<http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/ib31/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=4
296;r=1;&#top> .
Note! We do not host or distribute any Xbox executable binaries, read
the FAQ <http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/info_faq.htm> .
Note! Do not e-mail any XBMP members asking for files or support, see
the FAQ <http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/info_faq.htm> .
PS! Unfortunate Shadow_Mx suffered a systemcrash so no new manual
<http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/info_howto.htm>  yet.