[Xbplayer-developers] Xbox Media Center, The new (ad)venture

[Gamester17 <gam...@xb...>]

Xbox Media Center, The new (ad)venture 

XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) is a new free open source (GPL) multimedia player for 
Microsoft's Xbox. 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 developers has 
been working on in secret for the last 4-6 months. This does not mean the 
Xbox Media Player is dead, official and unofficial developers will still be 
adding new code and maintain it but the lead developers will be focusing on 
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
Official Mirror: www.xboxmediacenter.de