Xbox Media Center, The new (ad)venture

[Gamester17]

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 as well as the ability to function 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 have 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 xboxes require a modchip with hacked a bios for xboxmediacenter to run.

official website: www.xboxmediacenter.com
official mirror: www.xboxmediacenter.de
offical xbmc forums: xbmc forums
sourceforge project site: xbmc

[glyndwr]

i'm sure i speak for everyone reading this when i say:

woohoo!

can't wait to get home and play with this!

[deltop]

hehe no wonder development has been slow on xbmp for a while.

looking forward to the future. now i'm off to see if i can build this thing :lol:

[Mental Block]

i guessing this means it is basically a complete rewrite of xbmp?

was there anyother reason for the name change?

just wondering

love the app and it might have just got better :d

[Frodo]

i guessing this means it is basically a complete rewrite of xbmp?

yes it is. but we're not done yet. xbmp still holds many things which are not present in xbmc yet. dont worry, we're working on it and hopefully xbmc will contains all xbmp's features

was there anyother reason for the name change

we dont want any confusion. so we decided it was better to create an entire new website and offcourse give it a new new which became xbox media center or xbmc for short

frodo

[Rui]

would the new xbox media center be compatible with source/features from the old xbmp?
or would it be totaly separately development?

rui

[LiGhTfasT]

can't wait to grab this, you guys are amazing :d

the name sounds cooler, is it anything like the new wmce 2004?

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/...xp_mce2004.asp
the gui looks like it has transistions which would look quite sexy

[Frodo]

xbmc is an entirely new development.


frodo

[LoL]

you sneaky basterds

great going can't wait to check it out, thx!!


lol

[Frodo]

the name sounds cooler, is it anything like the new wmce 2004?

as you can understand wmce 2004 wasnt available when developing xbmc. however we took a good look at windows media center, freevo, mythtv etc and xbmp offcourse.
however now that wmce2004 is released, we will offcourse look @ it

frodo