History of Kodi
Template:Cleanup-date Xbox Media Player, or XBMP for short, was the predecessor to Xbox Media Center (XBMC), a feature-rich open source media player for the Xbox. With a audio/video-player-core based on MPlayer, it allowed owners of a modified Xbox to display pictures and movie files, as well as play music files from the Xbox DVD-ROM drive, built-in harddisk drive, local-area-network ([[Server Message Block|SMB]) or the internet.
The XBMP project has been abandonded and have been fully replaced by its successor, Xbox Media Center (XBMC), created by the same development team.
Running XBMP
XBMP requires a modchip or software exploit/hack installed in/on the Xbox to run, as it is not an authorized (a.k.a. "signed") Microsoft product. XBMP can be run as an application, or a dashboard that appears directly when the Xbox is turned on, (it takes appox 15-seconds to fully load).
Legality
Although XBMP is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), it is written for use with Microsoft's XDK and so is not legally available as an executable program to non-official Microsoft game-publishers. Users are encouraged to compile their own binaries from the public CVS repository using the XDK, rather than downloading a questionable illegally released executable. XBMP's full source code is however legal 'as is' and is available on SourceForge.
External links
- XboxMediaPlayer (XBMP) official website
- [http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmp/ XboxMediaPlayer (XBMP) official SourceForge.net project (closed, see Xbox Media Center)
- XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) official website