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===What is Xbox Media Center and what does it allow me to do if I run it on Microsoft's Xbox™?===
===What is Xbox Media Center and what does it allow me to do if I run it on Microsoft's Xbox™?===
Xbox Media Center is a free and open source (GPL) multimedia player/jukebox for the Xbox™ game console from Microsoft.  
XBMC (XBox Media Center) is a [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html free open source (GPL)] multimedia-player for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox Xbox™ from Microsoft]. Currently XBMC can be used to play/view most popular video/audio/picture formats such as DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, GIF, PNG, plus many more less known formats directly from a CD/DVD in the Xbox DVD-ROM drive or from the Xbox built-in harddrive, XBMC can also play multimedia-files from a computer over a local-network and even stream media-streams directly from the internet. XBMC can parse DVD-Video movies (with and without menus) from ISO/IMG-images and even ZIP/RAR-archives. XBMC has playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast and many audio visualizations. XBMC can in addition use python-scripts written for XBMC as plugin widgets. All these features enable the Xbox™ running XBMC to fully function as a multimedia-jukebox. XBMC has a simple anbd user-friendly user-interface, it's easy to use, it's convenient, flexible and offers a great price/performance ratio. (This, The XboxMediaCenter Project is also known as "Xbox Media Center" or simply "XBMC").
Xbox Media Center can be used to play or view supported video/audio/picture formats such as DVD, DivX, XviD, AAC+, FLAC, MP3, JPG and many more.
 
It has playlists, slideshow functions and can play direct from a CD/DVD in the Xbox™ DVD-ROM or from the Xbox™ hard disk drive.
 
It even streams files from local networked computers, even from inside RAR archives!
*Notes!
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**XBMC is a non-profit hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free.
**Remember that XboxMediaCenter does require a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox#Modding_the_Xbox modded Xbox] to run on or it will not function).
Xbox Media Center is often referred to in short hand as “XBMC”.
**For a complete list a functions and features see the list [[Supported_File_Formats|here]].
  Note! XBMC is a non-profit project that is developed by volunteers in their spare time for free.
 
 
===Does XBMC support or feature ''this'' and ''that'' function...?===
See list [[Supported_File_Formats|here]] and/or try it yourself and findout! Also search/browse and read [[Xbox_Media_Center_Online_Manual|this manual]]!


===Does XBMC support ...?===
Try and findout!


===Exactly which video/audio/picture formats and audio/video codec versions can XBMC play?===
===Exactly which video/audio/picture formats and audio/video codec versions can XBMC play?===
See list [[Supported_File_Formats#Supported_video_codecs:|here]]
See the full list [[Supported_File_Formats#Supported_video_codecs:|here]], it it is not listed then XBMC does not support it!

Revision as of 11:02, 18 July 2006

What is Xbox Media Center and what does it allow me to do if I run it on Microsoft's Xbox™?

XBMC (XBox Media Center) is a free open source (GPL) multimedia-player for the Xbox™ from Microsoft. Currently XBMC can be used to play/view most popular video/audio/picture formats such as DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, GIF, PNG, plus many more less known formats directly from a CD/DVD in the Xbox DVD-ROM drive or from the Xbox built-in harddrive, XBMC can also play multimedia-files from a computer over a local-network and even stream media-streams directly from the internet. XBMC can parse DVD-Video movies (with and without menus) from ISO/IMG-images and even ZIP/RAR-archives. XBMC has playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast and many audio visualizations. XBMC can in addition use python-scripts written for XBMC as plugin widgets. All these features enable the Xbox™ running XBMC to fully function as a multimedia-jukebox. XBMC has a simple anbd user-friendly user-interface, it's easy to use, it's convenient, flexible and offers a great price/performance ratio. (This, The XboxMediaCenter Project is also known as "Xbox Media Center" or simply "XBMC").


  • Notes!
    • XBMC is a non-profit hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free.
    • Remember that XboxMediaCenter does require a modded Xbox to run on or it will not function).
    • For a complete list a functions and features see the list here.


Does XBMC support or feature this and that function...?

See list here and/or try it yourself and findout! Also search/browse and read this manual!


Exactly which video/audio/picture formats and audio/video codec versions can XBMC play?

See the full list here, it it is not listed then XBMC does not support it!

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