Archive:Intro FAQ

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!