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- readme, on 10/11/2007, -1/+47***** yeah! XMBC 4 life!
- Protoss, on 10/11/2007, -2/+37XBMC is just all in one. Instead of just putting all these apps together, it would be the killer app for multimedia on Linux.
MythTV is awesome, but it needs some work on just regular video watching, which XBMC excels at. - dailydisco, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35I have to admit that I like XBMC for the xbox and am really excited that the development team has decided to open the project up for other platforms. Hope there are some people out there who can help!
- CaptainFuture, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33Oh yeah! Full HDTV coming to XBMC!!!
- edrift101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24I would totally build a PC just for this, of course then I could play around with Myth TV and Linux as well.
I love my Xbox with XBMC! - inkubux, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28I'll keep an eye on this as XMBC looks more polished than mythtv
- raid517, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Sorry for the comment abuse. But may I just bow and scrape in both utter grattitude and worship for those who have taken this bold decision?
I have wanted this to happen ever since XBMC was first released - and have begged and pleaded for it on many, many occasions.
These guys rock - and XBMC rocks like no other Media Center app. on the planet and now (or in the near future perhaps) I can fulfil my dream of building a small dedicated XBMC machine and of finally retiring my almost antique and venerable old XBox1.
It also resolves another dilemma in my mind - which is the requirement to compile XBMC (an open source and wholly honest application) using an illegal (and in most cases stolen) SDK. (An SDK that is also almost undoubtedly becoming rapidly out of date, particularly in light of the ever increasing demands of HDTV and new media types, both current and those yet to be envisaged).
But now XBMC has a future - and it deserves a future. It does not deserve to die as the XBox1 user base continues on it's ever more rapid decline.
So I take my hat off to these guys and I say thanks. Thanks for all the years that have passed - and thanks once more for hopefully all of the years to come.
Some things make life that little more bearable and that little bit more enjoyable - and in my view XBMC is certainly up there among the best of these. - mingistech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21I'd really like to see this running on a Playstation 3 Linux distro.
I've been running XBMC on my xbox for years now. Though it's inability to playback HD video is it's biggest shortcoming.
I usually use my AppleTV or PS3 for my 720p content, but would much prefer XBMC. - tonyhartfield, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19XBMC is ***** amazing
there's no other way of putting it to be honest, every day I've had it on my XBOX I've said it to myself and I still continue to. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20i personally think xmbc is better than anything out there.
- TechHerder, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22I've been keeping up with the SVN builds of this and you guys are making AMAZING progress so far. Day by day new features are added and confirmed working, and i'm learning a lot by following the code changes.
Once word gets out that you need linux developers, I'm sure a lot of new members will hop on and get to coding.
If you are not a linux developer but you want to help, digg this and help spread the word to get more qualified developers on board. - WolfDV, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19I agree this is good . . . eventually we will have the wonderful XBMC ui on all our high-end home theatre pc's . . running all those HD-vids in all their glory . . with a nice frontend to boot
- RefinedZombie, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24Here's to XBMC on Apple TV!
- thund3rstruck, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21"I don't understand the point "
I understand you have never used XBMC so you don't understand how amazing the XBMC feat really was. It's the nicest, cleanest, hacker-friendly media center I've ever used to date. But I must admit that partly the reason it's so incredible is that it runs on an xbox, which boots in less than one second, fits nicely in any entertainment cabinet, and uses minimal power.
This port would be awesome for appliance type PC devices that you connect directly to your stereo but not for full blown PCs since there are already fantastic media centers for Linux. I see this working really well in an OSS version of squeezebox or Sonos Digital Music Systems. - ibis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17In fairness, playing media, which XBMC does, is an easier task that writing a fullblown PVR, which myth is.
- akiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15@demagogue:
Just take some time to set it up properly. My xbox boots straight to XBMC where I have full network access. Infact, I set-up XBMC so that when I click on 'My Videos' it automatically opens the video folder on my main PC.
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xbox_Media_Center_Online_Manual - gsnedders, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16With a threaded decoder you should be able to easily decode HD video on the Cell (Toshiba showed off a concept product decoding fourty-eight SDTV MPEG2 streams at once on a Cell) meaning there is no requirement for the GPU at all.
- Wireddd, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18MythTV has lots of problems, they are mostly related to the crummy frontend which is a slow, buggy, memory hog
- edrift101, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Hell, I would buy one of those boxes to hack it for XBMC.
- cliffyboro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Will this offer easy upscaling just as it does on the XBOX?
- jordn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12for all that are interested...
screenshot:
http://www.tallal.org/xbmc_linux6.gif
more information:
http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/README.linux
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26097
running on ubuntu! w00t :-) - austin63, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12How would that help Microsoft?
- kris33, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14I think he meant orgasmic
- greysun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I have a feeling that, leaving the cozy back woods cottage that is homogenous hardware, it will be much easier said than done. I own three xboxes with XBMC on them and love it, but most of the troubles I had with MythTV and Freevo were getting the hardware to do what they're supposed to do.
Regardless, good luck Team XBMC! - ibis, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Mythtv can _play_ videos, sure. But the interface for browsing through downloaded divx type stuff is pretty average (and the music plugin is just utterly terrible). For what it's worth I use myth as a PVR and love it, but use XBMC to actually watch everything, including stuff I've recorded with myth, because the XBMC interface is nicer.
I'd rather see effort put in to making a nice music plugin and a nice "watching videos that I have sitting on the network somewhere" plugin for myth, but obviously this isn't something the XBMC guys care about. - mingistech, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10yes... i've heard that people running yellow dog on the ps3 with vlc installed are currently able to playback HD x264 encodes with no dropped frames.
so the cell has enough juice to decode HD without the gpu. - BenBenMan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I will switch to Linux for this when it's stable enough. XBMC is just awesome.
- Affiniti, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Oh, this is good news. More people should know of this project.. XBMC is imo the best, it never stops amazing me.
Dugg. - xerox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Great addition, because you know, the title and description and link, didn't give that away.
thanks for the contribution. :) - BenBenMan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Yeah that's what I meant ... Linux is certainly stable enough
- austin63, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8There is a hack to use usb drives via the controller ports.
- kolbyjack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Don't follow the instructions on that wiki from step 7 forward, though. XBMC really wants to be installed at E:AppsXBMC now. It has a little helper app to replace the dashboard.
- anjinash, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Just set the folder(s) your media is in to shared, when with the XBox browse by WORKGROUP and your folder(s) should be there. Piece of cake.
- raid517, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Linux is already 'stable enough.'
Oh right - you mean when XBMC is stable enough?
Sorry for the -digg... - thrallie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I love XBMC, I use it on my xbox. But for now I don't need a linux PC with it. Mythtv isn't that great at just playing xvid dvd rips or tv shows, it's interface isn't made for that. XBMC with the Vision or XTV skins + Wide Icons for your movies / TV shows just looks sexy.
- inkubux, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I'm really exited about this news :)
- Ythan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6This is very exciting news! XBMC is one of the most polished, professional and functional open source products I've had the privilege of using. It has ensured a permanent place for my Xbox 1 in my entertainment system. I'm glad the Linux community will have an opportunity to benefit from this great app.
- j2crux, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5FYI:
How to install it to your xbox in about 2.30 hours, (including driving time :-D)
http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft-xbox/article/how-to-go-from-xbox-to-xbox-media-center-in-30-minutes.html - theloganrunner, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Good Luck XBMC Team. I am soooo looking forward to this. I love what they have done to my xbox, I use it still every night. There is finally hope for a great media center yet after Apple TV pooped the bed.
- stonedgeek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Good luck XBMC team! Love your work.
- mattyice11, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4As great as XBMC is, it could really use some help from NVidia and AMD to make the Linux version a huge hit. 100% GPU acceleration of h.264 videos is already available in NVidia's 8500 and 8600 series cards in Vista, and it's coming to XP soon. It allows you to get high def performance out of old single core setups that couldn't dream of running 1080p video right now.
We all know that AMD/ATI can't be counted on for Linux support, so here's to hoping that Nvidia brings hardware acceleration to Linux. You could build a real video powerhouse for about the price of an AppleTV if they do it right. - HappyScrappy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7How about you just port it to AppleTV? I can then wipe out the Apple UI on that thing and use XBMC UI and codecs.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4This would be awesome, I'm suprised it hasn't been done sooner since its built on OpenSource stuff like Python and Samba, there was a Windows version done a while back called Media Portal.
It would really need TV Tuner support to complete it though. There was XBMC mythtv frontend plugin around but it was horribly unstable (I never got live tv working). If a decent MythTV intergration could be whipped up, this would be awesome. - BLKMGK, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@Greysun... Read the XBMC support forum concerning this - they are PLANNING to restrict the hardware support.. It will still be designed to run on other than the selected hardware platform but no support will be provided. aTV hardware, Mac Mini, and other platforms are being discussed. They are planning to get it running, select a platform - multiple actually - and then restrict support to those. IMO this is an EXCELLENT idea, I wish the Myth guys would do the same. XBMC is as good as it is because of this now. Oh, it also sounded like they are considering trying to support XBOX 360 peripheral hardware.
- carniv0re, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3that screenshot is hot.
- TieDNKnotZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Best news I've heard in a while. I've been a XBMC user for a looooong time and recently switched to Media Portal Running on a PC for HD content. But, it's just not cutting it. I will be counting the days.
- jull1234, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Just to clarify, its the tv rips that look like Hell on an HDTV, not the interface. (running at 720p/1080i that is)
- Anorexicpeanut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It will be interesting to see, If PS3/X360 can be hacked as open as XBOX, that XBMC might return to consoles. I would love to have a PS3 with XBMC on it, to play all my content, with no need to have a computer to work on to silence it.
Keep up the good work XBMC , I still use it everyday on my XBOX - zetsurin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"Except sony doesn't allow you access to the SPUs either"
That's patently innacurate, you are only being dugg up because others want everyone to believe Linux on the PS3 is unusable which is far from the truth. I have video, music, mame etc running via freevo on my gentoo setup on my PS3 and it's perfect. It's not suffering from the framebuffer access (the ONLY limitation at present) for that I am doing with it. - zdiggler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3/me go shop for Xbox on ebay.
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