XBMC
XBMC Home Screen
Developed by	XBMC Developers
OS	Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
Platform	x86 architecture
Available in	International (multiple languages)
Genre	Media Player / Media Center
License	GNU GPL
Website	xbmc.org

XBMC (formerly named "Xbox Media Center") is a free and open source cross-platform media-player and entertainment hub. Initially created for the original Xbox game-console, though recently, the team behind XBMC development has ported the XBMC software to run natively under the Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating-systems. XBMC is the successor to the popular XBox Media Player (XBMP) software. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Software developer (disambiguation). ... An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... Windows redirects here. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood version), one example out of a huge number of x86 implementations from Intel, AMD, and others. ... This article is about the properties of language in general. ... This article is about media centers in general. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... GPL redirects here. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... Free and Open Source Software, also F/OSS or FOSS, is software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Windows redirects here. ... 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. ...

Details

XBMC supports a wide range of multimedia formats and includes features such as playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, and weather reporting, and an expanding array of third-party plugins. As a media center, XBMC can play most audio and video file formats, as well as display images from virtually any source, including CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, the Internet, and LAN shares. XBMC is a hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free. It is not produced, endorsed, or supported by Microsoft or any other vendor. As a result, XBMC for Xbox, like all homebrew Xbox applications, requires a modchip or softmod exploit. As such, XBMC for Xbox legality is disputed. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Xenium Mod Chip attached to an Xbox. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

Through its C++ and Python plugin system, XBMC has expanded to include features such as television program guides, YouTube and Apple movie trailer support, and SHOUTcast/Podcast streaming. XBMC also functions as a gaming platform by allowing users to play Python-based mini-games on any operating-system. In addition, the Xbox version of XBMC contains the ability to launch console games, homebrew applications such as emulators, and a free alternative to Xbox Live called XLink Kai. C++ (pronounced ) is a general-purpose programming language. ... Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. ... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Apple Inc. ... SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware digital audio streaming technology developed by Nullsoft. ... A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. ... Xbox Live is a subscription-based online gaming service for Microsofts Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. ... XLink Kai is a method (developed by Team-XLink) of online-gaming whereby system-link enabled Xbox (variants also exist for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and other devices) games can be tricked into being played across the internet instead of a normal LAN (Local Area Network). ...

Due to the dated hardware of the Xbox and a desire to expand the project's end-user and developer-base, a Linux port was announced for in early 2007. XBMC for Linux is now available as pre-alpha software through Subversion access. Through the processing power of modern PC hardware, XBMC for Linux is able decode high-definition video up to 1080p, bypassing a major limitation of the original Xbox version of XBMC. However, as with the Xbox version, XBMC for Linux does not currently support hardware video decoding, thus placing the entire load of the video decoding process on the system's CPU. In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e. ... See also: Other events of 2007 List of years in science . ... Code complete redirects here. ... In computing, Subversion (SVN) is a version control system (VCS) initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. ... This article is about high-definition video technology. ...

A Mac OS X port and a Windows port of XBMC has been started by a few community volunteers. Currently, they are in the early stages, but development seem to be progressing rapidly. Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...

XBMC as a whole is distributed under the GNU General Public License (with a few libraries used by XBMC licensed under the LGPL). GPL redirects here. ... The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ...

Official ports and names of XBMC

• XBMC for Linux
• XBMC for Mac OS X
• XBMC for Windows
• XBMC for Xbox

History of The XBMC Project

XBox Media Player (XBMP) History

The XBox Media Player Project was founded by d7o3g4q (also known as duo) and RUNTiME.^[1] It started out as two separate players, with the two developers each working on their own design, and code. After sharing code and coordinating features to not duplicate efforts, by XBoxMediaPlayer beta 5 the two players were merged. The development and beta-testing was done behind closed doors for this project (d7o3g4q and RUNTiME promising that when version 1.0 was made they would release the source code to the public). After beta 6 was completed there were complaints from a lot of people as to why the developers did not release the source code for the player sooner as they were using FFmpeg and XVID code which are under the (L)GPL license. Even though the project was closed d7o3g4q and RUNTiME released the source code for beta 6 on the 15th of October 2002.

In the November 2002, another software developer nicknamed Frodo who was the founder of "YAMP - Yet Another Media Player" joined the XBox Media Player team and the XBoxMediaPlayer and YAMP projects were merged, the first release of the merged projects was called "XBox Media Player 2.0" and the source code for it was release on the 14th of December 2002. XBoxMediaPlayer 2.0 was a complete re-write using a new core based on the MPlayer project, still using FFmpeg/XVID codec code. On the 28th of December 2002, the source code of XBoxMediaPlayer 2.1 was released with many bug fixes and a couple of new features such as true AC3 5.1 output, volume normalizer /amplification and an additional post processing filter. Two weeks later on the 12 of January 2003 XBoxMediaPlayer 2.2 source code was released with new features including dashboard mode to launch other Xbox applications/games, separate national language files, streaming media from windows file shares (SMB), audio-playlist, the ability to play media on-the-fly from ISO9660-Mode1 CDs and Windows DLL support for WMV 7,8, and 9.

XBMC (formerly named "Xbox Media Center") History

XBoxMediaPlayer development stopped on December 13th, 2003, by which time its successor XBoxMediaCenter (XBMC for short) was ready for its debut, renamed as it was growing out of its 'player' name and into a 'center' for media playback. The first stable release of XBMC was on Tuesday the 29th of June, 2004, with the official release of XBoxMediaCenter 1.0.0. This announcement also encouraged everyone using XBMP or XBMC Beta release to update, as all support for those previous versions would be dropped, and they would only officially support version 1.0.0. Just to name a few, new things in XBMC 1.0.0 is addition of the Filezilla FTP Server, DHCP Support, the ability to configure a lot more settings from the xboxmediacenter.xml, a new version of MPlayer was packaged and the embedded Python was given the ability to draw GUI Elements. This article is about the open source media player. ... Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. ...

With the release of 1.0.0 in the middle of 2004, work continued on the XBMC project to add more features, such as support for iTunes features like DAAP and Smart Playlists, as well as lots of improvements and fixed. The second stable release of XBMC, 1.1.0, was released on October 18, 2004. This released included support for more media, file, container formats, as well as video playback of Nullsoft streaming videos, karaoke support (CD-G).

After two years of heavy development, XBMC announce a stable point final release of XBMC 2.0.0, on the 29th of September 2006. Even more features were packed into this such as the addition of RAR and zip archive support, a brand new player interface with support for multiple players, such as PAPlayer the new Audio/music player with crossfade, gapless playback and ReplayGain support, and the new DVDPlayer with support for menu and navigation support as well as ISO/img image parsing. Previously, XBMC just used a modified fork of MPlayer for all its media needs, so this was a big step forward. Support for itunes 6.x DAAP, and Upnp Clients for streaming was also added. A reworked Skinning Engine was included in this release to provided a more powerful way to change the appearance of XBMC. The last two features include read-only support for FAT12/16/32 formatted USB Mass Storage Devices up to 4GB in size, and a brand new "skinnable" 3D visualizer. This article is about the open source media player. ...

In 2006, November 12th saw the release of XBMC 2.0.1 which contained numerous fixes for some bugs that made it through the 2.0.0 release. This also marked the change from CVS to SVN (Subversion) for the development tree. Development on the SVN Trunk is continuing which is currently 'pre-2.1', and once it goes through the bug bash and feature lockdown process will become XBMC 2.1.0.

On the 29th of May 2007, the team behild XBMC, put out a call for developers to interested in porting XBMC to the GNU/Linux Operating System. Since a few developers on Team-XBMC had already begun porting parts of XBMC over to GNU/Linux using SDL and OpenGL as a replacement for DirectX which XBMC was using heavily on the Xbox version of XBMC.

Features

Audio/Video playback and handling

XBMC can play media from CD/DVD media using the Xbox's built-in DVD-ROM drive. It can also play media from the Xbox's built-in hard disk drive, or stream them over SMB/SAMBA/CIFS shares (Windows File-Sharing), ReplayTV DVRs, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play ) shares, XBMSP (Xbox Media Stream Protocol) shares, or stream iTunes-shares via DAAP. XBMC can also take advantage of the Xbox's Ethernet network port and a broadband Internet connection if available, using the IMDb to obtain thumbnails and reviews on movies, CDDB (via FreeDB) for Audio-CD track-listings), and album-thumbnails via AMG, it can stream Internet-video-streams, and play Internet-radio-stations (such as SHOUTcast). XBMC also includes the option to submit music usage statistics to Last.fm and a weather-forecast (via weather.com). It also has music/video-playlist features, picture/image-slideshow functions, an MP3+CDG karaoke function and many audio-visualizations and screensavers. XBMC can in addition upscale/upconvert all 480p/576p standard-resolution videos and output them to 720p or 1080i HDTV-resolutions. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... In computer networking, Server Message Block (SMB) operates as an application-level network protocol mainly applied to shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... ReplayTV is a brand of digital video recorder (DVR), a term synonymous with personal video recorder (PVR). ... Foxtel IQ, a digital video recorder and a satellite cable set-top box. ... Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of computer network protocols promulgated by the UPnP Forum. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ... The Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) is the protocol introduced by Apple in its iTunes software to share media across a local network. ... For the in-memory database management system, see In-memory database. ... The ThumbsPlus image file manager showing folder tree in the upper left and 12 thumbnail-size images to the right. ... CDDB (which stands for Compact Disc Database) is a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. ... freedb is a database of compact disc track listings where all the content is under the GNU General Public License. ... The ThumbsPlus image file manager showing folder tree in the upper left and 12 thumbnail-size images to the right. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware digital audio streaming technology developed by Nullsoft. ... Last. ... The Weather Channel (TWC) is a cable television and now satellite television network that revolutionized the reporting of weather and weather-related news by being on 24 hours a day. ... Slideshow is a modern concatenation of Slide Show. A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen images, which is done for artistic or instructional purposes. ... For other uses see Karaoke (disambiguation) Karaoke from Japanese kara(空), empty, and ōkesutora, orchestra) (pronounced ; in Japanese IPA: ;  ) is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. ... Music/Audio players for personal computers became widespread in the mid to late 1990s as applications such as Winamp, Audion, and SoundJam. ... A screensaver is a computer program originally designed to conserve the image quality of computer displays by blanking the screen or filling them with moving images or patterns when the computers are not in use. ... Upscaling DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) Players are a reasonably cheap way of upscaling standard DVD-Video discs using a video scaler to match the pixel count of the signal to the physical pixel count on a high-definition television or computer monitor, resulting in better detail and color consistency. ... ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ...

Format support

XBMC can be used to play/view all common multimedia formats. It can decode these in software and optionally pass-through AC3/DTS audio from movies directly to S/PDIF output to an external audio-amplifier/receiver. Look up Multimedia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ... DTS Coherent Acoustics is the full name for the audio format standard usually known as just DTS. It is covered in U.S. Patent 5,956,674. ... TOSLINK connector (JIS F05) 75 ohm coaxial cable with BNC-to-RCA adapter. ... Mission Cyrus 1 Hi Fi integrated audio amplifier An audio amplifier is an electronic amplifier that amplifies low-power audio signals (signals composed primarily of frequencies between 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz, the human range of hearing) to a level suitable for driving loudspeakers and is the final stage... The word receiver has a number of different meanings: In communications and information processing, a receiver is the recipient (observer) of a message (information), which is sent from a source (object). ...

Supported formats/codecs:

• Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs (including DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD and Audio-CD/CDDA)
• Container formats: AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, and DVR-MS (beta support)
• Video codecs: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (SP and ASP, including DivX, XviD, 3ivx, DV, H.263), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264, including Nero Digital), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, QuickTime, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak,
• Audio codecs: AIFF, WAV/WAVE, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Speex, Vorbis and WMA.
• Digital picture/image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX and Targa/TGA
• Subtitle formats: AQTitle, ASS/SSA, CC, JACOsub, MicroDVD, MPsub, OGM, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VOBsub, VPlayer

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Video playback in detail

XBMC uses two different multimedia player 'cores' for video-playback. The first is a ported version of the open source cross-platform player, MPlayer, which is known for playing practically all common media-formats. XBMC handles all codecs and containers normally supported by MPlayer (all FFmpeg supported codecs and also several external ones with the help of proprietary DLL-files. Look up Multimedia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... This article is about the open source media player. ... Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder, which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. ... A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed by means of standardized codecs. ... FFmpeg is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. ... This article is about dynamic libraries implemented by Microsoft. ...

The second video-player 'core' for video-playback is an in-house developed DVD-player for DVD-Video movies, including the support of DVD-menus, (based on the open source and free libraries code libdvdcss and libdvdnav). This video-player 'core' support all the FFmpeg codecs, and in addition the MPEG-2 video codec, and the audio codecs DTS and AC3 (based on the open source code libraries: libmpeg2, libdca/libdts, and liba52/libac3 respectively). One relatively unusual feature of this DVD-player core is the capability to on-the-fly parse and play DVD-Video movies that are stored in ISO and IMG DVD-images, DVD-Video movies that are stored as DVD-Video (IFO/VOB/BUP) files on a harddrive or network-share, and also ISO and IMG DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives. 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The Video Library

The Video Library, one of the XBMC metadata databases, is a key feature of XBMC. It allows the organization of your video content by information associated with the video files themselves, (like movies and recorded TV Shows). This information can be obtained in various different ways, like through Scrapers (ie. IMDb, tv.com, thetvdb.com, etc.) and nfo files. The Library Mode view allows you to browse your video content by things like; Genre, Title, Year, Actors and Directors. Metadata is data about data. ... A database is an information set with a regular structure. ... A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... Scraper may mean: Scraper (archaeology), unifacial tools Wheel tractor-scraper, a piece of heavy equipment used for earthmoving Scraper (instrument), a musical instrument Fresno Scraper Card scraper, used in to smooth wood or to remove old finish Hand scraper, used to finish a metal surface Ice scraper, for removing ice... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ... TV.com is a website belonging to the CNET Games and Entertainment family of websites. ... . ... For the gay mens lifestyle magazine, see Genre (magazine). ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ...

Audio playback in detail

For audio playback, XBMC includes its own in-house developed audio-player: PAPlayer (Psycho-Acoustic Audio Player). Some of this audio-player core's most notable features are on-the-fly resampling to the Xbox's native audio frequency (48 kHz), gapless playback, crossfading, Replay Gain, cue sheet and Ogg Chapter support. It handles a very large variety of audio file-formats: MP2, MP3, Vorbis, Musepack, AAC, AACplus (AAC+), APE, FLAC, WavPack, Shorten, AIFF, WAV, DTS, AC3, CDDA, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD (Amiga Module), XM, NSF (NES Sound Format), SPC (SNES), GYM (Genesis), SID (Commodore 64), Adlib, YM (Atari ST), ADPCM (GameCube). It also supports many different tagging standards: APEv1, APEv2, ID3v1, ID3v2, ID666 and Vorbis comments. In-house refers to the production of some commodity or service, such as a television programme, using a companys own funds, staff or resources. ... Look up On the fly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 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MP2 (sometimes incorrectly named Musicam) is a short form of MPEG-1 Audio Layer II, and it is also used as a file extension for files containing audio data of this type. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ... Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160-180 kbit/s. ... Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. ... High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) is a lossy data compression scheme for digital audio. ... Monkey’s Audio is a file format for audio data compression. ... FLAC, an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a popular file format for audio data compression. ... WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant. ... SHN (Shorten) is a file format used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files (44. ... Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data on personal computers. ... WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... DTS Coherent Acoustics is the full name for the audio format standard usually known as just DTS. It is covered in U.S. Patent 5,956,674. ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ... Rainbow Books: Red Book (CD Digital Audio), Yellow Book (CD-ROM and CD-ROM XA), Orange Book (CD_R and CD-RW), White Book (Video CD), Blue Book (Enhanced Music CD, CD+G and CD-Plus), Beige Book (Photo CD), Green Book (CD-i). ... Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. ... Impulse Tracker 2. ... 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Music Library

The Music Library, one of the XBMC metadata databases, another key feature of XBMC. It allows the organization of your music collection by information stored in your music file ID meta tags, like title, artist, album, genre and popularity. Metadata is data about data. ... A database is an information set with a regular structure. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For the gay mens lifestyle magazine, see Genre (magazine). ...

Digital picture/image display in detail

XBMC handles all common digital picture/image formats with the options of panning/zooming and slideshow with "Ken Burns Effect", with the use of CxImage open source library code. XBMC can also handle CBZ (ZIP) and CBR (RAR) comic book archive files, this feature lets you view/read, browse and zoom the pictures of comics pages these contain without uncompressing them first. Look up digital camera in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Ken Burns Effect is a popular name introduced by Apple Computer [1] in 2003 for a feature in its iMovie 3 software. ... Slideshow is a modern concatenation of Slide Show. A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen images, which is done for artistic or instructional purposes. ... The Ken Burns Effect is a popular name introduced by Apple Computer [1] in 2003 for a feature in its iMovie 3 software. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... Comic Book Archive file or ComicBook Reader File is a ZIP, RAR, or more rarely TAR file of images with the file extension renamed to . ... This article is about the television series. ... Comics (or, less commonly, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ...

Python scripts (widgets/gadgets) plugins

XBMC features a Python Scripts Engine and WindowXML application framework (a XML-based widget toolkit for creating a GUI for widgets) in a similar fashion to Apple Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets and Microsoft Gadgets in Windows Sidebar. Python widget scripts allow normal users to add new functionality to XBMC themselves, (using the easy to learn Python programming language), without having to utilize an illegal copy of the XDK and without knowledge of the complex C/C++ programming language. Current plugin scripts include functions like Internet-TV and movie-trailer browsers, weather forecast and cinemaguides, TV-guides (EPG), e-mail clients, instant messaging, train-timetables, scripts to front-end control PVR software and hardware (like: MediaPortal, MythTV, TiVo, ReplayTV, Dreambox/DBox2), Internet-radio-station browsers (example SHOUTcast, Xm radio, Sirius Satellite Radio), P2P file-sharing downloaders (BitTorrent), IRC, also casual games (sometimes also referred to as mini-games or party-games) such as Tetris, Snake, Space Invaders, Sudoku, and much more. Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. ... In computer programming, an application framework is a term usually used to refer to a set of libraries or classes that are used to implement the standard structure of an application for a specific operating system. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... 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The Sky Digital EPG in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ... // Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ... In their most general meanings, the terms front-end and back-end refer to the initial and the end stages of a process flow. ... A digital video recorder (DVR) is a device that records video to a digital storage medium in digital form. ... MediaPortal is an open source media center software that acts as front-end for Personal Video Recorder (PVR), video, pictures, music and many more functionalities. ... MythTV is a Linux application which turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer. ... 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Dashboard function (game/application launcher)

XBMC has a "My Programs" section with functions as a replacement dashboard to launch Xbox games (retail and homebrew) and applications/emulator directly off the Xbox built-in harddrive, all from a nice GUI with thumbnail and list options. This fully replaces the original Xbox Dashboard from Microsoft, and with the exception of flashing new BIOS to an Xbox modchip it also features all extra functions that other homebrew dashboards have. The Xbox 360 Dashboard. ... This is a list of all 948 games for the Microsoft Xbox video game console, organized alphabetically by name. ... Homebrew is a term frequently applied only to video games that are produced by consumers on proprietary game platforms; in other words, game platforms that are not typically user-programmable, or use proprietary hardware for storage. ... Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... This article lists software that emulates arcade and console game systems, computing platforms and CPUs. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ... The ThumbsPlus image file manager showing folder tree in the upper left and 12 thumbnail-size images to the right. ... The Xbox 360 Dashboard. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For other uses, see Bios. ... Xenium Mod Chip attached to an Xbox. ... Homebrew is a term frequently applied only to video games that are produced by consumers on proprietary game platforms; in other words, game platforms that are not typically user-programmable, or use proprietary hardware for storage. ... The Xbox 360 Dashboard. ...

Language support

XBMC also includes support for many different languages. XBMC's structure is such that if your language is not available, or not up-to-date, then you can easily make your translation by editing an XML-file, which can be submitted to the project's database for use by others. Currently the existing supported languages are Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... Brazilian Portuguese (português do Brasil in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple of million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan, and Paraguay. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the language. ... The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...

Skins and skinning-engine

A mainstay of Xbox homebrew applications is skin-ability in the tradition of case modifications. XBMC is noted as having a very flexible GUI toolkit and robust framework for its GUI, using a standard XML base, making theme-skinning and personal customization very accessible. Users can create their own skin (or simply modify an existing skin) and share it with others via public websites dedicated for Xbox and XBMC skins trading. "Project Mayhem" is the official skin; which is now in its third version, commonly know as "PMIII" or "PM3". Many third-party skins exist and while some are original designs, most are clones or an exact replica of other multimedia software, such as Apple Front Row, Windows Media Center Edition (MCE), MediaPortal, Meedio/MeediOS, HDeeTV, Kaleidescape, Xbox 360 blades (MC360), and others. Homebrew is a term frequently applied only to video games that are produced by consumers on proprietary game platforms; in other words, game platforms that are not typically user-programmable, or use proprietary hardware for storage. ... In computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances (GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. ... In computer programming, widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic building elements for graphical user interfaces. ... A software framework is a reusable design for a software system (or subsystem). ... GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... Maple Story desktop theme for Windows Server 2003. ... Skinning commonly refers to the act of skin removal, from the verb to skin. ... Tailoring specifically to an individual. ... In computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances (GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. ... In the computer and video game industry, a clone is a game or game series which is very similar to or heavily inspired by a previous popular game or game series. ... Look up replica in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the Macintosh computer application. ... A typical Windows XP MCE 2005 Menu Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is a version of Windows XP designed to serve as a home-entertainment hub. ... MediaPortal is an open source media center software that acts as front-end for Personal Video Recorder (PVR), video, pictures, music and many more functionalities. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Xbox Specific Features and Functions

XBMC Trainer Support (game cheats mods)

XBMC for Xbox also has the ability to use and apply Xbox Trainer Files. Trainers are small files that allow for in game value modification (such as cheat code) through altering retail functions in game values by way of using TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) keys. There are many things that can be modified including ammunition, extra-lifes, or even how high a character can jump. Trainer support in XBMC for Xbox was achieved through collaboration with Team Xored. This collaboration began in December 2005 and came to fruition in January 2006 by successfully integrating the Team Xored Trainer Engine into XBMC. XBMC for Xbox can run trainers with the following file extensions: *.ETM and *.XBTF. Trainers are programs made to modify behaviour of a computer game, usually u addresses and values, in order to allow cheating. ... Trainers are programs made to modify behaviour of a computer game, usually u addresses and values, in order to allow cheating. ... For other uses, see Mod. ... For other uses, see Cheat code (disambiguation). ... Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) is a system call in DOS operating systems that returned control to the system as if the program had quit, but kept the program in memory. ... For other uses, see Mod. ...

XLink Kai (Xbox Live online-gaming alternative)

XBMC for Xbox has an integrated front-end for an Xbox Live alternative (called "XLink Kai"), an online gaming platform, enabling you to both control the Kai engine and play system-link/LAN-enabled Xbox games online, without connecting to the Xbox Live service, straight from your console. In their most general meanings, the terms front-end and back-end refer to the initial and the end stages of a process flow. ... Xbox Live is a subscription-based online gaming service for Microsofts Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. ... XLink Kai is a method (developed by Team-XLink) of online-gaming whereby system-link enabled Xbox (variants also exist for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and other devices) games can be tricked into being played across the internet instead of a normal LAN (Local Area Network). ... Online games are computer or video games played on the Internet or over a computer network. ... XLink Kai is a method (developed by Team-XLink) of online-gaming whereby system-link enabled Xbox (variants also exist for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and other devices) games can be tricked into being played across the internet instead of a normal LAN (Local Area Network). ... Online games refer to games that are played over some form of computer network. ... Xbox Live is a subscription-based online gaming service for Microsofts Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. ...

Running XBMC for Xbox

MC360 skin for XBMC displaying the media blade

At present, the latest 'stable' version of XBMC for Xbox is 2.0.1 final point-release which was released on 12 November, 2006. Since XBMC for Xbox is an open source software program, its development source code is stored on a publicly-accessible Subversion server. This code is constantly updated on a daily-basis by developers so the Subversion repository often contains more features than the most recent 'stable' release. Accordingly, executable builds from the Subversion repository are often released by third-parties. It should be noted, however, that executable builds from development versions typically contain bugs not present in the most recent 'stable' release versions of XBMC for Xbox. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixel Image in higher resolution (900 × 506 pixel, file size: 114 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a screenshot of MC360 skin for XBMC for use in the XBMC, all of which is GNU GLPd. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixel Image in higher resolution (900 × 506 pixel, file size: 114 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a screenshot of MC360 skin for XBMC for use in the XBMC, all of which is GNU GLPd. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... In computing, Subversion (SVN) is a version control system (VCS) initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. ... In the video game industry, a third-party developer is a developer that is not directly tied to the primary product the consumer is using. ...

XBMC for Xbox is not an authorized/signed Microsoft product, therefore a modification of the Xbox is required in order to run XBMC on a Xbox game-console. XBMC for Xbox can be run as an application (like any Xbox game), or as a dashboard that appears directly when the Xbox is turned on. It takes approximately ten seconds to fully load XBMC for Xbox. The process of deciding if device X is allowed to have access to service Y. This is where the concept of trusted exists. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... The Xbox 360 Dashboard. ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ...

Types of Xbox modifications (mods)

Here is a brief overview of various console modification methods which allow the Xbox to run unofficial applications which are not authorized/signed. (For an application to run on an unmodified Xbox, it must be digitally signed by Microsoft. A modded Xbox does not check for a digital signature and will run any application, signed/official and unsigned/unofficial.) The process of deciding if device X is allowed to have access to service Y. This is where the concept of trusted exists. ... A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a signature in digital, rather than written, form. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...

• Modchip: Physical circuit board that is attached to the Xbox mainboard. Requires opening the Xbox to install. Contacts are connected either by "screwing down" the board (for a solderless install) or soldering wire connections.
• Softmod: Loophole in Xbox software security via an exploit. Most popular softmods, such as UXE or NDURE, are installed through a modified game save. Softmods have become very stable and safe with recent advancements, and does not require any physical modification to the Xbox.
• TSOP flash: TSOP is a technical term meaning 'Thin Small Outline Package', which describes the microchip packaging. Earlier revisions of the Xbox motherboard contained a rewritable EEPROM (a type of Flash memory) which used the TSOP style of microchip packaging. TSOP flashing in the context of an Xbox requires updating of the software on this microchip by jumping traces (small wires) on the motherboard to make the chip writable from software. A softmod exploit (usually in the form of a modified save game) is used to flash a hacked BIOS (replace the software of) the chips using unofficial software.

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Programming and developing

XBMC is a non-profit open source hobby project that is developed only by volunteers in their spare-time without any monetary gain. The team of developers working on XBMC encourage anyone to submit their own source code patches for new features and functions, improve existing ones, or fix bugs. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ... Moneys is an agreement within a community, to use something as a medium of exchange, which acts as an intermediary market good. ... In computing, a patch is a small piece of software designed to update or fix problems with a computer program or its supporting data. ... A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended (e. ...

XBMC is a cross-platform software application programmed in C++ (and some Assembly), XBMC uses Microsoft DirectX multimedia framework on the Xbox, (as the Xbox does not support OpenGL), and the SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) framework for OpenGL support under Linux and Mac OS X operating-system. Some of the XBMC libraries are also written in C programming-language, but are used with a C++ wrapper and loaded via XBMC's own DLL loader. C++ (pronounced ) is a general-purpose programming language. ... An assembly language is a low-level language for programming computers. ... Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. ... A software framework is a reusable design for a software system (or subsystem). ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. ... SDL may refer to: Simple Declarative Language, a language for representing data structures. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... This article is about dynamic libraries implemented by Microsoft. ...

Xbox Development Environment

The Xbox Operating-System/BIOS is Win32-based but does not have all of the resources or capabilities of a full Microsoft Windows Operating-System, (for example: DirectShow, registry, nor DLL are natively supported on the Xbox). Because of the constraints on the hardware and environment of the Xbox all software development for XBMC are focused on reserving the limited resourses that exist, the main hindrance of which is the amount of available random access memory at any one time. An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... For other uses, see Bios. ... Windows API is a set of APIs, (application programming interfaces) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. ... Windows redirects here. ... Logo of the DirectX Media SDK - the first time DirectShow was distributed under its current name. ... The Windows registry is a directory which stores settings and options for the operating system for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions, 64-bit versions and Windows Mobile. ... This article is about dynamic libraries implemented by Microsoft. ... RAM redirects here. ...

Operating-System

• The Xbox does not have an Operating-System per-se, instead it only has a basic BIOS
  • Everything else must go into the XBMC executable and its (XDK and own-made) libraries
• Only a single process-thread (executable program) can run at any one time on the Xbox
• Xbox hard drive file-system (FATX) has many limitations, among them a filename maximum of 42-characters
• The Xbox has four USB ports but the Xbox SDK (a.k.a. XDK) does not contain a full USB-stack
  • if wanted to add support for USB hardware-devices one would have to make it for oneself

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Compiling

• Xbox SDK (a.k.a. XDK) Software Development Kit (with libraries) is required to compile XBMC
• Also required to compile (and program in) XBMC is Microsoft Visual Studio .NET version 7.1
• XBMC's code also contain four multimedia-player cores which have to be compiled separately
  • None of those require XDK to be compiled, they are instead compiled with MinGW/MSYS

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Limitations

Cross-platform (software) Limitations

This is a list of current software limitations in the XBMC code.

• XBMC can not play any audio/video files protected/encrypted with DRM (Digital Rights Management), such as music purchased from the iTunes Music Store, MSN Music or Audible.com. Workaround if legal in your country: Before playing the file in XBMC, first remove any DRM protection/encryption from the song or video with a third-party program before you try to play it, e.g: hymn, FreeMe, Unfuck, FairUse4WM, DRM2WMV or DRMDBG).
• The ISO 9660 and UDF reader classes in XBMC do not support reading multisession authored CD/DVD-media. That is XBMC can only read the first sessions of a multisession burnt CD or DVD media disc.

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Xbox Specific Limitations

These are Xbox hardware and Xbox operating-system specific limitations that do not affect XBMC for Linux nor Mac OS X.

• UDF (Universal Disk Format) file-system limitation: XBMC for Xbox only supports UDF version 1.02 (designed for DVD-Video media), which has a maximum file-size of 1 GB (meaning if you burn a DVD-media in a newer UDF version with a video that is larger than 1GB, XBMC will not be able to play that file), same goes for UDF/ISO hybrid formats (a.k.a. UDF Bridge format). Workaround: Burn all your CD/DVD-media in ISO 9660 format, which is the most common standard for recording CD/DVDs. Unfortunately ISO 9660 has a 2 GB file-size limitation, which cannot be bypassed.
• The Xbox built-in harddrive is formatted in FATX which has a 4 GB file-size limitation, and only supports file/folder-names up to 42 characters, a maximum of 255 in total file-structure character-depth and a maximum number of 4096 files/folders in a single subfolder, plus in the root of each partition, the maximum number of files/folders is 256. FAT does not support all ASCII characters in file/folder names (like for example < > = ? : ; " * + , / |¤ &). XBMC will automatically rename any files/folders you transfer to the Xbox by these limitations. (None of these are XBMC issues that can be fixed as the limitation is in the Xbox itself). Workaround: Store your files/folders on your computer or a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device/box which support SMB/CIFS, FTP or UPnP and share them over a local-area-network instead.
• The USB flash drive (USB key-drives/memory-keys) reader/writer class used by XBMC for Xbox currently has a few limitations as well. It is limited to USB flash drives and harddisks compatible with USB Mass Storage Device Class following the USB 1.1 standard, with a maximum size of 4 GB. It can read and write to FATX formatted flash drives, but can only read FAT12, FAT16 (including VFAT), and FAT32. NTFS formatted drives are not supported yet.
• With its 733 MHz Intel Pentium III-like CPU and 64MB shared memory, the Xbox has neither a fast enough CPU nor sufficient amounts of RAM to play 720p/1080i resolution HDTV video. However, XBMC can up-convert all standard definition movies and output them at 720p or 1080i with better quality than most (if not all) HDTVs' native up-convert functions.^{[citation needed]}
• The Xbox also does not have enough resources to play MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoded videos with CABAC and deblocking if the video-resolution is higher than 352x288 pixels. If videos are encoded without CABAC and deblocking then the Xbox hardware can handle up to 720x576 pixels video-resolution. It is generally better to encode videos to MPEG-4 ASP (like DivX or XviD) instead. Then the video's native-resolution can be anything up to 960x540 pixels (also known as HRHD resolution).

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Reception

Awards

XBMC won two SourceForge 2006 Community Choice Awards, for Best Multimedia Project and Best Game Project. In the 2007 Community Choice Awards, XBMC is a nominated finalist in six categories. SourceForge is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. ...

Legality

While XBMC's source code for all platforms is made publicly available by the developers under an open source (GNU GPL) license, the developers themselves are legally unable to distribute executable versions of XBMC for Xbox. This is because XBMC for Xbox requires Microsoft's commercial software development kit in order to compile. Thus, the only publicly available executable versions of XBMC for Xbox are from third parties, as a result, precompiled versions of XBMC for Xbox may be illegal to distribute in many countries around the worlds. XBMC binaries for all other platforms that XBMC supports (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) are however legal to distribute. Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... GPL redirects here. ... To licence or grant licence is to give permission. ... In the video game industry, a third-party developer is a developer that is not directly tied to the primary product the consumer is using. ...

Copyright

The XBMC software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) by the developers, meaning they allow anybody to redistribute XBMC under extremely liberal conditions. However, in order to compile the XBMC into executable form, it is currently necessary to use the Microsoft XDK (Xbox Development Kit) which is only available to licensed developers and the resulting code may only be distributed by them. Accordingly, code compiled with an unauthorized copy of the Xbox Development Kit may not be distributed legally. A third-party project called OpenXDK is concerned with producing a replacement for the Microsoft XDK. While this could potentially allow legal binaries of XBMC to be compiled, it would require significant changes to the XBMC source code. GPL redirects here. ... The XDK, short for Xbox Development Kit, is a software development kit created by Microsoft used to write software for the Xbox gaming system. ... The XDK, short for Xbox Development Kit, is a software development kit created by Microsoft used to write software for the Xbox gaming system. ... OpenXDK is a legal, open source development system for the Microsoft Xbox game console. ... A Hexdump of a JPEG image. ...

For audio and video codecs which are not natively supported, XBMC provides a DLL loader forked from the "avifile" open source project which can load third-party made DLLs to decode unsupported formats. This is potentially legal if the user owns a licensed copy of the DLL. However, some third-party XBMC builds incorporate all available third-party DLLs that XBMC can support, and the redistribution of these without a license is copyright infringement. This article is about dynamic libraries implemented by Microsoft. ... In software, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. ... In the video game industry, a third-party developer is a developer that is not directly tied to the primary product the consumer is using. ...

Patents

For most popular video and audio codecs, XBMC includes native support through the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project. Since this code is released under a free and open source license, it is legally redistributable. However, some of these compression methods, such as the popular MP3 format, are covered by patents in many countries. Absent a licence, this would make it illegal to redistribute versions of XBMC including support for these formats. libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... FFmpeg is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ...

Other

XBMC also includes support for playing back DVD-Video movies encrypted using the CSS (Content Scramble System) encryption. The distribution of executable versions of XBMC containing this code is likely to fall afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the U.S. and the EU Copyright Directive in European Union member countries which have incorporated it into national law. DVD-Video format logo DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD (DVD-ROM) discs, and is currently the dominant form of consumer video formats in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. ... Content Scramble System (CSS) is a Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme used on almost all commercially produced DVD-Video discs. ... The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... The European Union (EU) directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, commonly known as the EU Copyright Directive or short EUCD, is the EUs implementation...

See also

• Media player (application software)
  • Media center
• MPlayer, the open source and cross-platform software XBMC uses as its main video player core
• FFmpeg, the audio and video codec suite that XBMC uses for all player cores
• MediaPortal, a media center written for Microsoft Windows by the founder of XBMC. Initially based on XBMC code.
• List of other software video players
• Comparison of (audio/video) media and DVD-Video players
• List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs
• Xbox Linux

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External links

Official sites

• XBMC official website
• XBMC Community Forums
• XBMC Online Manual (Wiki)
• XBMC official IRC chat room (on Freenode) (use an IRC client like mIRC to join the #xbmc channel)

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Scripts, plugins, and Skins

Scripts

• xbmcscripts.com (Python scripts which add additional features and functionality to XBMC)

Plugins

• XBMC-Addons on Google Code (Addon plugins for XBMC)

Skins

• XBMC official skin development and download site
• Compiled skins from the official skin development site
• XBMC Black Market - an unofficial XBMC skin download site
• allxboxskins.com - another unofficial XBMC skin download site (currently down?)
• www.xbox-skins.net xbox-skins.net - another unofficial XBMC skin download site
• AEON - Skin for XBMC (not available on any other skin download site)

Other

• XBMC fan-club on Facebook

References

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