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Xbox Media Center
XBMC Home Screen
Maintainer:	Xbox Media Center Developers
Stable release:	2.0.1  (2006-11-12) [+/−]
Preview release:	Subversion  (Daily) [+/−]
OS:	Microsoft Xbox, Linux
Use:	media player / media center
License:	GNU GPL
Website:	www.xboxmediacenter.com

Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is a free open source media player and entertainment hub software distributed under the GNU General Public License. Originally developed as Xbox Media Player for the Xbox game console in 2002, XBMC eventually became a complete graphical user interface replacement for the Xbox Dashboard, and has since been ported to the Linux operating system. As a media center, XBMC can, via software codecs, play audio and video files, as well as display images from virtually any source, including CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, the Internet, local area networks, and hard drives. XBMC is neither produced nor endorsed by Microsoft or any other officially recognized vendor, and, like all Xbox homebrew applications, requires a modchip or a softmod exploit. As such, its legality is disputed. Image File history File links Gnome_globe_current_event. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 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Through the C++ and Python programming languages, XBMC has been extended to include large metadata databases for multimedia libraries, weather forecasts, TV guides, website interaction (such as for YouTube videos and Apple.com movie trailers), SHOUTcast and Podcast streaming, among other things. XBMC also functions as a gaming platform by allowing users to play Python-based mini-games, while the Xbox version contains built-in support to launch console games and homebrew applications, plus a free alternative to Xbox Live called XLink Kai. C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ... Metadata is data about data. ... This article is about computing. ... Modern weather predictions aid in timely evacuations and potentially save lives and property damage Weather map of Europe, 10 December 1887 Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a future time and a given location. ... The Sky Digital EPG in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. ... Apple Inc. ... Theatrical trailers are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown; they are commonly known as previews of coming attractions. ... SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware digital audio streaming technology developed by Nullsoft. ... A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. ... Streaming may mean: Streaming media, multimedia data transferred in a stream of packets that are interpreted and rendered, in real time, by a software application as the packets arrive. ... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... In Fantastic Dizzy, the player has to complete a sliding puzzle to get an extra life. ... A console game is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment. ... 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, a Linux port was announced for personal computers in 2007, without Xbox-specific features such as game trainers and video game loading. XBMC for Linux is available as pre-alpha software through Subversion access. The greater processing power of newer hardware allow for it to render high-definition video, including 1080p, while the Xbox hardware could only output up to 1080i through upscaling at most HRHD-quality videos. However, as with the Xbox version, XBMC for Linux does not currently support hardware decoding, thus all load is placed upon the central processing unit, limiting the use of sound and video cards to output only. See also: Other events of 2007 List of years in science . ... Cheating in video games is a process whereby a player of a video game creates an advantage beyond the bounds of normal gameplay, usually to make the game easier. ... “Computer and video games” redirects here. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... In computing, Subversion (SVN) is a version control system (VCS) initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. ... This article is about high-definition video technology. ... 1080p is the shorthand name for a category of display resolutions. ... 1080i (pronounced ten eighty eye) is shorthand name for a category of video modes. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... HRHD (High-Resolution High-Definition) (also HR, HRHDTV, or HR.HDTV) is an initialism referring to an image resolution derived from high-definition video, often seen as part of the filename of TV shows shared on the Internet. ... “CPU” redirects here. ... A sound card (also known as an audio card) is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under control of computer programs. ... A video card, also referred to as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, graphics card, and numerous other terms, is an item of personal computer hardware whose function is to generate and output images to a display. ...

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. CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit ÄŒeské Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... 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. ... Server Message Block (SMB) is 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. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... 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. ... It has been suggested that Karaoke clubs in Sri Lanka be merged into this article or section. ... 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 'straight out-of-the-box'. 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. For a detailed up-to-date list see the "Supported Formats" list in XBMC online-manual here. 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 (RealAudio/RealVideo), 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 proprietary media-formats without having to pay license fees. 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: RealMedia/RealVideo/RealAudio, QuickTime, WMV9/WMA9, VP4/VP5/VP6), and the sources are synced at regular intervals. 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. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... This article is about the open source media player. ... FFmpeg is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. ... Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder, which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... Dynamic-link library (also written without the hyphen), or DLL, is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. ... RealMedia is a multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. ... RealVideo is a proprietary video format developed by RealNetworks. ... RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of proprietary streaming video technologies developed by Microsoft. ... Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. ... VP4 is a video codec created by On2 Technologies. ... VP5 is a video codec which was created by On2 Technologies in February 2002. ... TrueMotion VP6 is a video codec developed by On2 Technologies as a successor to earlier efforts such as VP3 and VP5. ...

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. In addition to this, the XBMC DVD-player 'core' can upscale/upconvert all DVD-Video movies and output them to 720p or 1080i HDTV resolutions in better quality than most, if not all, high-definition television set's native function for upscaling/upconverting video. In-house refers to the production of some commodity or service, such as a television programme, using a companys own funds, staff or resources. ... The inside of a DVD player A DVD player is a device not only playing discs produced under the DVD Video standard but also playing discs under the standard of DVD Audio. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... 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. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... libdvdcss is a free, highly portable library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System. ... FFmpeg is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. ... Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder, which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. ... MPEG-2 is a standard for the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information [1]. It is widely used around the world to specify the format of the digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial (over-the-air), cable, and direct broadcast satellite TV systems. ... A video codec is a device or software that enables video compression and or decompression for digital video. ... An audio codec is a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format. ... 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. ... Description Dolby Digital is the trademark for Dolby Laboratories AC-3 audio coding system. ... 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. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... libdca is a GPLd software library that can decode the DTS Coherent Acoustics audio format, developed by Gildas Bazin. ... Look up On the fly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... IFO is a DVD InFOrmation file that stores information about Chapters, Subtitles and Audio Tracks. ... A VOB file (DVD-Video Object or Versioned Object Base) is a container format contained in DVD-Video media. ... BUP is the filename extension of some files stored on video DVDs. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... REDIRECT RAR (file format) ... The ZIP file format is a popular data compression and archival format. ... 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. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ... Projection screen in a home theater, displaying a high-definition television image. ... 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. ...

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.

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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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Ogg is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia, unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation. ... 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. ... MPEG-4 AAC DRM encoding as used in the iTunes Store 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. ... 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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.

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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. A SiPix digital camera next to a matchbox to show scale Nikon D200 SLR with Nikon film scanner, which converts film images to digital A Hasselblad 503CW with a digital camera back A digital camera is an electronic device used to capture and store photographs digitally, instead of using photographic... The Ken Burns Effect, made famous by American documentarian Ken Burns, refers to a technique of embedding still photographs in motion pictures, displayed with slow zooming and panning effects, and fading transitions between them. ... 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, made famous by American documentarian Ken Burns, refers to a technique of embedding still photographs in motion pictures, displayed with slow zooming and panning effects, and fading transitions between them. ... 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 . ... Look up zoom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 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 high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... 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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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 a Xbox modchip it also features all extra functions that other homebrew dashboards have. The Xbox 360 Dashboard. ... This is a list of 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ...

XBMC Trainer Support (game cheats mods)

XBMC 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 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 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

XLink Kai (Xbox Live online-gaming alternative)

XBMC 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). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Xbox Live is a subscription-based online gaming service for Microsofts Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. ...

Running XBMC

MC360 skin for XBMC displaying the media blade

At present, the latest 'stable' version of XBMC is 2.0.1 final point-release which was released on 12 November, 2006. Since XBMC 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. 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 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 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. 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. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Xbox 360 Dashboard. ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ...

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. ... In cryptography, 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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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 Brasileiro in Portuguese) is the group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian immigrants, mainly in the United States, 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. ... Front Row Music menu screenshot Front Row is a software application for Apples Macintosh computers that acts as a front-end for QuickTime, DVD Player and the iTunes and iPhoto libraries and allows for users to browse media on their computers using the Apple Remote. ... A typical Windows XP MCE 2005 Menu Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) was 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. ...

Programming and developing

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Xbox Development Environment

It is important to always keep in mind all the aspects of the Xbox environment when developing XBMC for the Xbox.

Xbox Hardware Summary

• 733Mhz Intel Pentium III (32-bit x86) CPU @ 133Mhz FSB (supporting MMX/MMX2 and SSE)
  • 32KB Level 1 cache, and 128KB Level 2 cache
• 64MB of shared DDR SDRAM RAM @ 200Mhz (memory is shared between CPU and GPU)
• Xbox GPU is a nVidia NV2A @ 233Mhz (somewhat in between GeForce 2 and GeForce 3 series)
• The APU is a nVidia MPC (designed for Xbox, a.k.a. MPCX), which supports only 48Khz-output
  • The APU is integrated to the MPCX APU and can encode to AC3 audio on-the-fly in hardware
  • 64 3D channels, or 256 stereo
• The Xbox-chipset can be described in layman terms as something similar to the first nVidia nForce
  • The chipset designed by nVidia and makes up a southbridge (the MPCX-1) and the GPU (NV2A)
• 8GB internal IDE/ATA harddisk drive Ultra DMA 33 (though MPCX-1) supports Ultra DMA 100)
• Xbox DVD-ROM are 2-5x speed read
  • DVD-ROM made by Philips/Thomson/Hitatchi can not read CD-R media
    • DVD-ROM made by Philips/Thomson/Hitatchi can not read CD/DVD subchannels either
  • Samsung made Xbox DVD-ROM drives can read CD-R media and sub-channels

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Operating-System

• The Xbox does not have a 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 has to be compiled seperatly
  • None of those require XDK to be compiled, they are instead compiled with MinGW/MSYS

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Limitations

• XBMC can not currently 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: 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).
• UDF (Universal Disk Format) file-system limitation: XBMC only supports UDF version 1.02 (designed for DVD-Video media), which has a maximum file-size of 1GB (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 2GB file-size limitation, which cannot be bypassed.
• The ISO 9660 and UDF reader classes in XBMC does 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.
• The Xbox built-in harddrive is formatted in FATX which has a 4GB 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 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 4GB. It can read and write to FATX formatted flash drives, but can only read FATs FAT12, FAT16 (including VFAT), and FAT32. NTFS formatted drives are not supported yet.
• With its 733 MHz Intel Pentium III Celeron and 64MB shared memory, the Xbox does not have enough hardware-resources (not fast enough CPU nor large enough RAM) to play 720p/1080i resolution-native HDTV video (at 1280x720 and 1920x1080 pixels), (like WMV HD). XBMC can however upconvert all 480p/576p standard-resolution movies and output them to 720p or 1080i HDTV resolutions in better quality than most (if not all) HDTV's native function to upconvert video.
• Again with its hardware, the Xbox 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 (like DivX or XviD) instead, as then that 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 categories 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 source code is made publicly available from the developers under an open source (GNU GPL) license, the developers themselves are legally unable to distribute executable versions of XBMC. Due to this, the only publicly available executable versions of XBMC are from third parties and are of dubious legal status. 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. The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... 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. ... 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. ... OpenXDK is a legal, open source development system for the Microsoft Xbox game console. ... A Hexdump of a JPEG image. ...

XBMC provides, for audio and video codecs which are not natively supported, a DLL loader forked from the "avifile" open source project which can load third-party made DLLs to decode unsupported formats. Where the user owns a licensed copy of the DLL, this is potentially legal. However, some third-party XBMC builds incorporate all available third-party DLLs that XBMC can support and the redistribution of these without a licence is copyright infringement. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder, which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. ... Dynamic-link library (also written without the hyphen), or DLL, is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. ... 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. ... Dynamic-link library (also written without the hyphen), or DLL, is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. ... Dynamic-link library (also written without the hyphen), or DLL, is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. ... 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. ... Dynamic-link library (also written without the hyphen), or DLL, is Microsofts implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. ...

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 patented formats. This is a problem common among many open source multimedia projects/applications. 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). ... 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. ...

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 the European Union member countries which have so far incorporated it into national law. The DVD-Video format logo. ... 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. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... 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
  • 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

• Xbox Media Center website
• Xbox Media Center forum
• Xbox Media Center online manual
• XBMC official IRC chat room (on Freenode) (use an IRC client like mIRC to join the #xbmc channel)

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Scripts and Skins

Scripts

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

Skins

• Xbox Media Center official skin development and download site
• allxboxskins.com - unofficial XBMC skin download site
• xbox-skins.net - another unofficial XBMC skin download site