TACHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN XBMC Alpha CVS 10-01-2003

XBMC Alpha CVS 10-01-2003 Posted 10:00:54am 10/01/2003

10-01-2003

This is the first alpha release of what's in CVS for XBMC.
Consider this a demo-only, as XBMP is currently far more feature
rich and less buggy. Here is the official project release info from
the XBMC team:


XboxMediaCenter (XBMC) is a new free open source (GPL)
multimedia player for Microsoft's Xbox. XboxMediaCenter is still
in beta stage but can currently be used to play and view most
video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG/MPG, VOB, AVI, OGM,
DivX, XVID, MP3, OGG, JPG, GIF and many more direct from a
CD/DVD in the DVD-ROM or of the Xbox build-in hard disk drive,
it can also play files over a network (LAN) from a PC via
an "XStream Server" application or from a Windows (SMB) share.
It has playlist + slideshow functions and ability to funcion as a
full replacement Xbox dashboard. These and more features
enables the Xbox running XboxMediaCenter to fully function as a
multi-media jukebox. XboxMediaCenter also known as "Xbox
Media Center" or simply "XBMC".

This project is what the active official Xbox Media Player
developers has been working on in secret for the last 4-6
months. This does not mean the Xbox Media Player is dead,
official and unofficial developers will still be adding new code
and maintain it but the lead developers will be focusing on
XBMC. Remember that XBMC and XBMP are hobby projects and
are only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free.

New and big differences compared to XboxMediaPlayer:
- Entire new fully skinnable GUI engine
- Easy switching between skins (if exist)
- Dynamic loader for multiple cores/engines
- Music database with search feature
- Sort files/folders by name, size or date
- File Manager for DVD-ROM/HDD/Network
- Virtual Keyboard
- CDDB and album cover/info lookup
- Movie calibration per resolution
- UI calibration

Things that are not supported in XBMC yet:
- DVD-movie playback
- Audio Visualization
- Matroska file container
- Windows DLL's (WMV/WMA 9)
- FTP-Server
- SHOUTcast
- TV-Guide



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