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  1. XBox + XBoxMediaPlayer already has this by illumin8 · · Score: 1 · on DVD Player as 802.11b Peripheral

    I already have this identical setup at my house, and it works like a dream.

    Here are the components:

    XBox - $199
    Matrix modchip - $50
    802.11b access point running in wireless client mode - $99

    Now I can stream JPEG photos, MP3s, MPEG, AVI, and Divx movies to my television from a RelaX media server running Linux.

    Xbox Media Player 2.0 is GPL, gives you a great user interface and is very user friendly. If you haven't checked it out, please do so.

  2. Press Release by NetShadow · · Score: 1 · on DVD Player as 802.11b Peripheral
    SonicBlue's Press Release on this beast contains some interesting technical details.

    It seems that it supports standard ethernet out of the box, with 802.11 supported by swapping the ethernet PCMCIA card with an equivilent wireless PCMCIA card.

    It plays MPEG1 and MPEG2 video and MP3 and WMA audio over the network. (presumably via SMB fileshare) Not too bad for the price point ($249 MSRP). No mention of anything MPEG-4 based ala DivX/Xvid, so it's highly doubtful.

    For my money, I think I'll get a modded Xbox for roughly the same price and run Linux and mplayer or XBMP, which is based on the mplayer code anyway. I don't need 802.11 for this application. If I did, an ethernet to 802.11 wireless bridge (such as the Linksys WET11) would serve quite nicely.

    For the not-hackers out there, however, this isn't at all a bad deal, and a bunch of MPEG-2 (ala SVCD, or ripped DVD's) on today's large hard drives, combined with multiple cheap "media terminals" like this one, plugged into your TV's / Home Theatre, is a decent solution. Consider that network mp3 stereo components are going for about this price already, and you get the ability to archive and play your DVDs across your network, too, for the same price.

    Not too shabby.

  3. this is offtopic but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Console Games Sales Beat Out PC

    think it's worth mentioning that the xbox can do a lot more stuff now. check out

    this to see *one* of the things you can do with a xbox + easy-to-install (no solder) modchip + hard drive (or stream the fkn media off your pc with relax). interface look familiar?

  4. Take 5 seconds to read the legal page by emkman · · Score: 2 · on XBOX Media Player 2.0

    The authors of the XboxMediaPlayer, everyone affiliated with the XboxMediaPlayer project & the Xboxmediaplayer.com website does NOT distribute any software compiled by Microsoft Xbox(TM) SDK (XDK).

    Nice job wrackin up karma with lies though. Check for yourself to find out the real info.

  5. Xbox GPL infrigment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Nobel Prizes for Physics Awarded to Smart People

    Yet another rejected quality story that got rejected by slashdot fuckfaces. Brought to you by Hacker underground.

    XBOX Mediaplayer Infringing GPL

    Anonymous windows coders have made a mediaplayer for X-box which uses GPL licensed FFMPEG and XVID sources in their closed-source product. Developers can't be contacted because they don't publish their e-mail addresses. As a result XVID development has been stopped. This isn't the first time someone decides to steal open source code - Sigma Designs stole XVID code, but was forced to release the source