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XBOX Media Player 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the repurposing dept.

smashr writes "If you can't afford the new Windows XP Media Center edition, why not grab yourself a modded XBOX, and check out the XBOX Media Player 2.0. The official site has some screen shots and previews. I am sure Gates will be real upset about this one. Somehow $300 for an x-box setup is cheaper than the $2000 XP boxes."

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  1. Well, these guys are bastards. by RomikQ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They are the ones that used some of ffmpeg's and mplayer's code a couple of month ago and refused to open their source code(as required by gpl). They only opened it after two weeks of fighting. If you're curious, the details are on the mplayer homepage(just scroll down a bit).

    So I wouldn't support them if I had an Xbox.

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  2. Not developed illegally. by kaosrain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't speak for sure about before, but I know that at least now XBMP is being written with CXBE, the first legal Xbox development kit.

  3. xbox bias? by droopus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Uh, explain to me why this causes a huge fuss on /., but articles about Qcast for the PS2 (which is four months old and cool as shit) never see the light of day? Qcast just added Ogg support as well. Supports everything The xbox MP does, plus xvid. Has supported AC3 for a few months.

    This isn't a grouse, just wondering why a Media Center for 30 million+ installed PS2s holds little interest, but an unavailable hack of xbox that does the same thing is big news.

    Anyone?

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  4. Bill Cares? by OS24Ever · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Folks, there's gotta be a point here where you stop villifying Mr. Gates and realize that Microsoft is a company, not one person.

    I doubt Gates got up this morning, checked slashdot and decided that Windows Media Player ported to one of his products is a bad thing.

    Microsoft will probably sell a few more XBOX machines because there are people out there that like to tinker, and then they'll scream foul when some new kick butt feature of the XBOX comes out that immediately disables their XBOX or doesn't allow it to work a la live.

    I'm always surprised at the number of geeks or opensource types that purchase a Microsoft product just to hack it to make it do something in the linux world. You're supporting Microsoft still whether you like it or not.

    Come on, buy a Gamecube. Make it run linux. Or buy the PS2 and their Linux kit and port something to it! Forget Microsoft's XBOX and let it fade away into obscurity like the 3GO, the NEC Turbographx, the NeoGeo and all the other failed (marketing wise) game systems.

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