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Xbox Media Player Contest

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-hack-on dept.

mliu writes "Xbox Media Player, the GPL application that turns everyone's favorite hackable console (the Xbox) into a set-top-Divx/Xvid-playing- Shoutcast-radio-streaming- lean-mean-Mp3/Ogg-music-playing-all-while- sporting-a-pretty-user-interface-machine is holding a contest. They're in desperate need of help in terms of more developers and are holding a giveaway of 25 top of the line X2 Pro modchips for the 25 best patch submissions between now and March 31. If you don't know what Xbox Media Player is and/or feel the need to ask why bother hacking the Xbox, you have definitely gotta check it out. It turns the Xbox from Bill Gates' insidious plot to get into the living room into a set top box that can play practically everything even while sporting a sleek black look that won't stick out in your home theater system, and a user interface that your grandmother could use. And you can even run Linux on it in your spare time. It's no $100,000 but it's for a cause that is both more practical and useful if you ask me." The X-Box has proven itself an entertaining platform for hackers, and the XBMP is really excellent. When it has visualization plug-ins, I think it'll be a great way to put MP3s in your stereo.

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  1. Hey! Taco! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fix your site! Or atleast tell us you know about the problems! Don't you guys look at your own front page?!

    1. Re:Hey! Taco! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Slashdot has been f8cked more than once over the past 2 days. All of the screwed up posts have been posted by Michael. Blam the site, blame the mod, or blame the moderator. I tend to think it's the latter.

  2. heehee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdork is broken!

  3. FPFP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post for palestine!!

  4. borken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /. is teh borken :( :( :( :(

  5. all... by m1chael · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bill has done is call a computer a console, except this computer is from one vendor who wants to rule them all.

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  6. Sleek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The damn thing is fugly! Huge and fugly.

  7. Re:WTF is a RAR file? by Golias · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Yea, what's up with that? Does anybody have a mirror where we can get an uncompressed verion of that manual (or at least something compressed by a sane choice of tools, like gzip or something.)

    rar is for usenet warez d00ds. Please don't use it for stuff like this.

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