Xbox Media Player Contest

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.

Comments

Re:So what?

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot that its also a damn fine games machine

Buy SONY and buy NINTENDO.

[kyz]

How it this article any more than a barely-disguised advert for X boxes?

Let me make this perfectly clear - every X Box sold (no matter what you use it for) is used as propoganda to convince developers to write for it, which puts more developers under the thumb of MS, and makes money for MS so they can oppress and harass free software developers.

If anything, you should be buying systems from MICROSOFT'S COMPETITORS. BUY A NINTENDO GAMECUBE, A SONY PLAYSTATION, A PALMOS-BASED HANDHELD and A SYMBIANOS-BASED PHONE.