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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.
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I'll work on the media player if you give me the mod chip first... Say, it doesn't interfere with Xbox Live, does it?
PlayStation2 = Culture.
XBox = Bullshit.
please stop bothering us with obsoleteness. Any experienced game player in the world knows what PS2 means. XBox posting must be absent from serious sites.
Thank you.
You forgot that its also a damn fine games machine
An average $50 DVD player from Walmart or Circuit City will do all that
Incorrect. RTFA.
, and then some -- and some will even play Windows Media files, too, which Linux can't do.
ASF files are just butchered AVI files and can be easily converted. You fail it.
Your grandma won't even have to solder in a modchip, either, to get it working.
True anecdotal troll bullshit. The latest Xbox modchips are solderless.
The Xbox is good for regular console games, but as far as media playing goes, DVD players can be purchased for $50 or less -- why bother?
Why bother? Because you're trolling.
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.
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So you're a media whore and a couch potato. How does that lend any weight to your opinion? Apart from the fact that it jives with a body of entertainment-craving retards such as those on Slashdot?
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