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XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support
Xistic writes with news that the XB in XBMC won't mean Xbox any more. Quoting the project's own website: "The last official release for the XBOX by the XBMC team was Atlantis, over 18 months ago. Since then, one brave soul (Arnova) has been merging code from the main codebase into the XBOX branch in our repository. Because there were many users out there that took advantage of these updates, we had no problem with this. But times have changed. The XBOX has hard limits for what it can handle. Some users are satisfied with these limits, and we encourage them to use XBMC there if they are happy. But it is a popular misconception that official XBOX development is still taking place by the team, so we have decided to set it free. We have enough on our plates already, and worrying about a deprecated platform just increases our workload. A few days ago the XBOX branch was finally removed from our subversion repository."
We have been working on taking over the xbox branch for the last couple of months. http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/ so if you feel you can help head on over. We still have tons of work to do but it's getting really close to being back on track with continued development.
In its day, and for a fair while after, the XBOX was an excellent deal for video applications. ~PIII-733 level performance and(rather more importantly) a decent set of video outs, something that was sort of dodgy with the PC graphics cards of the day. They got quite cheap, especially used, as well.
However, at this point, a PIII-733 with, IIRC, 64MB of RAM, just isn't that exciting. Nor, with the proliferation of nettops, is the price delta between a real computer and a used xbox nearly what it used to be. Then there is the fact that, while XMBC as a project has always been legit, actually building it for the xbox has been legally kind of dodgy.
That huge black box was the best media center I have had, the WD TV Live only comes close since it can play H.264.
It is kind of funny how history made this package evolve. The XBMC, which abreviates "XBOX Media Center", was originally developed for the XBOX. And now, it supports different platforms and operating systems but not the XBOX any longer. If you don't know its history, you'd find it a joke what XBMC stands for.
...XBMC showed what a dedicated hacker community could accomplish with tight code and open source to draw upon.
For years to come, the XBMC community will be a shining example of what a hacker group can accomplish.
XBMC was the first truly great hack project.
I thought that the XBOX graphics chipset was the reason that it could run. CAn any nettops run media PC stuff reasonably well?
Buy something with hdmi and nvidia ion and I'm sure you can run xbmc with hd content.
I'm less sure about how good chipset acceleration is in standard intel atom netbooks etc.
...they can implement horizontal scrolling in audio on the non-XBOX platforms.
At the moment XBMC is unusable for audiobooks with mouse/keyboard control.
Out of curiosity, what are people using instead? I was looking to upgrade from the old noise xbox about 2 years ago because it couldn't play 720p, so I went with the ps3. It suffers because it can't play mkv but has some conversion tools, but still I find many avi files it can't play. Would definitely be interested in alternative hardware to install XBMC onto other than my xbox, so long as it doesn't require me assembling it myself or any crazy linux installs trying to get hdmi and 3d cards to play nicely.
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. -- Homer J. Simpson
Yes, Zotac ION boards do it exceptionally well according to pretty much every review I've read. I'm going to build a HTPC based on one of these.
I think, therefore I am. I think?
Get a Nettop with the Nvidia ION chipset, put Linux and XBMC on it and you have a cheap, tiny, silent HTPC with HDMI and hardware accelerated video playback playing those 1080p MKV's without problem. Some of them (Asus Eee Box, ASRock Nettop and Acer Aspire Revo for example) also come with a remote control.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
I'm amazed this thing could ever run on an XBOX. I installed it once on a dual-core 2.2GHz something-or-other with a few gigs of ram and it was just... awful. Huge delay between pressing a button and anything happening. Slow menu changes. Etc.
I'm down to my last two XBOXen (components just die after 10 years).
Is there currently another device that runs XBMC and is/has:
o sub $100;
o instant on;
o ethernet & video ports;
o IR controller support;
Something like the WD TV Live seems to have the right hardware but I suspect the GUI blows and codec support is always a couple of steps behind.
Has anybody tried the b-rad firmware?
Any suggestions? (I'm quite open to building my own but can't see how to meet all of the above criteria.)
Buy something with hdmi and nvidia ion and I'm sure you can run xbmc with hd content.
I'm less sure about how good chipset acceleration is in standard intel atom netbooks etc.
I have both, as well as a couple of small VIA boxen.
Basically, for 1080p IMAX content, get an ION based atom. I have a Zotac N330 running the latest XBMC. It can do the aforementioned quality at 60fps, has an onboard HDMI out (including audio!) and was extremely simple to set up.
Zotac ION UK price: £130 plus a stick of ram and a case. It's great value! Just remember to offload the graphics using VDPAU (it's a setting inside XBMC).
The Atom DG (Intel reference) doesn't do anything like it. The VIA equivalents don't have graphic support for linux VDPAU either. Net result - they struggle with anything over SDTV. forget 720p or above with those.
I don't get why it even supports other platforms in the first place.
it is a amazing xbox media center(on an amazing console), but the whole design in my opinion does not work well at all for high res mouse environments.
It would be interesting to see the ratio of xbox users to other users of the xbmc.
Does anyone hear use it on their computer, I sincerely do not get why anyone would (unless they changes it radically since the last time I used it).
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Perhaps now XBOXs aren't supported, they could put in support for Live TV? XBMC is awesome, but pretty useless as a 'media center' without live tv support.
We own a highend PC gaming rig, 2 xbox 360's, PS3, 2 Wii's, dreamcast, psp, and of course the XBOX. The XBOX along with it's XBMC is still our most coveted machine. I once rented it out to a nightclub on weekends for a commission that got me $300 a weekend. With its slick OS and ability to store games galore on it, it was meant to be the future and it was. It still is the only gaming rig that allows me to use CDX to emulate any older console (ninento, sega genesis, etc) and Mame for arcade games of yesteryear. No other machine has this ability. I don't see why it's no longer supported. With PS3 removing support for Linux distros, this is it. KEEP XBOX support alive.
As a XBMC user on the old Xbox platform, I would like to say thank you to all the code monkeys out there who made that old junky hardware viable for nearly ten years even though it was not the purpose design for the hardware.
I see this as a great move for the project to disregard the limitations of the original hardware as they revitalize the project to better compete with some of the other Media Center software that has started looking more attractive in the last 2 years.
Good by Xbox, you had a good run!
Confidant. Not cosmonaut. Does cosmonaut make sense there? Idiot.
or maybe just not geeky enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR,_Inc.#Tactical_Studies_Rules "TSR" meant "Tactical Studies Rules" to geeks nearly a decade before "Terminate and Stay Resident".
I actually played a dungeon with Jim Ward back in the mid-80's, dunno why he's not even mentioned in the history of TSR...
Is that some kind of cross between XKCD and SMBC?
My XBMC original Xbox setup happily powers my 32" LCD just fine and wirelessly streams media (bridged wireless router) through my house from my server. Serves up all the old game systems and games, and even some cool streaming from the Internet via a few apps. I wish it had Netflix or Hulu, but oh well, once something comes out that rivals it full and for a low enough price I'll switch, but for now it just keeps chugging along fine.
Hoping new ventures pick it up and run with it.
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The Xbox graphics chipset had only two advantages over PC chipsets of the time: 3D graphics, and SDTV output as a standard feature. The SDTV feature is less important now that virtually all TVs made in the past three years have VGA and HDMI inputs. And unless one writes half the video decoder in a shader (as in some modern H.264 decoders), 3D graphics won't take much load off the CPU for video decoding; perhaps the biggest thing a GeForce 3-class pixel shader can do is help convert YUV to RGB. Remember that the video codec that was popular among pirates and spaceshifters at the time was MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile (DivX and Xvid), which is roughly on par with Theora and less computationally complex than H.264.
Can you post your Zotac setup?
Where you got it for that price would be nice to know, cheapest I can see is £160 for just the MB.
Did you need to buy a PSU for that board/case or did the case/board come with it?
Congratulations and a big THANK YOU to everyone who has ever had a part in making XBMC possible.
I have had hours of fun building, breaking and rebuilding my xbox. In fact I don't think I've spent even 1% of the time playing games on it than I have using XBMC in various capacities. Whether trying out new scripts and plugins or just generally screwing around and customizing things, it has provided me with an awful lot of enjoyment.
It also makes a great present for a friend since used Xboxes are only about $25. Come to think of it, I've got one modded and booting to XBMC just sitting in the trunk of my car. I should probably take that out of there.
I'll look to some of the suggestions in this thread for my next-gen XBMC machine. I've tried to use a PS3 as a media centre. I just didn't like it, probably because I'm so used to XBMC.
THANKS XBMC
But does an Asus O!Play also play games? Those who use XBMC on an Xbox can reboot to the Windows XB dashboard to run single-player or local-multiplayer Xbox games. Likewise, those who use XBMC on an Acer Aspire Revo (a $200 ION nettop) can reboot to Windows to run single-player or local-multiplayer PC games, although the local-multiplayer selection for PC is a bit limited due to the historical lack of TV-sized PC monitors.
Zotac offers a Z-Box mini PC where you have everything except RAM and harddrive for 200 - 250€. They don't offer space for a disc drive and I'm kind of suspicious about the cooling, but it's worth a look.
Nearly all nettops are NVidia ION based.
The CPU in any nettop (at the worst a single core Intel Atom) is somewhat better than the 733 MHz PIII in the Xbox (Maybe significantly? I'm assuming the PIII has significantly better performance per clock cycle than the Atom, but I'm not sure if it's enough of a delta to make up for less than half the clock speed), and the Ion is a significantly better NVidia chipset than the one in the Xbox.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
It still is the only gaming rig that allows me to use CDX to emulate any older console (ninento, sega genesis, etc) and Mame for arcade games of yesteryear.
How do you dump your NES, Sega Genesis, and Super NES carts to put them on your emulator rig? I know the Retrode works with Sega Genesis and Super NES carts, but it's fairly new, and it doesn't work with NES games.
No other machine has this ability.
Not even an ION nettop such as Acer Aspire Revo? The HDMI and VGA outputs work with any HDTV, and the VGA out also works with SDTVs through a $30 adapter cable.
Yah, the name is a mouth full, UI has lots of room for improvement on the network side, however it more than serves the purpose, plays everything I have thrown at it. Its backed by my NAS on gigabit network, two of these devices on two TVs and I can stream two HD (720p) movies (of any kind) at the same time.
Disclaimer: Usability and customization is not even close to XBMC, nonetheless functionally it does exactly what I want i.e. play any content shared on my local network.
It's gotten to the point where it's hard to play video streams, because the Xbox just can't handle the bitrate. If they had CUDA they could do video decoding partially on the GPU, but since they don't they can only use the GPU for pretty visual effects (and they do.) Consequently the Xbox is on its way out as a platform for playing media. I'm going to replace mine with a Phenom II X3 720 because that's what's in my desktop system and AMD was good enough to stick with one socket for a while, meaning that I can actually upgrade my CPU (and double my cores!) So the old one will get kicked down to the task of playing video, probably on a Zotac Mini-ITX board with nVidia 6100 graphics — which is to say, it supports VDPAU and CUDA :)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
WTF is a nettop?
ASRock ION 330 works like a charm for £260.
Just get something that supports VDPAU. Contrary to what most new system builders think, you do not need a quad core 2.5gHz CPU to play back video when you have hardware acceleration.
I bought the cheapest CPU/Mobo bundle with gigabit ethernet at Newegg. It was a 1.8gHz Celeron with 1GB of RAM. Everything accelerated with a GT220.
I've played a blueray rip with 0 studdering. The only time I get studdering is when SABnzbd is finishing unrarring a file. As long as you are using it for JUST an HTPC you should be fine. It's not completely fanless, but I can't hear it behind from 12' away.
Asus Revo 1600s are on sale for $140-160 refurbed and should work great.
I can confirm this. My HTPC is built around a Zotac ION board in a Mini-Box M350 enclosure. XBMC on Linux does a great job of playing back anything up to 1080p.
As a bonus, the system draws 18-28W depending on load, so I don't mind leaving it running continuously while it downloads content.
They're great. I've got one running XBMC Live.
One of the few problems I have is, suspend/hibernate don't work right. The usual finger-pointing is to the binary nVidia drivers.
But with the binary drivers, CPU load for playing back Blu-Ray ".m4ts" stream files is less than 10%--the GPU is doing all the heavy lifting. Anything DVD resolution is background noise. (I got the dual-core ION; that's probably overkill.)
If you're really into Linux and PXE boot servers, you can run them without any disk drives at all. Just the Zotac ION board, some RAM, power supply, and Ethernet. Plug in HDMI and digital audio and off you go.
(I don't have audio over HDMI working, but I don't really care, because my receiver can't handle 1080p so the HDMI has to go right to the TV and the audio to the receiver anyway....)
Here you go, from mini-box.com:
2x2GB DDR2 Memory: $100.00
160GB 2.5" SATA HDD: $62.00
Intel ZOTAC MB Atom N330 ION ITX-A-U with 90W adapter: $189.00
M350 Universal Mini-ITX enclosure: $39.95
Total: $390.95
The whole package is smaller than Stephen King's latest book and sits behind a closed door in the unit that supports by television.
For video storage I use a 2TB USB drive.
Posting as AC, considering...
Got a v1.0 black xbox (c. 2001) and a v1.4 green Halo xbox (c. 2004). Both have 120GB HDDs, Xenium ICE modchips, and are loaded with old games - Atari, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, Playstation, you name it. I've played through everything from The Legend of Zelda (NES) to Final Fantasy VII (PSX) and many in between! And of course, they still play xbox games too.
Besides the retro gaming potential (yes you can play NBA Jam with four players), they also stream TV shows and movies across the network w/o having to unpack any multi-part compression.
Both xboxii are still running fine after years of abuse, including 6 years getting kicked around in college, and I have absolutely no intention of giving them up!
Not normally such a MSFT fan, but the XBOX was quite possibly the best thing Microsoft has ever done or will ever do.
Take the internals of a Netbook, throw away the battery and the screen. Add a HMDI port.
Cheap computer to throw under the tell and stream content.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
CAn any nettops run media PC stuff reasonably well?
Look for the Acer Revo - $200 for the single core Atom version, ION chipset, does full HD easily, small, quiet, HDMI out... I have the dual core version which was $330, but that also comes with twice the RAM, a wireless keyboard & mouse, & Windows 7. There are a lot of places with information on XBMC & Windows MC setups, search for Revo HTPC. I really like mine, it's recording OTA HD & works great.
WTF is a tell?
I find Apple-TV to be a wicked XBMC platform.
By itself the Apple-TV is pretty junky. You can buy stuff from iTunes store or rent etc, and stream your iTunes stuff over to it for easy playing, but overall not worth the money.
BUT, i threw a Broadcom Crystal HD (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD for some info) in it (replacing the wifi card which I did not need) and put XBMC on there and it is fantastic. Will play 1080p HD no problem, and damn near any format used in online downloading without a hitch.
This way, the features that weren't so compelling on an Apple-TV before are now great perks to my XBMC install. I can instantly rent a movie in HD if my download doesn't complete or the file ends up corrupt. If I can't find a move online, I usually can on iTunes. They are fairly complementary.
All in a tiny little box 7x7x1.
Only real disadvantage I've run into is the limited remote.
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Zotac boards look promising and I have made the mistake of buying 3-4 of them. However, when you need to deal with support it is impossible. You can only reach someone on the phone during extremely limited hours. They took 2 months to RMA a mobo and during the process they tried to give me a mobo replacement that was an "upgrade" vs my original. However the "upgrade" didn't have RAID, went from ION to intel graphics, and 1 memory channel of a slower speed. I couldn't believe they actually tried that crap.
I know those mini itx boards are very tempting, but go for the more reliable solution with a solid atx or micro atx board from a proper manufacturer. You'll save yourself the headache in the future
I have an Acer Aspire Revo that is about $199 at Newegg, Bestbuy or Amazon, single core Atom, nVidia chipset. Came with XP Home, I think - never booted the hard drive. HDMI out w/ audio, I have an 8gb USB stick I boot Linux/XBMC off of, and 1080p is no problem. Haven't bothered reformatting the 160gb hard drive yet - I stream (mostly 720p) video over 802.11n with no stutter. Wired would be better for 1080p, I get some stutters sometimes with anything 9gb or higher...
Modern nVidia and ATI integrated graphics found in nettops are more powerful than the high end chip that powers the XBOX. They also offer hardware accelerated decoding to make up for the deficient CPUs they use (which are also more powerful than the stripped P3 in the XBOX).
And nothing of value was lost.
The daunting task of actually getting XBMC onto an Xbox when it won't even get you HD is supremely disappointing. A cheap mini-ITX system for a few dollars more is easy and HD.
Kriston
Ideally I'd like a case I can stick a 2TB hdd in. Trying to get rid of cables (and by extension external disks)
It is kind of funny how history made this package evolve. The XBMC, which abreviates "XBOX Media Center", was originally developed for the XBOX. And now, it supports different platforms and operating systems but not the XBOX any longer. If you don't know its history, you'd find it a joke what XBMC stands for.
Like raaaaaaaiiiin on your wedding day...
Like making a post on slashdot about irony that contains no irony whatsooooooever
Like a black fly in your chardonnay
Who would have thought, it figures?
The cheapest Zotac ION over here goes for $100. Ones that come with a DC power supply start at $140. $25 for memory, $20 for an IR receiver, $40 for a cheap case, and $40 for a hard drive. If you want cheaper, you can run diskless, booting off the big server actually housing your content, you can build your own IR receiver to interface with the serial port or audio line in, and you can omit the case, just using a piece of plywood to mount the board directly to the VESA mounts on your TV.
I shopped this recently, and the answer I came up with was... almost. The form factor, outputs and prices are good, the hardware was a little underpowered to stream HD. I decided to wait 6 months or so till there was a rock solid option in the $300 range.
Telly. Television.
I got an Acer Aspire Revo with the single core from best buy for $199. It runs windows 7 and boxee just fine. 1080p h.264 videos are flawless over hdmi. I also like the boxee remote control for the iPhone.
It's something you do, like touching your nose or scratching your head, while playing poker that lets other people know what kind of hand you have and whether or not you're bluffing. Please try to keep up.
I still have an X-Box with XBMC from 2003 which works fine. I keep it at my girlfriend's house however, since I have new and shinier toys at mine.
Let the developers focus on the new stuff.
What they really need to do, is get 'official support' from Microsoft, so I we can get XBMC working on the 360.
The 360's default media player is GARBAGE. Almost no support for anything other than avi or mp4, and no support for subtitles or alternative streams, combined with a terrible interface for managing what limited options DO exist, I dream of the day I can play mkv or similar on the 360. Sadly, it's just a dream...
No, it is ironic, and a decent example of it. See situational irony.
Wow. Just hurt us people who rely on CHaOS (Cheap Array of Obsolete Systems). The Xbox was a 39.99 dollar media center which played all DVD's and some good games on the TV and it was networked into the File servers. It is GREAT and XBMC is great too... and now.... wow.
Come on, Whats the point of XBMC if you dont have it on an Xbox. Btw, just crack the darn 360 and put it there too... or the ps3 or.. Wii... for gosh sakes!
I can program myself out of a Hello World Contest!!
Careful, the Atom N230 with Ion can play 1080p video but it chokes on most of the HD audio stuff. For that you need to go with the N330 dual core Atom. I play bluray movies with that and it works wonderfully. Course I only have one disc because it was on sale so for the most part its just for watching movies I've already ripped.
The Aspire Revo 1600 does indeed work great. I didn't even have to muck around with Windows XP (not even uninstalling it). I used Wubi to install Ubuntu 9.11, added the xbmc repository, spent a few minutes on Google to find some configuration tweaks, and it displays 1080p video perfectly. Since I already have an old computer as a server, the Revo's gigabit ethernet means that I don't care about local disk space.
ECS-3L (EliteGroup) I got it for 239USD without RAM, and HDD. It accepts a 3.5" sata2 drive, and has vga/dvi/hdmi and Gigabit Ethernet. Intel ATOM/NvidiaION make it almost capable of running some newer games (with 667 ram) though I suspect it would go alot better with 800mhz RAM. There are also Internal mini-PCIe slots, and wifi antennae, but I couldn't get that to work with an intel wifi card (3945).
I use it on my 50" plasma to watch movies in 1080p all the time.
I'll be ready to retire my xbox as soon as I find a suitable, affordable replacement. I'm hoping for a diskless nettop with nVidia VDPAU Feature Set C to arrive some time this year. I imagine that ought to run the latest greatest XBMC nicely. Until then, I think I'll continue hobbling along with this poor old nearly-abandoned xbox.
Why would you do this? A complete ready to roll ASROCK 330 complete with memory and CPU can be bought for $350 or so http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158009&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Barebone+Systems-_-ASRock-_-56158009 Add a MCE remote with IRDA receiver or a BT dongle and a PS3 remote and it's DONE.
With that you can play 1080P video perfectly using VDPAU on Linux - I do this regularly. It draws little power, has HDMI output including 5.1 surround via the HDMI, and is TINY. I swapped out an overclocked C2D for this tiny thing and couldn't be happier.
Seriously, there's no sense in building a beast when these little ION powered rigs do it all just fine. the ASROCK is only just one of several cheap ION machines out there too but it's the one I'm most familiar with. Heck I may be buying more to play video on additional TVs here pretty soon and I think there's even a LiveCD just for it.
Build it, Drive it, Improve it! Hybridz.org
Fork over a couple hundred bucks and move up from a single core P3 for kripes sake! Why in this world would you want to hold back development of a damned good HTPC software in order to satisfy an ever smaller number of slow proprietary machines? Would you be happier if they just dropped XBOX out of the name entirely and called it something else? These guys don't want to have to sweat the low end hardware anymore and are trying to move forward - as someone who has the newer hardware I commend them! These guys aren't just piling on all sorts of CPU intensive stuff expecting some monster CPU to run it but hamstringing them to sweat performance on a single core P3 class CPU with no memory that has to be hacked just to install and compiled by a pirated compiler is just silly.
Yes, I still have an XBOX hacked to run older XBMC and that build is like 2 years old - still runs as well now as when it was installed so who cares? There's now folks just working on the XBOX version and that's great but there's no way it's fair to ask the current team who has their sights set on bigger things to keep looking backwards to support the old. Better to drop support than support it poorly and hear the bitching when something breaks.
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Build a NAS and stream from the network. Even 2TB isn't going to last really long and you don't want to be ripping media on an ATOM CPU anyway - compressing would take forever. I use unRAID and the servers sit on Gig ethernet, works a charm. I have used maybe 20% of the 320Gigs on my ASROCK and that's running SVN builds with other software too...
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Underpowered? Stream from where? I playback 1080P BD rips on a regular basis off a NAS with zero issues on a dual core ATOM. The CPU never goes above 10% - VDPAU and the NVIDIA graphics do ALL the heavy lifting. I could run a single core and do just as well. You trying to do this on Windows or something? O_o
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I might have paid a buck or two for it tops but it works great! Like you are seeing 1080P is just fine and I'm on only a slightly better box with Linux - ASROCK 330. $199 is a damned good price, might have to be my second machine here soon :-)
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Without a doubt buying an xbox was the best 150 euros i ever spent. Thanks to the xbmc people. I guess it'll go down in the history books as one of the top open source projects in history...
I also have the AspireRevo 1600.
It generally works great with XBMC, but if you are going to play a lot of 1080p content, you might be better off getting a dual-core atom. 1080p videos play fine, but there can be some stuttering if you have background processes running (like sabnzbd), or if you need to do any audio processing (like software mixing).
Since the AR1600 comes with windows XP, I first tried XBMC for Windows, but it didn't have hardware accelerated playback, even with the latest nVidia drivers. I installed an ion-optimized version of the XMBC live cd (based on Ubuntu Linux) produced by XBMCFreak.
The AR1600 also doesn't have any digital audio outputs, other than HDMI. This means that if you want surround sound and your receiver doesn't support hdmi audio, your tv needs to do digital audio pass-through.
Embrace extend extinguish?
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Instead of putting an opensource handheld game console on the market that nobody will buy, why isn't there a project to make an opensource media device that plays everything with XBMC and is as convinient and slick(the interface not the xbox) as Xbox running XBMC?
Many of us commenting here love(d) our Xbox's - it was a true monster at playing video, it played _everything_ :/ such a huge shame.
Why oh why did Sony block access to the accelerated video features on the PS3 under linux? XBMC would've been PERFECT on the PS3.
Wifi, gigabit, 1080p output, USB ports, internal HDD
Yep. I have a couple of these running XBMC Live off a USB stick.
.ts vids that won't play well on it but it handles my Music Video collection; which are all 1080p x264 MKVs with around a 10MB/s bitrate; without a problem.
Mostly they're used in the living room and the family room to play my DVD collection which I ripped to ISOs on a 12TB Windows Home Server machine. I have a few 1080p
The cheaper Revo 230 can easily handle anything an old Xbox could and a lot more. The one I bought as a test when I was setting up my system is now an emulator machine and it plays many emulated games that the Xbox would choke on beautifully.
Shit.