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XBMC4XBOX 3.0.1 Stable Released
An anonymous reader writes "After more than a year of development we are pleased to announce stable version 3.0.1 [download via torrent] of the popular media center platform XBMC for the 1st generation XBOX — now called XBMC4XBOX. A huge amount of work has been put into this, and it features numerous additions and improvements over the last release. For those that want a cheap functional media center with some old hardware they might have lying around, this is a superb option."
I still use XBMC4XBOX every night. I will enjoy this immensely. Thanks!
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As somebody who has been offering nightly XBMC builds for Xbox and all other platforms for the last few years I can say that interest is still there for an ANCIENT platform. http://www.xbmcsvn.com/ still gets thousands of downloads a day and many of them are Xbox. I just added a new section to the site to include the new "Stable" builds that should be coming more often then before. We can always use help over at http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/forum so if you are so inclined head on over. kick off your shoes and stay a while. We are the forum without the attitude :P
I think the reason we do it is for fun, and that we still enjoy using our xbox's - for xbmc and emulation etc. A few points: the xbmc GUI runs very nicely on the xbox1 and always has, @ 60fps up to 720p (1080p the framerate drops a little) - just as with xbmc for linux, we have the confluence skin, and it looks pretty much the same when you boot. As mentioned before it can do 720p xvid/mpeg4, but I don't think that content has to be 1080p for it to be of worth - I still enjoy watching dvds, and not everyone has a hdtv + £200 htpc in every room :) . It's also very handy to stream tv/on demand video from the net which is often not HD, but most importantly there are still plenty of people who use it, even those who now have a newer htpc.
XBMC (without 4XBOX in the name) has dropped support for xbox. This group is re-integrating xbox support. So XBMC itself has dropped support, and this project without xbox support is irrelevant, I'd say.
XBMC.org hasn't supported Xbox for like almost 2 years now. It was always just one person [Arnova] who was backporting all the changes from the main branch to XBMC for Xbox. Then we split off and became XBMC4Xbox and it's STILL Arnova doing the work, but now we have awesome talents of Exobuzz doing a lot of the grunt work along with a few others. We could always use more help though.
Unless they have High Def support somehow, I will probably just serve files over to my PS3. But...
I have already modded my old xbox and it will be interesting to see WTF they have done to it. The modding of it was lightyears ahead of time as far as a kick ass media center. I put a chip in mine and that was a learning experience. I first started with the piece of shit solder-less adapter for the chip, and it was a train wreck of a product. I ended up soldering it in, and that was my first soldering job. Watching youtube for soldering instructions helped a lot.
The gist of it is, you put a chip in, then you can take out the 2gig hard drive and drop a big hard drive in it. There you can transfer your MP3s and AVIs and whatnot over to it and it's like a jukebox. I was never much into console games with that platform, so I didn't collect every game they had on it floating around in newsgroups or torrents. They did have some great emulators where you could play every old video game from like the 80s and 90s and such. There are outrageous amounts of old computer games like that lying around in collections of hundreds if not thousands each. Game overload IMHO.
Leave it to Microsoftbrains to ignore this great feature their customers generated up. Instead of running with that brilliant idea and make it all legal for users and make a shitload of money in process, they let it slip by with a big fat "DERP" collectively floating out of their lips.
Take the Red Pill.