Questionnaire aux heureux possesseurs de platine DivX

The XboxMediaCenter Project:



XboxMediaCenter is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xboxê„¢ from Microsoft. (XboxMediaCenter is also known as "Xbox Media Center" or simply "XBMC"). Currently the XboxMediaCenter can be used to play and view supported video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG-1/2, DivX, XVID, MP3, JPG and more direct from a CD/DVD in the Xboxê„¢ DVD-ROM or of the Xboxê„¢ hard disk drive, it can also play files from a PC over a LAN / network via XStream Server software or from a Windows (SMB) share. It has playlists and slideshow. These features enable the Xboxê„¢ running XboxMediaCenter to fully function as a multi-media jukebox.

Note! XBMC is a hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free.

(Remember XboxMediaCenter does require a Xbox mod-chip installed in the Xboxê„¢ to work).



XboxMediaCenter CVS source code supports the following:

(WARNING! XBMC CVS code can be very unstable and is not meant for normal users)



Supported hardware platforms and Xbox options:

- Compatible with modded retail Xbox, Debug/Development-Xbox and DreamX

- Fully control XboxMediaCenter and its features via a Xboxê„¢ IR DVD-Remote

- Fully control XboxMediaCenter and its features via Xboxê„¢ game controller



Supported output media formats and devices:

- TV-output: 50hz/60Hz NTSC-M/J (America/Asia) and PAL (Europe/Africa)

- RCA, SCART, RF Coaxial, S-video, Component/RGB adapters available

- Widescreen (16:9) and normal-TV (4:3) aspect ratio video output support

- NTSC playback on PAL Xbox/TV and PAL playback on NTSC Xbox/TV*

- HDTV support (multiple resolutions 480p/720p/1080i and progressive scan)*

- VGA-output is also possible via third-party adapters or VGA-hacked BIOS

- LCD-display output support to view status and control XBMC with TV OFF*

- Analog audio-out (stereo/mono) via phono connection or scart adapter

- Digital audio-out (stereo/mono/surround) SPDIF optical (adapter required)



Supported input media formats and devices:

- Read files directly from a CD, VCD or DVD media in the Xbox's DVD-ROM drive**

 (Support CD/DVD formats:  ISO 9660 - Mode1/2/XA, UDF 1.02 and XDVDFS/CDX)

 (DVD-ROM playback is on-the-fly only** (no option yet to auto-cache to HDD first)

- Play files directly from Xbox built-in hard drive (copy first from DVD** or network)****

- Stream media files from a computer over a local network via XNS*, XBMSP or SMB

- Stream supported media files from the internet (if stream format is supported too)*



Supported file/container formats:

- Audio-CD (CDDA) playback for normal audio CD's (no CD-TEXT support)

- SVCD and VCD (Video CD) (SVCD/VCD menu's are not supported yet)

- DVD-video directly from Xbox DVD-ROM (no DVD-menu's support yet)*

- MPEG, MPG, M2V formats (inc. VCD's .dat and .bin and DVD's .vob)

- MPEG-TS (TY/TS/DV) DVB transport stream format

- RIFF AVI (AVI 1.0) container

- OpenDML AVI (AVI 2.0) container*

- Microsoft ASF/ASX/WMV/WMA containers

- QuickTime QT/MOV containers

- Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) format

- MPA, MP2, MP3 and WAV containers

- AAC, M4A, MP4 (MPEG-4 audio) unprotected containers

- RealMedia (Real Video/Audio) RM/RAM/RA/RV/RMVB containers

- OGG and OGM containers

- Matroska (матрёшка) MKV containers

- VIVO (VIV) containers

- PVA containers

- NuppelVideo containers

- FLI and FLC containers

- Tracker Mods (18 formats supported) audio  

- M3U, PLS and STRM* audio/video playlists



Supported video/audio codecs and picture formats:

- MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video

- DivX;-) 3.11, OpenDivX 4.0, DivX 5.03, XviD RC2, and BivX

- Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2 & v3)

- RealVideo codecs: 1.0, 2.0 (RealPlayer G2), 3.0 (RealPlayer 8) and 4.0 (RealPlayer 9)

- RealAudio codecs: 1.0 (14.4), 2.0 (28.8), SIPRO, COOK, DNET and ATRAC3

- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video

- Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) video

- AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264)

- Intel Indeo 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3)

- NuppelVideo (NUV)

- VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV)

- Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation

- WAV and PCM audio format

- MP3 (MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3) audio

- OGG (Ogg Vorbis audio codec)

- WMA - Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1/2 / DivX Audio v1/v2)

- WMA - Windows Media Audio v9 (WMA9) (via WMV9 DLL's)

- AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) audio in video (AC3 pass-through or SW decoded)

- DTS (Digital Theater Sound) audio in video (only DTS digital pass-through)

- AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (Profiles: HE, Main, LC, LTP & LD, + ER)

- M4A and MP4 (MPEG-4 Audio)

- FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio

- BMP picture/image

- JPG/JPEG picture/image

- GIF picture/image

- PNG picture/image

- TIF/TIFF picture/image

- TGA picture/image

- PCX picture/image

- ICO picture/image

- SID (Commodore 64 tunes) audio

- Tracker Mod's audio, see list bellow:

 (MOD/AMF/669/DMF/DSM/FAR/GDM/IMF/IT/M15/MED/OKT/S3M/STM/SFX/ULT/UNI/XM)



Features available for video playback:

- Full-screen playback display of all supported video formats/containers via a TV

- Auto PAL50/PAL60-switching support and auto 4:3/16:9-switching support

- SQL database with view by file/genre/actor/year/title and sort by year/name/rating

- Selectable options from OSD (On Screen Display) Control Panel during playback

- FFWD/RWD seeking and PAUSE in AVI/OGM/MKV/MPEG/MPG media

- Video-Autorun, auto-plays VCD/SVCD/DVD/CD's with video file(s) upon insert

- DVD-video playback* (only IFO/VOB and CSS decode. No menu support yet***)

- Play supported video files directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images

- Subtitle support (MicroDVD, srt, smi, vplayer, rt, ssa, aqt, sub, jss, mpl & VobSub)

- Play internet files/streams of HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol)*

- Streaming video from a TiVo over network (requires hacked TiVo running ccXStream)*

- Streaming video from a ReplayTV (4500, 5000 or 5500 series) DVR box over network*

- IMDb information (The Internet Movie Database) lookup for movie info and thumbnails

- Extract IMDb URL and info from a .nfo file (if selected from under My Videos)

- Optional media file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization

- Stack multi-file videos option, show/play files with 90% name similarity as one

- Switch between multiple audio streams/tracks in AVI and OGM (not MKV yet)

- Different Post-Processing filters for better video quality*

- GPU YV12 to RGB converter for movie playback (greatly reduces CPU load)*

- Brightness/Contrast/Gamma controls (restores to default after after each video)

- De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implementation option

- Video resizing/scaling and zooming functions

- Screenshot capture function (including video overlay support and OSD)

- AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) pass-through from video to SP/DIF AC3 output*

- AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) software decoding to PCM stereo or mono out

- DTS (Digital Theatre Sound) pass-through from video to S/PDIF DTS output*

- Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 4/6 surround speakers)



Features available for audio playback:

- Playback of all supported audio formats via a TV or external audio receiver

- SQL database with view music by Top100/Albums/Tracks/Artists/Filenames

 or Recent Albums and also option to sort by Track/Filename/Date or Size

- CDDB album lookup support when playing Audio-CD's (done via freedb.org)*

- Thumbnail and album information lookup for Audio-CD's (via AMG/Allmusic.com)-

- Audio-Autorun, auto-plays CDDA and music DVD/CD's with audio file(s) upon insert

- Play internet files/streams of HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol)*

- Play soundtracks ripped by/in Xbox dashboard (add path "soundtrack://" to XML)

- Play supported audio files directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images

- Reads ID3v1/ID3v2 info tags from MP3's, also tags from OGG, FLAC and WMA

- M3U and PLS audio playlists (inc. create/save M3U audio playlists)

- SHOUTcast Internet Radio (MP3 .pls M3U playlists) playback support

- Local/native SHOUTcast recording (to MP3) onto the Xbox hard drive

- Audio Visualizations (several visual generators and a spectrum analyser)

- FFWD/RWD seeking and PAUSE during audio playback/visualization

- Optional media file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization

- Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for surround speakers)



Features available for picture/image viewing:

- Full-screen display of all supported picture and image formats via a TV

- Picture slideshow, including option for adding recursive to slideshows

- Picture thumbnails (automatically generated on demand)

- Optional folder thumbnails for easy localization

- View pictures directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images

- Picture Zooming, rotate, move around, info, pause, next/previous picture

- Kodak PictureCD compatible* (auto-launches slideshow on CD insert)**

- Auto-launches picture CD's on insert if images in root directory



Other and generic Graphical User Interface (GUI) features:

- Controllable via either Xboxê„¢ DVD Remote or Xboxê„¢ controller/game-pad

- View file media listing By List, By Small Icons or By Large Icons option

- Fully skinable GUI structure and GUI skin switching (over 5 skins so far)

- Dashboard replacement mode (launch other applications and/or games)

- Show original XBE (games and applications) icons under "My Programs"

- Flatten Directory Hierarchy setting option for use under "My Programs"

- Show only default.xbe setting option for use under "My Programs"

- "My Files" file-manager, move/copy/delete local and copy from network

- "My Weather" weather forecast module (done via The Weather Channel)

- Screensavers (dim, black-screen or Matrix trails) on configurable timer in GUI

- Python Script Interpreter Engine (execute Python scripts from within XBMC)

- Shutdown-timer, to shutdown XBMC when idle, on configurable timer in GUI

- Language files for translated GUI (over 10 languages so far), switch from GUI

- GUI and video calibration (including storing calibration settings per resolution)

- Displays system info under Settings (Build date, free space, IP, temperature)

- Screenshot capture function, to snap shots of GUI (inc. video overlay support)



Other non-GUI features, functions and options:

- Fully re-mappable keys for DVD Remote and the game-pad (via keymap.xml)

 (inc. possibility to map and use all RCA-5 IR codes from a universal remote)

- Auto-detection of UDF 1.02, XDVDFS/CDX and ISO9660 - mode1/mode2/XA*

- Auto-launch Xbox game on insert with enable/disable optional from within GUI

- Clock/date synchronization from a (NT SNTP) Time Server on the network/internet

- Built-in WebServer for remote control of XBMC (http//:xboxIPaddressHere.asp)

- Built-in FTP-Server, connect to it via a FTP client to copy files to/from Xbox HDD

- Screenshot grabber (no support for video overlay, so can only take GUI snaps)

- Supports Static-IP/Subnetmask/DNS and alternative DHCP-client for auto config

- Harddrive (HDD) spindown on idle (spin-down disks when XBMC is idle in menu)*



* = Experimental, unfinished, unstable, buggy and/or limited

** = Most Xbox DVD-ROM drives are very picky with CD/DVD media disks, see FAQ

*** = XBMC currently only have DVD VOB and IFO parsing support, (no menu support)

**** = Xbox's hard drive file-system has file & folder name/character limitations, see FAQ