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Xbox Media Player
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The
XboxMediaPlayer Project:
XboxMediaPlayer
is a
free
open
source (GPL)
multimedia player for the
Xbox™ from Microsoft. (XboxMediaPlayer
is also known as "Xbox Media Player", "XBMP", "XMP" & "XBPLAYER"). Currently
the
XboxMediaPlayer can be used to play and view supported
video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG,
DivX, XVID, MPG, MP3, JPG
and more direct from a CD/DVD in the
Xbox™ DVD-ROM or of the
Xbox™ hard disk drive, it
can also play files from a PC over a LAN / network via an XNS (XStream
Server) software or from a windows (SMB) share. It has playlist and
slideshow function, ability to work as a replacement Xbox™ dashboard. These
and more features enable the
Xbox™ running
XboxMediaPlayer to fully function as a multi-media jukebox.
Note! XBMP is a hobby project that is only developed by volenteers in their
spare-time for free.
(Remember XboxMediaPlayer does require a Xbox mod-chip installed in the
Xbox™ to work).
XboxMediaPlayer
2.3 source code supports the following:
-
DivX ;-) 3.11 and
OpenDivX 4.0 Playback (uses
FFmpeg lib)
- DivX 5.0 - 5.02 Playback
inc. B-frames, GMC & QPel (uses
FFmpeg lib)
- XVID Playback (uses
XVID codec)
- MP3 playback (uses
libmad
lib)
- OGG/OGM Support
(uses libvorbis/FFmpeg/XVID
libs)
- Windows Media Files WMA/WMV/ASF (inc. WMV9 via DLL's)
- BivX (multiple audio streams/tracks) Support
- MSMpeg4v1 and MSMpeg4v2 support (uses
FFmpeg lib)
- AC3 (Dolby Digital
5.1) Support (real AC3 5.1 output or down-mixed to stereo)
- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (inc. .DAT & .BIN VCD/SVCD files) (uses
FFmpeg lib)
- Unencrypted VOB (DVD) playback (uses
libmpeg2
lib) & encrypted via IFO parsing
- Subtitle support (MicroDVD, srt, smi, vplayer, rt, ssa, aqt, sub, jss, mpl
& VobSub)
- True FFWD/RWD during AVI (DivX/XVID)
& MPEG playback
- Seeking during AVI (DivX/XVID)
& MPEG playback
- Playlist's for audio & video files (inc. save & play playlist to/from M3U)
- Video bookmarking (so can resume a movie later, even after reboot)
- Post-Processing filters for better video quality
- Audio amplifying & normalization filters
- Video resizing/scaling and zooming functions
- ISO 9660 - Mode1 CD/DVD compatibility (caching or on-the-fly)
- ISO 9660 - Mode2 CD/DVD compatibility (caching or on-the-fly) (VCD/SVCD)*
- JPG, GIF & BMP Picture viewing (uses
FFmpeg lib) &
picture slideshow (using
CxImage)
- Tumbnails (folders and applications) for easy localization
- Picture tumbnails (automatically generated)
- Launch XBE's (dashboard replacement mode)
- Build-in FTP Server (using
XBFileZilla module)
- IMDb information (The
Internet Movie Database)
- SHOUTcast &
Icecast support
(native and/or streaming form XNS Server)
- File streaming from a PC or Server over a network from a XNS (XStream
Server) software
- File streaming from a PC or Server over a network from Windows SMB (Samba)
share/s*
- Stream video/audio/pictures directly from a ISO/BIN/IMG/ZIP files via
RelaX
- 8092Kb memory buffer for video/audio playback (can be configured)
- Control XboxMediaPlayer via
Xbox™ controller or the
Xbox™ DVD Remote
- Language files for translated user interface (over 20 languages so far)
- International subtitle fonts (manually exchangeable using TTF fonts)
- International GUI fonts (manually exchangeable using TTF fonts)
* = experimental/unstable/buggy
New features/functions in the
CVS
that will be included in the next point release:
- OSD (On Screen Display) during playback with various of settings
- Audio Visualization (using
Goom
visual effects generator)
- Local/native SHOUTcast
recording to the Xbox hard drive
- Local/native support for
SHOUTcast &
Icecast playlists (.pls)
- HDTV 720p & 1080i support (multiple resolutions & progressive scan)*
- TV Guide (XMLTV
show listings, requires a PC with internet access)*
- Command line option available when launch a XBE via shortcut
(.cut)
- AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264)
Playback (uses
FFmpeg lib)
- Updated the picture library to also support PNG, TIFF, TGA & PCX
- Support for compressed VobSub subtitles (rar) (Small files only!)
- Auto-launch Xbox game on insert (inc. enable/disable feature)
-
XBMSP - XB Media Streaming Protocol (v1.0.12)
by PuhPuh
- Extract imdb url & info from .nfo file (if selected in My Videos)
- Clock/date synchronization from external (NT SNTP) Time Server
-
System info under Settings (build date, free space, IP, temperature)
- Ability to choose which categories show up in main menu
- Support for separate local subtitle directory on
HDD
- Support for MPEG & OGM files larger than 2GB
- Auto clipping/cropping filter (for video with black letterboxes)
- De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implemented
- Screensaver (black screen) on configurable timer
- Auto-launch other xbe (application) on Audio-CD insert
- Auto-launch other xbe (application) on DVD-movie insert
- IMDb improvements (All genres, ratings, Top250, cast overview)
- Integrated updated
FFmpeg, XVID,
XBFileZilla and
Mplayer code
...of course loads of bug fixes, and also
some new XBMP skins
* = experimental/unstable/buggy
Future goals of features, functions & supported formats include (not
supported now):
- DivX 5.03 Playback (inc.
all new Pro features), we'll have to wait until
FFmpeg or
XVID gets it.
- QuickTime
(.mov & .qt) playback (frodo has tried with DLL's, but not got
it to work as of yet)*
- Real Media/Audio (.rm &
.ra & .ram) playback (frodo has tried but not got it to work as of
yet)*
-
XTrace Debug Client (to be used with
XDebug Server)
Code/patch already written by Blackbelt
- Auto-detection of xISO/UDF and ISO9660-mode1/2 -
Code/patch already written by DFAngel
- DVD playback with menus (authored DVD's movies) (grompf
if working on getting this to work)
- PVR - Personal Video Recorder functions using a PC or Server running
Snapstream
software.
- WebServer for remote control of XBMP (QSilver
is working on a patch for this, help is needed)
- OpenDML AVI files (DivX & XVID files that can be larger than 2GB)*
- Audio-CD playback for normal audio CD's*
- Ripping Audio-CD's to MP3 (possible using LAME/MP3 and
OGG)*
-
CDDB® database support when playing & ripping Audio-CD's*
- VCD/SVCD playback with menus (authored Video-CD's)*
- Xtended-CD (XCD)
support (for extended ISO 9660 - Mode 2)*
- 3ivx playback
(QuickTime MPEG4)*
- PVR Personal Video Recorder functions using a USB or network TV adapter to
the Xbox*
...and
many more functions/features here (link)
*
= no one on the XBMP Team is working on this now (click the * to see the
Feature Request)
History:
The XboxMediaPlayer was created by d7o3g4q (a.k.a. duo) & RUNTiME. It
started out as two separate players by the two original developers each
working on their own design d7o3g4q's player was called XboxMediaPlayer &
RUNTiME's player was called XBPLAYER, they began by sharing some code &
coordinating features to not duplicate efforts & by XboxMediaPlayer beta 5
the two player where totally integrated into one. In beta 5 they also
started using FFMPEG as the video codec & in beta 6 they also added XVID
support vith code from the XVID project. The development & beta testing was
done "behind closed doors" for this project (d7o3g4q & RUNTiME promising
that when version 1.0 was made they would release the source code to the
public, but after beta 6 was done there where a lot of complaining from many
why the developers did not release the source code for the player sooner as
they where using
FFmpeg & XVID code
which lie under the (L)GPL license. Even though the project was closed
d7o3g4q & RUNTiME released the source code for beta 6 (Inc. a few bug fixes,
SVCD/MPEG-2 & limited ISO 9660 caching support) on the 15th of October 2002.
In the November 2002 Frodo (the founder of "YAMP
- Yet Another Media Player") joined the Xbox Media Player team as the
XboxMediaPlayer & YAMP project merged, the first release of the merged
projects is called "Xbox Media Player 2.0" & source code for it was release
on the 14 December 2002. (XboxMediaPlayer 2.0 is a complete re-write using a
new core based on the
Mplayer project still using
FFmpeg/XVID
codec code).
On the
28 December 2002 the
source code of XboxMediaPlayer 2.1 was released with many bug fixes
and a couple of new features like true AC3 5.1 output, volume normalizer/amplification
and an additional postprocessing filter. Two weeks later on the 12 of
January 2002
XboxMediaPlayer 2.2 source code was released with new features like
dashboard mode to lanuch other applications, separate national language
files, streaming media from windows shares (SMB), audio-playlist, playing
media on-the-fly from ISO9660-Mode1 CD's and Windows DLL support for WMV
7,8,9. We have not yet had a point release since then but subtitle/GUI TTF
support, SHOUTcast streaming, IFO playback, IMDb service, ISO9660-Mode2,
video playlist, blank screensaver and a build-in FTP server has been added
to the CVS.
XNS protocol and
the first XStream Streamer/Server software was created by RUNTIME to share
media to the player over a network. Since then it is being worked on by
Pope-X, Jeff33, Ziki, jkw & Tusse/nonSense (with support from RUNTiME,
d7o3g4q & frodo), a draft for a new XNS protocol has also been put together
by
PuhPuh. Some of the stremers also host additional functions like
SHOUTcast support.
(of course the
ultimate goal is to make this the best available media player for the
Xbox™).
Pictures Took From
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The media player in action!
XBPLAYER DVD Cover
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