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Petition: Make Xbox2 backwards compatible

Dec 10, 2003
Team XBMC
xbox 2 online petition: “microsoft xbox hardware development ( www.xbox.com ) has yet to decide if they are going to make the xbox2 backwards compatible with existing xbox games for the xbox(1), this petition is a request to microsoft to make the next xbox play the...
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CNET Playing for keeps

Dec 9, 2003
Team XBMC
cnet has today posted the first in a three-day report about the multimedia capabilities of todays and future game consoles, including the use of xbmc/xbmp on the xbox. cnet is/was the popular technology news website that contacted us a couple of weeks ago about...
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XBMP/XBMC XStream Contest

Nov 7, 2003
Team XBMC
bald bouncer (uk) has kindly donated some nice prizes for us to run this xstream contest. the goal of the contest is for you developers out there to create one platform independent and user-friendly xstream server , the code must be in c++ and fully open source. the...
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AllXBoxSkins.com Back Again

Nov 4, 2003
Team XBMC
quote: “a huge “thank you” to www.xbox-scene for offering to host us, for this we are very grateful and without it, axs would be dead. now it’s time to catch-up. we know there are a lot of new skins out there and we need your help to get them available to everyone. we...
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Please respect the GPL License

Oct 31, 2003
Team XBMC
just a reminder to all other (xbox) developers out there; please pay respect the gnu general public license (gpl). you can freely use any of the sources of xbmc and/or xbmp in your own project but remember that both xbmc and xbmp are open source under the gpl license...
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Microsoft announces X-mas bundles

Oct 27, 2003
Team XBMC
microsoft has now announced the holiday bundles for this year. the us version comes with xbox console, star wars: the clone wars and tetris worlds online edition for $179.99 rrp, while the uk/europe version comes with xbox console, halo and midtown madness 3 for £139...
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AC3 5.1 pass-through

Oct 25, 2003
Team XBMC
After a looooong search monkeyh0 and i finally discovered how we can output encoded ac3.51 directly to the digital output of the xbox. this means great audio quality for ac3 5.1 encoded movies. currently ac3 5.1 streams get decoded by xbmc/xbmp and the 6 raw lpcm...
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xBmsx v0.8 for Mac OS X

Oct 21, 2003
Team XBMC
xbmsx v0.8 is now available, (xbmsx by -rx- is a xbmp/xbmc xstream server for mac os x). from the readme: “i recompiled the binary with frodo’s xbmc-compatibility-patch, and this seems to have gotten rid of some directory browsing problems i was having with xbmc and...
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Windows CE based settop boxes

Oct 19, 2003
Team XBMC
from doom9.net : i was visiting “ itu telecom world fair this weekend and found something interesting at the microsoft booth: in their windows ce section, they had a couple of windows ce.net based devices capable of playing wmv9 video. besides the samsung dvd player...
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Xbox Media Center, The new (ad)venture

Oct 15, 2003
Team XBMC
xboxmediacenter ( xbmc ) is a new free open source (gpl) multimedia player for microsoft’s xbox . xboxmediacenter is still in beta stage but can currently be used to play and view most video/audio/picture formats such as mpeg/mpg, vob, avi, ogm, divx, xvid, mp3, ogg,...
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Xbox Mods on TECHTV, again?

Oct 15, 2003
Team XBMC
this saturday and upcomming week on techtv (starting saturday 10/18-2003 at 10 p.m. eastern): “mod your xbox. see how modders are adding functionality to the popular gaming console. by kevin rose. why mod the xbox? well, the xbox is more than just a gaming machine. it’...
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Xbox Versions Database

Oct 8, 2003
Team XBMC
from the xbox-linux project , quote: “help us build an xbox versions database! please enter your xbox data into this form (you needn’t fill all fields), so we can provide you a database that will help you find out the contents of an xbox without opening it. this...
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