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currently frodo (xbmc founder and lead developer) only has one xbox that he has to develop/debug/use xbmc and play games on, the xbmc-team have therefore decided to start this campaign to collect donations for frodo so he can buy a dreamx-733 to dedicate for xbmc development. we hope to raise at…

we are pleased to announce that from today xbmc now also have support for the xenium lcd. lcd support was already added several weeks ago to xbmc, however until now we only had support for the smartxx-lcd. our thanks this time goes to team-ozxodus who donated 20 xenium chips, 4 lcd’s and the source…

tom’s hardware guide (probably the most famous computer hardware site on the internet) has posted a very brief article about the most current standalone “multi-talented multi-media” appliances for the living room. it shortly compares the multimedia capabilities of northq nq5000, kiss dp-500, cd3o c…

we got some bad news and we got some good news, depending how you look on it. the bad news is team-xecuter has let us know that the x3 has been slightly delayed so we won’t have any prizes to hand out directly when the contest where about to end so we have decided to postpone the competition. the…

you probably all heard about 4th generation of modchips now coming out. one outstanding feature these chips have is the option of a nice 20×2 or 20×4 lcd display and i’m glad to announce that we already started adding lcd display support to xbmc. an lcd display could be made to show all details…

xbmc has got more and more lovely skins and this made us wondering what do you all think, should we change the default skin?, if so which skin should become the default one? please cast you vote poll: what should be xbmc’s default skin?

many users have complained that the anonymous cvs at sourceforge is unusable. most of the times it’s 24-72 hours behind in updates which can be pretty frustrating. to deliver the latest sources to you guys i have installed a cron job, this job will make a snapshot of the developers cvs every night…

Maybe some of you have noticed that there is one important thing missing for xbmp and xbmc projects. you’re right, a decent logo, well a logo at all as our project has amazingly never had a real official logo! so we’ve decided to hold this open logo contest. we need an official logo to use on our…

team xecuter has kindly offered to donate 10 final versions of the xecuter 3 modchip to the xboxmediacenter project for us to run this audio visualization development competition. the purpose of this competition is to develop new audio visualization plugins for xbmc and/or extend xbmc’s…

xbmp/xbmc xstream contest deadline passed without any entries, the contest is now closed.

again we’re sorry to see an xbox developer which forgot about the gpl license. this time its the ‘complex tools’ application which according to the author uses our port samba 3.01. off course we’re very happy to see that our libraries are used by other developers but remember that both our software…

yesterday evening bill gates, microsoft chairman unveiled windows media center extender technology at 2004 international consumer electronics show (ces), one of the devices that will use this will be the xbox though a xbox windows media center extender kit xbox dvd title. quote: “xbox media center…

darkie has done an amazing job by porting samba 3.0.1 to the xbox. he threw away the old and very buggy smb (libsmb++) implementation in xbmc and replaced it with his new port of samba 3.0.1. this means that from now on xbmc is using the same samba implementation as smb under linux does. hopefully…

we are looking for new developers who want to help us develop xbmc. we are getting more feature-requests/bugs-reports every day and currently we do not have enough developers/time to fulfil them all. with more developers working on xbmc we are hoping to speed things up and get more bugs fixed, new…

is it possible? can we play ntsc movies on pal boxes (and vice versa) smoothly without any jerky hickups?, maybe, it’s too early to say, but with xbmc’s latest option called “adjust framerate” or “dynamic framerate conversions” things surely look promising. previously, watching ntsc encoded movies…

friendtech, a cpu upgrade manufacturer has now started mass modify xbox consoles with a processor upgrade. however friendtech are not selling these “ft-x2″ (a.k.a. dreamx) xboxes themselves but instead offer them through online retailers, gamestron.com being the first shop to actually sell them…

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 interviewing a xbmp end-user on camera…

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 ultimate goal is that when the…