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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…

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…

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. this means you must follow…

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 £139.99/€199 rrp, both packages also…

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 streams are given to the xbox…

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 xbmsx v0.7. it also seems (on…

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 with integrated wmv support, they…

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, jpg, gif and many more direct from…

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’s the most powerful computer…

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 database will be online next week”.…