Hey guys, i was just reading one of the topics around here somewhere and i just relised that you guys hold Xbox media center pretty high, why is that, i mean to me its just a music playa, but to you guys it seems different..........
whats the deal?

I don't use it for music at all. Mainly for streaming xvids. And ftp'ing family pictures - for when the relatives come over - easy slide show on TV. Converting my dvd's to xvids saves on the life of my dvd's.

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Have you ever used it as a video player? It plays videos in every format I've ever come across except for dv-avi, not to mention every audio format I've across, except for real media, dunno about midis. So the short rundown for videos is mkv, mpeg 1/2/4, mov, rm or rmvb, ogm, XviD/DivX, wmv, flv, and whatever else there is. It'll also play the variations of these codecs i.e. there's a zillion variations of avi codecs.

For audio files it'll play flac, ogg, wav, mp3, LAME, wma, and just about everything else. There is not a single PC media player which can match the native video support XBMC offers. Not to mention it can upscale stuff to HD, also supports a ton of image formats, supports videos/music/pictures over a networked PC, the Xbox HD, or off disc, and the DVD player isn't bad. It's also updated every couple weeks, offers a ton of features and customization, webscripts, can be used to browse the web with linksboks, and a myriad of options with the python scripts. You can watch stuff off youtube, listen to netradio, get movie trailers off quicktime, the list is endless. Best of all it is free, open-source, and allows you the luxury of watching video files on your TV.

Frankly, there is nothing better. It's the best media player of all time, the best homebrew of all time, and the reason a modded Xbox is still the best thing going. I couldn't live without XBMC, I've come to depend on it that much. I would probably part with my 360 before I'd part with my Xbox 1. In terms of use, XBMC beats my 360 by about 20:1 ratio.

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this may sound stupid but what are xvids, lol

xvids are compressed movies. Basically almost every video you download from the internet are xvids. "AVI format"

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XMBC does a whole lot more than just play music. Its better than any dvd player you can buy.

Yeah, xvids are all over the internet. Or you can make your own. You can backup your DVD's with a couple of utilities. A 4.5GB movie can be compressed to 1.4GB or even 700MB, and still have decent quality for a standard definition television.

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yeah, DviXtoDVD is a good tool for converting to and from Xvix (AVI)

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