Comment Re:xbox of course! (Score 1) 59
XBMC will be the best you can find.
It plays every format you can throw at it ('cause it's based on mPlayer).
It's got a great interface, that's completely skinable, it can run python scripts, it shows stills, plays audio (mp3 ogg ape flac ...), plays movies (mpeg 1 2 mpeg4 divx xvid).
One of it's best features is its networkinterface; you can listen to webradio's, watch internet streams, watch apple quicktime trailers, monitor rss streams. To stream files over a network they've developed their own protocols (xns xbms), but you can also just use samba (windows networking).
The music player has a nice library system, and is also capable of showing album art in the file interface as well as on top of visualisations;
since a few weeks it also shows milkdrop visualisations.
Another perk is that you've got an xbox, meaning you've got a dvd drive and a hard disk, and a pentium 733 processor. Store your movies on the hard drive, play a regular dvd, save apple quicktime trailers to the hd, use the ftp server that is included in xbmc to get some files off your xbox to your computer. And you know what? ...
It sounds shocking , but you can play XBOX games too !
It's got a great interface, that's completely skinable, it can run python scripts, it shows stills, plays audio (mp3 ogg ape flac
One of it's best features is its networkinterface; you can listen to webradio's, watch internet streams, watch apple quicktime trailers, monitor rss streams. To stream files over a network they've developed their own protocols (xns xbms), but you can also just use samba (windows networking).
The music player has a nice library system, and is also capable of showing album art in the file interface as well as on top of visualisations;
since a few weeks it also shows milkdrop visualisations.
Another perk is that you've got an xbox, meaning you've got a dvd drive and a hard disk, and a pentium 733 processor. Store your movies on the hard drive, play a regular dvd, save apple quicktime trailers to the hd, use the ftp server that is included in xbmc to get some files off your xbox to your computer. And you know what?
It sounds shocking , but you can play XBOX games too !
