Post by: garyopa on July 23, 2013, 03:57:00 PM
The XBMC4Xbox team is proud to announce the release of XBMC4Xbox 3.3
Many improvements have finally been added to XBMC, including better support for those that have upgraded their original Xbox consoles to the full 128mb of RAM that Microsoft only allowed on devkits
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Many improvements have finally been added to XBMC, including better support for those that have upgraded their original Xbox consoles to the full 128mb of RAM that Microsoft only allowed on devkits
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Improvements include:
- New default Confluence Lite skin.
- DVDPlayer improvements.
- Updated VFS and Cache.
- Improved 128MB Ram support.
- Built-in support for recently added videos/music for skins (without the need for Python).
- Updated MythTV support.
- Better out of the box support for universal / Microsoft Media Extender remotes.
- Password Manager for Samba shares allowing different usernames/password per share.
- Skinning improvements.
- Scraper updates.
- Various other code / library updates and improvements.
Big thanks to all those who have helped with this, including JezzX for Confluence Lite and XBS for his work porting it over to XBMC4Xbox. Thanks also to the developers at the XBMC project, as the majority of features were backported from their code base. Thanks to Dom, Jan, Kozz, Temhil, XPhazer and XMan as well as others over at the XBMC4XBox Forum for their help with scripting, code testing, moral support and help running things.
Please do join in the discussions over at our Forum, and if you enjoy using XBMC4Xbox please feel free to make a donation to the project.
See the development page for links to the source code and the svn repository. For binary builds, read the information on the download page.
Here are some screenshots from the latest release. Enjoy.
Download: XBMC4XBOX v3.3
NEWS SOURCE: XBMC4Xbox v3.3 Released (via) 360Crunch
Post by: Zod5000 on July 24, 2013, 12:30:00 PM
I went HD around '07 and the XBMC could do uncompressed 720p, but couldn't handle x264 720p/1080i/1080p video at all? This rendered it obsolete pretty quick?
I'd of been more impressed if someone figured out how to port it to a 360 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Post by: tomgreen99200 on July 24, 2013, 02:17:00 PM
Post by: hyfall381 on July 24, 2013, 03:43:00 PM
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Post by: hcf on July 24, 2013, 04:22:00 PM
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Post by: xboxmods2977 on July 24, 2013, 10:11:00 PM
QUOTE(hcf @ Jul 24 2013, 11:22 PM) 
I don't want to start a flame, but after reading the previous posts, I feel that I must write this: I use XBMC4Xbox every day, I love it... and I know a lot of people who uses it too. I understand that some people don't use it, but a lot of other people do use it. It's a wonderfull piece of software, and it makes our Xbox a great console, so THANKS A LOT for keeping working on it!
and I would also like to add that after the original Xbox era ended, I have almost (with the exception of owning a Modded Wii) completely transitioned to PC for playing games. Additionally, combined with the fact that I don't really watch TV, and the fact that my girlfriend has no interest in hi-def, I have not really experienced a need to upgrade my TV's to Hi-def, and so I still use my XBMC Xbox consoles for streaming my plain old SD movies from my PC to my living room Xbox or to my bedroom Xbox for movie nights.
Anyway, who determines when we have to upgrade? The industry?
They don't tell ME what to do.
Post by: exobuzz on July 25, 2013, 04:38:00 AM
We no longer live in the days when people have a single TV/display device. With multiple tvs in various rooms , I think the xbox still has a place. Not everyone wants to fork out for a new HTPC for every room, so it can be useful if you have an old XBOX that can be utilised.
Post by: pimmelpeter on July 30, 2013, 12:46:00 PM
QUOTE(exobuzz @ Jul 25 2013, 12:38 PM)
I wouldn't argue that getting a new HTPC is not a good idea, especially if you want to play full HD content. I do think there is still a place for xbmc4xbox though.
We no longer live in the days when people have a single TV/display device. With multiple tvs in various rooms , I think the xbox still has a place. Not everyone wants to fork out for a new HTPC for every room, so it can be useful if you have an old XBOX that can be utilised.
Big thanks for XBMC4XBOX 3.3 !
Keep up the good work !
Post by: pohclan on July 30, 2013, 04:18:00 PM
The fucking X in Xbmc stands for XBOX
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Post by: hcf on July 30, 2013, 04:39:00 PM
QUOTE(pohclan @ Jul 31 2013, 12:18 AM)
Whats the stupid point of calling it Xbmc4xbox?
The fucking X in Xbmc stands for XBOX
In the beginning, this application was named only XBMC (Xbox Media Center), it was developed for Xbox, and it was ported to several other plattforms. During years, XBMC was developed in those plattforms... but then, some members of the XBMC development team decided that the Xbox console was not powerfull enough, and they stopped developing for the XBox: ironically, they started to program XBMC for other plattforms, but NOT for Xbox! (even though, as you said, XBMC means "XBOX media center").
Luckily, other developers decided to continue working for our Xbox console. But they cannot name this project "XBMC", because the "XBMC" project was the other (developed for other plattforms), so the "4Xbox" suffix was added, to say that this is the version of XBMC made "for Xbox".
Post by: fallenangle on July 30, 2013, 06:50:00 PM
Just downloaded this new XBMC4Xbox release but not installed it yet. It'll be interesting to see how it has changed as the last update I did, from an AID disc somebody gave me, was to a 2008 version. Couldn't update it as until this month I didn't have broadband.
Post by: NYCXBOX on July 31, 2013, 12:35:00 AM
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Post by: Iriez on August 01, 2013, 09:12:00 PM
All the time for emulation! I got a XIOS for my media center needs so I could get x264/1080p content compatibility with ease, but the xbox 1 is still a very active portion of my media experience!!! Im personally STOKED about this release and its the first download in a LONG time for me
Along with this post hahah! Havnt posted in ....maybe 5 years? Very possible.Post by: GoTeamScotch on August 01, 2013, 10:53:00 PM
I own 4+ og Xbox's and use my main one almost daily. It streams Pandora. Streams music/videos from a network, plays xbox 1 games and emulators ...all from a super modern UI. And you can do all this on a console you can get from second hand stores for 17-40 dollars. I've always been a fan and it's cool to use it over the years.
Still have yet to do the Ram upgrade, but that in addition to the 1.4ghz cpu upgrade must make HD playback much smoother. Anyone with a trusty box have input?
Post by: Clockface on August 02, 2013, 03:17:00 PM
I do still use XBMC on the XBox, mainly to play music videos (I have a 500GB hard drive in it, and it's full of music videos, mainly 80s, a lot of 70s, some 90s, and very few 00s/10s (I'm no fan of most modern music) - when I was a kid I always wanted a jukebox, and I still intend one day to put the XBox into an arcade cabinet and make a combined arcade machine (via MAME and Final Burn Alpha) and jukebox (via XBMC). Plus I'll keep the emulators on it too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Anyway, it's great that XBMC is still being updated for the XBox, and I'll download and install this version (though I'll keep whatever version is on the XBox already, as I know that works too), so thanks again for all of the hard work.
Post by: rossmac on August 04, 2013, 04:29:00 AM
Girlfriend and I use this everyday to watch our SD TV Shows and sometimes SD Movies. Don't give a rats about HD primarily because it takes up so much space on my hard drive.
Great release and keep up the great work!
Also, this has to be my first post in the same timeframe Iriez
Post by: bucko on August 05, 2013, 03:24:00 PM
Nice work.
Post by: gamesquest1 on August 10, 2013, 05:31:00 PM
Post by: RoboChicken on August 29, 2013, 06:40:00 PM
The interface for emulation is still excellent after all these years. I have one for the living room and one for my Quasicade arcade system I have in my garage. This little 733MHz PIII still amazes me every time I turn it on. Very efficient, accessible, and convenient.
Post by: shambles1980 on August 30, 2013, 07:18:00 AM
my wife loves it its really convininet. "we arent that huge on hd any way so works well"
We have movies on the server pc and that can be streamed to any room in the house (because thay all have an xbox lol)
my wife in particular lives on "stream all this"
i have to admit the xbox took a HUGE hit when megauploads went down. and we lost a lot of good streaming features.
icefilms was most noticably hit, It still wokrs now "thanx to some dedicated people"
but many of the links dont work on the xbox because you cant see a cachaphrase or enter one if the link wants it.
1chan is the same. A lot of the links and stuff do work. but its really unfortunate that these plugins cant either render the chacha thing so you can enter it. or that they cant tell which links wont work on the xbox.
Hopefully a better serving solution will come along again, or simply a free account = no cachaphrase solution. where we can all just make a free account and enter the details on the plug in.
having said that.
i still enjoy justinTv. 1chan and icefilms. and i also aplaud the addons for xbox crew and the XBMCforXbox crew for keeping this great thing alive.
the xbox actually saves me £100's a year. i can watch tv shows on the xbox "iplayer, itv catchup" Legaly in my country, and i dont have to pay for a tv licence.
So thanx to the xbox I dont have a TV licence. I did have to sacrafice my sky tv aswell. but given that idf usually just scroll through 200 channels of nothing/repeats with that its not a huge loss.
so XBMC is saving me literally £400-£500 a year. and i still get to watch my fave tv shows. "although 20 mins after they aired"
So keep up the good work people.
There are people like me "cheap" out there who dont really watch tv and dont care about hd. and we really apretiate the savings we can make thanx to xbmc.
i do know i could spend a few £100 and update to bells and whistles. But i love my little xboxes.
I love my emulators. or deciding i want to play forza for a while.
I still play live arcade games form time to time.
ok well i seem to have written more than i needed to.
But just to make sure you get what i mean..
THANKS !
Post by: neveti on September 10, 2013, 12:14:00 PM
Post by: SPPV on September 12, 2013, 03:27:00 AM
Post by: pimmelpeter on October 29, 2013, 06:07:00 AM
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XBMC4Xbox 3.3.3 has been released. It fixes problems with scrapers (TMDB scraper broke due to http://www.themoviedb.org/ deprecating their old xml API), as well as an issue with thumbnailing images that were not in JPEG format.
Fixes:
* Updated TMDB scraper (based on scraper from xbmc mainline), which now uses their v3 JSON API. Also has some additional settings for language now.
* Fixed issues with thumbnails / movie posters and IMDB / MoviePosterDB scrapers.
* Fixed thumbnailing of images not in JPEG format (A regression from an earlier release due to thumbnail / cache code cleanups)
Thanks to all those who reported issues, Foresto for the IMDB / MoviePostDB scraper fixes and http://xbmc.org for upstream scraper fixes.
Fixes:
* Updated TMDB scraper (based on scraper from xbmc mainline), which now uses their v3 JSON API. Also has some additional settings for language now.
* Fixed issues with thumbnails / movie posters and IMDB / MoviePosterDB scrapers.
* Fixed thumbnailing of images not in JPEG format (A regression from an earlier release due to thumbnail / cache code cleanups)
Thanks to all those who reported issues, Foresto for the IMDB / MoviePostDB scraper fixes and http://xbmc.org for upstream scraper fixes.