You'll probably find it's not as dead as you may think. XBMPlayer provides noticibly superior video quality over XBMC. But hopefuly with enduring efforts to raise awarness and the good work by the developers - we will see the quality issues in XBMC through. Only then can we truly put XBMPlayer behind us.
Read all about it here......
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/foru...f=3;t=3916;st=0Muz