Xbox media player 2.4 Index 1. Introduction ............................4 1.1 1.2 1.3 The XboxMediaPlayer Project History Features 4 4 5 2. Basic installation ......................6 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Set up the config.xml file Using from HDD Using from CD/DVD Using XBMP as a Dashboard Controller Setup DVD Remote Setup 6 9 9 9 10 11 3. Optional Features ................... 13 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 Relax XNS Server SMB Shares XBMSP FTP Server ISO 9660 File/Folder Thumbnails Subtitles Filename Filters Multi File Stacking DLL Codec's IMDb support Skins 13 14 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 4. My Programs.......................... 19 4.1 4.2 4.3 Shortcuts Program Bookmarks Hierarchy Flattening 19 20 20 5. My Music .............................. 21 5.1 5.2 5.3 Playlist Shoutcast Audio Visualizations 21 22 22 6. My Pictures ........................... 23 6.1 6.2 Slideshow Using Background Music 23 23 7. My Videos ............................. 24 7.1 During Playback 24 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Control Panel On Screen Display (OSD) Video bookmarks Playlist IMDb Information 25 25 25 25 25 8. Settings ............................... 26 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Decoder General Screen Slideshow Sound System 26 27 28 29 29 29 9. Advanced Configuration ............ 30 9.1 9.2 Fine Tuning XBMP Upgrading XBMP 30 31 10. Tips .................................... 32 11. Trouble Shooting .................... 33 12. Useful Links .......................... 34 13. Greetings ............................. 35 14. Disclaimer ............................ 36 Go back to Index 1. Introduction 1.1 The XboxMediaPlayer Project XboxMediaPlayer is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the XboxTM from Microsoft. (XboxMediaPlayer is also known as "Xbox Media Player", "XBMP", "XMP" & "XBPLAYER"). Currently the XboxMediaPlayer can be used to play and view supported video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG, DivX, XviD, MPG, MP3, JPG and more direct from a CD/DVD in the XboxTM DVD-ROM or of the XboxTM hard disk drive, it can also play files from a PC over a LAN / network via an XNS (XStream Server) software or from a windows (SMB) share. It has playlist and slideshow function, ability to work as a replacement XboxTM dashboard. These and more features enable the XboxTM running XboxMediaPlayer to fully function as a multi-media jukebox. Note! XBMP is a hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free. (Remember XboxMediaPlayer does require a modded Xbox to work). 1.2 History The XboxMediaPlayer was created by d7o3g4q (a.k.a. duo) & RUNTiME. It started out as two separate players by the two original developers each working on their own design d7o3g4q's player was called XboxMediaPlayer & RUNTiME's player was called XBPLAYER, they began by sharing some code & coordinating features to not duplicate efforts & by XboxMediaPlayer beta 5 the two player where totally integrated into one. In beta 5 they also started using FFMPEG as the video codec & in beta 6 they also added XviD support with code from the XviD project. The development & beta testing was done "behind closed doors" for this project (d7o3g4q & RUNTiME promising that when version 1.0 was made they would release the source code to the public, but after beta 6 was done there where a lot of complaining from many why the developers did not release the source code for the player sooner as they where using FFmpeg & XviD code which are under the (L)GPL license. Even though the project was closed d7o3g4q & RUNTiME released the source code for beta 6 (Inc. a few bug fixes, SVCD/MPEG-2 & limited ISO 9660 caching support) on the 15th of October 2002. In the November 2002 Frodo (the founder of "YAMP - Yet Another Media Player") joined the Xbox Media Player team as the XboxMediaPlayer & YAMP project merged, the first release of the merged projects is called "Xbox Media Player 2.0" & source code for it was release on the 14 December 2002. (XboxMediaPlayer 2.0 is a complete re-write using a new core based on the Mplayer project still using FFmpeg/XviD codec code). On the 28 December 2002 the source code of XboxMediaPlayer 2.1 was released with many bug fixes and a couple of new features like true AC3 5.1 output, volume normalizer/amplification and an additional post processing filter. Two weeks later on the 12 of January 2002 XboxMediaPlayer 2.2 source code was released with new features like dashboard mode to launch other applications, separate national language files, streaming media from windows shares (SMB), audio-playlist, playing media on-the-fly from ISO9660-Mode1 CD's and Windows DLL support for WMV 7,8,9. We have not yet had a point release since then but subtitle/GUI TTF support, SHOUTcast streaming, IFO playback, IMDb service, ISO9660-Mode2, video playlist, blank screensaver and a build-in FTP server has been added to the CVS. XNS protocol and the first XStream Streamer/Server software was created by RUNTIME to share media to the player over a network. Since then it is being worked on by Pope-X, Jeff33, Ziki, jkw & Tusse/nonSense (with support from RUNTiME, d7o3g4q & frodo), a draft for a new XNS protocol has also been put together by PuhPuh. Some of the streamers also host additional functions like SHOUTcast support. (Of course the ultimate goal is to make this the best available media player for the XboxTM). Go back to Index 1.3 Features XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 point release source code supports/features the following: - AVI, OGM, Matroska & MPG/MPEG multimedia containers - DivX;-) 3.11 and OpenDivX 4.0 playback (uses FFmpeg lib) - DivX 5.0 - 5.03 Pro playback inc. B-frames, GMC & QPel (uses FFmpeg lib) - XviD playback support (uses XviD codec library) - MP3 and MPEG-1/2 audio playback (uses libmad lib) - OGG/OGM Support (uses libvorbis/FFmpeg/XviD libs) - Windows Media Files WMA/WMV/ASF (inc. WMV9 via DLL's) - BivX (multiple audio streams/tracks) support - MSMpeg4 v1, MSMpeg4 v2 & MSMpeg4 v3 support (uses FFmpeg lib) - AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) support (real AC3 5.1 output or down-mixed to stereo) - MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (inc. .DAT & .BIN VCD/SVCD files) (uses FFmpeg lib) - Unencrypted VOB playback (uses libmpeg2 lib) & encrypted via IFO parsing from DVD - Subtitle support (MicroDVD, srt, smi, vplayer, rt, ssa, aqt, sub, jss, mpl & VobSub) - True FFWD/RWD during AVI, OGM, Matroska (DivX/XviD) & MPEG playback - Seeking during AVI (DivX/XviD) & MPEG playback - Audio Visualization (using Goom visual effects generator) - Playlist's for audio & video files (inc. save & play playlist to/from M3U) - Video bookmarking (so can resume a movie later, even after reboot) - Post-Processing filters for better video quality - Audio amplifying & normalization filters - Video resizing/scaling and zooming functions - ISO 9660 - Mode1 CD-R/RW compatibility (caching or on-the-fly) - ISO 9660 - Mode2 CD-R/RW compatibility (caching or on-the-fly) (VCD/SVCD)* - JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF, TGA & PCX picture/image viewing (uses FFmpeg lib) - Picture slideshow of JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF, TGA & PCX (using CxImage) - Thumbnails (media files, folders and applications) for easy localization - Picture thumbnails (automatically generated) - Launch XBE's (dashboard replacement mode) - Build-in FTP Server (using XBFileZilla module) - IMDb information (The Internet Movie Database) - Internet Radio - SHOUTcast/Icecast support (native or streaming via RelaX) - OSD (On Screen Display) with various of settings during video playback - File streaming from a PC or Server over a network from a XNS (XStream Server) software - File streaming from a PC or Server over a network from Windows SMB (Samba) share/s* - Stream video/audio/pictures directly from a ISO/BIN/IMG/ZIP files via RelaX - 8092Kb memory buffer for video/audio playback (can be configured) - NTSC playback on PAL Xbox/TV and PAL playback on NTSC Xbox/TV - Control XboxMediaPlayer via XboxTM controller or the XboxTM DVD Remote - Language files for translated user interface (over 20 languages so far) - International subtitle fonts (manually exchangeable using TTF fonts) - International GUI fonts (manually exchangeable using TTF fonts) *Some of them may have problems, but they are constantly being worked on. Please, feel free to report bugs and problems in the bug reporting forums. Go back to Index 2. Basic installation XBMP requires a modded Xbox; any modchip/exploit will work with XBMP. XBMP can be run either from the Xbox's HDD or from CD/DVD media. 2.1 Set up the config.xml file Now, to set up the "config.xml", open the file with an XML or Text Editor, like Notepad, and change like explained: - Map local drives This configuration will map all the drives, XBMP will automap the DVD-ROM as of version 2.4. The C:\, E:\, and F:\ are the only recommended drives to use. - Local Settings

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255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.12 e:\apps\xbmp\playlists e:\ apps\xbmp\thumbs e:\ apps\xbmp\bookmarks e:\apps\xbmp\subtitles e:\ apps\xbmp\IMDB e:\apps\xbmp *Address: Specifies the Xbox's IP Address. *Subnet: If needed, specifies the subnet mask for the network. *Gateway: Specifies the network gateway. *Place an "*"at the end of each of these tags to auto detect settings. | | Nameserver: DNS IP Address, used for SMB shares. TimeServer: XBMP can synchronize the Clock/Date from external (NT SNTP) Time Servers Playlists: The folder in which saved playlists will be placed. Remember to Share this folder in the Music/Video Sections in order to be able to load them. Thumbnails: Configure this folder to auto add TBN to files without covers (like CD/DVD Compilations). Filename must match. Bookmarks: Folder used to save BMK files, used to navigate the file. (Info in Section 7.2) IMDB: Folder to save cached IMDB information for offline use. Subtitles: Folder to place supported subtitle files, filename must match the video filename. Home: XBMP's home folder; set to where XBMP is stored. Go back to Index -Shares To specify individual shares to each section (Music, Pictures, Videos) edit the configuration file like this: true HD f:\music 256 UDF D: ISO9660 iso9660: Visible Tag: The tag (true/false) determines if this particular section will be visible from the GUI. Share Tag: Each tag specifies a different location: local, network path, or DVD Drive. Name Tag: The text between the tags is the text that will be displayed in the GUI when selecting shares. URL Tag: The tags are the actual location of the folder, such as an SMB share, a RelaX share or Local path. There are three different types of local shares; the Xbox hard drive, the DVD ROM drive (UDF) and ISO9660. To access the local HD folder, place the local path such as f:\music. To call for DVD (UDF) place "D:" on the URL tag. For ISO9660, place "iso9660:" (3). Other shares include SMB (Windows file sharing), XNS (a peer to peer protocol) and XBMSP (Xbox Media Streaming Protocol). SMB, XNS and XBMSP will be discussed later in the document. The Cache Cachesize Tag: The tag is used to define the buffer size for the share. Cachesize is useful to increase the buffer when connecting to remote servers in the case of SMB (Windows file sharing), XNS or XBMSP streaming methods. Size tag () is used to define cache per share, use this function to increase cache on large files, like videos, when connecting to SMB or RelaX shares. The same goes for Pictures () and Videos (). This way it's possible to access several XNS servers over a network, and SMB servers. For applications, only add the HD share, SMB/Relax doesn't work with applications. Go back to Index -Other Config.xml tags: Dashboard Tag: The tag specifies the file on C:\ to load when the Dashboard button is pressed (Orange button in the lower part of the main menu). Shutdown Time Tag: The tag specifies how long the Xbox will be idle before automatically shutting down. Setting this tag to 0 disables the auto shut down. Time input is in minutes. Sensitivity Tag: The tag changes the DVD Remote Sensitivity. A range from 0.2 to 0.4 gives a good result. Screensaver Tag: The tag specifies how long the player waits to activate the Screensaver, the time input is in seconds (0=Disabled) ...