Comments on: Xbox Media Center on Linux

By: Nerd Alert | Gecko Bloggle

Nerd Alert | Gecko Bloggle — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:25:42 +0000

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:48:45 +0000

[...] Xbox Media Center on Linux The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of. But, of course, the purpose of this article is to install XBMC on Linux. [...]

By: Rodalpho

Rodalpho — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:04:46 +0000

XBMC is also fully supported on jaunty and will be supported on karmic when it’s released next month.

Beyond linux, they also have a live bootable USB stick version (as Luigi mentioned) as well as Windows and OSX versions. All these platforms are fully functional and usable.

There are also two major XBMC spinoffs/forks; Boxee (windows, OSX, and linux) and Plex (OSX only). Boxee offers “social” features, tons of media plugins, and hulu support. Plex is a more “mac-like” polished product that integrates various apple technologies and look/feel.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:17:09 +0000

Any comments on the Live version?

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:14:18 +0000

ChrisW: I left out the scripts installation only because, I believe, for Linux they only have a scripting example available. To install this issue the command:

sudo apt-get install xbmc-scripts-example

There is also this site:

http://www.xbmcscripts.com/

which is currently down.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:11:26 +0000

Nice article. I did this with Ubuntu on a netbook that I use as a media center. I’m a Windows person, so it took me about 2 hours to figure this stuff out.

One thing I haven’t figured out, and I wonder if you can illuminate: how do you get the “Scripts” that are part of a normal Windows install of this? You know, the things that know how to talk to web sites like YouTube to download content…