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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 [...]

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Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 13

XBMC Media Center Final

The final version of the XBMC has been out for a while now. We covered an alpha release back in August and it is time to check on the final release and promote the product further. It may sound a bit biased but I’m using the XBMC for years on my old modded Microsoft Xbox [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Xbox Media Center Cross Platform Alpha

I bought my shiny green limited edition Xbox when it came out, put a modchip inside and replaced the hard drive with a 120 Gigabyte drive. The first application that I put onto it was XBMC, the Xbox Media Center, which functions as my main entertainment hub ever since. I usually drop movies on it [...]

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Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Enable DVD Library in Windows Media Center

I came in contact with a Windows Media Center PC only recently, specifically with Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I noticed that it did not recognize DVDs that were stored on the hard drive of the computer which was kinda odd for a Media Center.
Well a little research revealed a Registry setting [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

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