Jay Marcyes

I guess there are now official builds in Windows, Mac, and Linux

I have a converted xbox and I have to say it is probably the best thing you could possibly do with your xbox and is way better than Vista's media center.

While attempting to upgrade XBMC on my Xbox I accidentally deleted something I shouldn't have causing the Xbox would only boot into the default dashboard, cutting me off from the hard drive through anything like FTP or another dashboard.

So how did I fix it?

I actually found this tutorial on -- of all places -- G4 TV's website.

After finding an ISO of Evox and burning it to DVD I was able to get XBMC back up and running. There were a couple of other things I learned though that might help some people out.

For instance, in order to take advantage of the upconverting capability of XBMC you have to enable the resolutions in the default Xbox dashboard as I found out here under Screen -> Resolution. I didn't know this.

Sadly, after I enabled Resolutions up to 1080i and changing the settings in XBMC settings to 1080i 16x9 I found that I couldn't really play any video files (standard xvid) over 350 megs. This was rather disconcerting. Luckily, I found this explanation about the memory limitations on the Xbox.

Sure enough, after limiting both the dashboard and the video settings to 720p 16x9 all the video files play flawlessly and look incredible, I can't believe I never knew the Xbox could upconvert my video files until now. I became a fan of upconvertion when we got an upconvert DVD player and hooked it up through the HDMI port. Upconverted DVD movies at 1080i look absolutely stunning and the video files upconverted from the Xbox don't look half-bad either. Isn't technology grand?

I think this is a fork from XBMC for general x86 hardware and Windows XP.

Requires an original Mechwarrior game among other things.

This method doesn't require an old game, but seems tons more complicated and you still have to open the dang thing up.

Also check out other info about XBMC from the Wikipedia entry

And if you don't like xbox, try appleTV

helpful if you are looking for a particular emulator for your modded xbox. This will tell you which emulators are the best to download.