Supported file/container formats:
– Audio-CD (CDDA) playback for normal audio CD's (no CD-TEXT support)
– SVCD and VCD (Video CD) (SVCD/VCD menu's are not supported yet)
– DVD-video directly from Xbox DVD-ROM (no DVD-menu's support yet)*
– MPEG, MPG, M2V formats (inc. VCD's .dat and .bin and DVD's .vob)
– MPEG-TS (TY/TS/DV) DVB transport stream format
– RIFF AVI (AVI 1.0) container
– Open DML AVI (AVI 2.0) container*
– Microsoft ASF/ASX/WMV/WMA containers *****
– QuickTime QT/MOV containers *****
– Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) format
– Nullsoft Steaming Video (NSV) containers*
– MPA, MP2, MP3 and WAV containers
– AAC, M4A, MP4 (MPEG-4 audio) unprotected containers *****
– Real Media (Real Video/Audio) RM/RAM/RA/RV/RMVB containers
– OGG and OGM containers
– Matroska (ìàòð¸øêà) MKV containers
– VIVO (VIV) containers
– PVA containers
– Nuppel Video containers
– FLI and FLC containers
– Tracker Mods (18 formats supported) audio
– M3U, PLS and STRM* audio/video playlists
Supported video codecs:
– MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video
– DivX;-) 3.11, OpenDivX 4.0, DivX 5.05, XviD 1.0-RC4, and BivX
– Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2 & v3)
– Real Video codecs: 1.0, 2.0 (Real Player G2), 3.0 (Real Player 8) and 4.0 (Real Player 9)
– Real Audio codecs: 1.0 (14.4), 2.0 (28.8), SIPRO, COOK, DNET and ATRAC3
– Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video
– Theora Video (VP3/SVQ3) video
– AVC – Advanced Video Coding (H.264)
– Intel Indeo 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3)
– Nuppel Video (NUV)
– VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV)
– Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation
Supported audio codecs: (please see Paplayer for more info)
– WAV and PCM audio format
– MP3 (MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3) audio
– CDDA (Audio CD playback)
– MPC (Musepack or MPEG+) audio******
– OGG (Ogg Vorbis audio codec)
– WMA - Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1/2 / DivX Audio v1/v2)
– WMA - Windows Media Audio v9 (WMA9) (via WMV9 DLL's)
– AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) audio in video, Wav muxed or on CDDA (AC3 pass-through or SW decoded)
– DTS (Digital Theater Sound) audio in video, Wav muxed or on CDDA (only DTS digital pass-through)
– AAC – Advanced Audio Coding (Profiles: HE, Main, LC, LTP & LD, + ER)
– M4A and MP4 (MPEG-4 Audio) (including Nero Digital MP4) *****
– FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio
– Wavpack audio******
– APE (Monkey's Audio Codec) audio******
– SHN (Shorten) audio******
– ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)"**"
Tracker Mod's audio, see list below:
– SID (Commodore 64 tunes) audio
– MOD/AMF/669/DMF/DSM/FAR/GDM/IMF/IT/M15/MED/OKT/S3M/STM/SFX/ULT/UNI/XM
– Adlib OPL2/3 FM Music
– ADX/AST/ADP/DSP/YMF/HPS ADX is CRI MiddleWare and the rest are Game Cube audio files
Supported picture formats:
– BMP picture/image
– JPG/JPEG picture/image
– GIF picture/image
– PNG picture/image
– TIF/TIFF picture/image
– TGA picture/image
– PCX picture/image
– ICO picture/image
Features available for video playback:
– Full-screen playback display of all supported video formats/containers via a TV
– Auto PAL50/PAL60-switching support and auto 4:3/16:9-switching support
– SQL database with view by file/genre/actor/year/title and sort by year/name/rating
– Selectable options from OSD (On Screen Display) Control Panel during playback
– FFWD/RWD seeking and PAUSE in AVI/OGM/MKV/MPEG/MPG media
– Video-Autorun, auto-plays VCD/SVCD/DVD/CD's with video file(s) upon insert
– DVD-video playback* (only IFO/VOB and CSS decode. No menu support yet***)
– Play supported video files directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images
– Subtitle support (MicroDVD, srt, smi, vplayer, rt, ssa, aqt, sub, jss, mpl & VobSub)
– Play internet files/streams of HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol)*
– Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) internet files/streams (only if VP3+MP3), a.k.a. NTV*
– Streaming video from a TiVo over network (requires hacked TiVo running ccXStream)*
– Streaming video from a ReplayTV (4500, 5000 or 5500 series) DVR box over network*
– IMDb information (The Internet Movie Database) lookup for movie info and thumbnails
– Extract IMDb URL and info from a .nfo file (if selected from under My Videos)
– Optional media file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization
– Stack multi-file videos option, show/play files with 90% name similarity as one
– Switch between multiple audio streams/tracks in AVI and OGM (not MKV yet)
– Different Post-Processing filters for better video quality*
– GPU YV12 to RGB converter for movie playback (greatly reduces CPU load)*
– Brightness/Contrast/Gamma controls (only for HighQuality Pixelshader)
– De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implementation option
– Video resizing/scaling and zooming functions
– Screenshot capture function (including video overlay support and OSD)
– AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) pass-through from video to SP/DIF AC3 output*
– AC3 (Dolby Digital 5.1) software decoding to PCM stereo or mono out
– DTS (Digital Theatre Sound) pass-through from video to S/PDIF DTS output*
– Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 5.1 surround speakers)
Features available for audio playback:
– Playback of all supported audio formats via a TV or external audio receiver
– SQL database with view music by Top100/Albums/Tracks/Artists/Filenames
or Recent Albums and also option to sort by Track/Filename/Date or Size
– CDDB album lookup support when playing Audio-CD's (done via freedb.org)*
– Thumbnail and album information lookup for Audio-CD's (via AMG/Allmusic.com)-
– Audio-Autorun, auto-plays CDDA and music DVD/CD's with audio file(s) upon insert
– Play internet files/streams of HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol)*
– Play soundtracks ripped by/in Xbox dashboard (add path "soundtrack://" to XML)
– Play supported audio files directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images
– Reads ID3v1/ID3v2 info tags from MP3's, also tags from OGG, FLAC and WMA
– M3U and PLS audio playlists (inc. create/save M3U audio playlists)
– SHOUTcast Internet Radio (MP3 .pls M3U playlists) playback support
– Local/native SHOUTcast recording (to MP3) onto the Xbox hard drive
– Audio Visualizations (several visual generators and a spectrum analyser)
– FFWD/RWD seeking and PAUSE during audio playback/visualization
– Optional media file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization
– Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 5.1 surround speakers)
Features available for picture/image viewing:
– Full-screen display of all supported picture and image formats via a TV
– Picture slideshow, including option for adding recursive to slideshows
– Picture thumbnails (automatically generated on demand)
– Optional folder thumbnails for easy localization
– View pictures directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images
– Picture Zooming, rotate, move around, info, pause, next/previous picture
– Kodak PictureCD compatible* (auto-launches slideshow on CD insert)**
– Auto-launches picture CD's on insert if images in root directory
Other and generic Graphical User Interface (GUI) features:
– Controllable via either Xbox™ DVD Remote or Xbox™ controller/game-pad
– View file media listing By List, By Small Icons or By Large Icons option
– Fully skinnable GUI structure and GUI skin switching (over 5 skins so far)
– Dashboard replacement mode (launch other applications and/or games)
– Show original XBE (games and applications) icons under “My Programs”
– Flatten Directory Hierarchy setting option for use under “My Programs”
– Show only default.xbe setting option for use under “My Programs”
– “My Files” file-manager, move/copy/delete local and copy from network
– “My Weather” weather forecast module (done via The Weather Channel)
– Screensavers (dim, black-screen or Matrix trails) on configurable timer in GUI
– RSS feed in main menu (you can manually disable or change feed in home.xml)
– Python Script Interpreter Engine (execute Python scripts from within XBMC)
– Shutdown-timer, to shutdown XBMC when idle, through configurable timer in GUI
– Language files for translated GUI (over 10 languages so far), switch from GUI
– GUI and video calibration (including storing calibration settings per resolution)
– Displays system info under Settings (Build date, free space, IP, temperature)
– Screenshot capture function, to snap shots of GUI (inc. video overlay support)
Other non-GUI features, functions and options:
– Fully re-mappable keys for DVD Remote and the game-pad (via keymap.xml)
(inc. possibility to map and use all RCA-5 IR codes from a universal remote)
– Auto-detection of UDF 1.02, XDVDFS/CDX and ISO9660 – mode1/mode2/XA*
– Auto-launch Xbox game on insert with enable/disable optional from within GUI
– Clock/date synchronization from a (NT SNTP) Time Server on the network/internet
– Built-in Web Server for remote control of XBMC (
http://xboxIPaddressHere/default.asp)
– Built-in FTP-Server, connect to it via an FTP client to copy files to/from Xbox HDD
– Screenshot grabber (no support for video overlay, so can only take GUI snaps)
– Supports Static-IP/Subnetmask/DNS and alternative DHCP-client for auto config
– Harddrive (HDD) spindown on idle (spin-down disks when XBMC is idle in menu)*
* = Experimental, unfinished, unstable, buggy and/or limited
** = Most Xbox DVD-ROM drives are very picky with CD/DVD media disks, see FAQ
*** = XBMC currently only have DVD VOB and IFO parsing support, (no menu support)
**** = Xbox's hard drive file-system has file & folder name/character limitations, see FAQ
***** = DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected files is not yet supported by XBMC
****** = Exclusive to our new Musicplayer Paplayer
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