XBMC (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free, open source (GPL) multimedia player that runs on the Microsoft Xbox as well as on PCs running Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The software is in the process of being ported from its original Xbox version, and currently some platforms are not yet feature-complete.
What can XBMC do?
XBMC can be used to play/view the most popular video, audio, and picture formats, and many more lesser-known formats, including:
- Video - DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, Matroska
- Audio - MP3, AAC.
- Picture - JPG, GIF, PNG.
These can all be played directly from a CD/DVD, or from the hard-drive. XBMC can also play multimedia from a computer o...
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