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The XBMC Media Player!

The Perfect Home Theater PC (HTPC)
Plays all Audio/Video Codecs
Supports all Remote Controls
Runs on Windows, Linux, OSX...
Streams CD, DVD, and more
Endless Amount of Beautiful Skins

XBMC -- it ain't just for XBox anymore! XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Windows, Linux, OSX, and the original Xbox. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.

While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.

Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

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OS Requirements	Microsoft Windows, Xbox, Linux, Mac OS X, and Apple TV OS
System Requirements	Intel Pentium 4, Intel Pentium M, AMD Athlon XP/64, AMD Opteron, or newer CPU Fast modern dual-core processor is required to decode H.264 videos in FullHD (1080p)
Graphics Controller Requirements	ATI/AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA (recommended) graphics controller which supports OpenGL 1.3 (+ GLSL) or later (2.0 recommended)
Installation Instructions (online documentation)	http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_Online_Manual

Editor's Review:

THE 'ALL YOU CAN EAT' BUFFET OF HOME AUDIO/VIDEO SOFTWARE!

Reviewed by CLD on 2009-10-10 12:14:08.0

There are a number of software packages out there that will aid in turning your computer into a home theater PC, but the XBMC Media center is by far, one of the best around.

The XBMC Media Center is a cross-platform free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub. It was originally developed as the XBox Media Player (XBMP) for the first-generation Xbox in 2002, designed to expand the game console into a full-blown media center.

Today, XBMC Media Center runs on Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger and Apple TV), Microsoft Windows operating-system, as well as the original Xbox game-console. It supports almost all common audio, video and image formats and includes features such as playlist playback, audio visualizations, picture viewing, image slideshows, video subtitles, CD ripping, weather reports and a lot more.

The XBMC Media Center works right out of the box, though it does have a high degree of customizability and flexibility. It features an intuitive and easy-to-use interface with well laid out categories. The interface is completely customizable through user-created or downloadable skins. And, like many media center applications, XBMC supports a multitude of plug-ins, scripts, and add-ons that add a variety of features and services to it.

You can play media from local hard drives and optical disks, via network, or stream them over PVR and iTunes, play videos from ISO and DVD-images directly from RAR and ZIP archives and automatically retrieve thumbnails and reviews on movies from IMDb.com, TV show posters and episode plots and audio album thumbnails. XBMC Media Center also features powerful library management system that allows you to organize all your media to give you quick and immediate access.

If you want a robust and attractive program to run all your various digital media, the XBMC is an excellent solution. Easy to install, setup, personalize and use, it transforms your computer into a feature-rich entertainment hub. The XBMC Media Center is capable of playing just about any file format and codec from virtually any source and features an easy-to-navigate interface and a powerful media management system. Overall, XBMC Media Center delivers impressive media center experience.