Xbox Media Center (XBMC) Atlantis Beta 1 Released - Linux, Mac, Windows and Xbox

[InsaneNutter]

Team-XBMC is proud to announce the first cross-platform Beta version of XBMC media center for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard and Tiger), Windows, and Xbox, in preparation for the upcoming stable release of XBMC, code named ‘Atlantis’. There are three important news items associated with this release:

1. The first item that is new in this release is the brand new skin “PM3.HD”, a high-definition tribute to Project Mayhem III, which will be gracing screens as the default skin on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Xbox users can, of course, choose to use this skin if they wish as well, and the original Project Mayhem III skin is still packaged with Beta 1 for those who prefer the old-school look. This is in addition to the already awesome selection of skins available for XBMC.

2. The second item is the initial release of “XBMC Live“, a bootable CD which gives users the opportunity to try XBMC on their computer, without touching their harddrive. In addition, XBMC Live allows installation of XBMC, complete with an operating system, onto a USB flash memory sticks for a permanent, fast booting, dedicated set-top-box style installation of XBMC. XBMC Live is designed to support Microsoft’s MCE Remote and USB receiver out-of-the-box.

3. The third item is that the XBMC for Mac release now has initial support for integrating iTunes and iPhoto media into XBMC. For more information on this, please read this developers blog entry; “iTunes and iPhoto integration in XBMC“. The Mac release of Beta 1 also comes bundled with a bonus skin for XBMC, and that is MediaStream by Team Razorfish, (this skin can, of course, be downloaded and installed on all XBMC platforms, like all other XBMC skins).

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This build is quite a big improvement over the others, the new skins are amazing!

I’ve also tested out the linux live cd version of it, it boots, you select what graphics card you have and it loads xbmc right up, just like when you turn you xbox on. The Xbox version works perfectly however the linux live cd crashed several times... but hey its the first major beta release for the Linux, Mac and Windows versions.

Depending on what build your upgrading from on the Xbox there’s a lot of changes, if your still using the last stable build from 2 years ago you will notice a massive improvement with this beta.

If you have an old Xbox laying around it really is worth installing this, ive been a happy user since 2004! Its amazing what an Xbox with a 733mhz processor and 64mb of ram can do.

Download:

Live CD
Linux
Mac
Windows
Xbox


Screenshots From the Xbox Version

New Theme - Videos

New Theme - Music

New Theme - Pictures

New Theme - Weather

New Theme - Scripts

New Theme - Settings

Video Library

Video File Locations

My TV shows shared from the pc

Resume playback

Random info about what's playing

Playing an MP3 (Good old barry)

Viewing Images

Weather, it should say feels like -10!

The default scripts that are installed

Settings page

Xbox info

More info, XBMC has got a lot of use over the years as you can see!

The classic Xbox theme

Games on the hard drive

Save game manager

 

[Trebor]

Looks mighty impressive InsaneNutter. I haven't updated my XBMC in a while so thanks fot the link to the latest one. Good to see that XBMC isn't just for the original Xbox now.