Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
by Keyframe on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:44AM
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It wouldn't be HN if I didn't learn something new! I knew it only as XBMC. Even bought that damn IR plug and a remote for xbox. I played only a handful of games on it, but XBMC was in constant use.
Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
by rograndom on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:21PM
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> It was a revelation in that the UI was amazing for the time, and the hardware was good enough to decode everything available.
Almost. I had a set of ffmpeg scripts that would encode blu-rays at 720p just so so it would playback without any dropped frames. But yeah, everything else was fantastic.
Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
by jean_valje4n on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @09:37AM
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I still switch it back to the XBMC-ish theme on Kodi. I think its called confluence.
Did you get it off #xbins? I think that was the only place to find binaries of it without building it yourself.
It wouldn't be HN if I didn't correct you in that it was originally XBMP on the old Xbox, before it graduated to a media center.
It was a revelation in that the UI was amazing for the time, and the hardware was good enough to decode everything available.
I remember soldering in an extra IR eye so that I could power on and off the Xbox with the official Media Remote using a special key combination.