I'm also running a softmodded Xbox with XBMC as the dashboard. I did it via these instructions: <br><br><a href="http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft_xbox/article/how_to_go_from_xbox_to_xbox_media_center_in_30_minutes.html">
http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft_xbox/article/how_to_go_from_xbox_to_xbox_media_center_in_30_minutes.html</a> <br><br>...And I've done five so far. The last one I modded was for my landlady and took less than ten minutes start to finish. I haven't used XMBCMyth in a few months, but the last version I used was _decent_. It's a python script, so viewing live tv is a little annoying - Each channel shows up sort of like its own web link.
<br><br>I know others have commented, I just wanted to throw my two cents in there.<br><br>Matt<br> <br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">A JM</b> <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">
vbtalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 1/22/07, Brent <<a href="mailto:brent@brentnorris.net">
brent@brentnorris.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Jeremy Warren wrote:<br>> > <a href="http://www.xbox-scene.com/">http://www.xbox-scene.com/</a> is a great place to learn xbox modding,<br>> > the forums and guides are pretty useful.
<br>> ><br>> > Me I personally use an application on the xbox called xbox media<br>> > center in conjunction with a modchip (xecuter 2 modchip - about $40,<br>> > software is under some sort of GPL license)
<br>> ><br>> > There is a plugin for XBMC that works as a slim down frontend for<br>> > myth - more information can be found at <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/</a><br>> >
index.php/Xbox_Frontend, it works pretty well.<br>> ><br>> > You are correct that the xbox is unable to play back HD content (at<br>> > least i have had limited success) it just does not have the horsepower.
<br>> ><br>> > Jeremy<br>> ><br>> > On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Joe Votour wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >> I've have the DMS X-B.I.T. modchip in my XBox (a 1.1). I'm not sure
<br>> >> if it's available anymore, but it supports flashing a BIOS via USB,<br>> >> with the XBox turned off. It also segments the chip (a 2MB, I think)<br>> >> so that you can have multiple BIOS' available, selectable via DIP
<br>> >> switches.<br>> >><br>> >> It's how I loaded Cromwell into my XBox when I was booting into<br>> >> Linux with it.<br>> >><br>> >> Some of the modchips use a method like this, some of them use special
<br>> >> software that runs on the XBox itself. In any case, you shouldn't<br>> >> need to do the softmod, so there's no particular versions of games<br>> >> needed.<br>> >><br>
> >> Also, this allows you to revert back to the original XBox BIOS should<br>> >> you need to.<br>> >><br>> >> I don't think that the XBox is capable of playing back HD captured<br>
> >> content (I haven't tried it myself though), and the XBox remote does<br>> >> work under Linux, but the number of buttons is limiting. I found it<br>> >> easier to use a OneForAll remote setup to look like the XBox, and find
<br>> >> EFCs for extra buttons.<br>> >><br>> >> -- Joe<br>> >><br>> >> Quoting Jack Madison <<a href="mailto:jack@webhouse.cc">jack@webhouse.cc</a>>:<br>> >><br>
> >><br>> >>> On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:25 -0700, kim gross wrote:<br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>>> The mod chip makes it the easiest to install linux, but since you<br>
> >>>> are<br>> >>>> not interested in being able to play xbox games I would suggest just<br>> >>>> flashing the bios on your xbox to cromwell that way it can boot<br>> >>>> straight
<br>> >>>> into linux.<br>> >>>><br>> >>>> A good place to look for more info on xbox linux is <a href="http://xbox-linux.org">xbox-linux.org</a><br>> >>>> They have howto's on how to flash the bios with cromwell, some
<br>> >>>> howto's<br>> >>>> on installing mod chips etc. I personally have no experience<br>> >>>> with the<br>> >>>> soft mods.<br>> I personally have two soft modded Xboxs that I use for Frontends. I run
<br>> XBMC, and XBMCmythtv on them and it works really good. I think it is<br>> way more responsive than than booting into Linux and running the front<br>> end. XBMC will play HDTV HR Xvids like you would grab off of a torrent
<br>> site or something and they look really good. Since that is the only<br>> thing I use to watch MythTV recordings I would like to have my BE<br>> transcode them down from OTA HD to HR Xvids, and just change the file
<br>> that gets played in the DB, but I don't have that working yet.<br>><br>> Soft mods are cake anymore, if you can find one of those games. They<br>> are forever old, so that might decrease the chances you will be able to
<br>> find them, but it will also increase the chances that you can find one<br>> cheap. I actually just keep one around in case I need to mod an Xbox.<br>><br>> Hardware Mods are tougher, or maybe it is better to just say more
<br>> stressful. I have done them though on machines that had some bad piece<br>> of hardware that I could circumvent by chipping it.<br>><br>> Brent<br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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</a><br>><br><br>I've also soft modded an Xbox and would agree that once the save<br>process has been completed using one of the games. I'm able to play<br>both XBOX games and MAME games, I didn't need to break out the
<br>soldering iron but I did open it to install a larger hard drive which<br>needs to be specifically setup for an Xbox.<br><br>It works rather well as a front end, it's a bit slow in the menu<br>department and it doesn't do HD only SD, otherwise it's inexpensive
<br>and redily available. Just my 2 cent's worth...<br><br>Has anyone installed ubuntu on an XBOX???<br><br>Brent,<br><br>"I run XBMC, and XBMCmythtv on them and it works really good."<br><br>What features are not available from Myth using XBMC??
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