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Revision as of 06:13, 27 April 2009
Here is a more detailed list of XBMC features, functions and supported audio/video/picture formats.
XBMC (latest SVN trunk) supports the following:
For point releases, see Category:Point Release
Supported hardware platforms
- XBMC for Linux, Mac, and Windows are support on computers of x86 processor architecture.
- Minimum requirement is AMD/Intel CPU with SSE support and OpenGL 1.4 GPU (graphics)
- XBMC for Xbox is compatible with any modded retail Xbox™ and Debug/Development-Xboxes
Platform-independent supported controller periphials and hardware options
- Controllable via supported Remote Control (depends on platform and remote)
- Controllable via USB (HID) Mouse (Left/Right/Middle buttons and Wheel supported)
- Controllable via USB (HID) Touchscreen (as long as the touchscreen emulates a mouse)
- Controllable via USB (HID) Keyboard (ASCI-keys only, not any multimedia-keys)
Xbox supported controller periphials and hardware options
- Fully control XBMC and its features via a Xbox™ IR DVD-Remote
- Fully control XBMC and its features via a Xbox™ game controller
- Controllable via USB (HID) Mouse (Left/Right/Middle buttons and Wheel supported) #1
- Controllable via USB (HID) Keyboard (ASCI-keys only, not any multimedia-keys) #1
Platform-independent supported output media formats and devices:
- Widescreen (16:9) and normal-TV (4:3) aspect ratio video output support
- HDTV (High-Definition) output resolutions (720p, 1080i, 1080p and higher) #14
Xbox supported output media formats and devices:
- TV-output: 50hz/60Hz NTSC-M/J (America/Asia) and PAL (Europe/Africa)
- RCA, SCART, RF Coaxial, S-video, Component/RGB (adapter available)
- VGA-output is also possible via third-party adapters or VGA-hacked BIOS
- NTSC playback on PAL Xbox/TV and PAL playback on NTSC Xbox/TV
- HDTV support, multiple resolutions 480p/720p/1080i (Xbox cable-adapter required)
- LCD-display output support to view status and control XBMC with TV OFF #8
- Analog audio-out (stereo/mono) via phono-connection or scart-adapter
- Digital audio-out (stereo/mono/surround) SPDIF (adapter required)
Supported physical input media formats and devices:
- Play media-files directly from a CDs and DVDs (including DVD-Video, VCD/SVCD and Audio-CD/CDDA)#2
- (Supported CD/DVD formats: ISO 9660 Mode1/2/XA, UDF 1.02 and XDVDFS/CDX)
- Play media-files directly from any built-in harddisk drive #4
- Streaming from a computer/server over a network via UPnP, SMB/Samba/CIFS, FTP, or XBMSP
- Including all NAS (Network Attached Storage) that support UPnP or SMB/SAMBA/CIFS
- iTunes Music Shares via DAAP (network stream from Apple iTunes 6.x on Mac or Windows) #5/#11
- Stream supported media-files from the internet (if the stream protocol-format is supported) #5/#11
- Stream media STORED, (NOT COMPRESSED) directly from RAR and ZIP archives
- USB Memory Drives and USB Mass Storage Devices (FATX/FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 formated #13)
- Including most USB Mass Storage Devices (like memory-keys/sticks) #1
Supported file/container formats:
- Audio-CD (CDDA) playback for normal Audio CDs (including CD-TEXT support) #7
- SVCD and VCD (Video CD / CDXA) video, (SVCD/VCD menus are not supported yet)
- DVD-Video directly from Xbox DVD-ROM drive, Harddisk-drive or network
- MPEG, MPG, M2V formats (inc. VCD's .dat and .bin and DVD's .vob)
- MPEG-TS (TY/TS/DV) DVB transport stream format
- M2T/M2TS/MTS (AVCHD video format) container #5
- M2TS (Blu-ray video format) container #5
- EVO (Enhanced VOB) HD DVD video format container #5
- MP4 (MPEG-4 video) container
- RIFF AVI (AVI 1.0) container
- OpenDML AVI (AVI 2.0) container #1
- BivX (AVI with several audio streams) container
- Microsoft ASF/ASX/WMV/WMA containers #5
- Microsoft DVR-MS (Windows Media Center) containers #1/#5
- QuickTime QT/MOV containers #5
- FLV and SWF (Adobe/Macromedia Flash Video) containers
- NUT multimedia container
- AVS (Audio Video Standard) audio/video containers
- Nullsoft Steaming Video (NSV) containers #1
- Nullsoft Steaming Audio (NSA) containers
- MPA, MP2, MP3 and WAV containers #5
- AAC, M4A, MP4 (MPEG-4 audio) audio containers #5
- RealMedia (Real Video/Audio) RM/RAM/RA/RV/RMVB containers #1
- OGG, OGA, OGM, and OGV containers
- Matroska (матрёшка) MKV containers #1
- VIVO (VIV) containers
- PVA containers
- NuppelVideo containers
- FLI and FLC containers
- Tracker Mods (18 formats supported) audio
- M3U, PLS, CUE, URL, and STRM audio/video playlist and bookmark support#1
Supported video codecs:
- MPEG-1 (VCD/MPG) and MPEG-2 (MPEG/SVCD/DVD/VOB/DV/TY) video
- MPEG-4 ASP (H.263): DivX (Pro), OpenDivX, XviD and Nero Digital ASP
- MPEG-4 AVC - Advanced Video Coding (H.264): Nero Digital AVC, x264, and DivX AVC video #1
- Microsoft's Windows Media Video v7, v8 and v9 (MSMpeg4/WMV v1, v2, and v3)
- VC-1 (SMPTE 421M)
- RealVideo codecs: 1.0, 2.0 (RealPlayer G2), 3.0 (RealPlayer 8.x) and 4.0 (RealPlayer 9.x)
- QuickTime 5.0, 6.0, 6.3 video and audio codecs (QDMC / QDM2) #1
- 3ivx D4 / 3vi1 MPEG-4 video (inc. MSZH/ZLIB Compressed-Header containers) #1
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3) QuickTime video
- Apple Graphics (SMC) video
- Apple QuickDraw (qdrw) video decoder
- On2 Technologies VP3 (VP3.x), VP4 (VP4.x), VP5 (VP5.x), and VP6 (VP6.2)
- AVS (Audio Video Standard) video codec
- Intel Indeo 2 (Indeo2) and 3.1/3.2 (Indeo3) video decoder
- NuppelVideo (NUV)
- VIVO 1.0 and 2.0 (VIV)
- Fraps FPS1 video decoder
- Snow video decoder
- DV50 (DVCPRO50) video decoder, and DV100 (DVCPRO HD) video decoder
- ITU H.261 video
- Creative Labs YUV (CYUV) video
- Supermac Cinepak (CVID) video
- ASUS V1 (ASV1) and ASUS V2 (ASV2) video
- Smacker video decoder
- Motion Pixels video decoder
- BFI video decoder
- AMV video decoder
- Interplay C93 video decoder
- Zip Blocks Motion Video decoder
- Duck TrueMotion 2 video decoder
- Delphine Software .cin video decoder
- Bethsoft VID video decoder
- QPEG video decoder
- Miro VideoXL (VIXL) video decoder
- Winnov WNV1 video decoder
- LOCO video decoder
- TechSmith Camtasia (TSCC) video decoder
- IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) video decoder
- Autodesk Animator Studio Codec (AASC) video decoder
- Autodesk FLI and FLC Animation
Xbox supported video formats and resolutions
This is a comparison table of common video-codecs to show what the Xbox 733Mhz PIII CPU and 64MB RAM can handle:
Codec / Resolution | 352x240 | 352x288 | 480x480 | 480x576 | 720x480 | 720x576 | 960x540 | 1280x720 | 1920x1080 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7* | 7 | |
MPEG-4 ASP (H.263) (like DivX or Xvid) | 8 | 9* | 10 | ||||||
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) without Cabac & Deblocking | * | ? | |||||||
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) with Cabac & Deblocking | * | ? | 11 | 12 | |||||
WMV9 (Windows Media Video v3) / VC-1 | * | * |
- " ? " = Undetermined (the Xbox-hardware may or may not be too slow to decode at an acceptable frame-rate)
- " * " = Working with acceptable frame-rates most of the time
- a.k.a. NTSC VCD - More Info
- a.k.a. PAL VCD - More Info
- a.k.a. NTSC SVCD - More Info
- a.k.a. PAL SVCD - More Info
- a.k.a. NTSC DVD-Video - More Info
- a.k.a. PAL DVD-Video - More Info
- a.k.a. TS (Transport Stream MPEG-2 Video Stream) - More Info
- a.k.a. HRHD (High Resolution High Definition) - More Info
- a.k.a. DivX HD and XviD HD in 720p
- a.k.a. DivX HD and XviD HD in 1080p
- a.k.a. Quicktime HD, x264, and Nero AG's Nero Digital AVC video in 720p
- a.k.a. Blu-Ray Disc, HD DVD, Quicktime HD, x264, and Nero AG's Nero Digital AVC video in 1080p
Supported audio codecs:
- CDDA (Audio-CD) playback
- WAV/WAVE (WAVEform) and PCM audio format
- AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) audio
- MPEG layer I, II, and III (inluding MP2 and MP3) audio #5
- OGG (Ogg Vorbis audio codec)
- WMA - Windows Media Audio v1 and v2 (WMA1 / WMA2 / DivX Audio v1/v2) #5
- WMA - Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA9) #5
- WMA Pro Audio Codec (Windows Media Audio 9 Professional)#5
- RealNetworks RealAudio codecs: 1.0 (14.4), 2.0 (28.8), SIPRO, COOK, COOKER, DNET and ATRAC3
- AC3 2.0 or 5.1 and Dolby Digital EX 6.1 or 7.1 audio in video (AC3 digital cable S/PDIF pass-through)
- Dolby Digital AC3 and AC3-WAV/AC3-CDDA 2.0 and 5.1 audio in video software decoded to stereo analog-out
- Dolby Digital Plus (a.k.a. E-AC3), and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio software decoder
- Dolby Digital Plus (a.k.a. E-AC3), and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio in Blu-ray rips via digital cable S/PDIF pass-through
- DTS (Digital Theater System) 5.1 and DTS-ES 6.1 audio in DVD-Video (DTS digital cable S/PDIF pass-through)
- DTS (DTS and DTS-WAV/DTS-CDDA) audio in DVD-Video (software decoded)
- AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) profiles: Main, LC, HE, LTP, LD, ER, and aacPlus v1/v2 (AAC+ SBR/PS) audio #5
- M4A and MP4 (MPEG-4 Audio) (including Nero Digital MP4) #5
- PureVoice (QCELP) audio decoder
- AVS (Audio Video Standard) audio codec
- FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio
- WavPack lossless audio
- MPC (Musepack, a.k.a. Mpeg+) lossless audio #6
- APE (Monkey's Audio) lossless audio
- SHN (Shorten) lossless audio
- ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) lossless audio #6
- MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) / Packed PCM (PPCM) audio decoder
- AMV audio decoder
- Sonic audio decoder
- AIFF/AIFF-C audio dcoder
- Macromedia ADPCM decoder
- Creative ADPCM audio decoder (16 bits as well as 8 bits schemes)
- Nellymoser ASAO decoder
- True Audio (TTA) decoder
- TrueSpeech audio decoder
- Intel Music decoder
- QDM2 audio decoder
- Delphine Software .cin audio decoder
- 8SVX audio decoder
- MIDI music using Timidity
- Tracker Mod's audio, see list below:
- Adlib (AdLib and Sound Blaster OPL2/OPL3 and Dual OPL2/OPL3) FM audio
- SID (Commodore 64 tunes) audio
- YM (ATARI ST) audio
- NSF (Nintendo NES Sound Format) audio
- SPC (SPC700) audio
- GYM (SEGA Genesis) audio
- ADX/AST/ADP/DSP/YMF/HPS CRI MiddleWare and Gamecube ADPCM) audio
- MOD/AMF/669/DMF/DSM/FAR/GDM/IMF/IT/M15/MED/OKT/S3M/STM/SFX/ULT/UNI/XM
Supported picture/image formats:
- CBR/CBZ comic books (RAR/ZIP archives renamed)
- BMP picture/image
- JPG/JPEG picture/image
- GIF picture/image
- ICO picture/image
- PCX picture/image
- PNG picture/image
- RAW picture/image
- TIF/TIFF picture/image
- TGA picture/image
Features available for video playback:
- Full-screen playback display of all supported video formats/containers via a TV
- Auto PAL50/PAL60-switching support and auto 4:3/16:9-switching support
- Framerate Conversion (23.98<->25fps), another NTSC <-> PAL workaround solution
- SQL database with view by file/genre/actor/year/title, sort by year/name/rating and search functions
- Selectable options from OSD (On Screen Display) Control Panel during playback
- FFWD (fast-forward) and RWD (rewind #1), and PAUSE in AVI/OGM/MKV/MPEG/MPG media
- MPlayer time-based (30sec/5min) or percent-based (2%/10%) seeking forward and backward
- Video-Autorun, auto-plays VCD/SVCD/DVD/CD's with video file(s) upon insert
- DVD-video playback with menus (from DVD, harddrive, network, as IFO/VOB or ISO/IMG DVD-images) #12
- Region-free DVD-Video playback (with option to force region if and when needed)
- Play supported video files directly from ISO, BIN, IMG, NRG and BIN CD/DVD-images
- Subtitle support (embedded and external)
- AQTitle/AQT, ASS/SSA, CC, JacoSub, MicroDVD, MPsub, PJS, RT, SMI, SRT, SUB, VobSub, VPlayer
- JSS, MLP #11
- Play internet files/streams from HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol) #1/#11
- Play RealMedia internet steams of HTTP + RTSP/RDT (Real Data Transport Protocol) #1/#11
- Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) internet-streams (only if VP3+MP3), (Nullsoft TV a.k.a. NTV) #1/#11
- Streaming video from a MythTV backend PVR software over network
- Streaming video from a VDR (via VDR streamdev servers VTP streaming) PVR software over network
- Streaming video from a HDHomeRun DVR box over network
- Streaming video from a ReplayTV (4500, 5000 or 5500 series) DVR box over network #1
- Streaming video from a TiVo DVR box over network (requires hacked TiVo running ccXStream) #1
- IMDb (Internet Movie Database) information lookup for movie-info and thumbnails
- Can also extract specific IMDb URL a .nfo file with same file-name as the movie
- Possibility to import movie library information from "My Movies" (via the mymovies.xml files)
- Optional media file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization (see thumbnail options)
- Party Mode playlists and playlist editor.
- Stack multi-file videos option, show/play files with 90% name similarity as one
- Support for local moving trailer files (using the naming standard: "moviename-trailer.avi")
- EDL (commercial skipping) and SceneMarker support using chapter files
- EDL (Edit Decision List)
- ComSkip .txt (with framerate, like Comskip generates)
- VideoReDo
- SnapStream Beyond TV Smart Chapters (a.k.a. smartskip)
- Switch between multiple audio streams/tracks in DVD-Video, AVI, OGM and MKV/Matroska
- Left, Right Mono and Stereo channel selection available for all two channel audio-streams
- Multiple video-rendering options to optimize playback of your video-formats
- 24FPS 1080p playback (1920x1080@24Hz) and 25FPS 1080p playback 1920x1080@50Hz
- Different Post-Processing filters for better video quality #11
- Flicker-filter (optional video flicker-filter with five levels, disabled by default)
- Soften-filter (optional filter to decrease video sharpness and thus artifacts)
- De-interlace filter (for interlaced video) implementation option
- Brightness/Contrast/Gamma controls (only for HighQuality Pixelshader)
- Video resizing/scaling and zooming functions
- Screenshot capture function (including video overlay support and OSD)
- AC3 (Dolby Digital EAX) 2.0, 5.1 and 7.1 pass-through from video to SP/DIF AC3 output
- AC3 (Dolby Digital) 5.1 -> 2.0 software-decoding to PCM stereo or mono out
- DTS (Digital Theatre Sound ES) pass-through from video to S/PDIF DTS output
- Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 5.1 surround speakers)
Features available for audio playback:
- Playback of all supported audio-formats via a TV or external audio-receiver/amplifier
- SQL database with view music by Top100/Albums/Tracks/Artists/Filenames or Recent Albums
- Also option to sort by Track/Filename/Date or Size and search functions
- Karaoke CDG-file display for music files with audio-visualization overlay support
- CDDB album lookup support when playing Audio-CD's (done via freedb.org)
- Party Mode playlists and playlist editor.
- Gapless, Crossfade, and Preamp (pre-amplification) playback support options
- ReplayGain "MetaData" applification/normalization (loudness control) support
- Thumbnail and album information lookup for Audio-CD's (done via AMG/Allmusic.com)
- Display embedded tumbnails/icons (album artwork) if integrated into a MP3 or AAC file
- Optional custom file and/or folder thumbnails for easy localization (see thumbnail options)
- Audio-Autorun, auto-plays CDDA and music DVD/CD's with audio file(s) upon insert
- Play internet-files/streams from HTTP and MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming Protocol) #1/#11
- Play RealMedia internet steams of HTTP + RTSP/RDT (Real Data Transport Protocol) #1/#11
- Play soundtracks ripped by/in Xbox dashboard (add path "soundtrack://" to XML)
- Play supported audio files directly from BIN, IMG, NRG and ISO CD/DVD-images
- Reads ID3v1/ID3v2/ID666/APEv1/APEv2 info-tags from audio/music-files
- M3U and PLS audio playlists (inc. option to create/save M3U audio-playlists)
- SHOUTcast Internet Radio (MP3 .pls playlists) playback support
- Local/native SHOUTcast recording (to MP3) onto the Xbox harddrive
- last.fm (AudioScrobbler) online-radio submission and playback/streaming support
- Audio Visualizations (several visual generators and a spectrum analyser)
- FF (fast-forward) and RW (rewind), and PAUSE during audio playback/visualization
- Option to output mono or stereo to all speakers (for 5.1 surround speakers)
Features available for picture/image viewing:
- Full-screen display of all supported picture and image formats via a TV
- Picture slideshow, including option for adding recursive to slideshows
- Picture thumbnails (automatically generated on demand)
- Folder thumbnails (automatically generated after entered that folder)
- View pictures directly from ISO, IMG, NRG and BIN CD/DVD-images
- Picture Zooming, rotate, move around, info, pause, next/previous picture
- Kodak PictureCD compatible (auto-launches slideshow on CD insert) #2
- Auto-launches picture CD/DVD on insert if images in root directory
Features available for launching games and applications (dashboard):
My Programs interface features in XBMC for Xbox:
- Dashboard replacement mode, launch other Xbox software applications ("XBE" executables)
- (including Xbox games, console-emulators, applications and other dashboards, etc.)
- Optional custom thumbnails for folders and the executable, (see thumbnail options for info)
- Display embedded tumbnails/icons that are integrated into most Xbox executables for Xbox games
- Video Mode Switching to force launching a game a specific video-mode (PAL, PAL60, NTSC, etc.)
- Flicker-Filter settings for Xbox games, (creates a patched copy of all default.xbe with new setting)
Xored Trainer Engine (gaming cheats) in XBMC for Xbox:
- Xored ETM/XBTF Trainer Engine enable "training" of games to cheat and/or add new functions to Xbox games #10
- Xored ETM/XBTF Trainer Engine cannot be used to cheat on XLink Kai (as disabled when logged on to XLink Kai)
Other and generic Graphical User Interface (GUI) features:
- Controllable via a Remote Control, a game-pad, USB keyboard and/or USB mouse
- Virtual-Keyboard for manual video/music database searches and settings configurations
- Flexible XML based skinning-engine with GUI skin-switching (and many skins available)
- Range of different view modes (supports up to 10 custom skinner created views)
- Context Menu feature (mapped by default to the TITLE button on the remote)
- View file media listing By List, By Small Icons or By Large Icons option
- "My Files" file-manager, move/copy/delete local and copy from network
- "My Weather" weather forecast feature (done via The Weather Channel)
- Several screensavers on configurable timer in GUI to choose from
- RSS feed in main menu (you can manually disable or change feed in RssFeeds.xml)
- Python Script Interpreter Engine (execute/run Python scripts from within XBMC)
- Idle shutdown-timer, which shutdown XBMC when idle, configurable timer through GUI
- Non-idle sleep timer, shutdown XBMC even if not idle after specific set manually
- Flicker-filter (optional GUI flicker-filter with five levels, high enabled by default)
- Language (XML) files for translated GUI (over 30+ languages so far), switch from GUI
- International-language fonts for the GUI (via TTF-Fonts, configurable in UI-Settings)
- GUI and video calibration (including storing calibration settings per resolution)
- Displays system info under Settings (Build date, free space, IP, temperature)
- Screenshot capture function, to snap shots of GUI (inc. video overlay support)
- Configurable memory cache buffer for video/audio playback, configured in GUI
Other non-GUI features, functions and options:
- Fully re-mappable keys for DVD Remote and the controller/game-pad (via Keymap.xml)
- Including the possibility to map and use all RCA-5 IR codes from a universal remote
- Auto-detection of UDF 1.02, XDVDFS/CDX and ISO9660 - mode1/mode2/XA #1
- Auto-launch Xbox game-disc on insert with enable/disable optional from within GUI
- Advanced and expert options available via an optional AdvancedSettings.xml file
- Built-in Web-Server for remote control of XBMC (http//:xboxIPaddressHere.asp)
- Built-in HTTP API interface so you can build custom remote control applications
- Built-in FTP-Server, connect to it via an FTP client to copy files to/from Xbox harddrive
- Supports Static-IP/Subnetmask/DNS/WINS and alternative DHCP-client for auto config
- Clock/date synchronization from a (NT SNTP) Time Server on the network/internet
- Harddrive (HDD) spindown on idle (spin-down disks when XBMC is idle in menu) #1
- Error Recovery Mode (Emergency Recovery Console) - Enables the FTP-server if get corrupt XBMC system-files.
Notes
1. Experimental, unfinished, unstable, buggy and/or limited
2. Most Xbox DVD-ROM drives are very picky with CD/DVD media disks, see FAQ
4. Xbox's FATX harddrive file-system has file and folder name/character limitations, see FAQ
5. DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected files are not yet supported by XBMC
6. Exclusive to our integrated audio/music-player (PAPlayer)
7. Samsung DVD-ROM drive only on Xbox (and maybe some PC DVD-ROM drives on Xbox)
8. For LCD-display add-on mods compatible with XBMC see here
10. Xored ETM/XBTF Trainer Engine is only developed/maintained/supported by Team Xored.
11. Exclusive to our MPlayer-based media-player (only available in XBMC for Xbox).
12. Exclusive to our DVDPlayer (FFmpeg-based) video-player.
13. Exclusive to XBMC for Xbox (XBMC running nativly on Xbox game-console).
14. Only limited by the hardware and operating-system that XBMC is running on.