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- XBMC Media Center is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). It uses a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room, using a remote control as the primary input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons. The XBMC project is managed by the non-profit XBMC Foundation, and developed by volunteers located around the world. Since its creation in 2003 more than 60 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 40 languages.
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- Team XBMC is the formal group of people who develop and maintain XBMC, the XBMC websites, and/or other supporting roles.
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1.4 Who is the XBMC Foundation?
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- The "XBMC Foundation" is the non-profit organization that operates the XBMC Media Center project. The XBMC Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization, registered in the US.
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1.5 How do I get help or report a bug?
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1.6 How can I help and/or donate?
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1.7 Where can I find an FAQ for more technical questions?
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1.8 Can I run XBMC from my PC to my TV using DLNA/UPnP?
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- XBMC has some support for this, and more is planned for the future. Normally XBMC is meant to be ran on a computer/supported-device that is directly connected to the TV by a video cable.
- Some files can be shared from XBMC using the built-in UPnP server and files scanned into the Video library. XBMC will not currently transcode any files, so only file formats that your TV/device can natively playback will work. This will only work with video (so you won't see XBMC's GUI) and currently does not work with add-on content.
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1.9 Can I install XBMC on a PS3, Xbox360, or Wii?
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- Not to be confused with XBMC4Xbox, which is the continued effort to run XBMC on original Xbox hardware.
- No. The required reverse engineering (to get access to the video acceleration hardware, among other things) has not happened on any of these game consoles. Further more, no one on Team XBMC feels that it is worth the effort to port XBMC to any of them, as it would be a huge undertaking.
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1.10 Does XBMC still run on the original Xbox?
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- Team XBMC no longer officially supports the original Xbox, but the group over at XBMC4Xbox does.
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