Xbox Media PLayer And XStream B6 FINAL
"What's new:
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Improved support for DVD-R/W, CD-RW playback.
Seeking for AVI files. With the analog buttons you
can control how fast you seek.
Divx 5.0 and 5.02 Pro support. This includes B frames
and qpel motion compensation.
MSMpeg4v2 and MSMpeg4v1 support.
Skin parameters are in a new and separate .xml file.
This will make dropping in new skins much easier.
Network configurable via .xml config files. This
includes static IP/EVOX/DHCP support.
Anamorphic aspect ratio buf fix (16:9).
Subtitles. We only support SubRip .srt format right
now. There are conversion tools out there, though.
Local and Remote Directories supported.
DVD tray auto-eject/close.
New MMX/SSE optimized motion compensation routines. For
the curious, its a combined IDCT and MC copy/add. Several
codecs have support for this opimized function but I
believe we're the first to implement it in MMX/SSE.
Launch XBEs.
Dashboard replacement mode.
AVI Preemphasis support added. Previously, AVI files
with preemphasis would play out of sync.
XStream Web Front-end.
What didn't get finished:
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Mpeg-2 video. Its mostly all done it just isn't stable yet.
There's already talk of a B6.1 though just for Mpeg-2.
AC3 digital output.
MPEG seeking.
Known bugs:
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There is a bug where audio will turn off during seeking.
It is an inconvenience. To work around the bug do another
seek and it will come back on.
Also there is a chance that the program can hang during
seeking. It takes a lot of seeking for me to dup the bug.
I usually have to seek all over an hour long movie to get
it to show up. The only thing to do is to reboot the xbox.
There have been some problems with the xbox hanging at the
end of a movie. We've seen this mostly with mpeg1 clips.
It only occurs occasionally.
Of course, we're working on these bugs and hope to resolve
them soon."
