Retro heaven for AmigaOS,AROS,MOS / and CDTV done right : )

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I've been using XBOX Media Center for years as well, but the cool thing about this is that you don't have to put up with the XBOX's limited resources, therefore you can watch movies in higher resolution than what the XBOX would allow.

If you wanted xbmc with full hd, then you dont need to spend any more than £200 for a completely system capable of 1080p h264 decoding in hardware, hence, I don't know of any reason to run aros in this case - for an htpc xbmc will do much better.

XBOX1 is still great for emulation as you say. Everything just works, with controller already nicely mapped for most stuff. as they can be picked up for next to nothing, and softmodded, they are still a viable solution so many years later. and of course xbmc (now xbmc4xbox) is still developed a bit.

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I don't use XBMC on anything but an XBOX, so no Hi Def video for me...

...on that at least.

Though I am not complaining, this project sounds like it will suit me well when it is done. I don't sit around and watch movies that much anyhow, except when I do.

I just love the idea of having an Amiga based Media Environment at all.

heh. well, I won't interfere with your Amiga fetish

You can do 1280x720 video on the old xbox1, so long it is encoded to something the xbox1 can handle. It can do that res with mpeg4 for example at up to 6000kbit. Here's an example line to transcode something that i use (transcoding from another 1280x720 video encoded with h264 for example)

mencoder -sid 42  -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=5000:vrc_maxrate=6000:vrc_buf_size=4096 infile.mkv -o outfile.avi

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Xbox thats a microsoft product.

<<<<<<<<<<<<< Does not buy Microsoft products.

Thanks for that. Useful piece of information...