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Kodi for the Xbox One

67 points by fraqed 9y ago

RIMR 9y ago
My old modded Xbox still works and boot straight to XBMC. I use Kodi on my Raspberry Pi as a media player, and it seems to do everything now. even PlayStation Vue works on it. I wonder if this means that PlayStation Vue will work on Xbox One now...
- stevewillows 9y ago
  boot up the old xbox so we can play some Halo2 on x-link kai! I have my old xbox around here somewhere. For its time, it was an unbelievable unit, and the modding scene was amazing. The last modded xbox I gave to a friend had an LCD scroller and a bunch of really annoying lights.
  - exikyut 9y ago
    What did the LCD display?
    - subway 9y ago
      Usually temperature, free disk space, network io (anything the patched bios and os could reasonable get at). Once the ability to flash via JTAG (and eventually via in-game exploits), the Xbox became a really fun homebrew target.
    - stevewillows 9y ago
      yeah, subway pretty much summed it up. It was one of those mods I thought would be cool until I had it... then it was pretty much useless since I sat far enough away that I couldn't read it. Such a fun system, though. I really miss running a MAME emulator.
- slobotron 9y ago
  Heh, I had soft-modded the original Xbox via the plug-the-running-harddrive-into-another-system trick. XBMC ran great on it for a while, until one day popping in a new game disc it auto-updated the dashboard and un-modded itself :(
ringaroundthetx 9y ago
Full circle
- RachelF 9y ago
  True, but it skipped the Xbox 360', so maybe spin 1/2?
dogma1138 9y ago
If we would all be honest Kodi is pretty much exclusively used for content which was not attained via approved distribution channels. As such I would be actually hesitant to run it on a device like the Xbox One; especially in a country where the use of alternative distribution channels is actively prosecuted.
- BillinghamJ 9y ago
  Plex is basically the same and is also widely used on the Xbox, and has been available on its store for some time.
  - dogma1138 9y ago
    I use Plex and I don’t use it on the Xbox for the same reason; I don’t have any control over the data collection from it and technically it’s a violation of the EULA which can be used to have my XBLA account suspended, while this is a small risk it’s still not worth it considering the number of affordable NAS appliances that come with HDMI, support Plex and 4K playback as well a plethora of other affordable platforms ranging from SBCs to NUCs and streamers. And lastly while Plex did implement channels Kodi is effectively used as an interface for PopcornTime like services where you can directly stream from Torrents and other sources.
  - prepend 9y ago
    Plex is nice, but it requires a server with content. In addition to the tons more plugins for Kodi, it can play media directly from a network share without any media server running. This is a big benefit for client only networks.
    - weberc2 9y ago
      I prefer the server/client model Plex provides, but for me Plex has been much more buggy than Kodi.
      - Viper007Bond 9y ago
Abishek_Muthian 9y ago
Kodi (XBMC) architecture is the first thing comes to my mind as a best example for cross-platform application architecture. I've amazed by the seamless performance of Kodi in every platform I've tried it in. But recently when I tried the android version of Kodi on Celeron N3060 based ChromeOS, unfortunately HW acceleration wasn't available and it reported the CPU as ARM. I wonder whether it has to do with intel houdini ARM instruction translation, other android apps report correct CPU and HW acceleration works in chrome browser.
- rahimnathwani 9y ago
  Perhaps you downloaded one of the two ARM versions of Kodi. Maybe try the x86 one from here? http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/android/x86/ http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/android/x86/
  - Abishek_Muthian 9y ago
    Thanks that could work, but I haven't unlocked developer mode for security reasons; so side-loading .apk isn't possible. Anyways, I'm quite sure it's an issue on ChromeOS side. Apart from streaming like Youtube, Netflix; there seems to be no HW acceleration in default video player itself.

67 points by fraqed 9y ago

RIMR 9y ago

My old modded Xbox still works and boot straight to XBMC. I use Kodi on my Raspberry Pi as a media player, and it seems to do everything now. even PlayStation Vue works on it. I wonder if this means that PlayStation Vue will work on Xbox One now...

stevewillows 9y ago
boot up the old xbox so we can play some Halo2 on x-link kai! I have my old xbox around here somewhere. For its time, it was an unbelievable unit, and the modding scene was amazing. The last modded xbox I gave to a friend had an LCD scroller and a bunch of really annoying lights.
- exikyut 9y ago
  What did the LCD display?
  - subway 9y ago
    Usually temperature, free disk space, network io (anything the patched bios and os could reasonable get at). Once the ability to flash via JTAG (and eventually via in-game exploits), the Xbox became a really fun homebrew target.
  - stevewillows 9y ago
    yeah, subway pretty much summed it up. It was one of those mods I thought would be cool until I had it... then it was pretty much useless since I sat far enough away that I couldn't read it. Such a fun system, though. I really miss running a MAME emulator.
slobotron 9y ago
Heh, I had soft-modded the original Xbox via the plug-the-running-harddrive-into-another-system trick. XBMC ran great on it for a while, until one day popping in a new game disc it auto-updated the dashboard and un-modded itself :(

ringaroundthetx 9y ago

Full circle

RachelF 9y ago
True, but it skipped the Xbox 360', so maybe spin 1/2?

dogma1138 9y ago

If we would all be honest Kodi is pretty much exclusively used for content which was not attained via approved distribution channels. As such I would be actually hesitant to run it on a device like the Xbox One; especially in a country where the use of alternative distribution channels is actively prosecuted.

BillinghamJ 9y ago
Plex is basically the same and is also widely used on the Xbox, and has been available on its store for some time.
- dogma1138 9y ago
  I use Plex and I don’t use it on the Xbox for the same reason; I don’t have any control over the data collection from it and technically it’s a violation of the EULA which can be used to have my XBLA account suspended, while this is a small risk it’s still not worth it considering the number of affordable NAS appliances that come with HDMI, support Plex and 4K playback as well a plethora of other affordable platforms ranging from SBCs to NUCs and streamers. And lastly while Plex did implement channels Kodi is effectively used as an interface for PopcornTime like services where you can directly stream from Torrents and other sources.
- prepend 9y ago
  Plex is nice, but it requires a server with content. In addition to the tons more plugins for Kodi, it can play media directly from a network share without any media server running. This is a big benefit for client only networks.
  - weberc2 9y ago
    I prefer the server/client model Plex provides, but for me Plex has been much more buggy than Kodi.
    - Viper007Bond 9y ago

Abishek_Muthian 9y ago

Kodi (XBMC) architecture is the first thing comes to my mind as a best example for cross-platform application architecture. I've amazed by the seamless performance of Kodi in every platform I've tried it in. But recently when I tried the android version of Kodi on Celeron N3060 based ChromeOS, unfortunately HW acceleration wasn't available and it reported the CPU as ARM. I wonder whether it has to do with intel houdini ARM instruction translation, other android apps report correct CPU and HW acceleration works in chrome browser.

rahimnathwani 9y ago
Perhaps you downloaded one of the two ARM versions of Kodi. Maybe try the x86 one from here? http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/android/x86/ http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/android/x86/
- Abishek_Muthian 9y ago
  Thanks that could work, but I haven't unlocked developer mode for security reasons; so side-loading .apk isn't possible. Anyways, I'm quite sure it's an issue on ChromeOS side. Apart from streaming like Youtube, Netflix; there seems to be no HW acceleration in default video player itself.