How the Original XBOX started a Media Player revolution - The Story of KODI | MVG
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In early 2002 - the Original Xbox and 3 Developers would bring Media Players and the Xbox into the living room with Xbox Media Player (XBMP), followed by Xbox Media Center (XBMC). In 2014 XBMC changed its name to KODI but its roots to the original Xbox cannot be understated. This is the story of how the original Xbox started a Media Player revolution !
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► KODI Website - kodi.tv/
► XBMC4XBOX - www.xbmc4xbox....
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XBMC was years ahead. It was truly the peak of homebrew for the OG Xbox.
It was years ahead of media playback from the living room in general, it's basically the predecessor of today's streaming world.
@@MoonOvIce I still remember the moment I realized I could stream music from my pc to xbmc. It blew my 2005 mind and would show it off to people who came over.
XBMC reminds me of good old memories!
Great video as always. I contributed to the Project Mayhem skin way back in the day (extending it to many other pieces of homebrew).
One thing that would have been a good mention here would have been Microsoft's own attempts to use the OG xbox as a Media Center Extender (the xbox MCE controller is an old favourite of mine). They saw that there was a demand, they just didn't address it properly.
that is awesome. i remember seeing PM used in DVD2XBOX and some other tools. it was a killer skin!
awesome video thanks MVG
01:53 was that a fake Windows XP theme? o_O (the font and window decorations size look really off)
real XP running under Hyper V. it does some screwy things with font and size
I was there.
Mplayer *IS* a free open-source media player.
A lot of time went into this and it shows. Really nice pacing, editing, and info. I learned a ton watching this. Thanks for putting it together!
Have an updoot
thanks man - means a lot coming from you. I've been a huge fan of your content/show. cheers!
Modern Vintage Gamer thanks! Same here
Not many ppl have the context to provide in this kind of capacity, especially for the open source community. Well done!
I wholeheartedly agree. My brother who wasn't interested in gaming at all saw Kodi - Xbmc running on a modded xbox some ~ 14yrs ago and said "damn you can control stuff from the couch? movies, games, series and all? whoa that's a dream come true".
Beautifully done video, dude. Thank you for documenting this all so well here, can definitely tell there's been a lot of love for XBMC that made this possible.
Mr. Mario, while you're here, if you still are, I'm gonna copy and paste my comment I wrote to MVG, because I wanted to ask you this as well, "Hey dude, I know you're probably very busy, but, I have to ask, just incase. I was actually planning on asking MrMario2011 as well haha, I notice his comment as I'm typing this. But I bought a Crystal XBox that had already been soft modded. I don't know if there is the original firmware backed up anywhere, but, I'd like to upgrade the hard drive, and maybe update the custom firmware thats on it to a more newer revision (as I think this was done a LONG time before I bought it), but I don't want to change anything thats going to Brick it. Do you have any resources you could point me to that could help me with this? I'll copy and paste this to Mr. Mario as well and see what he says. Or if you could even do a video, I don't know, its a pretty niche' situation."
Stadium ARTs Check out reddit.com/r/originalxbox. You'll get all the help and answers you need there from people or the Wiki.
yes Mrmario2011 couldn't have put this any better! Very much appreciated.
Stadium ARTs
Just google my friend. Don't be lazy.
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The brick risk is constant. Even if you backup.
There is no need for backup for hard drive upgrade.
Just format the new drive with xbpartitioner and clone the hard drive with chimp. After all this you will need to lock the slave drive to the mainboard. Then you can change the hard drive to master and replace the original hard drive. And you will have all you files cloned to the new hard drive.
If it is softmoded there is always a risk of softbricking your xbox. Just be carefull not to format the original drive, don't alter the content of the C and E partitions, and make sure, absolutely sure you DON'T unlock the master original harddrive. If you unlock the drive you will not be able to boot from it on a softmoded xbox. You will need to modchip your xbox. If you modchip or tsop flash your xbox bios to a custom one, then you can change the drives without any issues, you only need Xbox Classic Auto Installer Deluxe Disc. You can download the iso all over the web.
Im using Surreal64 on a modded xbox. I can press X at the main selection screen to access the full menu but I can't find out how to change the aspect ratio to to 4x3.its stretched now on a Widescreen TV. Any suggestions?
I must say, documenting and preserving open source history is so important for computer history as a whole. there's so very little that is being documented, and applications like Kodi has made a huge impact on how media players should work today. Fantastic Video, keep up the good work!
This just reminded me that i have a mountain of porn on my old xbox hidden deep in multiple folders from my teen years.
lol.. in 320x200 64kb/s MPG resolution?
@@KieranShort
Dude...divx was king back then.
8 months and we still are no closer to knowing the nature of said porn
@referral madness if it was Child porn would you even wanna know lmao
@@sondreavik5337 YES
I remember the first time I saw XBMC running, must be close to 15 years ago. I was blown away that you could do that on a console running in your lounge room. Back then digital movies were purely the domain of your PC.
I love your work, I absolutely adore the og xbox and it's great learning about some of the history
This took me back in time. Speaking of Betas, i have a few Betas of projects you were active in back in the day. I too backed up everything to CD's and later to DVD's and am in the process of sorting the files out. I have Beta's and Alpha's of various software released for the XBOX in its early days of being hacked.
I found a free original Xbox on the side of the road a couple days ago, great steal!
@@AncientTruthSeeker my OG Xbox, with DVD remote, only cost me $12
I still have XBMC with that MC360 skin running on my Xbox. Haven't turned it on in a long time, but I had a lot of fun with that thing back in the day.
'kodi' still sounds like a ridiculous parrot's name to me.. xbmc sounded waaaay cooler.
I like how you brought everything full circle in the end. This was a well-written video. Good job!
i still use the last version of XBMC4Xbox as my modded Xbox's Dashboard,
Aw man, what a great video! I jumped in at XBMP 2.4 on the OG Xbox back in 2004 (even printed out and bound the manual) and have been tinkering with it ever since. I now run Kodi Leia on my htpc and this video gave me some legit nostalgia thrills, so thank you for making it!
Awesome video! Never knew that KODI got it's start from the original xbox
MVG will never not get a hard on for the Original XBox lol but hey you’re videos are great. Love you, guy
I LOVED MC360. So clean. I wish MS would've kept the blades on their consoles.
Who remembers mc360?
XBMC was amazing for the original Xbox. I used it for decades, it was really just the beginning of x256 where it started to lag behind. And then openelec is amazing for newer hardware. But I do not like it as an application. The user interface is designed from the ground up to be an OS. I think it makes sense for example on android where you cannot really multitask stuff, and it works great as openelec, but I remember when they used to provide it as a OS install and it was just ubuntu with XBMC preinstalled. I would never use it on my PC, that is VLC or something similar. But if I ever have a dedicated tv/monitor for watching movies, some derivative of kodi is 100% going to be installed on the computer driving it.
Anyone know the name of the skin for XBMC that has the more modern Xbox 360 dashboard? Not mc360
XBMC Origins
Great content, as always MVG! I've been using XBMC on Xbox for many years and I learned a lot from this video. XBMC is an amazing piece of software, especially for game console homebrew. It makes an aging 17 year old console feel modern. It is even still somewhat useful even today. I use mine pretty often to play music or watch stored TV shows and such (network share over UPnP). Sure, it's doesn't run 1080p HD movies, but for the casual media consumer, it can get the job done in style.
As an MPlayer ex-developer I really enjoyed this video. Surely I would enjoy it without me being that too :)
I remember before they set on the name Kodi, there was like 50 different possible new names for XBMC. fun stuff.
I personally really liked just KODE Spelled as (previous track symbol) (stop symbol) (play symbol) (hamburger menu)
You forgot to mention XBMC fork named PLEX.
my thoughts exactly
I used to use XBMC.
The only reason I ceased using my xbmc on my OG Xbox is when I started getting videos encoded with x264 and playback would drop frames pretty badly... I miss using it!
Great, my OG Xbox was so useful as a network media center and emulator back in the 2000s, used it for years until every device under the sun adopted the features and Kodi etc. Miss using that big black box and the cool looking XBMC for everything though! Kodi is now my go to player for any videos that that don't play with other players (even VLC) and it's great.
What videos types are you watching that vlc doesn't play?
A major reason for abandoning XBMC on the original Xbox was the console's inability to do 1080p video output. It doesn't have the computing power to play HEVC x.265 encoded video. There's also no digital video output. The best it can do is analog component. Microsoft could have included HDMI into the video cable connector but chose not to. They didn't even include HDMI capability on the first version of the Xbox 360. However it could do 1080p with analog component video, if the connected TV supported it.
You videos never cease to fascinate me. Reminds me of the early days of watching g4 when they actually had gaming shows. Thank you!!
Koodie is such a silly name. If you're going to change the name, it stands to reason that it should be better than the original.
3:44 Sorry but that isn't true. There were many divx movies back then that were already available on 1 cd & in great quality mind you(For that time). Of those that i owned I remember American Pie and Scream 3 being on 2cds, Gladiator aswell while Scary Movie and Taxi 2? were on 1 cd . If u dont believe me check the predb database site with all the nfo's. cheers
edit: if you were into divx-dvdrips back then u might remember the Nimo Codec pack
Wow that was amszing! A blast from the past, brings back memories of when I mod chipped my original xbox. Good times
I rather use PLEX then KODI, I've used the XBMC since the XBOX, however now, PLEX is just a lot more modern and do stream over the internet, so I can watch my content from everywhere. KODI is good, but PLEX is much better...
I am surprised he didn't mention PLEX since it was originally a fork of XBMC.
I thought the same way, it even had almost the same interface at the beginning of the PLEX project.
13:09 More specifically, companies like Redbean and Unblock Tech releasing cheap set top boxes running the tablet version of Android (usually at 720p upscaled to higher resolutions, instead of using the "secondary display feature"), and preloading what is usually the TVAddons custom builds of Kodi which seem to only be compiled for Android. When these boxes are marketed to consumers, the salesmen are usually trained to hide the fact that it's piracy, and they would only install the piracy software at the distribution centre or store using a bulk installer app.
Great Video @modernvintagegaming! Thanks for posting. It sounds like you were involved in the original XMBC project some how? Thanks to all the developers over the years who have contributed to this great open source software.
kodi is a crap name. Long live xbmc!
I got a modded OG Xbox a short while ago and besides games, I use it to watch DVDs and video streams on my CRT television. It's great
Question I also have a modded of xbox, I can do those things, but how do you get to video stream,
I been trying to connect it through FTP it has the XBMX 8.10 - atlantis dash. I connected a Ethernet cable to it but I’m trying to figure out how to get the IP address to show of, don’t know what to mess with in network setting to get it to recognize that and connect
How do you manage to get such clean video output from an original Xbox? As far as I'm aware, it can only output a maximum of 720p or 1080i through component.
720p via component and a good capture card
Absolutely great video. Been with the project since 2002.
Who wants to go get XBMC tattoo's?
well i was the one who... actually im going to shut up
Love the og xbox I you mine for all my retro arcade gaming. Thanks for the share mate.
Great XBMC Review.
Next, maybe CoinOPS? :P
Vlad Ratcu would be awesome to see how this works..
Nostalgia hit here I loved xbmc on the xbox in 2004/05 I remember how happy I was when I figured out how to forward a sopcast stream from my pc to my xbox in 07. Today I use rocky5s xbmc-emustation as my xbox dashboard it's come a long way.
The Xbox homebrew scene pretty much invented the HTPC. I'm convinced that the popularity of XBMC on the original Xbox was what convinced Microsoft to develop Windows Media Center and start expanding the Xbox consoles' out of the box media capabilities from the Xbox 360 onward.
Great video. It was neat seeing my name on the screen among so many far more legendary devs.
So what powers my shows once powered my og xb
MVG, thanks for taking me back 16+ years.... Thanks for the ports back then and the switch ones today! I doubt anyone in the scene doesn't fondly remember your work.
i still have my trusty xmbc xbox here
Still working on xPostal?
Do you think it'll get a public release, or maybe to Patreon patrons? I would really kill for a port of Postal to the Xbox!
I use kodi all of the time it saved me money on buying a ticket for the movie theater
oh hey, i ran xbmc on my boxes back in the day, i made them my default browsers, used smb and ftp and all kinds of over stuff, i couldnt get enough of this stuff back then. anyways, at some point i could have sworn that i saw xbmc at best buy and it came with a disk? am i wrong?
I have Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 3 and use the fantastic phone control app.
Interesting to hear the history of this. With legal issues in the UK people have been prosecuted for selling 'fully loaded' Kodi boxes.
TheDutyPaid they should resell it with a "pi demo disc" meaning they need to load it onto the pi and therefore not inhibiting into law related issues..
ie, in other words.. totally at your own discretion.
>Be me
>Have a 1.6 Xbox
>Try to install Aladdin XT Plus2
>Failed
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
>"Christmas Lights" even after removing the chip, welds and cables
>Cut track to chip too
>Same shit again
>Go to the Pawn Shop this last Friday
>Buy a Xbox 40$
>Go home, open it to clean
>It is a 1.0 version
>Modchip Duo 2x installed (Dual bios)
>fuckyeah.wav
>Installed XBMC and 320GB HDD
I'll never get rid of it or sell it since I also collect games
Now, how can I repair my other Xbox and find a working adapter for SATA to IDE, I own 2 identical and not working. How do I set default directories for XBMC for games, images and medias?
I always thought XBMC was originally designed for Xbox 360. Pretty surprised to find out it was actually OG Xbox.. Thanks for making this vid
I still call it XBMC, not on purpose but because that's what it is to me. When I finally got a second hand xbox in 2009, I was astounded by the homebrew scene (I had previously soft-modded my PSP and PS2). I have a clear Xbox which I've not used for a few years now (which I didn't even realise was rarer than the other one), and really need to do that capacitor replacement (currently moving house so that's difficult, not to mention having unsteady hands).
This is the real deal. When i first got an Xbox in 2001 i was on Gamespy Tunnel service playing online before Xbox Live even dropped.
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I actually thought i was cool. Shown here in Modern Vintage Gamer video, i was actually clearly retarded.
wow man , this was super educational , SUPER appreciative MVG keep it up !
I used early Xbox Media Player and YAMP. :) Great stuff - I didn't know 80% of that info. But seriously, you toob? ;) You're aussie man. :)
I really wish there was up to date work being done on xbmc4xbox. It's terrible that none of the apps work like they used to anymore. I even have a Trusty Xbox modded 1.4 with 128mb of ram.
Every so often I'll still pull out my Xbox and mess about with transcoding video and movies for the system, then hook it up and watch like it's 2004.
I remember my OG modded with the AladdinXT chip, the place I had mine modded at didn't use the xecuter chips. I do miss it from time to time.
I would buy one to use xbmc on it, but since it can't handle hd streams with higher bitrates.
Kodi on Xbox One and Series X/S is extremely buggy.
Xbox media center and the emulators were a huge part of my childhood. I have videos on my channel of filming gameplay dating back to like 2012
I must have used XBMC on my OG Xbox until i got a PS3. Shame there's no ports of Kodi on PS3 even though any Android box is all you need nowadays to have Kodi on the big screen
i've got some mod chips and an xbox, and I'm deciding if i should chip or just tsop flash my xbox. I've a 1.0, and everytying i need to softmod and tsop flash or install an aladdin chip
Thank you sooo much for your work,amazing video...
Great video as always 👍, always learn something new when watching one of your videos.
What are you running on your own XBox? I am running an old version of XBMC and do not know what is the best version to run or “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” I have had this machine for about 10 years and I still use it all the time.
The Xbox IMO is the best console ever made, unfortunately Microsoft killed it too early and didn't push it to its limit (the same goes with the 360). I think when you buy a console you should be able to access the hardware as you wish, only the software is off limit, otherwise we just should be able to return the console after we use it.
Please upload all those old apps! Preserving digital history like that is so needed.
You should have 10x more subscribers. Your video production is fantastic!
Man, and i though playing movie DVDs on my PS2 was the coolest thing ever xD I remember one day at my school, when i was a child, they used a PS2 to play a movie because they didn't had any DVD Player avaliable back then.
Now to think about it, is there any homebrew media player for PS2?
There are several but they're not in the same league as Kodi. SMS aka Simple Media System is probably the best option.
Whenever i play a dvd on my modded xbox it animates really bad plus the volume is very low. Anything i can do to improve this? Im using component cables on a Pioneer Kuro tv
It's so cool how it started as homebrew and is now OFFICIALLY available on a new console.
Proud user since 2007! great video
Fucking hell yeah, man.. Everytime I watch a video on the OG xbox, I wanna by one and trick it out. I never had one as a kid and even when i was younger i've always been fascinated by the og xbox.
XBMC Really was a tectonic shift.
I need to take my OG xbox out of storage
If only kodi worked anymore. Everything was ruined when krypton came out.
You missed the story of the terrible MS Windows Media Center Extender for Xbox kit.
If the original Xbox is just a PC with a custom kernel then why is it so difficult to emulate?
xbmc was dope af
hey mvg maddog mcree was ported to xbox but the files have been offline for years :) could you look into a report done by yourself
I remember when the Genesis addon hit the scene back in the days. It's since been cloned and transformed many many times into all kinds of forks that leads up to what we're used too nowadays.
kodi is just divine.
Kodi is decades old?
Starshine.. my favourite Purple Motion song
3:20 LEAKY CLOCK CAPACITOR ALERT!
ABANDON SHIP!
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!
all versions i have of xbmc keep freezing on this newest xbox i modded recently
Came here for nostalgia lol... I used to mod the original Xboxes. Good times.
It was an exciting time. Great video bro
Love your videos man but please either get a pop filter or high pass your vo as there's some pretty big low end pops every now and again.
If I were to get a modded xbox today what emulators and OS should I consider?
Divx was used in alot of DVD players back in the day onto a DVD data 4gb